Possible eBay hacking

If anybody receives an abusive message from eBay account “andorus,” it wasn’t me. The account is mine, but I didn’t send any messages–I logged in this morning to find responses to 2 queries I never even sent, and considering that the second response was “fuck off,” I’m thinking someone hacked my account and sent out abusive crap, especially since I received a message when trying to respond saying that I’ve exceeded the max number of messages I can send.

I’ve changed my eBay password and contacted eBay…hopefully too much damage wasn’t done.

The Hanna-Barbera Workout

Ripping off CartoonBrew for the title, because I’m too tired to come up with something more original. The former location of Hanna-Barbera Studios is now occupied by an LA Fitness location.

(Though it’s nice to see them admit that it’s a shame HB is gone; usually they’re so gung-ho about Disney that they tend to gloss over the emotional and sentimental value that HB had for many millions of people in its heyday, and the few true gems they did produce.)

Food for thought

…does Ren have a mullet?

(I don’t think so–I think his hair’s just long and shaggy. Some of my friends big to differ, though. I’m trying to fight, but I’m secretly glad I’ve managed to spread the PoDW gospel among my friends here in Japan, too. I’ve gotten one hooked, and when she suggested we play the episodes last night another one had a huge nostalgia trip, whereas the third hadn’t seen them yet, but I think he was impressed.)

A bunch of random things

Please bear with me as I get all the errors ironed out (for example, the “main” link actually works now–thanks, Rob; I’d forgotten that the WordPress-generated index page was a .php file, while I’d been linking directly to the nonexistent index.html).

Also, big props to Justin for uploading the files in DivX format to DivX.com’s Stage6 site! I’ve added that to the sidebar, as well as the link to YouTube user TheDML’s videos, because he’s finished uploading all 21 episodes in chunks.

And something else: Sally found this link on BarnesAndNoble.com to a PoDW book of some kind, written by Julie Stedman. Do any of you know what this might be? I know there was a customizable children’s book years ago, where you could submit your child’s name (or your own!) and it would be worked into the story. I never bought a copy, though, so that’s all I know. I’m not sure if this is the same as that or not.

I’ve also made a new page for a Washington Post newspaper article on David Kirschner and Dark Water that Chris sent me some time back. I’d posted the full text of it as a previous blog entry, but since a lot of people probably missed that, it’s up here now. It’s a must-read–there’s some very interesting content on the symbolism of the show in here.

And I’ve been working on wallpapers using the concept art from the style guides–I’ve finished two designs and uploaded them. There’ll definitely be more on the way!

Oh my god, finally

…er, that is, the new site is LIVE! It’s taken long enough, and I really hope it was worth the wait, and I apologize for taking nearly a year to get it going. Thank you so much for your patience!

It’s nearly 3 AM and I have to wake up in 4 hours (“oh yeah, I’ll have the site uploaded in 20 minutes!” Three hours later…), so here’s a really brief list of the changes. (Keep in mind that there are still things I need to add, but I got sick of the site stagnating on my computer and wanted to finally push it live.) As always, please let me know ASAP if anything is off.

(Oh, I should also add that I’m still at least a month behind on my e-mail–acting in our prefecture’s annual musical and pouring hours into the planning/publicity design, working as our prefectural English teacher group’s webmaster, and traveling for ~2 weeks are to blame, among many other things. I’ll totally reply you all soon!)

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