Wednesday, June 11, 2003
Last night I pulled the wonton wrappers out of the fridge in heady anticipation of a new culinary treat — home-made ravioli. I had a recipe, and all the ingredients. Heck, getting the wonton wrapers was a story in itself, but I have other pasta to cook here. The first step involved boiling water. Experienced cook that I am, I know the secret to boiling water: It takes days. So I poured a “generous two quarts” of water into […]
June 10, 2003
Note: There’s a new poll on the right of this page. It seems to work. So, I’m still a bit under the weather (and what a strange turn of phrase that is), but I’m functional. I’m at work, for example. I completed another animation last night — I added a background to the red bouncing ball animation, and posted it to the website. It’s simple, but again, it proves that I can do this. Next will […]
June 9, 2003
Heh. From this review: “Thank you, Neon Genesis Evangelion, for making “emotionless construct” a popular character type.” Finally, after several weeks of being ill every Monday, I’m not nauseous today. Today I have a sore throat. Seriously, it’s not that bad. I did end up sleeping until noon and missing a meeting with a customer, but it was rescheduled, and I don’t feel absolutely terrible. I will […]
Saturday, June 7, 2003
God’s draining his bathtub on us again. This isn’t a stately rain, or a a calm rain; this is sullen rain. Rain that wants to be hail. It’s made worse by the fact that yesterday was achingly beautiful; a high of 82 degrees under an postcard blue sky that God had dotted with clouds just for visual interest. And that had been preceded by a solid month of grim grey skies […]
June 6, 2003
This is the Week Of Suckage. No good journal entries this week. I hope to be back on the ball next week, though. I drew several more frames of animation last night. Now all I need is for the Adobe bundle to arrive from Saalon, and install it, and then I can start assembling them. It comes with Photoshop, so I can become a Photoshop Weenie. Expect to see a bad logo complete with […]
Thursday, June 5, 2003
I really don’t have the energy to put together a reasonable journal entry today. Here are a few notes instead. I re-watched some of Fantasia last night, particularly the “Rite of Spring” and “Night on Bald Mountain” sequences. I was re-struck at the incredible power of those animations to create an emotional reaction. I’m buying a bunch of hideous blue tubs at Office Depot, to toss all my miscellaneous stuff in. I can’t really think of any better solution […]
Wednesday, June 4, 2003
I haven’t posted anything to this site since Friday, and I won’t apologize for it. It’s good, actually. A couple of times over the past few days, I wished I had a chance to clean out my personal e-mails, but that was the extent of my concern. It proves that I’m no longer tied to having an internet connection. Besides, I was ill. My stomach’s been in a protracted guerilla war against me for the past decade or so. Every […]
Friday, May 30, 2003
My life has been very calm for the past week or two. I wrote “surprisingly calm,” then deleted it, because in some ways it’s not a surprise. It shouldn’t be, at least; I’ve been slowly eliminating distractions in my life so that I could just be. Now I’ve finally reached a tipping point, where there’s very little that I make myself do. So, last night, I could watch another […]
Thursday, May 29, 2003
Watched The Chinese Connection, a Bruce Lee kung fu film, last night. I enjoyed it quite a lot. The ending is a downer, but then, that’s refreshing. It’s nice to see a film where the hero doesn’t live happily ever after. On a completely random note, I’m taking tea at work. Every day around 3:30, I make myself a cup of tea and pull out two biscuits from my desk drawer. I refuse […]
Wednesday, May 28, 2003
Lileks has an excellent Bleat that sums up a lot of my feelings on The Matrix Reloaded. Just, y’know, so you know. …Which reminds me. I went to see the film, and didn’t post my opinion here. I posted a bunch of thoughts to MatrixReloaded on the C2 wiki. In any event, I had a very good weekend. It was productive in that relaxing way that comes when you calmly decide to do what you can, right […]