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4
Sep 08

Can’t Get You Out Of My Head

No, it’s not about Kylie, but the subject makes me want to mindlessly sing “Lah la la, la la la lah…” Ever since I found out about Shindy.TV, it’s frakked with my head. To make matters worse, it’s not pronounced Shindy dot TV, but ShindyTV. It sounds a little too similar to website name of yours truly.

What is Shindy.TV exactly? It’s a website that gives information on the various happenings in San Diego. You can get info on restaurants, nightclubs, and some superfun events. Being true to the .TV domain name, ShindyTV goes out into the field and has correspondents give us mortals the skinny on what’s going on.

As for the name, it gets to me for the reason I’ve mentioned above. In all fairness, they are Shindy.TV and my website is ShindoTV. Two different entities altogether. Shindy simply is a synonym of shindig, an event or happening. Strange thing is, one of my older nicknames was Shindig. When your name is Shin, the nicknames seem to come without end. Shindo was another one I had, one that I’ve used as a pen name to this day. I’ve never been a Shindy, but it’s a little too close for comfort.

Now that Shindy.TV has a presence on Twitter, no doubt some confusion will arise. Keep in mind they are Shindy_TV and I am shindotv.

That all said, name confusions aren’t always bad.

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23
Aug 08

ShindoTV Can Has Cheezburger!

funny pictures
moar funny pictures

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23
Aug 08

After the election is over…

Can I have Obama’s cheerleaders? If they could get a man who has really said nothing this far, think of what they can do for ShindoTV. I’d love to have such PR. Come up with your most abstract, vaguest slogans and make me sound as fabulous as I really am.

Disclaimer: This post is strictly humorous and should not be taken as anti-Obama speech.

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16
Jul 08

Shindo.TV

For the longest time, I thought Shindo.TV was unavailable. It was about 8 years ago. It was probably one of those domain names that Dot TV was sitting on. However, I found out a few days ago that it was indeed available.

One thing indeed leads to another, basic cause and effect. I had a bizarre discovery: Shindy.TV. It was very bizarre and disconcerting to say the least, because it sounds a little too much ShindoTV. It then got me to remembering how I never could get Shindo.TV as a domain name and how frustrating that was because it was so perfect. This time, just for the hell of it, I checked to see if it was available. This time, it was.

I was so stoked. I quickly registered Shindo.TV. That’s all I wanted.

Now comes the part I’m not too crazy about: Dot TV itself. With the domain registration, one gets a website kit if one chooses to use it. So far so good. However, Dot TV is a little too MySpace‘ish and it seems like that’s what they’re shooting for. Despite having two profiles on that social networking site, I hate MySpace. All I see my profiles as are antennas to point the way to this channel and that’s it. The Dot TVtemplates look better than what’s on MySpace, but there’s still something god-awfully gawdy about them.

While I’m all for keeping things simple to make things easy, the user interface is simply too dumbed down. It was more difficult to find the function to redirect my newly registered domain to a website, and the help page really didn’t offer that much help. In fact, the help page was the shortest one I’ve ever seen on a website. I couldn’t find the information I needed to redirect the URL, and I only found the function through trial and error.

I initially directed Shindo.TV to this blog, but I decided to use it for the podcast. which is still in development right now. I’ll bring up the Dot TV domain name when it’s time to launch.

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14
Jul 08

What’s Up in July

Strangely, I moved to another blogsite mid-season. Close to 4th of July, I got my own domain and declared independence from Blogger. I then came out strongly against memes (especially the Internet party talk variety) and wrote some posts about Japanese food. I’ve played around with the blog’s appearance a few times, but I keep coming back to the Prismacolor theme.

Project Runway, Pride, and Comic-Com should provide me no shortage of posts. I don’t doubt I’ll find some other material in the meantime.

I’ve also wanted to revive the podcast, but more or less start again. I’ve created the page, but I haven’t posted any materials. I plan to create personal audio logs, vlogs like I did last fall, and readings of creative works. I’ll set a date in August as I want to get it right and keep going.

One work I’ve wanted to feature for a long time here is Resplendence. I’ve tried creating a website a few times, but I think I should be able to render it the way I want to here. I’ll also set it for August as I’m working on getting text ready for the posts. I also want to get reproductions of the images going.

My goal for the post-Blogger incarnation of ShindoTV is to generate and create a body of content. I definitely want it to be the kind of place where I’d come back to check out. I think I’m doing well to avoid the obvious memes (what I call the “party questions”), but it helps to try to write a post instead of letting something else speak for you.

Also, I think I won’t resort to anything to get notice. No more breaking news on Chris Crocker’s lawsuit or all the other trivialities of pop culture (not that it’s fun, but it’s all about me here). Some of these types of post have generated lots of hits, but I’m not really proud of them at all. I do stand by some other things that aren’t as popular hit-wise, but are much more interesting.

