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Friday, November 20th, 2009
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11:41 am - Sueños del Sur is back
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I updated the comic again today, after three months of absence and meditation. Let's just say that, if I had this little conversation with myself back in summer 1995, things would have been much different. And that it doesn't matter anymore what I thought about Sueños del Sur back then, or what I wanted to do with it. It's the end of 2009 anyways, I need to get a life.
Despite what I said earlier, I won't change much of what I have. I think a radical plan to make something great out of this story is unfeasible. Besides, it's not really that bad anyways, I can make it through.
I'll try to keep updating consistently at least until March, with a possible break a week or two around Christmas that I shall try to avoid.
current mood:  busy
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| Monday, November 2nd, 2009
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11:17 am - SmackDown vs RAW 2010: FAIL
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| Friday, October 23rd, 2009
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6:27 pm - Failed try at leaving something for the future
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| Monday, October 5th, 2009
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4:19 pm - Note to self:
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Instead of reinventing the wheel:
try reading the fscking Inform 7 documentation.
current mood: busy
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| Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
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4:02 pm
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8F 5F 57 6E 6A 7E 48 6F 00
EB A4 B9 B4 F3 B6 EC B9 00
67 59 02 00 8F 5F 57 6F 00
D5 A1 A4 A8 FC EF A4 A8 FC 00
6E 00 D5 A1 F3 00 67 59 02
Hint: The message contains no Latin-1 characters, and it's trivial to decrypt.
current mood:  cryptic
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| Monday, September 21st, 2009
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8:53 pm - I have a word against stupid URL filters.
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Classics.
Oh, and who the heck puts a power off button right below a delete button!?!?!?!?
current mood:  annoyed
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| Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
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1:43 pm - Dear Google
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I know I've failed the Turing test a bunch of times, and that I exhibit a chaotic, bot-like thirst for information.
I think I might have some mental disorder. I can't put my finger on it yet, but given how certain things don't make sense to me and how certain things that make sense to me don't make sense to anyone else, among other things, I think I lost my mind.
Whatever the case, I know I don't have a normal search behavior. I tend to just follow whatever seems shiny at that moment, often profoundizing, ruminating and being too curious about the world outside my imagination. One of many reasons that keep me playing with little toys and talking to imaginary friends instead doing whatever men in their thirties do, thinks like having sex, raising a family, going to parties, etc. I know little about such things.
I would also like to make it clear, once and for all, that despite all of the above, I'm still a human.
And I'm already getting tired of decyphering that unreadable captcha scribble and clicking the "I'm human!" button.
current mood: annoyed
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| Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
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10:26 am - ☧
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Ο Χριστός δεν έχει σημασία για αυτούς, μόνο που νοιάζονται για χρυσό.
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| Monday, August 31st, 2009
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3:13 pm
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All there is to know about that site's shutdown is at the relevant forum. I won't further about it, sorry.
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| Monday, August 24th, 2009
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2:07 pm - On why I haven't updated Sueños del Sur lately...
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The skinny: what I found publishable 10 years ago, today I find it's crap.
I had to cut off and edit a great amount of this chapter, one of the longest in Sueños del Sur. A lot of such length is comprised of dialogue, of which a larger amount is... uh...
Think of a nearly 11 years old girl discussing with a 9 years old boy of serious matters. Both are stubborn and think they're right and the other one is wrong. And it goes on and on for hours, while their 15 years old brother is snickering at them both and slipping jokes in the middle of the heat of the discussion, and their nearly 13 years old sister is... off somewhere else, looking at the clouds and the little birds.
And, from place, to place, I find stuff that's wrong. Stuff that's not just decidedly out of character, but also threatens the very fabric of the Sueños del Sur universe. To be fair, the stuff I've been publishing since October 2007 is not quite clean and correct; just look at the house's front window. But this...
Oh, and I think I found out the cause of this trouble. The very idea behind publishing Sueños del Sur in webcomic form was just a lame excuse to let that out of my system just so I could forget about it and move on with my life. Oh, and to do so without actually doing any writing. An idea that, today, I find disgusting and mediocre.
I'm ruining this story, folks. It's probably the work of my life, and I'm turning it into a pile of poo. If I keep doing what I've been doing, I will keep having the same problems, turning a solution into a problem, over and over again, fixing little things instead of focusing on the big one. You know what I should do? STOP IT.
