Moonlight ends tonight... it's a sad day for TV fans.

If you're "active" on the 'net, you're likely a member of Blogger, Facebook/MySpace, Twitter/Jaiku/Pownce, Tumblr, LinkedIn and maybe even a few more. It can be quite a hassle remembering logins, passwords, and even "to log-into" so-many sites and services. Ping.fm (http://ping.fm) changes that. Wanna check it out? When you get there, use the beta code: "pingsauce" and start firing-off posts... to ALL services at once, just a certain "type" (microblogs only, for instance), or any particular site. (Ping is why and how I'm posting here.)

At IRON MAN, Bay Street. I hope Kay likes watching NO MORE HEROES!

Oakland is not safe.

Becoming "Rank 6" in No More Heroes, thinking about seeing IRONMAN tonight. Wanna? Call.

Too bright! Two more Moonlight episodes... period?!

Ping.fm rocks... see for yourself! Beta code: pingfriends

Lots and lots and lots of work to do...

IF YOU'RE READING THIS AND YOU DON'T HAVE A Twitter THEN I THINK shame on you! Well, not really... but they're great and I think that much in the same way that everyone should have a MySpace or Facebook, I think that Twitter is crucial. Why?

I'm glad that I asked for you, so that you wouldn't have to. I use my Twitter as a status-update, what's-up and "what-I'm-thinking" page. It's a quick, easy-way for people to check my availability and see what I'm up to, especially if and when I'm using the computer.

If I'm out, I'll post mobile'ly. A lot of that is for myself; sometimes I can't remember exactly what I did on Wednesday a few weeks back, and Twitter can remind me. Sometimes I forget to pre-load and reload my calendar-of-events; my Twitter helps me backtrack and keep track of things like expenses and activities.

I can also keep track of lost time. It takes but a moment to make a post, but if I'm working on something and stumble across a new website, I don't lose it. If something I'm doing turns out to waste my time, I can make a note of it.

On top of that, many times I'll stumble across one of my friends' posts, linking some incredibly-cool website that I've never heard of before. I'd never before given ANY thought toward USING BACKPACK before seeing a friend's tweet on the web-app. Now I use Backpack to organize and keep track of many things and can't seem to understand how I got things done before.

Technology can either be scary and complicated or efficient and helpful—really, it's all your choice. It's almost entirely unavoidable, and I think it's worth taking the several-hours it may take to learn something and do it once instead of suffering in ignorance time and time again. Ultimately, I think people waste more time not knowing how to use the computer then they'd have to spend to figure it out.

The Internet isn't a choice. Twitter is, but it shouldn't be.

One last time. Here is a link to my Twitter. I think that tumblr is important, too, but I'll save that for some other time.

Hope everyone is doing well.

People have been bothering me... lots of things are up in the air.
I'm moving soon. Finally.

BTW. If you care:

This is my Inkblog aka Bradtastic Ink.
It should be easy to remember, it's myname.com (bradchin.com)

Also,

This is my Twitter. If you have one, message me, follow/add me or whatever. I'm really happy with it.

Giants win, 5th seed wild card, first wild card NFC win!

Between Twitter & Tumblr,

I have no more use for LJ!
Woohoo.

The Patriots are probably headed to 19-0. Time to move to the East Coast?

I'm going to try and do something about the 12+ blogs that I currently have... first, I think I'll shut-down the one's no one seems to care about (or read, or frequent). And then, I'll mush some crap together, and organize my current writing, extracting some good and archiving it somewhere.

I'd post a poll about this, but I don't see the point. Back to writing.

Want to follow my life? Feel free to add me.

I'm playing vSide in the background of things... Download vSide, add Bradtastic.

Also, I set up Bradtastic Inkfall, an inkblog... it's where my ink posts will be. I'm working on consolidating my blogs and narrowing the topics. I think vSide is cool enough to be shared at TMC though. That, and new, secret-site coming soon.

Until then.

I've been using Blogger for a few days now and so-far, so-good... any tried it? I'm not sure that I want to continue to pay for LJ when I'm not using it. The community has been cool and the interface is ok. Icons are nice, but maybe I've moved on? Ugh. Well, my MacBook Pro crashed; I got a bootable Disk Warrior CD with high hopes, but I don't think it's going to help. The HDD is making a very strange sound and I'm thinking that I'm going to have to AppleCare out the machine. Glad to have ProCare.

I'm going to gasp! try Vista. I don't know how many users out there are using it; I'm using an iPhone (syncing to Mac) and now a BlackBerry, and I don't want to sync both devices to the same machine. Thus, I'm going to setup Vista and sync to that—all in preparation for new machines and tools, tablet computers and other things.

