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Wow, this has to be some kind of record for me. Sorry for going so long without an update…but thank you very much to those of you who sent me kind messages in the interim! I will catch up on those correspondences eventually…
If you haven’t guessed, life has been really eventful over these last five (eek…) months. For those who care, this summer I have done the following:
- completed my master’s degree (WOOO!)
- spent a week in June hiking around the Santorini volcanic caldera (off the coast of Greece, with some lovely folks from South Africa and Germany, via VolcanoDiscovery–highly, highly recommended!)
- intentionally took the summer off, and spent most of it looking for a job and exploring Pittsburgh (probably the most underrated city in the US–it is truly a gem and I miss it dearly.)
- did a bunch of traveling, mostly for job interviews (Denver, Washington DC, New York, Boston…whew), but met friends and had fun in the process
- dated a pretty wonderful guy for a couple of months :)
- moved back to Atlanta (my hometown), upon my Pittsburgh lease ending
- turned 30 years old
- accepted a job in mid-September in the greater Boston area (yaaaay!), and, within the next 2 weeks, packed up all my things and relocated from Atlanta to Boston a couple of weeks ago
- started my new job last week!
I’m still in temporary housing for at least the next week or so, but hope to move into more permanent digs fairly soon (and have all my stuff delivered from Atlanta shortly after; I’m currently living with 2 suitcases, a backpack, and my violin). And work is going pretty well so far, too–I’m working as a user experience designer for an engineering software company. it’s always wonderful working with people who treat each other as people and not just cogs in the system, and this company has some great personal and professional practices.
Hopefully you all have had a good summer! I can’t believe it’s been this long since posting here–even if I don’t have much in the way of updates to post (though to be honest, I actually do have some great images and content to add, thanks to the efforts of some talented and dedicated folks), it’s just nice to reach out and say hello to you all. You’re a great, chill, friendly group, and it’s always a pleasure chatting with you all.
Anyway, in more PoDW-centric news…heh, really, not much to report, as usual. August 30th marked the 1-year anniversary of the DVD release, and sales seem to still be going strong as word continues to get out there that the show is out on DVD. I still am entertaining notions of re-architecting and redesigning the site from the ground up, but this design will probably persist for a while longer. Hopefully once the rest of my stuff arrives, I can get back to scanning in the rest of the RPG creature pages. I hereby am setting a goal of finishing them by year’s end–you all can hold me to that. :)
And with that, time to sign off for the night…it’s a work night! (Such a weird feeling. Getting used to contiguous 8-hour days has been surprisingly tough, after two years of a much more open-ended schedule.) Take care and have a good night, everyone!
If you have e-mailed me in the past and get any erroneous or spam e-mails from me, I do apologize. At some point in the last week, a spambot got access to my PoDW site’s e-mail address and started sending out junk mails (right now I have no clue how many have gone out). I’ve changed my mail password and will see what else I can do later this week.
Thanks for your understanding!
Firstly, hello!
Secondly, please don’t judge me too harshly. I think I designed this site back in 2006, and have not had any time to redesign it since then, despite trying to work on rearchitecting it from the ground up. I hope to finally update it this summer.
Thanks, and have a great day. :)
(As for PoDW fans, hello to you all, too! I’m three weeks away from completing my master’s degree (yaaaaay!). Hopefully an update will be on the horizon shortly after! And I hope you all have a great day as well.)
Firstly, congratulations to Rachael Thomas for winning the RPG set! (Amazingly, I still have not mailed it to her, but totally will this week. :P) I apologize for taking so long to announce the winner.
Also, according to Twitter, PoDW is back on Boomerang as of last night (unsure of the time–check your listings!). This looks to be roughly at the same time it aired before: it seems like they’re rotating a few early-90s shows in that same time slot, which actually kind of makes sense, since nothing is stagnant this way and multiple shows get exposure a few times a year.
Also, hi! It’s been a while–I hope February was kind to you all! I am halfway through my final semester of grad school, and currently buried under thesis/school/final-semester/job-search hell right now, so updates will be scarce till I graduate in mid-May. (If you happen to actually be interested in my rather mundane life, I do post occasionally to my blog and am also on Twitter. Be warned: I geek out over stuff most people don’t care at all about. Like volcanoes.)
Happy New Year, everyone! I hope your winter (or summer, for Southern Hemisphere folks) holidays were relaxing and warm in spirit, if not in temperature. :)
After long last, the RPG contest IS CLOSED.
