Friday, May 23, 2003
If you put a human being in a big white box, over time you will dull his or her mind. I don’t think I need to prove this. Thus, our brains will atrophy unless we receive physical, visual creative stimulation. Thus, creating a room specifically intended to stimulate you mentally should stimulate you mentally. Thus, I’m doing this to my bedroom. I’ve put several colorful posters […]
Thursday, May 22, 2003
Wednesday night, I watched another really interesting film. It was my first Akira Kurosawa film, Ran. My opinions on it are decidedly mixed at this point, though that’s a good thing. I was entertained by it, and I was impressed by bits of it, but I wasn’t amazed by it the way many people seem to be. Based on Ran and what I’ve heard others say, I think that Kurosawa is a filmmaker’s filmmaker, not […]
Wednesday, May 21, 2003
So…sleepy. I’m not sure why. Or, maybe, I am sure. It all began with the rain. I need to exercise, and I love to run, which I now do several times a week. Problem is, I hate to run in the rain. There’s just something about being soaked to the skin five minutes into your exercise routine, your underwear clinging in uncomfortable places, while you’re still warming up and aren’t generating much […]
Tuesday, May 20, 2003
I was going to try to find something to write about, then noticed that Daemonsong has begun again. It’s cool, and so is its Wiki (but then, most Wikis are).
Friday, May 16, 2003
A few weeks ago, I saw a remarkable movie named Once Upon a Time in China. It’s almost impossible for me to sum up. It’s a martial arts movie, yes. It’s also about the modernization of China. It’s also about guns versus martial arts, technology versus personal skill. It has its simple villains, yes. But its villainy is historical; things like this happened. It’s simple […]
Thursday, May 15, 2003
The phrase “it’s an acquired taste” has become a smirked insult these days, but some things really are acquired tastes, and the taste is worth acquiring. It’s been true in my life of wine, of comics, of anime, and of many other things. So it is of Mobile Suit Gundam, the original anime series that started the sprawling Gundam franchise. I’ll clear a few things out of the way before heading into the good […]
May 14, 2003
Heh. From this journal, about watching the end of Neon Genesis Evangelion: Just as watching “the Self-Loathing episodes” had the positive side effect of making me love myself, affirming that I have value and purpose, and filled me with the will to live and not be anything like Shinji Ikari, so did the OTHER End of Evangelion make me love all other anime. I love you, Dai-Guard. I love you, Gatchaman. […]
May 13, 2003
Oooh. I recently stumbled across alt.legends.atlantis, a clearinghouse for completely insane people. Check these snippets out: First, we need to cover the surface of the earth with a cloud of Argongas, Next, onto the polymer clones [orchid people]. This experiment survived the crash along with the radioactive blood worms and the flourescent mosses that were not killed along with the astronauts… HAARP microwave beams are behind the violent spate of twisters and tornadoes […]
May 12, 2003
HA! Only a few hours later, I get (1) a kind response from a regular reader, giving me a thumbs-up, which is a wonderful blessing, and (2) an apologetic e-mail from Saalon, explaining that he hadn’t even read my journal entry and that his rant was based on a completely different discussion. Lots of kindness. And now, I feel ready to take on the world. Whoo! Quick disclaimer (eek!): My earlier post was not […]
Friday, May 9, 2003
Phew. Yesterday, I finished prototype 3 of Contract Tycoon. I may have mentioned this before, but can’t recall: Extreme Programming makes programming a whole application a heck of a lot easier than I’m used to. Even compared to up-front design, developing each of these prototypes was easy. Now I just need to upload it from Navi (my laptop) to stun-software.com. This is non-trivial, as the server doesn’t want me to FTP […]