Writer Warren Ellis is currently in Vancouver for the shooting of the TV pilot for his GLOBAL FREQUENCY series. Seems like I should have kept my mouth shut, and not say that he wouldn’t have any problems getting coverage for his wireless PDA. Time to feel Warren’s wrath…

For those who are curious, or don’t understand what I mean when I say that I’m Acadien, the NEW YORK TIMES has just published the following article. Sunday, the 15th, is our official holiday, our national day if you will.

Things are brewing. Good things happening. Seems like you’re going to be seeing me in other places (meaning outside of the realm of this site and the TSiG blogs) in the near future. Some of it involves editorial work (related to design), and some it as a contributor/writer. I’m quite excited by it all. More on everything later.

Yes, it’s pretty damn hot here. What am I doing? Hiding in my apartment, reading and watching movies/TV shows, and spending way too much time on the Net.

Today I’m spending the afternoon at Pause to work on the new issue of GEISHA. I’m hoping I’ll have the thing done over the next few days. Still not sure on the theme, or if there will even be one. I think I’ll just approach it with a freestyle mentality, as it’s been so long since the last issue.

Oh, and this morning I received a box from Jesper with the TSiG programs. They look really nice, a bit oversized, sort of like the SAL free paper. And if you haven’t already, check out the new TSiG blogs. They rawk.

Update: Ended up staying at Pause from 3:30 in the afternoon until midnight, spending half of that time chatting with Jun, the owner (and after that, we went to a Meshiyadon shop for a late-night dinner, until 2am). Also, I think I have most of what is probably going to be an all-photo issue of GEISHA done. After the all-graphic issue 8, I felt like a return to basic photography was needed. And in fact, I think I might end up doing two issues during the holidays.

The TSiG blog has now been launched. I’ll be blogging there, as well as some other folks you should know by now (Audrey, Jesper, Midori, Nao, Robert). I’m sure there are still little bugs here and there that will pop up as we start using the site regularly, so feel free to give me feedback on any problems encountered (or even general thoughts on the project). I’m very happy to be involved with this, and I think it’s going to be fun to be part of a group blog, especially with this group. Let the parallel blogging begin!

I’m done work. For 3 weeks. I’m broke as hell, and so can’t do much during this time, but hey, who cares. Let the good times roll.

In two days time I will be enjoying my Summer holidays, which will last for 3 weeks. I obviously cannot wait for this, as this month as been killer because of the heat, and I really need the rest. It also means that I’ll have a lot of time on my hands, and some of that time will be used to be productive. First thing, a new issue of my ezine GEISHA. I haven’t done anything with that in what seems like ages, and a message I received the other day got me thinking that it’s about time I get back to that. I’ve been concentrating too much on the technical side of the site (like with the conversion to WordPress), but not enough on the creative side. So expect something happening on that end.

Also, I want to bring the moblog over to WP, and start posting with larger pictures. I’ll probably fiddle around with the site a bit also, so we’ll see what ends up happening on that end.

For now, I’m counting the days, and hoping I don’t end up having to come back from work tonight in the middle of a typhoon!

Robert seems to be the master of describing evenings out, and here’s what he said about last Saturday night.

I must apologize to the others for the “out of the ordinary” (or maybe it’s the other times I was there that was out of the ordinary) noise at Mashman’s Cafe, where we went for a bite to eat before heading out to Pause. Hot, noisy, with a horrible selection of music; I know I won’t be going there again in the near future.

I want to die.

There’s another interview with me online, this time at the Australian based Chaos Generation zine.

Update: And here’s a link to the previous interviews with me.

Momus recently got a new iBook, and in his post about it he mentions the annoyance of not having a region free setting for his DVD drive. This is something I can relate to as I’ve also got a DVD collection that spans the globe, and so I’m limited to watching on my Hong Kong bought DVD player (which is starting to show signs of aging and extreme use). I like watching videos on my iMac more and more, finding it convenient to watch stuff in small windows while I’m doing other things, and I always found it a shame that I had to decide on one region only for my DVDs (I kept it at region 2). From the comments on his post, I got the tip of using VLC, a program I use daily, to watch DVDs, as it bypasses the region locks. Seems like those locks are put into place by Apple’s DVD Player, not the hardware. I changed the settings in my System Preferences so as not to start DVD Player when I load in a disk, and voila, I can watch anything on my Mac. Just tested it out with a region 3 disk from Hong Kong (WASABI), and it worked fine.

Had a great time last night at Pause. Robert made his way over, and brought some friends. It was good to see Nao and Midori again, and I met OK FREDder Audrey. I think Yuko and me went a bit overboard with our manzai-like rants, but hey, we’re products of what we watch on TV. Taichi, my fave artist of the moment, also showed up there, so I got to tell him how much I’ve been enjoying his work of late. He has a new record coming out today, that I’ll need to track down.

Oh, and Pause is now opened until 12 (it used to be 11), which sort of caught us off guard, with a last-minute rush to the station for the guests. Nao’s train didn’t make it all the way home (to Yokohama), but seems like she had a great time sharing a taxi with a drunk couple…

This made me laugh. My mom gets a mention in this TIMES & TRANSCRIPT article on hair stylists.

“High-profile women like MP Claudette Bradshaw, MLA and Tourism Minister Joan MacAlpine, former Lieutenant Governor Marilyn Trenholme-Counsell, Assumption Life executive Odette Snow, Atlantic Lottery’s president Michelle Carinci, and Royal LePage owner Carla Bouchard, just to name a few, all go to men to get their hair done.”

Yuko lost her mobile phone the other day. Well, she didn’t exactly lose it, she dropped it in the huge fountain in front of her library at Todai. It was impossible to retrieve (it’s quite deep), and so we had to get her a replacement. After some visits to Bic Camera and Sakuraya, we ended up getting the same model as mine (it’s now selling for half the price), in white, at an AU shop. The fun part about this is that she can show me how to do things, now that she’s completely read the manual (she’s got a thing for instruction manuals, loves them actually). She’s been showing me a few tricks I never knew about. Also, as I got bored with Arkanoid, I’ve now developed an addiction to Tetris, which I hadn’t played in years.