Hindsight

DVD today: U.S. Marshals (Tommy Lee Jones, Wesley Snipes)

Despite having less sleep than usual, I woke up this morning at around 10 o’clock. As with other days, I had no major agendas. I did some laundry, ate lunch and watched “U.S. Marshals”, which had its moments but as a whole felt like just another summer formula. “The Fugitive” was much better and, of course, more dramatic. Irene Jacob looked out of place in the film. Still, I thought, if I was married to someone as beautiful as Irene Jacob I would probably be fairly happy.

Later in the day I completed R-Type Final on its easiest difficulty setting (no more time to get frustrated) and hooked up my Japanese PlayStation2 to the internet. It has a hard drive and broadband adapter already equipped.

After much trial and error I was able to test e-mail on the console (as pictured above). I think it took me a good five or ten minutes to figure out how to delete a message, as I did not know the kanji for “delete” nor any of the other functions on the menus.

The PlayStationBB software (currently at version 0.30) has a long way to go before coming stateside, but it’s definitely on the right track. I can see where it’s going - right into the PSX home entertainment console that they plan to release in 2004.

Two boxes. Video projects. Video8, Hi8, Digital8, VHS and miniDV. CD-ROM backups of almost every video project I’ve ever done (raw footage on the discs as well). I flipped through a few folders, sketchbooks and all else that I scribbled into while I was in college. There’s a lot to look back on, a lot to be done.

With some of the eBay funds that I won from my auctions this weekend I clicked over to Amazon.com to pick up a very good book on After Effects. I remember flipping through it while interning at Moviola in Hollywood.

I’ve started to map out ideas for my short project based on photos I took in Japan.