Friday, August 23, 2002
Ouch. And Saalon gets slapped down. Sorry to hear that. Interesting quote from that entry: “I am the single worst maker of friends in the world. The only friendships I have I have lucked into. I have no idea how to make a friend, as every time I try it seems to collapse into this….” I’ve been struggling with this problem myself lately. How does one make friends? A lot of the people I know […]
Thursday, August 22, 2002
I seem to be moved to the new server now. Hooray! Sorry for the delay; I had to wrangle with Verisign for awhile, then discovered that a simple solution would work. Silly me. Now, I’m just taking care of a bunch of little issues, like getting anonymous FTP to work, and the fact that my standard e-mail application (Postmaster) doesn’t support APOP, which the new server requires. I’m now using another application to download […]
Thursday, August 1, 2002
Writing exercise: Invent four random, very different characters who all work in the same office building. Trap them in an elevator for at least an hour.
Wednesday, July 31, 2002
Cool battles starring a truly intelligent magical girl. I love it. As tired as I find anime’s magical girl genre at times, Tsunami Channel manages to breathe new life into it.
Tuesday, July 30, 2002
How far are you willing to go to fight for what’s right? I’m sure we all can see ourselves fighting for the right thing if we were the heroes of a fantasy novel and being attacked by evil incarnate, but how about right and wrong in our day-to-day lives? How far are we willing to go in our modern society to fight for what’s right? I’m convinced that I don’t fight for what’s […]
Sunday, July 28, 2002
I’m back from Otakon. While I’m too tired to write a cogent description of my weekend, I can summon the energy to explain that I had a good time, that Saalon was an excellent companion, and that I’m very, very glad to be home.
Friday, July 26, 2002
Saalon‘s written a fantastic article about art and writing.
Friday, July 26, 2002
Saalon‘s written a fantastic article about art and writing.
Thursday, July 25, 2002
FYI, I’ll be at Otakon through Sunday, so I probably won’t get a chance to update this journal again until Monday at the latest.
Wednesday, July 24, 2002
In listening to an audio commentary by Carl Macek the other day, I was struck by a quote he gave, attributed to one of the producers of Robotech. I’ll attempt to paraphrase it here: “We want to create a work that inherently assures the audience that it will not be shortchanged.” Now that’s a very interesting goal, and one that has significant implications for the rest of the production. If one truly follows that goal, then promotion […]