Hey Hey It's Saturday
Mmmm, since I got this account last year I've made 7 entries, which was about twice as many as I thought I'd made, but not really an impressive total.
I have a cunning plan however. I'm going to try and write an entry each day, and who knows, maybe they might even get interesting at some point. :)
To make it more annoying for myself, I'm trying to do the entries (or at least a chunk of them until it drives me nuts) using the Dvorak Keyboard Layout ... which I _think_ is better, it feels more efficient, but I'm a hell of a lot slower with. The downside of touch typing is that it's hard to retrain yourself, at least I've found this.
Well, what did I do today? Staggered out of bed at about 3 PM, which sadly is an improvement from yesterdays 6 PM. The thing that seems to suffer the most from my lack of work is my sleep-cycle, which drifts all over the place if their isn't an external force to make me be awake at a given time.
I wandered down the hill to catch episode 23 of the anime Last Exile, which I can not recommend highly enough, as it's a very sweet and at the same time fun to watch show, with cool steam punk tech. I'm getting close to the end of it now, and it's continued to just get better. Of course I'm biased, I'm a sucker for anything with steam punk and flying ships. :)
After that I saw the first episode of the TV series of Read or Die, another anime, and an ... odd one, but fun. Then I saw all three parts of the mini-series before that. There is a standard three letter acronym for that when applied to anime, but I can't remember it right now, my brain keeps going OST, which is wrong (that being Original Sound Track). Anyway, the serial is set well before the TV series, so I watched them in the wrong order, but it does make the series make more sense.
The mini-series was very good, and quite poignant in places, it remains to see if the TV series will be as good, one episode isn't enough to get a good idea, but it's certainly got a lot of style and general fun to it. Again, I do recommend this one.
Other recommendations ... three non LiveJournal Web Logs that I follow.
Salam Pax who is probably one of the more famous Web Logs around, given how many people were reading his stuff during the last Iraq War, and seems to be doing a good job of making the jump to pro-journalist. Updates are erratic, but worth reading, and it's also very worth going back to read all his earlier posts, particularly from during the war itself.
Turning Tables which may well be unique for being written by a US Solider on tour in Iraq currently. Read this while you can, and be sure to check the back-entries, because his tour is almost up and he's about to head home. As his site says, his typing skills may not be the best, but his writing style, and subject matter is fascinating. He's a man who truly is there to try and help people, and this is probably the best counter-argument to all those people who want to try and paint the US military has made up of jack-booted thugs.
Finally there is Baghdad Burning by Riverbend, the newest of the three, and often the most heartbreaking to read. This is the best counter-example to anyone who tries to paint any 'towel-head' stereotypes on the Iraq population. She's could be any one of us, and she's living in a shitty situation and writing about it in a way that brings it to a horrible kind of life in the minds eye.
This is the most 'must read' of any of these journals, and hasn't been around long so it's very easy to catch up on all the back-entries, and very worth doing. Just don't expect it to be a comfortable trip, because it's not a comfortable place she's in.
The one downside to all of this is that Blogspot has to be one of the least stable sites I look at regularly, so you may have to go back at different times to see the journals. I'm not sure if this is server instability at their end, or overload, because I get the impression that a lot of people read these journals.
Well, I suppose that's not a bad start for this, now I need to actually remember to do another post tomorrow.
Brett
I have a cunning plan however. I'm going to try and write an entry each day, and who knows, maybe they might even get interesting at some point. :)
To make it more annoying for myself, I'm trying to do the entries (or at least a chunk of them until it drives me nuts) using the Dvorak Keyboard Layout ... which I _think_ is better, it feels more efficient, but I'm a hell of a lot slower with. The downside of touch typing is that it's hard to retrain yourself, at least I've found this.
Well, what did I do today? Staggered out of bed at about 3 PM, which sadly is an improvement from yesterdays 6 PM. The thing that seems to suffer the most from my lack of work is my sleep-cycle, which drifts all over the place if their isn't an external force to make me be awake at a given time.
I wandered down the hill to catch episode 23 of the anime Last Exile, which I can not recommend highly enough, as it's a very sweet and at the same time fun to watch show, with cool steam punk tech. I'm getting close to the end of it now, and it's continued to just get better. Of course I'm biased, I'm a sucker for anything with steam punk and flying ships. :)
After that I saw the first episode of the TV series of Read or Die, another anime, and an ... odd one, but fun. Then I saw all three parts of the mini-series before that. There is a standard three letter acronym for that when applied to anime, but I can't remember it right now, my brain keeps going OST, which is wrong (that being Original Sound Track). Anyway, the serial is set well before the TV series, so I watched them in the wrong order, but it does make the series make more sense.
The mini-series was very good, and quite poignant in places, it remains to see if the TV series will be as good, one episode isn't enough to get a good idea, but it's certainly got a lot of style and general fun to it. Again, I do recommend this one.
Other recommendations ... three non LiveJournal Web Logs that I follow.
Salam Pax who is probably one of the more famous Web Logs around, given how many people were reading his stuff during the last Iraq War, and seems to be doing a good job of making the jump to pro-journalist. Updates are erratic, but worth reading, and it's also very worth going back to read all his earlier posts, particularly from during the war itself.
Turning Tables which may well be unique for being written by a US Solider on tour in Iraq currently. Read this while you can, and be sure to check the back-entries, because his tour is almost up and he's about to head home. As his site says, his typing skills may not be the best, but his writing style, and subject matter is fascinating. He's a man who truly is there to try and help people, and this is probably the best counter-argument to all those people who want to try and paint the US military has made up of jack-booted thugs.
Finally there is Baghdad Burning by Riverbend, the newest of the three, and often the most heartbreaking to read. This is the best counter-example to anyone who tries to paint any 'towel-head' stereotypes on the Iraq population. She's could be any one of us, and she's living in a shitty situation and writing about it in a way that brings it to a horrible kind of life in the minds eye.
This is the most 'must read' of any of these journals, and hasn't been around long so it's very easy to catch up on all the back-entries, and very worth doing. Just don't expect it to be a comfortable trip, because it's not a comfortable place she's in.
The one downside to all of this is that Blogspot has to be one of the least stable sites I look at regularly, so you may have to go back at different times to see the journals. I'm not sure if this is server instability at their end, or overload, because I get the impression that a lot of people read these journals.
Well, I suppose that's not a bad start for this, now I need to actually remember to do another post tomorrow.
Brett