Entries this day: AM_Dream Do_list_remains Lazy_day Light_switch_fix korea

AM Dream

9:02am JST Tuesday 16 May 2006 (day 13201)

Someone telling the epic tale of how Bart Simpson won the trust of the king and used the power to overtake the castle and king's authority. This was the long version of the tale, including how Bart waited for each horse to be saddled up and each general to get alerted of troop readyment, and then the signal was given to deploy and Bart asked the king if he could borrow the keys to the country, and the king, thinking no ill will, complied and then promptly was asked to step down, which he had to do.

Bart had taken over the country without lifting a sword, nor having any opposition to his new position.

Do list remains

1:07am JST Tuesday 16 May 2006 (day 13201)

I tore through the to-do list tonight; good deal. Here's my version of what's left:

Things to do online and otherwise

* = finished; bold equals higher priority / easier to knock off the list

1. * send mail/kazzah.txt to Kazzah

2. * correct spelling of Maruan's name in the final_pb_52 images "considers"

3. * sort those two images properly

4. dig through clear plastic thing for things to do (e.g. mail card to Delphine)

5. o make sure comment "where can I send you money?" works

6. o have someone paypal me money; see if I get charged for it

7. if so, request my account go back to free mode

8. o Send Kim Chang Heng videos to Fred (/Users/rob/Movies/kim chahen) (and youtube if Kim says okay)

9. * fix DEETS on log_writer.pl

10. implement write_log in

    1. journal

    2. days_old

    3. comments

11. make a consistent cronjob thing to send me the log files

12. make sure I can securely get passwords without my Mac on http://labs.zarate.org/passwd/

13. promote it if it's cool

14. change my passwords if it's cool (starting with yahoo.com)

15. see what pictures have been uploaded

16. delete these from my local /journal/images directory

17. create more albums in this directory

18. move pictures online

19. read email

20. create code section of journal

21. look for gmail chatbot

22. research auto-geotagging camera

23. continue researching pocket WiFi detectors

24. start looking into how to do googlemaps again. draw that red line!

25. install FPA for testin' purposes

    • see about adding geotags

    • multiple categories per picture?

    My imagined Admin page begins like this:

    1. password

    2. set up databases

    3. URL now defaults to user interface

    4. choose directory for indexing

    5. 1s-1R files into dB

    6. categories determined by directory structure / nav for static pages

    possible image categories:
    
    * home  * travel    * YRUU        * coasters  * Francois  * art
      818     US/Scott      local	     parkname                painting
      1211	  world         district      coaster 		     pottery
      1218	    OZ            rallies 			     marble track
      303       Costa Rica  continental
      6234      London/Paris
      101       Palestine             * funny
      20      Japan                       comics
                Hiroshima                 internet
                Kyoto
                Nikko                 * University
                Hakone                    dorms
                Mt Fuji                   frisbee
                Sapporo
                Tokyo
              pb
    	  TJ Bike
                honshu
    

26. don't promote it if it duplicates images (in its own storage)

27. look into begging for money on my site:

    • "donate" link after every entry

    • Begging_for_money.html

    • two paypal entry points: donate / loans

28. write my password viewer, if not too difficult to MD5 mySQL.

    Add meta noarchive to front page

29. look for official US govt info regarding Airplane Day

    archive it

30. make a note to look again in (each year for) 10 years

31. in 10 years, look up public school textbooks about Airplane Day

32. archive proof against govt version physics911, etc

33. add birthday field to Rob Updates db

34. write birthday reminder code

35. add Rei's birthday (May 2nd)

36. dig through books, papers in books, paper in backpack for things to transcribe online

37. transcribe stuff to be transcribed

38. write comic snagger with on/off switch

39. allow Rob Updates to change directory

40. think about writing site_visualizer; look for a free version

41. look in to marketing Francois branded cups and shirts

42. write to Jimmy regarding Francois branding

43. offer to take teddybear Tomoko's teddybear up Mt Fuji

44. login to quicken/turbotax to do taxes.

Lazy day

12:12pm JST Tuesday 16 May 2006 (day 13201)

Today has been a good lazy day so far; slept late, ate soba and salad for brunchfest; Karen gave me some music from her huge collection of variously archived and labeled piles of mp3s and albums on various CDs. Now she is working on her thesis, and I just wrote her summary that she told me is what she has to write within 2 weeks:

The Great Merging

As the world gets more fucked, more people are shouting up about it.

The seemingly disparate topics of (neoliberalism and new economy and
world trade organization) AND (English as a product / language
dominance / language prejudice) are actually part of the same picture

take these facts, for example:

<snip>

so as you can see, my thesis is valid

thank you.

I just cleaned up the dishes and now I'm going to take a shower and sort through pictures on my computer; try to get past the lump I was stuck at last night. (determining which pictures are on my site and which are not and why/if/how some albums have changed locally but not on my site.

Light switch fix

3:40pm JST Tuesday 16 May 2006 (day 13201)

Nice. Kazzah and I just fixed her lamp that had a broken switch. I am mostly glad that she's happy to now know how to fix such things. It was an easy fix that just cost 198 yen for a new switch.

Thanks, Dad, for having taught me how to do all that kinda stuff.

korea

7:09pm JST Tuesday 16 May 2006 (day 13201)

Korea. Small country just west of here. North side; south side; Seoul. I, for one, have never been, though it is, relatively speaking, pretty close to where I've been living for a while.

I've got to escape Japan soon... and it gives me an idea: I'll change my days old thing to a Days until I must escape Japan countdown.

ANYWAY; I must be out of this country by 28 June; I'm not willing to become illegal and face the bad side of Japanese bureaucracy. Or I must get a job in Japan.

I decided during the 10 day meditation that my next project would just be making money for a year or so and get out of debt again and then do something interesting. (actually I just added "and do something interesting," but that is the general idea.)

I heard from Richard that Korea is cheap and we can save more money there than here. He also said he can get me a job there. I wrote to DruDaddyG who said basically said both the same things.

I flipped a coin and it was HEADS: go to Korea.

Korea. Korea. Korea? Korea!

I need to go just to see wtf it is; people say Koreans are ruder than Japanese (certainly everyone is ruder than Japanese); Japanese are passive aggressive and Koreans are.. active aggressive. Interesting. Dru says he likes Koreans in general better than the fake niceties of Japanese culture.

Korea?

Hmmmmmmmm

Basically if Sumidasan can't slash won't sponsor a visa for me in Japan, it looks like I'm going to Korea.