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I'm Pathetic

Oops! I just realized that I forget to post yesterday. It's not that I was busy and simply didn't have the time. I actually had very little to do yesterday, but it somehow slipped my mind. Oh well. This entry will have to stand in for the one I was supposed to do then. Later today I'll put something up with a bit more content. (Unless I forget.)

By the way, I found out that there is an actual NaNoWriMo equivalent for blogging in November called NaBloPoMo. Unfortunately, I'm no longer eligible, since as I said, I missed yesterday.  :(

November 03, 2008 at 06:17 AM in Blogging | Permalink | Comments (1)

30 Days 30 Posts

I doubt this blog will ever recover its former glory, but I don't want to let it die entirely. This month I will attempt to write a new entry every day. Also, I will make a point of visiting the blogs of my followers and actually catching up on what they've been doing. After November, who knows?

November 01, 2008 at 08:52 PM in Blogging | Permalink | Comments (0)

Some Updates

I really don't know what the future hold for this blog. I certainly don't find myself posting to it very frequently, but I definitely won't be taking it down any time soon. (I get a lot of hits on some of the older entries.) Certainly, updates are owed to my readers, so here goes.

  • As listeners to the podcast already know, I'll be getting married in September and moving to Brazil. Probably, we'll be living in an apartment in this building (in case you want to check out the floor plan).
  • Before leaving the country, I'll be attending both Inconjunction and DragonCon. If you happen to be going as well, let me know, and we can meet in person.
  • I've been honored at the Podcast Pickle with the task of selecting the Featured Podcast of the day every day for four months. (That's 120 casts I have to find and write about!) You can see my selections on the main page.
  • I'm gradually putting up thousands of photos (mostly old ones) on Flickr.
  • You can also find me on twitter.
  • My podcasts can be found here and here.
  • Blog posts, podcast episodes, Flickr photos, and twitter entries all theoretically show up on my Jaiku page, your one-stop site for all things tvindy.

June 15, 2007 at 04:42 AM in Blogging, Travel | Permalink | Comments (11)

And Now for Something Completely Different

Remember that praying mantis photo I posted back in 2003? Well, a Dutch blogger stumbled across it and and used the image as a template for a tattoo. How cool is that? As far as I know, I'm the very first blogger to have been so honored.

April 08, 2006 at 06:59 PM in Blogging, Photography | Permalink | Comments (7) | TrackBack (0)

Yes, I Vlog

Recently Tim expressed that he had never come across any of my video entries. I've noticed that my videos are frequently overlooked or at least don't tend to receive many comments. I thought I'd use today's post to put up links to all the videos I've put up so far.

  • The WAKO News
  • The Return of the Scrub Jay
  • Aquarium -- The Movie
  • Daily Cleaning
  • The Octopus
  • The Little Red Romanian Hen
  • Trampolines Galore

July 22, 2005 at 05:08 AM in Blogging | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack (0)

Must post something -- anything!

I really must get back into the habit of posting regularly.

A couple things of note:

Will has started a secondary multimedia blog on which he's posted his first video entry. Interesting stuff.

I forgot what the second thing was. When I started this entry, I definitely had two things of note in my mind, but I can't for the life of me remember what the second one was. Oh well, a pathetic post is better than no entry at all. sigh

a few minutes later

Oh wait, now I remember! Rowdy Theologian, one of the people who took an interest in my Burger Chef sound files entry. Now he's put up the video to an old Burger Chef commercial promoting Star Wars posters from episode IV, with some of the original characters. (I was surprised that Anakin didn't seem to recognize C-3PO; after all, he built him when he was a child.)

July 13, 2005 at 03:48 AM in Blogging | Permalink | Comments (6) | TrackBack (0)

Still Alive

Sorry for my lack of entries lately. I'll post more soon. This is just to let everyone know I'm okay and haven't died or anything.

July 03, 2005 at 06:02 AM in Blogging | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)

Another Eugene Weblogger Meetup

Pizza Kitty

Tonight was this month's Eugene Weblogger Meetup. I've managed to attend every one since it's inception, but this is the first time I took a guest. One of my Hello Kitties accompanied me and helped to consume the non-vegetarian pizza.

I usually come away from these meetings with useful tidbits of information on blogging. This time I learned about the Wizbang Trackback Pinger, which Michael uses. It allows you to do manual trackbacks, which is extremely useful for anyone who uses TypePad, since TypePad's trackback feature nearly never works. It also lets you choose which part of your entry to include in the excerpt.

There was also a brief conversation in which we speculated on how obsessive-compulsive disorder (particularly with regard to ideas about contamination and compulsive hand washing) manifested itself in neanderthals. No conclusions were reached.

Kat was there as well. I'm glad I hadn't read her entry for today, because then I would have been afraid. She seemed to have cheered up a little since then, though. Anyway, she brought a copy of the prototype of the magazine she gets to produce for her thesis. It's called Tanuki, and you can order a copy. Since it focuses on Japanese culture, I suggested she include an article on Gloomy Bear, but I think it's too late for additions. (Someday I'm going to buy a stuffed one and perhaps even make a stained glass window in its image.) Here she is with the magazine:

Kat with Tanuki

Finally, Michael used his camera phone to photograph my Hello Kitty and e-mail the picture to me:

Phone Kitty

May 19, 2005 at 03:59 AM in Blogging | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)

Blogging Blues

I really should write something. I seem to be going through a period of blogging burnout, which I'm sure will pass. This is the first time I have gone two consecutive days without posting (if you don't count periods of travel and/or finals). I'm also a bit behind on my reading. Bakerina recently left her blog open to guest bloggers when she went on vacation in Scotland. Not only have I not contributed an entry, as I intended, but I haven't even gotten around to catching up on what the other contributors have posted (except, of course, for this entry). Now I've heard through the grapevine that she's already back. Oh well, maybe next time.

I've recently discovered the wonders of torrents. I installed bittorrent several weeks ago in the hopes of being able to download Brazilian programming, especially novelas, but it turns out that Brazilians mostly use torrents for downloading American programs. It took me awhile before I found anything that interested me, and then I discovered I could use it for getting episodes of the new Dr. Who, which, as far as I know, are only airing in the UK. The writing is quite impressive, by the way, and, if you liked the original 26-year series, you should definitely check out Dr. number 9. (Yes, that silly attempt on Fox several years back is apparently cannon, and a complete waste of a regeneration cycle if you ask me.)

Tomorrow it's back to my stained glass Hello Kitty.

May 15, 2005 at 03:59 AM in Blogging, Technology, TV | Permalink | Comments (6) | TrackBack (0)

Footwear Revisited

Way back in 2003, I posted this entry. Over the course of nearly a year, it managed to get 77 comments, making it my most commented entry ever. Unfortunately, some people just can't appreciate great art, and many of the comments are a bit negative. I finally had to close the comments down when one gentleman started insulting some of the other commenters. I was afraid some of the more negative repeat commenters would start going after more recent entries once they found themselves locked out of the one on shoes, but they never did. Anyway, I find some of the comments to be hilarious, but I've waited until now to link back to them so the bad people would have time to forget all about it. Now I ask you, how could anyone think that such shoes are gay?

May 10, 2005 at 03:59 AM in Blogging | Permalink | Comments (8) | TrackBack (0)

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