Midgar Swamp Updates

The personal blog of James Gowdey, aka CaptainCanada...a half-Canadian geek with a 4:47 mile, an obsession with DDR, and a whole lot of random links.

Saturday, July 07, 2001


I'm REALLY looking forward to the FFFDay at the Metreon... who could ask for more? An OFFICIAL Final Fantasy Convention at the Sony Metreon! The only problem is...

Well, luck. When I was young, I always said that something I'm really looking forward to will suck, and vice versa. I realized that when, one time, I was so hyped up to go to Paramount's Great America theme park after not having gone in a year, and I ended up having one of the worst times of my life. And other times... you know, vice versa.

Eh... I should put that fear aside. Hell, here's another philosiphy of mine: if I acknowledge a problem, it won't happen.

My good friend Aaron Nemoyten came over and gave my family drumming lessons, and while he was there, he commented on how Invader Zim is the best Nickelodeon cartoon next because it's created by Jhonen Vasquez, and he lent me OK Computer by Radiohead. Yay.

Digitally Imported saved me this morning from insanity. I worked again at Ben's house on his project, "Rupert." I have to go through the animation frame by frame (all 6550 of them) and finalize it. It's not at all hard, but it's hella tedious. So I installed iMusic really quickly and turned DI up. Aahh... I've never had a better 2 hour continuous listening experience since I set my MP3 player on repeat last summer in Italy. Unfortunately, I only got $280 this week, down from $560the previous. Ah shucks. :D

Friday, July 06, 2001


ARR~! Ian J. stole my idea of adding cutesy little pictures to rants... and then making the rants in the updates themselves! Or maybe it's just a coincidence. But STILL...!

...Infinitesimal Jeffrey could eat Widdle Ian any day of the week.

This is the first time I've been on the computer for longer than ten minutes since Sunday. Eggh. Long week.

Expect an extensive report from James and me sometime around Wednesday or Thursday - we'll be trekking to the Metreon on Tuesday for the FFFanDay, where we plan to buy FF Chronicles, and get laid by fat FF fangirls. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Whoops! I forgot to end the <STRIKE> tag! Serves me right for saying the stupidest thing since the post I deleted.

Being a CIT is rough - literally. As evelyone knows, I'm a Counselor in Training at the Osher Marin Jewish Community Center (or a JCC CIT). It's the end of the week, I have a big ol' tan, my whole body aches from being climbed on by six 10-year olds, and I don't ever want to see another gaga ball again. Oh wait, I'm going back for 6 more weeks! Hooraaay!
But I've been making friends of my age as well as Lily's age. In fact, my sister is in the unit I'm being a CIT for. She's in the Vector Theater Camp, and will be playing Evillene in "The Wiz."
In the evenings, I am doing ANOTHER Vector Theater activity - I'm in the summer night ensemble. I'm glad I've finally got my part for the play we'll be doing (I'm Bob Lamb in "Museum"), because now we have something to do other than circle games, like the Repeat Everyone's Name When Your Turn Comes In A Duration Of 2 1/2 Hours game.
So it's Vector all summer long. And during breaks, I'll be making MONEYS working for Ben the Artist down in Mill Valley. Life is okaythen.

I'll try to fix James's "first-paragraph-being-cut-off-of-the-post" problem as soon as possible.

Thursday, July 05, 2001


Wow! An actual comic! SHOUT OUT TO MY PEEPS AT THE FAIR UH TOO LATE! Speaking about "too late," it's too ate to blog about anything that happened during this hectic week right now. So bye then.

Sunday, July 01, 2001

I deleted yesterday's post due to lack of good taste. Also because I'm disgusted with this year's fair's winners.

I got $560 today for that little Flash animation I'm making. Too bad I feel embarrassed more than pleased because my sister told my parents about what almost EVERY teenage boy possesses. (No, not drugs, you stupid piehole. Here's a hint: I had more than 1 GB of it.)

Hehehehehehe.

Well, there's still no content. Believe me, we're open for contributions. Oh yes. I'm still working on MIDIs, but I doubt anyone would call that content.

Oh, I know what I'll do! I'll add Serpent231's compilation video to the Features page!