I’m a geek. This is a tumblr blog for all my mini-web-ish stuff. When I don’t have time to actually blog-blog, I drops random thoughts into this pot and see what bubbles up. I work at Sony Pictures Interactive. My views, obessions, etc. are all my own. More info and longer bloggings are on my webpage - hanabatake. I’m trying to get healthy! I’m keeping track at Ardith Healthy Do Keeping it geeky since the late 70’s! Tumblr (3.0; @hanabatake)http://hanabatake.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4nahuULSv1qztjm7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Up, up, and away! (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am" target="_blank">Instagram</a> at Garden Grove Strawberry Festival)</p>http://hanabatake.tumblr.com/post/23813171940http://hanabatake.tumblr.com/post/23813171940Sat, 26 May 2012 12:37:05 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4n75rLmIp1qztjm7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I think Shriners like parades so they can honk their tiny car horns really, really loud. Also fezzes. (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am" target="_blank">Instagram</a> at Garden Grove Strawberry Festival)</p>http://hanabatake.tumblr.com/post/23809142342http://hanabatake.tumblr.com/post/23809142342Sat, 26 May 2012 11:25:02 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4n4pw40tg1qztjm7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Strawberry Queen 2012 (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am" target="_blank">Instagram</a> at Garden Grove Strawberry Festival)</p>http://hanabatake.tumblr.com/post/23806162454http://hanabatake.tumblr.com/post/23806162454Sat, 26 May 2012 10:32:19 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4n1bsLhoN1qztjm7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>On a stick OR a bun! (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am" target="_blank">Instagram</a> at Garden Grove Strawberry Festival)</p>http://hanabatake.tumblr.com/post/23802065827http://hanabatake.tumblr.com/post/23802065827Sat, 26 May 2012 09:19:04 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4n18eavUu1qztjm7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Waking around today (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am" target="_blank">Instagram</a> at GEM Theater)</p>http://hanabatake.tumblr.com/post/23801951931http://hanabatake.tumblr.com/post/23801951931Sat, 26 May 2012 09:17:01 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4lt84Omfs1qztjm7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am" target="_blank">Instagram</a> at Custom Hotel</p>http://hanabatake.tumblr.com/post/23764003726http://hanabatake.tumblr.com/post/23764003726Fri, 25 May 2012 17:26:28 -0700<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://getnakedmileyy.tumblr.com/post/22561951682" target="_blank">getnakedmileyy</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>you will need:</p> <p>The Video (the video should be in MOV, AVI, MPG, MPEG, OR MP4 format)</p> <p>Photoshop (i used CS5 in this tutorial)</p> <p>final result:</p> <p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3mqjuKw881qaq2bj.gif"/></p> <p><a href="http://getnakedmileyy.tumblr.com/post/22561951682" target="_blank">Read More</a></p> </blockquote> <p>Very good to know</p>http://hanabatake.tumblr.com/post/23595766330http://hanabatake.tumblr.com/post/23595766330Tue, 22 May 2012 22:30:29 -0700photoshoptutorials<iframe width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" src="http://media.vara.nl/player.php?id=94832"></iframe><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://popculturebrain.com/post/23560455269/watch-fun-cover-call-me-maybe-and-you-thought" target="_blank">popculturebrain</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>Watch fun. Cover “Call Me Maybe”</strong></p> <p>And you thought you couldn’t love this song more.</p> <p>Previously: <a href="http://popculturebrain.com/post/23165294020/fun-and-hayley-williams-cover-gotyes-somebody" target="_blank">fun. and Hayley Williams cover “Somebody That I Used to Know”</a></p> <p>(via <a href="http://omroep.vara.nl/media/94832" target="_blank">VARA</a>, <a href="http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=2757262&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+absolutepunknet+%28AbsolutePunk.net+-+News%29" target="_blank">AP.net</a>)</p> </blockquote> <p>Now it’s in my head</p>http://hanabatake.tumblr.com/post/23572923472http://hanabatake.tumblr.com/post/23572923472Tue, 22 May 2012 16:30:28 -0700Call Me MaybeNow it's in my head<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3aaehmamb1rscx3fo1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://sherwindraws.tumblr.com/post/22113931327" target="_blank">sherwindraws</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><span>緋村 剣心</span></p> </blockquote> <p>My favorite character ever.