Wednesday, February 4, 2004
Instead of writing about Janet Jackson (and her now-legendary right breast bared in the Superbowl halftime show), I’m going to write about her brother Michael. I have a theory about Michael Jackson. I think that his fundamental problem is cluelessness. I mean that in a nice way. I think Michael is quite out of touch with mainstream society. Whether or not he’s a pedophile, I think he literally doesn’t see why […]
Monday, February 2, 2004
Saturday was completely unexpected. I’d intended to catch up on my writing, since my cold had kept my brain fogged all week. But my landlady lent me Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and after cracking the cover at 2 p.m., I didn’t put it down until I’d finished it. Which is not to suggest that The Order of the Phoenix is a mind-boggling book of staggering genius. It’s definitely good, though; a rolicking […]
Thursday, January 29, 2004
My cold is clearing out. I spent much of my illness laying in bed and watching movies and anime. The list? But of course! I shall share my obsessions with total strangers. Children of Dune, a surprisingly impressive rendition of the second and third Dune books. The actors were quite good (mostly; Susan Sarandon was unexpectedly mediocre). Earth Defence Family, which I believe I’ve effused about on this journal enough. The ending lived up to the show’s […]
Tuesday, January 27, 2004
Ick. I caught a nasty cold on Sunday, and I’m still suffering from it.
Sunday, January 25, 2004
Oh, now this is interesting. I’m updating this page through my Treo 600 PDA/phone. It’s awkward and slow, but then wasn’t the web in the early days? I’m finding the primary inefficiency in this to be the difficulty in typing the < and > characters that HTML requires. But even that is getting easier with time. WikiTextFormatting would actually be very useful here. In other news, I’m sick […]
Friday, January 23, 2004
Blast it! Been extremely busy for the past few days, and unable to spare time for this journal. And just when I have a new theory about the future of computing hardware. :grumble: Things are going pretty well, all things considered. I have a lot planned for the next few days.
Wednesday, January 21, 2004
I took yesterday off so that I could relax a bit. It definitely helped; I met and talked with my parents for a couple of hours, and I did some errands. I bought a ridiculously expensive chess set, too; partly as a comfort, I think. And the store was going out of business, so it was less ridiculously expensive than it otherwise would have been. Which reminds me: I’ve replaced my dying Handspring Visor and my old […]
Friday, January 16, 2004
I’m in a good mood today. I can’t help being in a good mood today. Two days ago, a few bootleg anime DVDs arrived. “Oh, fine,” you say, “You watched and enjoyed some new anime.” No, this goes far beyond that. One of those DVDs contained the first four episodes of the new remake of Astro Boy. Oh, how I wish there were more on that disc. I watched two […]
Thursday, January 15, 2004
I am thrilled we’re making plans to return to the moon. Why? Lots of subtle reasons. Space is far more than the “Earth’s backyard” that a lot of people seem to think it is. It’s not just another place to explore. As Solomon Short wrote, “Space is not the final frontier. The final frontier is the human soul. Space is merely the place where we are most likely to meet the challenge.” […]
Wednesday, January 14, 2004
I’ve been working on the VR story over the past few days, partly because I’m rather unhappy with what I’ve posted here so far. It’s moving along very slowly, and I find it somewhat boring. The mundane details of conversations take up too much space in this sort of format. I need more action. So, I followed some writing advice (I think it was from Orson Scott […]