A Pirate's Journal

New Anime Convention Coming to Vancouver

Spaceman-Spiff June 29th, 2012

Since Anime Evolution was gone, Vancouver hasn’t had an anime convention for a couple of years. Fan Expo started this year, but it’s a lot smaller and not catered specifically for anime.

Enter Anime Revolution – a brand new 3-day anime convention starting this summer. They managed to get the Vancouver Convention Center and a Japanese guest. Seems very exciting.

Here’s the announcement for the start of AR2012.

Optimal Tweet Length

Spaceman-Spiff August 4th, 2010

Twitter has 140-character limit for all tweet posts. A lot of people try to maximize the use of this limit, getting as close as 140 characters as possible. However, if you’re expecting people to retweet (RT) your posts, 140-character is not the optimal tweet length.

Tags: social media, tweet, twitter

R2-D2 was Really an Imperial Mole

Spaceman-Spiff April 26th, 2010

Just read this story today posted by Typical_SW_Fan on GameFAQs:

R2-D2 was really an Imperial mole

Everyone thinks he was some great robot hero but he wasn’t. He was just a mole working undercover for the Empire. He knew all along who Darth Vader really was, but did he say anything to anyone? No. Why was this? Because he was secretly getting his orders directly from the Sith Lord! (Read more)

Found via Abstruse Goose.

Tags: r2d2, starwars

Garfield: “This must not be life”

Spaceman-Spiff April 12th, 2010

This was shared on “What’s Hot in Google Reader” over the weekend. I pondered why, it was not even funny. But then it hits me: the punchline is a self-referencing joke.

It may not be intentional by Jim Davis (or whoever writes Garfield these days…), but it’s pretty funny cause it’s true.

Life is constantly changing, but Garfield comics has not. It’s been stuck in a loop. In endless cycles of repeated jokes. Therefore, as Garfield says in the last panel, “This must not be life”.

Just end it already, it’s dead!

Tags: comic, garfield