June 11, 2002
“The Internet is not (as it was intended to be) an worldwide library or instantaneous encyclopedia. It’s every person on earth, continuously screaming at every other person.”— Tailsteak Oh yes. Shonen Jump, one of those massive Japanese manga magazines (actually, it’s one of the major Japanese manga magazines), will be coming to America in November. Translated and everything. You know I’ll be buying it.
June 10, 2002
“A condition of being good is that it should always be possible for you to be morally destroyed by something you couldn’t prevent. To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control, things that can lead you to be shattered in very extreme circumstances for which you were not to blame. That says something very important […]
Sunday, June 9, 2002
Manga School A while back, I read a message by a man who participated in a manga school in Japan. He explained that manga schools exist to provide a very short, intensive course in drawing and the comic form, intended for those who want to become manga artists themselves. The emphasis here is on extremely rapid comprehension of the manga form. The school’s method was simple and effective: It would offer an two-week course, eight hours a day, […]
Thursday, June 6, 2002
Find out a bit more about Osamu Tezuka’s life work, Phoenix, at Viz’s website about their publication of Phoenix volume 2.
June 5, 2002
Saalon‘s updated his diary with info on his fantastic movie directing experience. Fair warning: You probably won’t understand half of the in-jokes. I forgot to mention that Brennen and I attemped some pair programming Monday night. Despite two hours of wrestling with VNC and various operating systems, we finally got VNC running, and were able to collaborate on the Murmur website, talking on the phone as we shared an ssh connection. It […]
Sunday, June 2, 2002
Just updated my web-based Go game so that pieces are captured correctly. Woohoo! The only really major bug left is that the computer player can attack in spaces that were just vacated, which is illegal. I’ve been watching some bootlegs of Hikaru no Go lately, and it rocks my world. This series is awesome. If I weren’t so tired and discouraged, I’d write more […]