8 Oct 07
And I got sick partway through my Creative Retreat. Still, I had fun. I read about half of Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat, and a few chapters of a Mechanical Design book (I’d like to understand mechanics more). I did a bit more work on the RTS game, mostly cleanup. And I put up […]
5 Oct 07
Today begins another Creative Retreat, a weekend in which I sit back and read, meditate, plan, make, and mash-up.
4 Oct 07
Odd. My workday was chock full of training and meetings. Good training and meetings. I checked in to the PDM War Room every couple of hours to see if I could help, but they were blocked in other ways. So I always had something useful to get to. And I came home, and I felt […]
3 Oct 07
Thanks to Brennen, I’ve decided to shut down my IM and Skype clients. They’re both extra open loops. I don’t need those to keep in touch with people, and they’re distractions. Distractions from a huge, beautiful life that I could be living instead of typing “heh” in response to a link to a video of […]
1 Oct 07
Roughed out a review of Gunparade March, based on my viewings through episode five. Tough show to watch, but very, very good.
30 Sep 07
Added a review of KamiChu!, which I finished yesterday. Nice little slice-of-life show.
27 Sep 07
Awesome! A big thunderstorm is sweeping through tonight. We haven’t had a good storm in months. This one comes complete with huge flashes of lightning and foundation-shaking thunder. The rain’s steady as a pair of Mormons canvasing a neighborhood. I rolled down my window on the way back from a church group and just inhaled […]
26 Sep 07
Finished Texhnolyze. What a mind trip. It’s a perfect ending for this particular show, but it’s tragic. Sad, in the sense of watching an insect get trapped in tar. You know it’s not getting out of there. It’s odd. I never want to create a show like this. I don’t like depressing stories, and I […]
25 Sep 07
Been watching Texhnolyze. It’s pure science fiction. It’s dystopian storytelling. It’s…true. Real. I disagree with some of its philosophy, strongly, on a lot of levels. But that’s surely part of the point, to watch and think and form opinions (reactionary or otherwise). Nice to have something I can sink my teeth into.
24 Sep 07
Life is practice. (Not that it is practice for something later. It’s a matter of practicing things, over and over. You may never get it “right.” Getting it “right” is a question for the historians, not us living and practicing.)