Friday, February 9, 2001
I realized the other day that I could put up a couple of wallscrolls at work. For those not familiar with them, wallscrolls are “posters” made of cloth, that are usually used for anime promotions. I have no wall space in my bedroom to hang any, but I could put up one or two, tastefully, at work (no hentai wallscrolls, obviously, even if I watched hentai). So, I’ve been thinking about either […]
Thursday, February 8, 2001
Yes! Project A-Ko OAV’s 2, 3, and 4 are coming out on DVD! They’ll all be published on one disc. This is, AFAIK, the first time that these OAV’s have ever been published in the U.S., and finally brings us the entire A-Ko franchise (up until now, only the original film and the final one, Project A-Ko vs., Battle Blue and Battle Grey have been dubbed and released […]
Wednesday, February 7, 2001
And, like a dying lady lean and pale,Who totters forth, wrapp’d in a gauzy veil,Out of her chamber, led by the insaneAnd feeble wanderings of her fading brain,The moon arose up in the murky east,A white and shapeless mass.— Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), “Moon” It’s well-written. It’s well-drawn. It’s another cool online comic strip: Ozy and Millie, a childhood-oriented strip that Brennen turned me on to. Cool. The Apple IIe computer arrived today. […]
Tuesday, February 6, 2001
Got home from work at 10:15 tonight, but that was mainly because I spent about an hour playing card games with some friends at work. They were both…interesting. The first is called “Lunch Money,” and it simulates 8-year-old girls fighting tooth-and-nail on the playground. You have cards like “Kick,” “Poke in the Eye,” “Combo Attack,” “Block,” “Dodge,” etc., all accompanied by bizarre, artsy images of little girls. […]
Monday, February 5, 2001
Stand here by my side and turn, I pray, On the lake below thy gentle eyes;The clouds hang over it, heavy and gray, And dark and silent the water lies;And out of that frozen mist the snowIn wavering flakes begins to flow; Flake after flakeThey sink in the dark and silent lake. See how in a living swarm they come From the chambers beyond that misty veil;Some hover awhile in air, and some Rush prone from the sky […]
Sunday, February 4, 2001
OK, so last Monday at work, we had this big meeting at 9:30 a.m. I like to be ready for meetings well in advance, so I walked into the conference room 15 minutes early. Being the only person in there, I got bored quickly. I slid around to the whiteboard, wiped off whatever was there, and drew a cartoon on the board, mainly for practice. This cartoon has sadly been lost to posterity, but I’ll […]
Saturday, February 3, 2001
Well, I just had the loveliest brunch I’ve had in years. Through various and sundry contacts, I signed up to be part of a book reading club that meets on Saturday mornings. They just started, and they’re going through Charles Haddon Spurgeon‘s All of Grace, which is a wonderful salvation tract. Today was their second meeting, but the first one that I’ve attended. We met at The Tea Cozy, a charming […]
Friday, February 2, 2001
Updated Idiotic User Interfaces with a critique of Microsoft Office Online Help. Which doesn’t suck, IMO, but has several really odd “features.” I also split up the kitchen. Links to my favorite online comics are now on their own page, along with a new list of art sites that I’ve found and like. I’ve also created a separate page for the websites I’ve created, and updated that list with […]
Thursday, February 1, 2001
It’s 4:00 in the morning. I just spent several hours trying (unsuccessfully) to get a networked game of Quake2 going with Brennen. If Saalon had been online, we would have played off of his DSL connection, but he hopped offline just before we tried to play. I then spent several more hours working intermittently on Mozart and Solar Conquest. And hey, I have a screenshot: Time passes…. OK, it’s […]
Wednesday, January 31, 2001
When the hounds of spring are on winter’s traces, The mother of months in meadow or plainFills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain— Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909), from “Chorus from ‘Atalanta’ “ Man, this is insane. I just installed a hit counter thingie that I wrote on stun-software.com, only to find out that Informant has been downloaded an average of three times a day for the past several weeks; more […]