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I just spent the last 5 hours re-editing my Japan Journal that I pretty shoddily threw together over the summer. It’s not really much better at the moment, but it’s all in post-form, which makes it much easier to edit and looks neater. I may be adding more to it very soon as well. If you click on the Japan category you’ll now see the updated site, rather than the older version.

My Japan sketchbook has also been added to the Artwork section.

Hah! And just as I finished the last update, my penpal from Japan IMed me for the first time. What a coincidence.

So now I’ve got to finish the humor archive, and I can begin playing with new website styles.

That’s right everyone: I am a miracle worker. I can restore the dead back to life!

Look over at the archives section. Notice something? This weblog was created in January 2004. Why, then, are there entries that date to earlier than that? Well obviously because I went back and added them in! But look closer: you’ll see that there are now many many more entries that were not there yesterday! Why is that, you ask? Because I brought them back from the dead!

These posts are all legitimate posts that were written on the proper date that they say. The text is what it was, not estimated. The only thing not exactly right is the exact time posted. It’s exactly like looking into the past and reading my thoughts that I posted to my old websites!
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…or, All Links On The Internet Originate From Me. I didn’t want to sound conceited so I used the first title. I’m not saying this to brag.

On more than a few occassions I recieve links from people on my buddy list that I myself sent out just a few hours or even minutes prior. It’s really fun to think that my link circulates for that much time among buddy lists, until it makes a full circle back to me.

A few minutes ago I recieved a link that I sent out two years ago. That’s the most satisfying. Not to say that the link has been in circulation for that long — but it was a link that I introduced to a ton of people back then, some of whom bookmarked it and only now sent it back to me.

Obviously a lot of links are discovered by thousands of people on the internet, but nevertheless I like to take credit for some of the more rare ones. (Obviously I didn’t discover tubgirl or goatse, but how many people do you know who would send out The Bar Hill Gang?)

So I had a spare moment to play with Moveable Type (after 8 hours straight of painting tonight) and tried out the “Categories” feature. It’s pretty cool. I think I’m going to remove the old “Humor Archive” page and redo them all as posts. That might take some time, but it’d be cool, wouldn’t it? Then they’d be searchable as well as fit in with the stylesheet of this blog. Don’t hold your breath though, I’m really busy this semester.

Sometimes you just don’t think sentences through before you type them. Here’s a snippet that illustrates what I mean:

LeoHourvitz: that’s what print-screen does on a mac
Arr Me Mateys: very interesting
Arr Me Mateys: and damn your dock is huge…
Arr Me Mateys: that’s dOck
LeoHourvitz: whew! make sure you don’t mistype that one!
Arr Me Mateys: i didnt even notice how bad that line was…

I would have written something cute or clever, but I just found the perfect link (LINK! Ahh! You’ll get the joke when you see the page…) for this joyous occasion. Enjoy:

http://x-entertainment.com/articles/0872/

I don’t know if an appology is necessary for not updating much this semester, but I still feel kind of bad. Even if I never said anything important last semester. I’m so incredibly busy with my thesis that I don’t think about writing here very often. Or keeping up with email, or anything else like that.

I’d really liek to get a job by the time I graduate, and my parents have put a whole lot of pressure on me to do so (which is not helping one single bit, I can tell you), but so far it’s been all bad luck. Of course, bad luck seems to be my best friend most of the time so it’s not all that surprising.

Anyway, tomorrow I got to a presentation by Disney Feature Animation (I got rejected by Disney Design Group on Friday) so we’ll see if they show any interest in me. With all the CA’s applying, it’s not too likely, but they do have need for traditional illustrators too, so it’s not entirely out of the question.

I’m having the most trouble with my Crusader chicken so far, while my Chinese Emperor, Viking, and Samurai chickens are all nearly complete. I’m sketching out my Turkish Sultan and Robber Baron chickens so I can rotate between those as I continue to fight with my Crusader.

I really miss playing D&D, and I’ve bought a few online books (dirt cheap!) to prepare for a big campaign I’d like to run this summer (providing my players show some interest and don’t just fade away into World of Warcraft or other things like has happened in the past). I’ve got a lot of awesome stuff planned for it, so hopefully I’ll be able to find people to play it who will be just as into it as I am.

My other classes are going OK I guess. I’m kind of disappointed in myself for not coming up with anything to show for my digital video class though. The instructor loved my work last year and I wanted to be able to do some more this semester, but I just don’t have the focus. I haven’t got any burning stories to film at the moment because I’m so focused on my thesis. It’s a pretty bad thing considering how much I want to do film… but what can I say, I enjoy this project a lot and really hope it can get me a job. Hopefully after I graduate I can get together with some friends and try to flesh out some decent video work.

One of these days I’d really like to start playing around with this site and making the blog a little more interesting, seeing as how it’s so customizable. I also need to create an online portfolio, too. But there’s just too many things I want to do, too many things I need to do first, and hardly any time to do any of them.