Oh, I do owe some thanks to Chris for getting me out of hiding and start posting again. Blog death could have happnend.

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10
Jul 08

Argh! Comment moderation!

Friends, I apologize for the whole comment moderation thing. Being new to WordPress, I think I more or less got the hang of the system, but not quite. The default setting for comments seems to be “under moderation.” It’s frustrating because I don’t want to have to keep approving comments for people such as Chris, Brian, Fredo, and a couple of others. It’s too time consuming and there are times where I am not at my computer for hours at a time. Also, I don’t have a history of getting hit with nasty comments. Whenever I get a comment from an offensive person, I can delete it.

This morning, I had a strange situation created by the Akismet plug-in. I enabled it a few days ago, thinking that I have spam protection. I have been spammed in the past, most notably by somone who posted in Portuguese last year. No strangers got caught in the Askimet spam net, but Brian did. It was frustrating that a fun and clever comment of his was held up for a few hours.

I’ve been adjusting the settings here and there, but nothing seems to make the comment moderation go away. Please be patient with me and any tips are appreciated.

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6
Jul 08

ShindoTV.com – It’s Official!

It’s official. I’m not posting to the Blogger blog anymore, nor will I create mirror posts. This is ShindoTV’s home now. I’ve more or less gotten the hang of WordPress, but I haven’t mastered the templates yet. I’d love to find one that mirrors the aesthetic of the screenshot below. It was pre-blog ShindoTV – oh, what a simpler time that was!

shindotv circa 2001, b

I did have some good times on Blogger. I made some friends and got some subscribers. I even got to meet some of them in person over the past year.

ShindoTV as seen on the iPhone

The blog came of age in the Age of iPhone. While I don’t own one of these dandy devices, it was fun to take a picture of my blog. Eventually, this one will look good in a mobile format.

Being part of a blogging community has been meaningful. Being part of an online conversation has been very good for ShindoTV. I also hope to find new readers and friends along the way to help contribute to the discussion.

Here is to whatever interesting developments will come for ShindoTV! Goodbye, old blog!

Farewell to Blogger

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21
Dec 07

The Year in Meme

I got this idea from Danny (who in turn got it from someone else who got it from someone else, and so on, and so on). From what I understand, I take the first sentence of the first entry of each month, and it gives a year in review.

January
Note: No posts written in January, but I wrote one on New Year’s Eve, 2006.

February
When the Star Trek shows were on, I could enjoy drama and non-reality.

March
I’m not sure what to make of this episode.

April
I just read Urban Bohemian’s blog entry about not being able to take photographs on the Metro.

May
As part of the countdown to Bjork‘s new release, here’s a vid she did ten plus years back, part of the Spike Jonze portfolio:

June
It’s an annual tradition. I, along with my friends Sharon and her boyfriend Brian (not to be confused with Brian), do time at the Rock and Roll Marathon Health Expo.

July
I dropped a few links this week, but I think I made the right decision concerning this one.

August
For any readers in the NYC area:

September
When I took a creative writing class a long time ago at a local community college (I don’t teach there), the professor would occasionally say things like “I’m not that kind of whore” or “I’m not a professor, I’m a prostitute.”

October
Welcome to the Pet Peeve Edition on ShindoTV. Here are some of mine.

November
Fred Phelps and the church he sired (literally) are slapped with an $11 million verdict for picketing a soldier’s funeral.

December
I can’t believe that 2007 is almost over.

In all, that is the first sentence edition of the ShindoTV year in review. While it doesn’t say a whole lot about my blog, the lines do make for an interesting juxtaposition. I’ll do more of a year in review later, but this has been quite an experiment.

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22
Nov 07

VLog 2: Happy Thanksgiving from ShindoTV

I definitely want to wish you all a happy Thanksgiving, however you celebrate it.

Yes, I’m putting up another VLog. It’s not going to happen every day as I always have to edit the vids, but they’re definitely here to stay. Now that I have found a way to truly make this this ShindoTV, I’ll do more for sure, but I think it will take some writing and planning. Right now, I’ll ramble while driving. The one thing I want to stop are all these um’s!

In this VLog, I get into “Me Days” (a shout out to Brian), overeating on Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Buy Nothing Day, and how I’m looking forward to Battlestar Galactica: Razor. I’ll have to talk smack about Bjork Lady and some other contestants of Project Runway in a text post a little later. Let’s come up with some monikers for the others.

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21
Nov 07

ShindoTV VLog 1

This VLog was filmed in my car. My camera was mounted on a monopod fastened with a suction cup to the windscreen. I ranted on several topics while driving and later cobbled it together. I go off on topics such as the new Duran Duran album, Project Runway, the two special writing months, and Perez Hilton. Regarding Project Runway, there is a cast member whom I refer to as the Bjork Lady. Watch it this season, starting with the first episode. You’ll see what I mean.

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