I am very, very sorry for taking so long to get back to this–I meant to close this a couple of weeks back. Entries have still been coming in, though, so it’s probably for the best that this was open a little while longer, to let more interested people enter! Thank you all so much for the tremendous response–there have been dozens of entries. I’ll post the winner in the next couple of days.
In other news, a random find…occasionally I’ll check eBay to see if there’s any new and interesting PoDW merchandise there. There has been an autograph by Julie McWhirter Dees there for quite a while now. Not recognizing the name immediately, I looked further into it…she’s listed as having done a number of small roles in the last 8 episodes of PoDW, but beyond that, she’s far better known as the voice actress of Betty Rubble from the Flintstones! I’m definitely curious about what roles she voiced in those episodes now.
Taking a quick break from scrambling to wrap up final projects/presentations this week, to bring you this Public Service Announcement.
There’s a meme going around on Facebook, urging people to change their profile images to those of childhood cartoon characters. That alone is fun and harmless, but then somehow it got “taken over” to be about taking a stand against child slavery.
The intent’s nice and all, but…what good will it do? It’s not tied to any charity or activism group. Children in these horrible situations will not actually be positively affected by this meme. There is no direct positive outcome that comes out of people changing their profile images, besides just “warm fuzzies” that may, in some isolated cases, spur people to seek out related charities/groups and donate to them. But I can bet you that 95% of the people who change their profile images will do nothing else. (I’m not leveling accusations or blame at anybody–life’s busy and we all want to show our support somehow, right?)
But let me put it another (blunter) way. The children caught up in the slave trade and other really terrible institutions like it probably don’t even have access to a computer, much less Facebook, to even see these images. This campaign isn’t hurting anything, but since it isn’t helping anything, is that really good enough?
So let me urge you all kindly to do this instead: instead of spending 15 minutes looking up a decent image to use as your new Facebook profile photo, spend that 15 minutes to instead look up a charity or activism group that fights child slavery–or any other cause that’s important to you–and donate whatever amount of money you can afford. That will make a much more definite and immediate impact. It doesn’t have to be huge–every little bit helps.
Okay, getting off my soapbox now. ;)
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(Is there such a thing as “the bazooka of Megatron”? I keep getting these spam comments mentioning it, and at first I couldn’t help but think, “That’s nice, but I think you’ve got the wrong website/fandom…?” haha.)
And don’t forget about the RPG module giveaway!
Also, thanks to RavnDream for letting me know that the comics section “broke” during my recent host migration. I’ll try to fix it in the next couple of weeks!
And wow, hello to all the new visitors yesterday! I am not at all sure how or why my site traffic quadrupled on the 3rd of December, but thank you for visiting–hope you enjoy what you see. :)
(If you’re seeing this, that means the domain has propagated and is pointing at my new web host. Woohoo!) Please let me know if anything’s broken or not working as it should–thanks!
RPG module contest entrants: the gentleman who sent me the RPG wanted to clarify something: the RPG has been opened and repackaged. But it’s pretty much in pristine condition and everything is intact. If that changes anything for you, please let me know–I apologize for the misinformation.
Another brief update: I installed some new image gallery viewing code across the image section. It should create a “lightbox” effect and let you move quickly through the images now, instead of clicking on each thumbnail individually.
Firstly: a representative from Warner Bros. has asked me to remove links to videos/torrents of full episodes of the show. This unfortunately includes foreign-language editions. If you have any questions on this, please feel free to contact me.
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Anyway, on to (fun) business!
A very kind collector of RPG materials has donated an unopened, mint-condition copy of the Pirates of Dark Water RPG module by Lee Agosta, with the intent of passing it on to a fan who would really cherish owning his or her own copy. The RPG includes the World Book, a fold-out full-color map of Mer, and over 100 pages of creature/species information. (If you’d like a preview, much of this material is in the Buried Treasure section, minus the creature sheets, which I have been notoriously slow about scanning/uploading…again, sorry about that.)
Entering is really easy: just leave a comment here or e-mail me (subject line: PoDW RPG contest) with the following:
1. Your name (or a unique alias)
2. Your e-mail address
3. Your location (not address)
4. (just to humor me, really…) Why you want to win the RPG set – are you a collector of merchandise related to PoDW, animation, or RPGs? Have you run PoDW RPG campaigns before or would you like to? Or “just because?” :)
Like the DVD contest, this will be a random drawing, and this is open to fans anywhere in the world. The last question really is just out of curiosity, because I’m really interested in seeing what all you are interested in.
