Monday, May 7, 2001
I spent much of this weekend doing very little of anything productive. This is OK, though, since I had planned to be unproductive. This was a weekend for recharging. I did bake some cookies (Applesauce Oatmeal), had a blast on the last full night of AWANA club, and edited my “Anime Explained” article based on some suggestions from my Mom. More details in my brand-new writing diary, which you should be seeing just […]
Saturday, May 5, 2001
After I (finally) paid off my truck several weeks ago, I received the title in the mail today. I feel so relieved to have it in my possession; I’ve been driving my truck for five years, and I actually own it now. It’s mine. (Well, I don’t really own it, of course. It’s leased from the government. ‘Cause if I stop paying taxes, the government will come and take it away from me. Welcome to the land […]
Friday, May 4, 2001
I think I’ve figured out Keenspace. It’s unbearably slow during the morning hours (Eastern time), but seems OK later on. So, if I simply avoid Keenspace comics until lunchtime, I can cruise my comics with a nice, speedy connection. I couldn’t get online this morning, so I called Frontline when I got in to work. Turns out a server was down, but they’re working on it. Surprisingly, the experience […]
Thursday, May 3, 2001
Well, I mailed a tape of “Deathdance” off to the Otakon 2001 music video contest this morning. This is the first time I’ve submitted one of my anime music videos to any sort of audience, so I’m slightly nervous and more than a little excited. Of course, Otakon also has trouble showing all the videos that are submitted to this contest, so “Deathdance” may not even get shown. But I may […]
Wednesday, May 2, 2001
Just ran across Broken Saints, which is trying to use Flash to make a serious online animated manga type of thing. You get drawn into this odd world of seemingly-random images and storylines. Here’s a beggar on the street, there is a man driving a truck through the desert. What do they have to do with each other? Watch it and find out. I won an eBay auction of a cel of Mitsuki Sanada […]
Tuesday, May 1, 2001
No luck yet on the link verification program. I’m trying to add recursion (so that it will check sub-directories), but that’s proving to be tricky, as Perl doesn’t support recursion properly. Well, there are ways around that. Meanwhile, I’ve been trying to be more productive at work. I realized last night that I really have trouble saying “No” to myself, and as a result I spend a lot of time at work […]
Monday, April 30, 2001
Well, after looking around for a simple link verification program, I couldn’t find one that suited my needs. So, I wrote one. It’s a little Perl program that looks through a directory, takes every file it finds, and scans it for links. It then checks each link to see if it’s valid, and prints out messages based on what it finds. Pretty useful little thing. However, it’s […]
Sunday, April 29, 2001
Listened to a very good sermon by John Yates at The Falls Church this morning, then did some gardening before heading off to AWANA at McLean Bible Church. I’m still fighting off the pollen, and my Mom thinks I may have a cold. So, I didn’t get much done Sunday night; just lay in bed and chatted on IRC, watching TV. Something cool happened, but I’m not totally sure if I’m […]
Saturday, April 28, 2001
Went to the final official meeting of “Coffee and Classics” this morning, where we finished talking about Spurgeon’s All of Grace. We’re planning on keeping the group personal, and moving on to Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress in two weeks. Next time, we’ll meet at Suzie’s house, instead of at The Tea Cozy. Unfortunately, I was low on cash — not unusual — so I limited myself to only ordering tea. We got out fairly late, […]
Friday, April 27, 2001
Now this is cool. Cardcaptors (a.k.a. the American dub of Card Captor Sakura) may be showing up on Toonami soon. This is actually not all that surprising; it’s a beautifully-animated show that’s already been dubbed, and has an existing audience on American TV. Very cool. I’ll probably never get a chance to watch it even if it does show up on Toonami (I don’t catch The Big […]