Due to popular request, I've abandoned the old background for a more legible one. Thanks for the feedback, everyone. For those of you who were lucky enough to miss the confusing background, welcome to the rough outlines of my updated site! (You can still check out the old one, which I've put out of its misery.) Whereas the last one was pretty much a fill-in-the-blanks page, I decided to get responsible and learn HTML. (Translation: if this looks messed-up, let me know and I'll dig around in here and fix it.) Thanks!
*Unless you know me already, you're probably thinking, "Who is this person, anyway?" I'm a teenager in the San Francisco Bay Area. I go to Lick-Wilmerding High School (Lick and Wilmerding are two last names). I'm interested in pretty much everything, especially acting (theatrical), playing the guitar, black and white photography, shaolin kempo (karate), and programming, which I've just begun to learn about. I speak English, as you may have guessed by now, Japanese, and American Sign Language (a mix of Midwestern, Texan, and Californian dialects). I usually carry a capo, two guitar picks, keys on a cat ID tag, lip balm, and a pen in my pockets. (Stop giving me that "you're-being-random" look! The contents of one's pockets can actually tell you a lot about a person! *sulks defensively in corner, quietly singing "a tisket, a tasket" while rocking back and forth*)
Links
Basically, this is stuff I'm jotting down here for the time being so I can recycle all these old scraps of paper floating around all over the place.
[Web-Literate] Friends
Kailei, who prefers to be known as 'lei.
Miles, who is just amazing in general.
Kat, who is mentioned below.
Sean, All-Prevailing Entity of the Theater Realm.
Six Seconds, an emotional intelligence company founded by some of my teachers. At least look, all right? *smile*
Mental Magic, Alex's magic business.
Josh's X-FIles Obsession and Wacky Words of Weirdness
Interesting Pursuits
Warning: may be addictive.
BayMOO, a mind-boggling virtual reality version of the San Francisco Bay Area and other such imaginary realms. (Requires NCSA Telnet or other Telnet providers, which you can download for free.)
Hibernia Beach, San Francisco's radio talk show, airs every Sunday night at 11:59 PM on Live 105. Check out Dress-me-Renee, past shows, the weekly comic, and more.
Cheeziest Goth Site of the Week: fairly self-explanatory.
Backwards Sites to panic everyone! (Too bad you missed April Fool's Day...)
Knowledge is Power
SF Weekly, a free independent newspaper.
The Bay Guardian, sometimes more interested in shock value than facts.
Anonymity allows you to explore the Internet anonymously and includes information about online privacy.
Hytelnet connects you to library catalogs anywhere in the world via Telnet.
Slashdot: news for the technologically inclined.
Alternative Japanese Dictionary
Lick-Wilmerding Library Online, created by Miles.
Learn2.com is just plain cool.
Useless Knowledge enables you to spout random facts at will! *50's housewife smile*
Comics
Recently, my friend Kat introduced me to the wonderfully intelligent, creative world of alternative comics. (Fun fact: the above photo of me was taken by Julian at Alternative Press Expo 1999 in March.) Here's what Marvel and DC Comics never opened your eyes to:
Slave Labor Graphics, publishers of such family favorites as Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Squee, Awkward, and Gloom Cookie.
*Celtic GIF courtesy of 'lei, who allowed me to steal it.