I'll keep what I've done so far online for a while, but Sueños del Sur as a webcomic is officially over, folks, at least in its current form. I'll revise the whole thing, as a serious work, and if I have to add or delete scenes, episodes, chapters or even characters, then so be it.
Oh, and this is very important. Once I'm done with polishing my story and it's ready to be published in a satisfactory form, only *then* I'll consider translating it to English. Foch.
current mood:  determined
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| Thursday, August 6th, 2009
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1:23 pm - prototype
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myClass = function(param)
{
this.counter = 0;
/* ... */
this.timeout = setTimeout(this.refresh.bind(this), 1000);
this.refresh = function()
{
/* this is the right this */
this.counter++;
}
}
current mood:  jubilant
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| Friday, July 31st, 2009
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2:21 pm
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My mind's "surreality simulation subsystem" (a.k.a. "dreams engine") is somehow programmed to give better, more realistic, involving and lasting performance during the morning, from 06:00 to 12:00.
Unfortunately, I'm supposed to do other things during that timespan. Like, say, showing up at work...
I wish I could reprogram it somehow. Like, say, from 00:00 to 06:00. Oh, that would rule...
current mood:  sleepy
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| Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
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6:11 pm - Lost in the forest, away from home, in my dreams...
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Oh, this story in Sueños del Sur... if I flip the page and start with the entries for Monday, January 16, 1995, I find stuff so vile and unspeakably horrible that I can't understand under what circumstances I could ever be capable to pull that stuff.
From that mess I can rescue, well, maybe four particular events... and how about I just throw away the rest and replace it with something that doesn't give me a headache when I try to read it?
Next update will instead feature a single scene of the four kids walking towards the camera, while I sort this out...
current mood:  indescribable
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| Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
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9:33 am
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“There are ‘extremists’ in the free software world, but that’s one major reason why I don’t call what I do ‘free software’ any more. I don’t want to be associated with the people for whom it’s about exclusion and hatred.” - Linus Torvalds.
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| Friday, July 17th, 2009
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1:31 pm
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| Monday, July 13th, 2009
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4:48 pm - New format for Sueños del Sur
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Posted on Saturday and Monday. I won't call this a success until I can consistently post a mid-week update.
It's not just a matter of schedule; the story calls for it.
current mood:  rushed
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| Monday, July 6th, 2009
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5:44 pm
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Imagine a large army of nameless minions for a great big blue organization.
They're armed with a gadget, one unit per head. This gizmo doesn't just let them communicate between each other, call back $HOME, or take beautiful (and not-so-beautiful) pictures and videos.
Point that thing to some place, and let it take a picture. It'll answer with lots of information about the place in front of you, including a map view (with directions from $HERE to interesting places) and what other minions are saying about such place(s). Of course, you too can add your bits to the massive knowledge database.
"Welcome to live coverage of just about everything." That's their message to the world.
Last thing I know about them, they invaded Wimbledon. God knows what's their next stop, and what surprise will they bring with them next time.
current mood:  impressed
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3:09 pm - Switch
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I can't adapt this story to webcomic format as I'm doing now. Not with my work and class schedule.
Therefore, the next one will feature a mixture of text and graphics similar to an illustrated novel. Which is what Sueños del Sur was meant to be in the first place.
Pros: Truer to the original format of this story, more narrative detail that might be lost in the conversion to webcomic form, search engine friendly, more content for each update, maybe even more updates per unit of time. Also, speech balloons often tend obscure important details, which made them awkward to use for me.
Cons: Less images, ComicGenesis might not like this(?)...
If I do this well, maybe I can fix some of my lack-of-free-time problems too! Wish me luck.
Edit: What do you think of this page format? I think I like it, but let's see how it actually looks as an update to Sueños del Sur...
current mood:  tired
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| Friday, July 3rd, 2009
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5:54 pm - House, M.D. Season 3 Episode 22
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"Addie" was played by an actress named Lyndsy Fonseca. She was born January 7, 1987.
3-22 was aired on May 8, 2007. Which makes her just 20 years old back then.
... darn, she's cute.
current mood: blank
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| Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
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3:15 pm - @font-face
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disappointed
amused
hyper