Monday, April 9, 2001
Woke up nauseous this morning, and didn’t go in to work. Nothing really serious, though; I should be fine by tomorrow. So, I re-watched Mighty Space Miners to find footage for the anime music video I wanted to make out of it, only to realize that there’s really not enough footage there for the video I wanted to make. I was really disappointed, as MSM captures the feel of real life in space better than really any […]
Sunday, April 8, 2001
Well, I couldn’t go to sleep last night, so after working on the library, I finished reading Terry Pratchett’s The Fifth Elephant. It was, of course, excellent; Sam Vimes goes to Uberwald, a land of werewolves and vampires, to act as an ambassador. And, trained cop that he is, he doesn’t go over very well. Great stuff. So, I slept until 1:00 p.m. (missing church :-/ ). Right now it’s […]
Saturday, April 7, 2001
Hey, Glitch just pointed me in the direction of 1/0, yet another online comic (at least this one’s not anime-related). The writing is amazingly deft, particularly in its current storyline regarding faith and homosexuality. And from there, I came to Freefall, a furry SF strip that I’ve only just begun to read. Very, very nice, though, and also well-written. Woke up at noon today (thankfully, since I’ve been low […]
Friday, April 6, 2001
Finally! I got on Hotline today and was able to connect to bakaserver.dyndns.org, a Hotline server run by a member of the neobaka crew. He has a whole slew of anime music videos on there, so all during work I was jumping back to Hotline to grab another file. Though there were so many people trying to download that I just spent most of my time uploading my own videos. Hotline’s a pretty neat service; it’s not […]
Thursday, April 5, 2001
Despite the coarse language, I laughed out loud at these outtakes (now defunct) from Thundercats and Silverhawks. Sometimes you just can’t stay serious when doing these sorts of things. # 7, # 5, and # 9 had me going particularly. And Silverhawks #8 is quite good. I also stumbled across Only One (now defunct), yet another anime-style online comic strip. It’s, honestly, not […]
Wednesday, April 4, 2001
Today I finished up my COMDEX report, adding in the pictures I took. I’ll be cleaning it any niggling little problems over the next few days. It greatly increases the amount of time it takes to load this page, but graphics make webpages look so much better. Now if only I could get into the habit of adding borders to my pictures. I’ve been working on an intriguing little game design: […]
Tuesday, April 3, 2001
My alarm squealed into my ear at 8:00 in the morning, so I got up and began preparing for my day. My panel wasn’t until 10:15, so I had plenty of time. I decided to order room service for breakfast, figuring that it would be one less thing for me to worry about. I ordered two eggs, hash browns, toast, and orange juice, which worked out to $11. Not bad. I ironed my pants and Be shirt, dressed, […]
Monday, April 2, 2001
Well, today I left for COMDEX. Had to drive to Baltimore-Washington Airport and leave my truck in the parking garage, an expensive mistake. My plane taxi’ed out to the runway just as evening was giving the watch over to night. It took us a little while to reach the runway, then…. I hope I never tire of the thrill of take-off. Feeling the surge of raw power beneath you, and knowing that you are about to defy the technology of a thousand generations, who said […]
Sunday, April 1, 2001
Well, I woke up late this morning, so I didn’t get to church. I did get to my niece’s birthday party, which was very enjoyable. I videotaped it, which gave me something to do. We got back late, so Dad dropped me off at AWANA, where I told the kids I’d be arriving early next week to teach them how to play Redemption. That should be fun, particularly […]