Saturday, February 24, 2001
Saalon’s down for the weekend, and we’re having a great time. After I showed him around Intersect, we watched a bit of anime: Photon, Rurouni Kenshin TV (the whole DVD, actually), Princess Mononoke, and Tenchi Muyo! TV (between watching anime music videos and my video footage from Katsucon). Princess Mononoke is breathtaking. It has a complex plot that really defies easy analysis — there’s definitely a lot of action […]
Friday, February 23, 2001
Eeek! Haven’t updated in awhile. I finished my Katsucon report, by posting a bunch of pictures from the con. I’m very pleased. Saalon’s coming down for the weekend, in preparation for a job interview at Intersect! Isn’t that cool? If he gets the job, he and Erin will be moving down here. While he’s down here, we may work on an anime music video. More info on that coming later. Meanwhile, I asked my boss […]
Wednesday, February 21, 2001
Bought three new anime DVD’s today: The Castle of Cagliostro (a Hayao Miyazaki film), Digimon: The Movie (now that should be interesting to review), and the fifth Cowboy Bebop DVD (which includes “Boogie Woogie Feng Shui,” an episode I’ve been itching to re-watch lately). And I decided that I’m going to stop buying anime for the next thirty days. That means that I won’t buy any more anime DVD’s or VHS […]
Tuesday, February 20, 2001
Ugh. I didn’t get to sleep until 3:00 a.m. this morning, but fortunately I feel pretty good anyway. Such is life. I was able to use the time to post those things I mentioned in yesterday’s diary entry. I also posted a piece of artwork to MegaTokyo‘s Art and Drawing Forum, mostly just because anyone who critiques there is supposed to post their own artwork at least once. I’ve been talking […]
Monday, February 19, 2001
A new server is now up and running at WebMages (which hosts this site), which explains why these pages may have been unavailable over the past few days. Everything seems back to normal now. I’m back from Katsucon. I’ve posted a complete set of diary entries on this new site. I’ve set up a little gallery site called Treetop, where I’ve begun posting my artwork. […]
Friday, February 16, 2001
Had a very good day at work. I’m actually not as far ahead as I’d like to be, but after a status report one of the higher-ups took the time to say how impressed he is at my status. It’s amazing how much that encouraged me to work. I then went to Katsucon. However, rather than describing that adventure here, I’ll point you to my diary of Katsucon 2001.
Thursday, February 15, 2001
WebMages is moving over to a new server, so this site may be periodically unavailable over the next day or two. I must say that it’s been a very pleasant transition thus far. I’ve been gearing up for Katsucon this weekend. I may not update this site much over the weekend as a result of spending a lot of time there. It looks like the family vacation to England will have […]
Tuesday, February 13, 2001
It’s link day! Y’know, we’ve all had our bad days. Especially in college, we’ve all had assignments that truly sucked, and that we had a really tough time completing. Even so, it would have to be pretty bad to submit this sort of report. Meanwhile, I came across this incredible report on how much the media really, really sucks. There’s some really eye-opening information […]
Monday, February 12, 2001
After a rather slow day at work, and a bad day at the gym (the running machine insisted that my heart was beating 190 beats per minute, which is insanely high, so to be safe I just jogged), I tried my hand at super-deformed drawing. Both of the drawings that I attempted turned out quite badly, even by my standards. One was so bad I scratched pencil marks over it, a gut reaction that I regretted […]
Saturday, February 10, 2001
Well, it’s been a very productive day. I went to work in the morning, where I set up Lady (one of my computers) next to my regular work machine. Why? Eh, just for the heck of it, and I want to see if I can get it on the network. On that machine, I found some code I had written to make a Wolfenstein 3D-like engine in BeOS. Saalon and I chatted (via ICQ) about how to an engine like that could be used […]