The R3dragon’s Blog

I went into Portland this weekend just to stretch my legs and try out a ‘test’ video for YouTube. My goals were simple really– Shoot a film with my Cannon SX10 IS Point and Shoot Camera, Edit it in Linux (using Kdenlive), and then upload it..

This post I should have posted sooner I know, but I knew it would be posted someday– And here it is! Yea!

My big hang up from posting this was due to the fact that I wasn’t sure how much to post. Luckily a former professor of mine asked me to tell him, in detail, what it was like…

So for his benefit, and for the benefit of my readers, I wrote a lengthy email— which I’m going to relay here for anyone who wanted a ‘play by play’ of the event with what they and I said (roughly):

Lately I’ve been having this urge that hasn’t been ’round since 2006. I call it the “Japan-bite.”
Exept today when I decided to just walk the streets of Portland. It’s a weird place Portland. A small town for some, but a unique society for others. Never once has Portland made me feel like I didn’t belong. [...]

My ipod arrived in the mail today and I found this neat little iPod wordpress app for it… So “I’m giving it a go” as they say to see if I’m actually able to blog.
What would be cool is if I could write posts offline, then upload them @ the next hotspot..
This, post by [...]

I found out my interview will be held Thursday at roughly 4:30 at the World Trade Center in Downtown Portland… I’m a tad nervous, but excited as well… Wish me luck!
~J

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One battle I’ve found that will never seize to disappear in my life is the constant battle of keeping my Japanese wits about me and not letting them slip into oblivion.
Ever since leaving the great land of the rising sun my retention of Japanese has slipped over time prompting me to make desparate stabs at [...]

I mentioned in a post awhile ago I would be reading a few books.. I didn’t mention however whether I would review them or not.. I suppose that would be up to the book on whether it was dry and boring or a page turner.
Well today I wanted to shed some thoughts on Mr. Bruce [...]

This post should have been done on 1/25/09, but my laziness prevailed that day..
The following was reported days earlier as being just a light flurry of sorts– nothing big or spectacular.. Nothing “cumilitive” or ginormous like Christmas– but small and insignificant… Well, once the “snow fell” all I have to say is that if this [...]

I’m working to post some things that I should have posted weeks earlier (this being one of them).
The Jist was that I read this blog “neojaponisme” fairly often.. Well.. what I should say is that it’s in my Google Reader which is sorta like the same thing as what’s in my ipod (A bit of [...]