• It’s more than I ever wanted.

    Imagine my surprise when I opened the following email message this morning:

    You have been chosen to test the new email service at AnimeMusicVideos.org. You now have an email account of [address removed] to use if you wish.

    Well, that’s very nice… but, what? I don’t need another email address! Sure, I’d love to have an excuse to use such an address, but I just don’t have such an excuse, and there’s no way I’m going to take the time to watch over yet another email account if there’s no need to do so.

    This would barely be worth remarking upon, of course, but for the fact that I have a very, very, very hard time letting something like this pass me by. It’s going to take a fair bit of willpower to resist activating that account, just on general principles. Sad, isn’t it?

    (For the story behind why I was offered my “very own” email account, see this forum thread.)

  • Might As Well, Eh?

    So, since I’m stuck with this navigation menu bar thing at the top of the page, I might as well update the contents of those pages, huh?

    Consider it done. And yes, by “done” I mean “done just enough so I don’t cringe when I read my bio or the cast page.” For instance, my biography page no longer lists anything about my former place of employment. I suppose I could have kept a lot of the material about the good parts of that gig, but right now I can’t really begin to care about that organization, if you’ll pardon my use of the word. So be it.

    Anyway. The pages listed above are mostly current, now… though I should probably update the webcomics page some time this week…

  • Naming Meme

    Nayad posted her rendition of this (at a friend-locked LiveJournal post, unfortunately), and I was amused enough to go ahead and do the deed. It’s all her fault, right down to convincing me not to weasel out of it on account of not having actual/current names for some of the entries. So, here goes nothing.

    1. YOUR SPY NAME: (middle name and current street name)
    Peter San Rafael It could’ve been worse, I suppose. In the old house? Peter Long.

    2. YOUR MOVIE STAR NAME: (grandfather/grandmother on your dad’s side, your favorite candy)
    Frederick Tootsie Roll Note to self, never become a movie star. And I want the Internet to know that I thought about fudging this answer… ha ha… and picking either Whopper or York (for the Peppermint Patties). Frederick York wouldn’t be so bad, now would it?

    3. YOUR RAP NAME (first initial of first name, first three or four letters of your last name)
    K Kere Okay, whatever.

    4. YOUR GAMER TAG: (a favorite color, a favorite animal)
    Grey Duck Wow. I bet you’re all shocked by this one.

    5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born)
    Peter Ketchikan

    6. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (first 3 letters of your last name, last 3 letters of mother’s maiden name, first 3 letters of your pet’s Name)
    Ker Kel Pie Righto. For the record: The last time I owned a pet, it was a cat named Piemur. Go ahead and laugh if you must. And, yes, I was am an Anne McCaffrey fanboy.

    7. JEDI NAME: (middle name spelled backwards, your mom’s maiden name spelled backwards)
    Retep Yeslek It’s almost as good as my first and last names spelled backwards…

    8. PORN STAR NAME: (first pet’s name, the street you grew up on)
    Trouble Keller Let’s be clear about something: If you’ve paid attention to my journal recently, you know that I grew up on many streets. This one happens to be the location of the little white house in Brewster, WA in which Mom landed us after moving us out of her mother’s place up in Indian Dan Canyon. So… it’ll do, even though we weren’t there very long. Somehow I don’t think “Trouble Highway 173” would roll off the tongue quite as well. Oh, yes, Trouble was the name of our cat in the second apartment in The Bronx when I was a wee lad. (See? I can remember some stuff!)

    9. SUPERHERO NAME: (“The”, your favorite color, the automobile your dad drives)
    The Grey Schwinn Because, you know, I’m pretty sure a Schwinn bicycle is the closest thing to a personal vehicle that my dad could be associated with, at least in my mind. That said, though, this is an atrocious superhero name. I should know.

    10. YOUR ACTION HERO NAME: (first name of the main character in the last film you watched, last food you ate)
    Lupin Donut It took me a minute to remember that the kids and I watched “Castle of Cagliostro” a week or so back. I suppose it could’ve been worse, since my heroine addiction means a good chance I’d have watched “Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind” more recently… if I’d ever gotten around to it. Whew!

  • Documentation Is Good

    I flaked, oh yes indeed, on the real-life update thing. I won’t deny that. However, I did spend some quality time making the anti-spam system on my server work better… and then I documented the heck out of my changes in the wiki. (Yes, I have a wiki. It’s useful, especially given the number of times I’ve packed up and moved from server to server in the last year or so.)

    Anyway, if you’re interested, read all about SpamAssassin on MySQL.

    And if you’re not interested, stay tuned. Later I’ll tell you about my positively delightful train ride home last night…

  • Button It Up!

    I’ve known about this site for a month or two now, and it finally occurred to me that:

    a) making use of the site for my journal’s decoration (as part of the thematic overhaul; look over to the right) might be a good idea, and…
    b) linking to it for posterity could be useful, since I’m prone to forgetting and losing things.

    So: Go forth and Steal These Buttons!

  • Looks Like Meme Spirit

    I’m way, way behind the curve on this one, since Mari and Lil’ did this one a while ago. But, what the heck.

    “Go to Google and type in “$Name looks like” with the quotation marks (where your name = $Name), and put the top 10 things that come up.” Well, alrighty then! (My comments are in parentheses, italicized for your convenience or some-such.)
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