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Saturday, August 18, 2001

Ahhhhh. I’m finally on broadband. A Linksys router After a trip to McLean Bible Church to teach Redemption (nobody showed up), I swung by CompUSA, where I bought a Linksys 4-port router (plus an Envision 15″ LCD monitor). After an hour spent fixing some things at Intersect, I came home and spent the afternoon setting up the router. Now, all of my machines are using the cable modem connection, even Pendragon running BeOS. It’s […]

Friday, August 17, 2001

I finally had Road Runner cable modem access installed at home today. Surprisingly, the installation went as smoothly as could be expected, though the technician could only install it on Tramp. He also insisted that we could only use Internet Explorer and Outlook Express with the Road Runner installation. No other application on the planet would be compatible. Sure, uh-huh. Right now I’m using the cable modem […]

Thursday, August 16, 2001

Whew. Just completed a 12-hour day at work. Not fun, though I’m satisfied. I finished the work that I wanted to finish. And when you combine that with a small amount of sleep last night, I’m dead tired. Will probably limit myself to e-mails before crashing into bed. Some cool anime news lately, though nothing amazing. Some American distributor or other has picked up the rights to the new […]

Wednesday, August 15, 2001

It’s turning into quite a week. I’ve never been busier at work, and in fact I’m sitting here at my desk at 7:30 p.m., working on tutorials. We have a ton of stuff to do, and not much time. As a result, I don’t have much to talk about. I played some of Nobilis last night, which was fun, though the plot isn’t progressing very quickly. I got an order of Redemption cards yesterday, though, and spent about […]

Monday, August 13, 2001

Well, Otakon was certainly interesting. I was pretty miserable by the time I arrived on Saturday. The factors involved were: A two-and-a-half hour drive to Baltimore Pouring rain The large pothole full of water, into which I placed my entire foot, thus soaking my sneaker The fact that the only parking garage I’d managed to find closed at 8:00, so I was going to have to go back out later in the day to move it to another garage […]

Saturday, August 11, 2001

Woke up early this morning, for no apparent reason. This is a good thing, in a sense, as it ensures that I have plenty of time to do stuff. I’m not going back to Otakon until the afternoon; there’s a panel on anime music video creation at 10:00 a.m., but I don’t want to rush myself. This is supposed to be fun. I’ll head over in time to check out the dealer’s room before […]

Friday, August 10, 2001

Heh. I have no idea what “Otakudom” is, but I love the poster. The written comment under “@$$hole” is “No, he’s just MISUNDERSTOOD.” Otakon started today. You can check out today’s con entry for a complete description of that experience. The putt-putt golf thing at work was a blast. People really started getting involved in the construction of their hole, and a lot of people came up with great designs. We […]

Thursday, August 9, 2001

I had an odd day at work. I had the first leg of a performance review soon after I arrived at work. My boss gave me thumbs-up all around; his only “suggested improvement” (as the form called it) was to be more vocal in the project that I have to do. In other words, if I have a problem, I should find somebody to help. I agree with his assessment; I tend to rely on myself too much, and I avoid “bothering” co-workers. […]

Wednesday, August 8, 2001

Heh. Thanks to a severe nausea attack when I got home, I turned on The Screen Savers tonight to see an interview with Douglas Rushkoff, the writer of Cyberia, which was a major influence for serial experiments lain. He’s talking about his new open-source novel, which actually might work because it uses a radically unusual approach to the whole “collaborative novel” problem. The idea is that he’s written a book about the internet […]

Tuesday, August 7, 2001

Blender is dangerous. I just spent an hour assembling this snub fighter, and another half hour making this, and it felt like about five minutes. Major Time Suckage Alert. On to more interesting things. I received my cel of Washu and Yosho today, along with a promotional DVD for Samurai Jack, both of which I won on eBay. I haven’t had a chance to watch the Samurai Jack DVD yet, though I’m itching to do […]

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