DEADLINE: TBD, but probably the end of the year? I only want to wait till after the winter holidays to mail this: I have run Secret Santa campaigns online in years past, and sometimes up to half the participants’ gifts were lost in transit. Not to mention, there are a ton of gamers and roleplayers out there, and I’d like to allow more time for word to get out.
Good luck!
Firstly, now that it’s finally settled: congratulations to Tony and Michelle, the TWO winners of the DVD contest!
Two, you say? It was a bit of a surprise to me, too. :) It took a while to finalize everything, due to delays on WB’s side in terms of mailing me the DVD for the initial winner (Tony). When they did finally sent it, they sent me two copies. Since I already have my own, I chose another winner at random (Michelle) from among the complete entries. :)
A few things of note…
If you have Boomerang: PoDW is back on the air. A. Martin just wrote in yesterday (thank you!), saying that it’s listed in his cable guide as beginning TONIGHT at 10:30pm US Eastern/7:30pm US Pacific. I don’t have cable, so if you do, please do let us know if it does air!
[EDIT: 2010-11-02 10:30pm EST - it is indeed back on Boomerang. Thanks to Kaedyn for confirming the news!]
Also, Sergey has very kindly assembled torrents of both PoDW video game console music AND Russian subtitles for season 3 (episodes 14-21).
And here’s a list of torrents for the episodes in Portuguese, along with the Portuguese episode titles.
Here’s some really unique fan work: really cool 3D fanart of the Wraith by Bryan, and a custom painted PoDW-themed guitar by Tom in Wales. Excellent job, both of you–they really look great. :)
And Catalina has put up my scans of PoDW comic #1 on scribd.com, which actually makes them way easier to read. Great idea! (I’d put up #2-#9 myself if I had time…would anyone be up for doing it?)
Updates will be sparse for the next couple of months–it’s just that time in the semester. I’ve started up my personal blog again, so if you’re so inclined, you’re welcome to keep up with me through that. :) The fall colors are vibrant and already fading here and the weather was below freezing this morning: autumn has arrived in Pittsburgh. Hope the rest of the year is pleasant for you all!
Being the bad influence that I am, I “tricked” my roommate Kim into watching PoDW tonight (she’d wanted to anyway, we were hanging out down here, I just sort of put in a DVD and she got sucked into watching). :) She’d never seen it before, so her observations were really amusing.
“This reminds me a lot of He-Man. Was it by the same people? I don’t know why, but it really does…”
“Oh, I know why it does. There are lots of tan guys with blonde hair!”
“Nooooo!” (when Primus died and was swept out to sea, and when Alomar died)
“Let me guess, the lizard bird saves him, right?” (Meaning, Niddler, the monkeybird, when Ren’s trapped on the crow’s nest of the Maelstrom in episode 1.)
“I wouldn’t go sailing with Pirate Guy.” (Meaning, Ioz, right after he and Ren struck up their deal in the bar.)
“I think Short Chubby Pirate Dude will become their friend.” (Meaning, Konk. She doesn’t like spoilers so I haven’t corrected her on this.)
“That squawking, screeching sound is awesome!” (Commenting on Niddler’s exclamations.)
We got partway into episode 3 before she called it quits. I finished it off and went on to episode 4.
And you know what? They edited the audio. I don’t know if the folks who put the DVD together did it, or what, but they definitely brought up the background noise in some parts and softened it in others, AND they changed the way Ren and Niddler’s scream sounds as they’re falling down into the Kramadorm (making Niddler’s sound more like Frank Welker and his squawking, rather than a humanoid scream).
Oh! They edited the video, too–they have very subtly edited and shortened some transitions by cutting out a second or two of footage here and there. It’s not a big deal but it feels choppy to me, since I know the originals really well. (More so than the episodes, the slight shift in the audio and music throws me off, but I am a very aural person.)
This has definitely affirmed for me that my favorite episodes in the series are #1, #4, and #5. They’re such gems all around, each with their own share of symbolism, darkness, complexity, and fun. But man, I do have to wonder what the true “on-the-street” reception of this show was when it first came out, because there are moments that are not kiddie fare.
Anyway…little by little, I’ll go through the DVDs and post comments. I still have not previewed them all just yet…there just aren’t enough hours in the day this semester. Fun times. (If anyone is at all interested in seeing what I’m up to these days, I revamped my personal site/blog and combined both. It’s not complete and still needs to be tweaked…but it might actually be interesting every now and then, beyond the “gaaahhh THESIS” stuff.)