</p>http://hanabatake.tumblr.com/post/23526352351http://hanabatake.tumblr.com/post/23526352351Mon, 21 May 2012 20:46:08 -0700Rurouni KenshinKenshinHimura Kenshin<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lovjf3L2lL1qa3j7jo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>I love this movie. Also Lee Pace.</p>http://hanabatake.tumblr.com/post/23497813562http://hanabatake.tumblr.com/post/23497813562Mon, 21 May 2012 14:07:20 -0700The FallBeautifulLee Pace<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/c85kOdXyIpY?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://paulscheer.com/post/23170785847/the-best-tour-is-a-ghostbusters-tour-this-is" target="_blank">paulscheer</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>The Best Tour is a Ghostbusters Tour</p> <p>This is really great. Two guys go to every NYC location from Ghostbuster’s and act out the scene.</p> <p>Thanks to <a href="http://splitsider.com/2012/05/a-ghostbusters-tour-of-new-york-city/" target="_blank">Splitsider</a> for finding this.</p> </blockquote> <p>I think my favorite locations are the library and the fire house.</p>http://hanabatake.tumblr.com/post/23172682289http://hanabatake.tumblr.com/post/23172682289Wed, 16 May 2012 10:47:00 -0700GhostbustersTourNew York<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m41imtup1s1qjotexo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://www.herochan.com/post/23076783530/joe" target="_blank">herochan</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>G.I. Joe  </strong><strong>A Real American Hero </strong><strong>(Animated Series)</strong></p> <p>(1983-1986) TV-Y7-FV - Seasons 1-2</p> <p><em>Fighting for freedom wherever there’s trouble, G.I. Joe and his fellow patriots storm their way through this animated series that drew inspiration from a line of popular action figures born in the 1960s.</em></p> <p><strong>G.I. Joe is on Netflix. Now you know, and knowing is half the battle. </strong></p> <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Joe:_A_Real_American_Hero_(1985_TV_series)" target="_blank">Wiki</a> || <a href="http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/G.I._Joe/70176995?trkid=3777158" target="_blank">Add/Watch on Netflix</a></p> <p>(via:<a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://www.netflixia.com/post/23076581930/joe" target="_blank">netflixia</a>)</p> </blockquote> I’m afraid it won’t live up to my childhood memories….http://hanabatake.tumblr.com/post/23153105880http://hanabatake.tumblr.com/post/23153105880Tue, 15 May 2012 22:43:13 -0700G.I. JoeCartoons80's“[F]or the first several years the SAT was offered, males scored higher than females on the Math section but females achieved higher scores on the Verbal section. ETS policy-makers determined that the Verbal test needed to be “balanced” more in favor of males, and added questions pertaining to politics, business and sports to the Verbal portion. Since that time, males have outscored females on both the Math and Verbal sections. Dwyer notes that no similar effort has been made to “balance” the Math section, and concludes that, “It could be done, but it has not been, and I believe that probably an unconscious form of sexism underlies this pattern. <b>When females show the superior performance, ‘balancing’ is required; when males show the superior performance, no adjustments are necessary.” </b>”<br/><br/> - <em><p>“Gender Bias in College Admissions Tests”, FairTest.org. (via <a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://vaginawoolf.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">vaginawoolf</a>)</p> <p>We were told our English Lang GCSEs were often about sport or politics because boys often underperformed in that exam. I can’t even fathom the number of things wrong with this kind of thinking.</p> <p>(via <a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://benedictatorship.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">benedictatorship</a>)</p> <p>And there’s nothing unconscious about that kind of sexism.