Sunday, March 13, 2005
I am feeling better now. The symptoms are at about 50%, and my energy is back to about 90%. It helps that I walked this morning. I’ve been trying to find ways of increasing my energy. Surprisingly, I couldn’t find any websites that dealt with increased energy. There are plenty of health sites that deal with overall “wellness” and “fitness,” but I couldn’t find as much as a single page on “How to increase […]
Saturday, March 12, 2005
Still sick, but to quote Monty Python, “I’m getting better!” Which explains the journal blackout since Thursday. I actually have very little to report, too, since I’ve spent the past two days in bed, reading blogs and Newgrounds, and watching bits of anime. Which anime, you ask? Two, really: One episode of Legendz and one episode of Berserk. I have little interest in “fighting monsters” shows, but Legendz is […]
Thursday, March 10, 2005
I’m home sick today, so I’m cruising the blogosphere (I hate that term!) and finding various cool links. Here’s what Yahoo! looked like ten years ago. And Microsoft provides Key points for learning leetspeak. No, really, that’s the actual title. A government site warning about the dangers of rollovers in SUVs. Boring, right? The creators decided to create big, Bantha-like creatures called Esuvees and relate the safety issues of driving […]
March 9, 2005
In other news, here’s Raph Koster’s keynote speech at the 2005 Game Developers Conference, in which he posits that “fun” is a fundamental human response to learning patterns and necessary for human survival. Been watching a lot of anime lately. Hayao Miyazaki’s first original work was a little-known TV series named Future Boy Conan, a post-apocalyptic environmental adventure story. I’ve been watching the first few episodes, and it’s been […]
Tuesday, March 8, 2005
I meant to only spend fifteen minutes on this thing, and spent over an hour tweaking it. Still, it was good experience. “This thing” is an experiment of mine, an audio review of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex DVD 4. Download the mp3 (8:03, 7.3 MB) and let me know what you think. Would you like me to do this again? As always, I welcome all criticism. I recognize that […]
March 7, 2005
…And in other news, I’ve just updated my list of anime owned. It’s current now, except that the listings of what I have and haven’t seen isn’t up-to-date. Well. I’ve had quite a time recently. Two weeks ago, I lost my DSL signal. This was not a huge surprise to me, as I’ve read too many horror stories of cable/DSL/satellite service that fails and remains unresolved despite hours on hold for tech support […]
March 6, 2005
I am going to write a summary of the past few weeks. Really. When I get some time. It’s just that, after the party, I slept for six hours until noon, then went to animation (where things are moving swimmingly), then entertained my parents. I should have some spare time on Monday to compose a reasonable summary, or something. It’s 6:25 a.m., and I just concluded a fourteen-hour party at my house. …Cool!
March 4, 2005
If you don’t know anime, this will probably be lost on you. However, Real Otaku Heroes features half a dozen fall-over-laughing mp3 “commercials” saluting “the various otaku heroes that we have encountered over the years,” including Mr. Pirated Anime Goods Seller, Mr. Female Character Cosplayer, Mr. Harem Anime Inventor, Mr. Self Insert Fanfiction Writer, Mr. Shoujo Anime and Manga Fan, […]
Tuesday, March 1, 2005
Sorry for the radio silence; I’ve been effectively offline for the past seven days, thanks to a combination of a fault in the phone line and a dead DSL modem. I should be back online by the end of the week, at which point I hope to write more here about everything that’s been going on in my life. Briefly: Lots of new anime seen, big changes at work, and thoughts on a wide variety of StUFF.
Thursday, February 24, 2005
And here’s how the England trip went: On Friday, my wonderful parents picked me up from work and drove me to Dulles Airport, where I breezed through security and spent two hours lounging at the gate, watching Zeta Gundam on my laptop. I boarded my Virgin Atlantic flight and took a seat next to an older gentleman who was returning to Pakistan following a lecture here in the States. Quite a trip for him. We had a minor incident on the plane: […]