I don't like how some people assume when something is animated (more specifically, movies or t.v. shows that are animated) that it precludes graphic violence. Leave it to the Americans (as opposed to, for example, the Japanese) to make a stupid assumption like that.

I have been in the presence of greatness. It's cool to be in the same room listening to a brief seminar from a guy who has an emmy and an oscar in his house! Today, I and some other traxit engineers were graced with the founder of Avid, the people who basically invented non-linear video editing. It was cool. He seemed exceptionally knowledgable, but his presentation was simple enough to be easily grasped by somebody as totally ignorant regarding data compression such as myself.

What a cool guy.

I wonder why I'm so introverted/secretive/not outwardly expressive.

I've been thinking... what do I want to do? Is there anything that I'm really really interested in? Over the course of my life, I have gone through... phases, during which I spent ridiculous amounts of time doing whatever happened to be the thing that I was thoroughly interested in at the time. Although it's been really full of a lot of silly things.. usually some toy/game... I've yet to start doing something, and stick with it for a good long time (i.e. more than about a year.) There have been short and absurd things like something called WindsMARE and I used to be totally obsessed with both Legos and K'Nex at seperate times in my life... most recently it's a silly computer game that goes by the name "Diablo II." Of course, in recent history, the only two things I can think of that I actually stuck to playing for over a year were a game called Team Fortress (which I actually played a whole lot of over many years, seeing as it came out for the original Quake, and then eventually ported to Half-Life, and I was playing it all the while... I actually played it for over 3 years. Of course, recently, I've stopped.) and a different game called Magic: The Gathering. I don't understand why I played those particular games for so long... I just played because it was fun. Then it wasn't. Now... I need to find something that is somewhat productive to pour my time into.