Thursday, September 4, 2003
My stress from work is finally ebbing, thanks to exercise and sleep. Amazing what those two will do. I haven’t done much of anything creative in the past week, though; no writing or drawing, or even practicing Japanese. Though I did, in a burst of creativity, invent a game. It’s sort of a cross between collectible card games and, well, Starcraft. I wanted to combine resource management with a collectible card game, to create a game […]
Wednesday, September 3, 2003
Bought a bunch of films over the weekend. The clerk commented on the nice, wide variety of titles. “And, of course, the obligatory anime,” he smiled. He knows me well. Let’s tackle the list alphabetically: All-Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku is great Golden Age anime, and by that I mean early 1990’s. Beautiful character designs, ridiculously detailed and fluid animation, and a story that’s just plain fun. It’s not brilliant […]
Tuesday, September 2, 2003
Stephen writes, in response to my previous post: What kind of friendship is that? Okay. What is friendship? Is friendship only something that occurs between bosom buddies? I find that a lot of people tend to have a black-and-white view of friendship; a person is either someone you spend lots of time with, or an acquaintance at best. No. Friendship has much greater gradation than that. I have some close friends, […]
August 29, 2003
And a quick update, when I thought to check p1k3.com. Brennen writes: There are precious few people I can really communicate with at a distance, and I don’t want to demand some fake response when I know there’s really not much to say. How are you, fine thanks and yourself, well gotta go, take care: It’s just a way to destroy whatever you’ve shared with someone in the process of trying to preserve a connection. […]
Wednesday, August 27, 2003
I find this fascinating: a sixteen-year-old named Barry Minkow constructed a completely fraudulent company, and eventually took it public. When it all came crashing down, a company worth almost a quarter of a billion dollars was found to have assets totalling $62,000. Here’s a well-written overview (and here’s a more complete but less well-written one)…except it’s not the fully story. There’s an article in Monday’s Wall Street Journal about Barry, […]
Tuesday, August 26, 2003
Huh. I opened my e-mail inbox this morning to discover I’d collected one hundred spams in 19 hours. That’s a new record. I’ve asked our server’s admin to set up some sort of spam filter. I don’t even really need an ironclad solution that removes all unwanted e-mail; I just want something that’ll take care of the obvious stuff. Can’t write much today; I overslept this morning, and I have […]
Monday, August 25, 2003
Had a good weekend, though without any major exciting events to write about. It was an achingly beautiful weekend; both days were nearly cloudless, starting out cool then warming up just to remind you it’s summer without ever beating you up like some summer days do. Bees buzzed, butterflies fluttered drunkenly around gardens, and life was good. The flowers weren’t all […]
August 22, 2003
Saalon, my condolences. An idea has been noodling around in my head for awhile. I want to build an IRC server that’s combined with a MUD, allowing users to essentially play a MUD that sits on a working IRC server. I think I’ve found the perfect framework for this: pircd, a fully functional IRC server written entirely in Perl, and coded nicely. Here are some of my criteria: Minimal combat. I’d actually like there to be some […]
Wednesday, August 20, 2003
Okay, now I can actually update this thing, since I have my notes. I spent Sunday on a bit of a road trip. It was merely a three-hour drive south to Petersburg, Virginia. Petersburg’s a small town, notable mainly for the Civil War battle that took place there near the end of the war, during Lee’s ignominious retreat back into Virginia following the disaster at Gettysburg. There’s one big disadvantage to driving into a small […]
Tuesday, August 19, 2003
Sorry, nothing to report today. ‘Twas going to write about my adventures in Petersburg Sunday, but I didn’t bring in my notebook in which I recorded my experiences. Ah well; that’ll give me a chance to assemble and post the pictures. Right now, I’m rather stressed at work; we’re going to have an internal meeting today to discuss documentation, to discuss how we’re going to talk to the customer about the status of documentation. This may look like we’re […]