Ryan Kopf's Blog

I'm very excited to share that a brand new anime convention will be coming to Columbus, Ohio. The event will happen at the Hyatt Regency Columbus, from May 20-22, 2016. This three-day convention will feature everything you expect at an anime convention including cosplay contests, video game tournaments, panels, workshops, voice actor autograph signings, and more.

Panelists for Anime Midwest should have got their confirmation emails by now. I think nearly all panels have been accepted except for some that are near exact duplicates of other panel submissions. The schedule includes 100s of panels and events already, so it's going to be a wild weekend.

MaiOtaku has revealed this year one of the most requested features for the website ever: live chat. Users can now directly private message each other in real time and have the replies pop up instantly.

I have updated the projects page for my website to reflect more about what I am doing lately. I also hope you enjoy the new picture, hehe. My current biggest interests are in liquid-based 3D printing.

We've expanded our refund policy to make it easier for people who need refunds to get them in a hard time. Plans can change at the last minute, so we want to support you. The new policy is on "AnimeCon.

A UK company has created a new font that could help anyone learn Japanese. (It included an English pronunciation guide for katakana. However it's not online anymore.) It mostly just helps in reading kana - which is only 2 out of 3 parts of the Japanese language, and even smaller yet only maybe 10-20% of all reading you find.

Science is awesome. "First images from the comet.":http://spaceflightnow.com/2014/11/13/philae-sends-first-image-from-comet/.

Recently Otakon released a form asking attendees if they would be interested in receiving their badge in the mail, and asking how much they would be willing to pay for it. I think this is a great move, as Otakon has had registration line issues for years, and it may be one of the best ways for them to prevent this issue in the future.

In this video I take the ALS challenge after being challenged by my VP. However there is a water shortage and I don't want to waste good drinking water, so instead I will be donating all of my two dollar bills to the ALS foundation.

Amazon's documentation on their command line tools is unwieldy and confusingly setup. They have a lot of tools that are similarly named, yet you may need just a fraction of them for your particular purpose.