Tekkeon myPower Go

I collected the Tekkeon myPower Go unit from the sorting office today. That place is turning more space over to failed deliveries of parcels/packets each time I go there. I wonder if someone in power will see this failure to communicate as a problem for the Post Office, or will we customers keep having to bear the hidden costs of self-collection, or turning over our weekends to waiting for a redelivery.

But anyway... the Tekkeon unit. It's a box. About 80mm x 65mm, and the height of an old audio cassette box (ask your grandparents about that one). Slot in 4 AA batteries (not supplied), close the box and plug in the USB-terminated cable and the relevant connection head. The batteries can then be used to charge devices. There's an input socket, and you can use the myPower Go as a battery charger.

In the box, there's a decent manual, and a pile of connections and a carry bag. If you have a USB cable for a device (eg an iPod), you can use that to charge the device. The manual mentions not watching videos on the iPod when recharging as the iPod batteries are drained faster than the myPower Go can recharge the player.

Spec - weight 4.5 oz with batteries (127 grams). Not waterproof (dry locations only). 18quid delivered from Expansys.

From 4 AA batteries. 6 hours of mobile phone talk-time; 1.5 hrs of media player time; 20 hours of audio playback. iPod times are listed separately.

Rationale for ordering.

Also collected GITS SAC 2nd GIG. All 26 episodes. YT clip. Kusanagi and Co (not Grasscutter, that's from Usagi).

DiceMan

Following a MadJim link from OM, I found these Japanese dice. Aren't they the cutest dice you've ever seen? I think the d6 is good, but the d10 is just the ワサビ on the onigiri.

Plus, Play.com have posted me the GITS SAC 2nd GIG collection. Plus, there's a new Usagi Yojimbo book out. I'll need to get an order off to Amazon, as two bookshops in town didn't have the next book in the PoB Aubrey/Maturin series. Kill two birds with one stone. 

I suddenly feel the need for a nightcap of sake.

Black Sheep

Just when you think you've seen everything, there's this. Be afraid, be very afraid. Don't watch it before going wildcamping in Scotland.

As I used to help out with the sheep when I was younger, I know how violent rams can be. I also recall noticing that one of the ewes had escaped, so lifted her back over the fence on my way down to the school bus - only for her to tag me with a dose of the trots down my school trousers.

Sheep aren't stupid, if there was a hole in the fence anywhere on the croft, they'd find it and be out.

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Some fun photos of Inverpolly can be found at Gosney.plus.com - the index has links to other photos too. Canoeing and climbing peaks. I liked the photo of the portage.

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More GITS stuff - found a pile of clips at this tv station.

Ooh, lyrics to the songs too.

Lithium Flower

Just updating the site layout to 'layouts' (I hate the smell of XML in the morning, it smells of yet another Tower of Babel). What do I notice, but a visit from Nishinomiya, across in Japan. Another good excuse to play my "Ghost in the Shell" tracks, and congratulate Japan for producing not only the movies but the Stand Alone Complex tv show.

I even ended up buying "Flowers for Algernon" based on seeing one of the Tachikoma reading the book.

• Manga site
• Behind the scenes at Production I.G
• Wikipedia info

Kusanagi is just so...well animated. The picture of her in the closing credits of series 1 could have graced the cover of FHM.

Anyway, on the wiki-write-up on Nishinomya, I notice that sake accounts for 24.3% of food production there. Keep up the good work folks. Especially as I ran out of my last bottle on Friday night. Personally, I blame Stan Sakai for introducing me to sake, that and a great oriental supermarket in Aberdeen.