Friday, April 8, 2005
Woah! Where have I been lately? Been busy with little things, just generaly life upkeep. I’ve been reading pretty much every night, and baking cookies, and practicing Japanese a bit. Spent an hour on Wednesday checking fluids in my truck and cleaning it thoroughly. Nothing major. I’ve been a bit sick lately, too, which doesn’t help me get things done. That’s why I’m home from […]
Monday, April 4, 2005
Atom is an extremely complicated blog feed format. They’ve just published a draft RFC that’s supposed to explain the Atom format. I’ve written an Atom feed generator, and I know even less about Atom after reading that RFC. How could they write an RFC that’s that difficult to comprehend? And why am I writing about blog feed formats? Because I used to think that visiting each blog had […]
Sunday, April 3, 2005
The Otherspace meeting today went well. Almost the entire company showed up, and we had a good time chatting and generally working. Monica’s made great strides on Summer Storm and the others are doing well on final touches to Matrix Experiments Lain. It’s interesting to observe how we’ve changed over the past ten months or so. What started as a nervous group just trying to figure out how to animate has turned […]
Saturday, April 2, 2005
Well, I’ve had a busy couple of days. I’m afraid I have nothing interesting to say, so if you’re not interested in a litany of my recent activities, feel free to move on to the next blog. I spent Thusday evening tutoring, which seemed to go well. The goal of my tutoring is to improve my student’s ability to write essays for the SAT, and now that he’s becoming more used to writing essays, I think I need to concentrate more on the types […]
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
As I type this, I’m sitting in my back yard, digesting a plate of chocolate chip cookies and a glass of lemonade (all home-made, no less), looking out at the jumbled mulch that now hides the fifty or so daffodil bulbs I planted earlier this afternoon. I feel almost ashamed that I’m ever sorry for myself. Now that I’ve had some time to think about last night’s incredible dinner with T, I can […]
Tuesday, March 29, 2005
I don’t normally like CGI. It looks too stiff and too generated; surfaces feel harsh and hyper-real. Indeed, it’s all about the feel of it. I don’t like how CGI feels. But Andrew Hickinbottom‘s work gives me hope that there’s a good future in CGI. He’s created CGI that looks like animations of clay figurines. Very pretty, and it has a style that feels more natural […]
March 28, 2005
In other news, my gallery is now officially back online, though I still need to clean up a few bits and pieces. But at least you can browse everything in their correct categories and such. Posted here so I won’t forget to browse it at my leisure later: The Official Alex Toth Website, featuring a whole lot of artwork from a classic comic artist.
Sunday, March 27, 2005
A few years ago, I had an idea for a story called Red Ax, which I excitedly hashed out with Saalon. Unfortunately, it was a comic book story with anthropomorphic characters, and since I couldn’t draw and didn’t know any comic book artists, I shelved it. About a year ago, I wanted to write, and that comic book idea floated into my head. So I sat down and wrote an eleven-page script that introduced […]
Friday, March 25, 2005
Here’s what I did this evening: That’s the new herb border I planted just outside my back door. The planter full of dirt was there when I moved in, and though it clearly hadn’t been used in awhile, the soil was in reasonably decent shape. I dug in two bags of potting soil yesterday, then bought some herbs today and planted them. I’ve got spearmint, parsley, oregano, and thyme, those all […]
Thursday, March 24, 2005
I need to grow up. I’ve been implementing the “Getting Things Done” productivity system. It’s helped me in some ways, but I’m still not very productive in the evenings. I may accomplish one or two little tasks—cleaning the bathrooms, writing a bit—but that seems marginal considering that I have a good two or three hours per night to do things. I’m sure that this is at least partly due to maturity. […]