May 13, 2003
Oooh. I recently stumbled across alt.legends.atlantis, a clearinghouse for completely insane people. Check these snippets out: First, we need to cover the surface of the earth with a cloud of Argongas, Next, onto the polymer clones [orchid people]. This experiment survived the crash along with the radioactive blood worms and the flourescent mosses that were not killed along with the astronauts… HAARP microwave beams are behind the violent spate of twisters and tornadoes […]
May 12, 2003
HA! Only a few hours later, I get (1) a kind response from a regular reader, giving me a thumbs-up, which is a wonderful blessing, and (2) an apologetic e-mail from Saalon, explaining that he hadn’t even read my journal entry and that his rant was based on a completely different discussion. Lots of kindness. And now, I feel ready to take on the world. Whoo! Quick disclaimer (eek!): My earlier post was not […]
Friday, May 9, 2003
Phew. Yesterday, I finished prototype 3 of Contract Tycoon. I may have mentioned this before, but can’t recall: Extreme Programming makes programming a whole application a heck of a lot easier than I’m used to. Even compared to up-front design, developing each of these prototypes was easy. Now I just need to upload it from Navi (my laptop) to stun-software.com. This is non-trivial, as the server doesn’t want me to FTP […]
Thursday, May 8, 2003
Eh. I could write about my life, but…why? I mean, okay. I bought a Minolta QMS laser printer online from EMS Computing, which arrived yesterday. It had no printer cables. Apparently, this is common. [Long rant about how silly this is, I mean, c’mon people] I ran across a couple of really weird Usenet newsgroups yesterday, and one bizarre net.kook. [List of URLs, newsgroup names, and sarcastic […]
Wednesday, May 7, 2003
What if you want to learn how to cook, not how to follow a recipe? Seriously. The vast majority of cookbooks teach you how to follow a recipe, not how to cook. Me, I’ve always enjoyed cooking. It’s a creative process that results in something that you, personally, can enjoy, pretty much immediately. And, you can share it with your friends without them saying, “Gee, thanks…” […]
Tuesday, May 6, 2003
As if I didn’t have enough to do, I’m talking to a friend about starting an anime club. It wouldn’t take up too much time, actually; we’d meet Sunday evenings over the summer, during the same time as AWANA (which doesn’t meet over the summer). Why? Well, I know quite a few people who are interested in anime, and I think we could get them all together and have a good time. […]
Monday, May 5, 2003
Arg. I had all weekend free (except for AWANA, church, and the usual weekend errands), and did I write anything? No. On the other hand, it wasn’t through lack of trying. I sat down, I opened up the files for Wine and Seeing Things Invisible, and…nothing came. I just couldn’t think of anything to write. So, fair enough. I’ve come up with some plot points, and will use those the next time I sit down […]
Friday, May 2, 2003
About a week ago, I finished listening to a book-on-tape of The Ten-Minute Internet Manager, a very helpful little book about how to run a dot-com. I was particularly struck by one piece of advice: answer e-mail less frequently, but answer all your e-mail whenever you check your inbox. I’d heard this advice before, but hadn’t heard this particular spin on it. These days, we expect quick replies […]
Thursday, May 1, 2003
From the beginning, when as an excited lad of fifteen I began writing my first novel, I’ve also wanted to be a Famous Author who wrote the next Great Novel (or Novella, or what-have-you). I’ve wanted to do what Ray Bradbury did, and William Faulkner did, and…other writers I’ve never read did. I wanted to be the sort of person and write the sort of works that people talk about excitedly. I’ve since dealt with […]