Friday, December 27, 2002
Christmas went well for me. I enjoyed it mostly — and this may sound schmaltzy, but it’s true — because of the little, quieter things. Christmas Eve spent reading good books as I petted the dog curled up beside me. Christmas morning spent with my parents only, eating cake donuts and leisurely opening our presents. Little things. Perhaps my favorite gift was an axe, given to me by a member […]
Thursday, December 26, 2002
No offense to anyone, but I was struck this morning with a thought: Don’t we, as a species, have better things to do than argue about the movie interpretation of The Two Towers?
Thursday, December 26, 2002
No offense to anyone, but I was struck this morning with a thought: Don’t we, as a species, have better things to do than argue about the movie interpretation of The Two Towers?
December 23, 2002
“Hello there. That’s right, I’m talking to you, young man or woman sitting in my vestibule with the briefcase that’s too big for its contents on your lap. You look good. You smell good. You want a job. And you’re not going to get one, because you’re about to boot your job interview with me. “I’m gonna do you a favor and tell you a couple of things.” Read more […]
Friday, December 20, 2002
The quieter your creative work, the more profound it can be.
December 19, 2002
Hmmm. Spring purports to be to the quantum leap over desktops that Windows was over DOS. The Register agrees. It’s for MacOS X only, but DesktopX is the Windows equivalent. Here’s a Screed on Grinches — specifically, those folks who complain about Christmas mainly so they can have a cause to fight against. Not “I dislike Christmas for these reasons,” but, in this woman’s case, “In response to the growing onslaught […]
Wednesday, December 18, 2002
So, on Monday, there I was: leaning over a bush and puking air. This began with the noblest of intentions. The Monday Night Alliance of which I am a part decided to support a local family this year at Christmas time, so we had planned to spend last Monday night shopping for Christmas gifts, then wrapping them for delivery on Tuesday. All well and good. Monday night, we split up into teams of two […]
Monday, December 16, 2002
As you all probably know by now, I want to make animation. I don’t necessarily want to be an animator — that’s tedious, highly-skilled work — but I want to be involved in creating animations. How did I intend to accomplish this? I started big: A six episode direct-to-video series, Wine to Those in Anguish. I then scaled back to a full-length film, Murmur of a Summer’s Day. The more I’ve thought about that, the more I realized that […]
Sunday, December 15, 2002
I’ve been engaged in a wonderful e-mail conversation with a lovely young lady, and our conversation has ranged from religion to art to anime. She had this to say recently about shonen (action-oriented boys’ anime) versus shojo (character-oriented girls’ anime), and it made me stop and think for awhile. “I think I like the action shonen kiddy stuff because it lets me feel things, or not, depending on what I want […]
December 12, 2002
Great story: “At least they’re Very Good Seats. From Joel on Software‘s forum: I read that, if you do something for 21 days in a row, it becomes a habit. So I decided to pick one, and only one, good habit at a time. For example, the first habit was to get up as soon as the alarm rang every morning. No hitting the snooze button, no nothing. At that point I *had* to get up, brush […]