Yippee! Just got the news from my agency that my contract has been extended through the end of August–but may extend (hopefully) through the end of the year. Always glad to have some good news in my work life…
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Osama bin Laden is dead. Meh…
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I had just gone to bed Sunday night when my dad called me and said “They just killed Osama bin Laden”. I replied with something clever like “Oh well” and went to sleep–I thought I’d heard “Qaddafi” and was nonplussed. It wasn’t until Monday morning that I read the reports all over the internet and finally realized who had been killed.
But that pretty accurately sums up how much I cared in the end–a resounding “big whoop”. We’ve spent nearly a decade, trillions of dollars and thousands of lives chasing the bogeyman. Now he’s dead. And life goes on.
dpkworldwide.tumblr.com is no more
Well, I got sort of ambitious over the weekend. I used the free Tumblr backup program to copy all my entries to my Mac and then I deleted my account. The next step will be to go through it all and copy any posts worth saving here. By that, I mean anything I actually wrote myself or anything I feel is particularly important (like all the recent Japan earthquake items I reblogged). I won’t be copying everything over wholesale because some of it was purely frivolous.
Which is one of the reasons I ditched Tumblr–I did see quite a bit of interesting stuff there (especially photography), but it was more or less just a constant source of “noise”. That and the system was notoriously unreliable–you never knew when it would be busy, down, etc. I now will consolidate to one place (here).
Interesting: that means I’ve ditched both Facebook and Tumblr this year. Now all I’ve got is this WP blog, my self-made website on MobileMe (dpkworldwide.com) and my Twitter account. I think that’ll be plenty…
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I’ve just copied over the avatar and a few quotes from my Tumblr page. Also simplified and cleaned up the navigation items.
Will I blog again?
Hi there. I sheepishly return to my blog, thinking once again that this time for sure I will start blogging on a regular basis. Sigh…
I finally sat down with a couple of “How to Learn WordPress” eBooks I bought and started looking at this in a new light. I’m particularly interested because it seems to be the easiest and best way for me to actually interface with my web presence from my iPad. I also think I can get rid of a lot of my online chaff and superfluity by consolidating here.
FINALLY Viz does something right…
I’m so incredibly happy!
I found out yesterday that Viz has finally released my my all-time favorite anime, Hikaru no Go on the iTunes store! You can purchase each of the five, 15-episode seasons for $19.99 and–most importantly–get all 75 episodes with the well-done English dub. To my knowledge, some of these were never released or broadcast. I can finally enjoy the show in its entirety rather than being hung up at episode 45 right before Hikaru passes the Pro exam. You can also purchase each episode individually for $1.99 or rent for 99¢. This is some of the best anime news I’ve had in a long time! If you’re not an iTunes person, it’s also coming to The Playstation Network and Amazon VOD.
After Viz Media stopped releasing the show on DVD in 2008–even though it had already been dubbed and was more than halfway through (45 of 75 episodes)–I basically stopped supporting them: I canceled my subscriptions to their magazines, stopped buying their products, and sold many of the ones I owned (especially my Naruto and Inuyasha boxed sets). I’ve continued to purchase the Hikaru no Go manga volumes as they’ve come out but that was pretty much it (except I recently started purchasing the Cross Game manga too–it is so excellent that even a grudge couldn’t stop my buying it).
So now, I can begin to forgive. I will even begin singing their praises once they bring back and complete The Prince of Tennis, Full Moon, and Mär. While they’re at it, they can become my heroes if they start selling Inuyasha – The Final Act and Cross Game.
Maybe now they’ve learned their lesson and will support fans of their other properties–there’s more to anime than Bleach, Death Note and Naruto.
Golf in 2011
Well, it’s that time of year again: time for our annual IHTNFL Golf Tournament (that’s “I Hate the NFL”) on Sunday February 6. It’s our annual round played on Super Bowl Sunday. Which is ideal since the courses aren’t crowded.
Of course, I haven’t picked up my clubs in well over six months. And I’ve never been much of a golfer to begin with.
So, I pulled out my tried and true “Ben Hogan’s Five Lessons of Golf” book and gave it a read through. I then stopped by the Elkins Ranch (Fillmore, CA) course on the way home last night to hit a bucket of balls on the range. I’d forgotten just how bad I really am.
And I became reacquainted with several muscles that I’d forgotten I had {groan}…
Hopefully I will at least be able to make it through the entire round without collapsing. I don’t even want to imagine what my game and score might look like. But it has given me renewed interest in the sport and impetus toward practicing and playing again. I may not do anything tonight, but I will certainly try to get in another couple evenings’ practice in before the weekend.
But then again, it’s not exactly like cramming for a test at school!
journey, not destination 