At 08:02 PM 9/1/96 -0700, jackji@efn.org wrote:
>Just what the heck are anime themes? Are they songs? Screen savers? What? 

Microsoft released an add-on to Windows 95 called Microsoft Plus!  Mostly
it's a user-interface sorta thing, included is a thing called "Desktop
Themes."  Basically, it's a way to change all your sounds, desktop colors,
fonts, background, screen saver, mouse pointers, etc. all at once according
to some "theme."  For example, the "Inside your Computer theme" feature a
nice background with some computer boards and the sound events (windows
startup, shutdown, etc.) are all techy-type and the hourglass cursor is a
mini scrolling computer screen, etc. etc. etc. and the screen saver is
floating chips (corny).

>And what's a garage kit? Something to decorate your garage with?

I believe a garage kit is a model you build.  Actually a model you build
from very little, takes a long time to do, very very difficult, have to
paint yourself, carve yourself, etc. etc.  I think.  Watch _Otaku no Video_
to get a detailed explanation (ONV is a satire about otakus and there's this
part about a garage kit nut and he explains the whole thing also it's just a
funny anime to watch).

whew!  And i thought I was a lurker...
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