</p> <p>(via <a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://grrspit.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">grrspit</a>)</p></em>http://hanabatake.tumblr.com/post/23080031327http://hanabatake.tumblr.com/post/23080031327Mon, 14 May 2012 19:09:47 -0700SATsSexism<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m41a0i9orc1qztjm7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Spider-Man at the spa (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am" target="_blank">Instagram</a> at Glen Ivy Hot Springs Spa)</p>http://hanabatake.tumblr.com/post/23062301371http://hanabatake.tumblr.com/post/23062301371Mon, 14 May 2012 15:19:29 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3x5lid6wi1rpzh4no1_250.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3x5lid6wi1rpzh4no2_250.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3x5lid6wi1rpzh4no3_250.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3x5lid6wi1rpzh4no9_r1_250.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3x5lid6wi1rpzh4no10_r1_250.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3x5lid6wi1rpzh4no11_r1_250.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3x5lid6wi1rpzh4no4_250.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3x5lid6wi1rpzh4no5_250.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3x5lid6wi1rpzh4no6_250.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://peetaslongbun.tumblr.com/post/22910704784/opening-and-closing-lines" target="_blank">peetaslongbun</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><em><span>Opening and Closing Lines</span></em></p> </blockquote>http://hanabatake.tumblr.com/post/23016655983http://hanabatake.tumblr.com/post/23016655983Sun, 13 May 2012 19:39:44 -0700Hunger Games<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3z1rp4mv11rnyizho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://sonyanimation.tumblr.com/post/22979921389/happy-mummys-day" class="tumblr_blog" target="_blank">sonyanimation</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>Happy Mummy’s Day!</p></blockquote> Happy Mother’s Day!!!!http://hanabatake.tumblr.com/post/22980174753http://hanabatake.tumblr.com/post/22980174753Sun, 13 May 2012 10:30:24 -0700Happy Mother's DayMother's DayHotel THotel Transylvania<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3y1andKDs1qzlj7lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://rawrjason.tumblr.com/post/22950395482/official" target="_blank">rawrjason</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>official :)</p> </blockquote> <p>YAH!!!</p> <p>Congrats!</p>http://hanabatake.tumblr.com/post/22951503075http://hanabatake.tumblr.com/post/22951503075Sat, 12 May 2012 21:37:42 -0700familypersonal<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3tlrfsTnB1qz7kfko1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://alexblagg.tumblr.com/post/22789574186/this" target="_blank">alexblagg</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/steps-to-help-you-evolve-your-views-on-gay-marriag" target="_blank">THIS</a></p> </blockquote> <p>Yes! </p>http://hanabatake.tumblr.com/post/22789849003http://hanabatake.tumblr.com/post/22789849003Thu, 10 May 2012 11:58:33 -0700Equal RightsCivil RightsGay MarriageMarriageHuman Rights<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3r29fkgP01rscx3fo1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://sherwindraws.tumblr.com/post/22709217628" class="tumblr_blog" target="_blank">sherwindraws</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><span class="Apple-style-span">魔訶不思議アドベンチャー！</span></p></blockquote> Young Goku - so adorable! I think you captured the fun of the series.http://hanabatake.tumblr.com/post/22714427583http://hanabatake.tumblr.com/post/22714427583Wed, 09 May 2012 06:34:38 -0700AnimeDragonballGokuFan art<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3qaxxVDJj1qcr5iwo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Tony Stark’s & Bruce Banner’s relationship was my favorite. They speak each others’ language. </p> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://aprofessorstale.tumblr.com/post/22692002273/congratulations-you-have-just-won-the-internet" target="_blank">aprofessorstale</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>CONGRATULATIONS. YOU HAVE JUST WON THE INTERNET.</p> </blockquote>http://hanabatake.tumblr.com/post/22703575939http://hanabatake.tumblr.com/post/22703575939Tue, 08 May 2012 22:40:26 -0700science brosthe avengersavengers