I've now used AT&T, turned Cingular, turned AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint. I think I'm going to modify my Sprint plan and go back to the Sanyo phone I liked so much, the RL-4920 or 4930... and convert the other lines to broadband cards. T-Mobile myFaves is pretty cool, as well as Hotspot@Home.

WordPress, Blogger, LiveJournal... damn.
MySpace, Facebook, Orkut... damn.
Twitter, um...

Thanks for caring, commenting, and reading my long-junk. Because life can get verbose [when I don't post on LJ weekly, bi-weekly, or nineteen times-daily (dafurreht)], I made a twitter. For those little, obsessive, "what's he doin' now" feelings.

Also made a Blogger site and a Spaces. Blogger is actually pretty cool; honestly, I just want somewhere to post writing, and WordPress is a spam-collector. It wouldn't be so bad if I got occasional spam, but there's a whole helluva-lot more spam than legit comments. The only time I got a crap-load at BT was when I wrote about NGC's Locked Up Abroad: Peru. Actually-eventually, Krista Barnes herself commented there... unexpected and neat.

Anyway, g'bye again. I got to get the rest of my life fixed.
Oh. Also.

HAPPY NEW YEAR. (Well, I got that one out of the way—what's next?)

I was once "the_opportunist," I once went by the handle "phoil" (I still do—sorta. But, it's not just "phoil" and it's far-from clean... *wink*) and I used to post entries quite often here on LiveJournal.

I wasn't an early-adopter or anything, but my first LJ was 942,381. Back then, things were different; the culture of LiveJournal was different, posts were different, people seemed different. I'm not an some kind of an alarmist, believing that the world is immediately coming to an end because of signs of ignorance and foolishness evident on LJ. I just don't like "it" anymore.

I once wrote a post in-response to pjammer and theferret and it's still one of the highest Google-rated links under the search-term "bradtastic." (No idea why anyone would put that into Google, but I don't know why I do, either...) That entry is Bradtastic, Righteous Evil: Loving Humanity and is a semi-shining example of the over-hyped mediocrity that I was once responsible for. It had some of my sketchbook artwork there as well, portrayed by a photograph from my (at-the-time) Digital Rebel.

I'm critical of the entry because I can, do and will continue to create better... just not here. I blame myself for the problem that I have with LiveJournal—well, perhaps I sorta blame pjammer as well. When I first started really caring about my LJ-blogging, it was his idea to gain popularity and friends by means of comment-whoring, art and design, illustrations, vector-work, amateurish photography of "artsy" and abstract scenes (birds and the sky and CC'ish candid-shots. Many of the "fans" I'd collected over the year/s came from Asian-related hotornot-esque communities. Fortunately I didn't get rejected by the ones I had submitted to; I was thin, clean-cut, and like a standard scrawny Japanese-anime model. If I had bleached my hair and added blond-highlights, I would've been hired for a Korean soap. The rest of those following my journal came from art related groups, listing my journal to see and/or snag my latest vector or marker piece. Some of the vector-work was decent enough to get me some design jobs, most of the marker work was shitty, not even worth keeping. I've either lost (through moving) or thrown away most of it, some of the photos have been erased or improperly backed up, some were even deleted on purpose.

A lot of what I had posted didn't even make sense. It's as if I had been writing for a semi-intelligent, marginally-derranged, schizophrenic sociopath after a three-day weekend bender, two 40oz's and a chain-smoked crack-pipe. Or euphemistically, you might say that I simply wrote for myself.

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My real stuff is at bradtastic if it's about "Brad Chin" in-general or something I'm interested in, antipresto if it's tech-related, software, tips, or tech-junkie "food," and finally, my new stuff is at toomanycopies so called "TMC" if it's regarding gaming-stuff, the industry, indy-video games, or something interesting regarding cultural trends in gamers or the stuff I've found. Occasionally there's some cross-posting between toomanycopies.com and antipresto.com if the information is both "random tech" and "video game" related—a shining example: How to take a Wii remote (wiimote) and turn your computer into that one from Minority Report that Tom Cruise used to make the wooden prediction-balls and review information on "pre-spects."

It's amazing how effective pain is at keeping oneself isolated, unable to act, unable to work and unable to change the state of being. Between undeniable depression and the unending hurt, I've managed to actually produce some stuff.

FREAKEY is done and it's awesome. This product is amazingly solid in every way, and I'm proud to have played my part in creating it. It's the first of many.

I have some new magic, and I'm going to write a little bit about my magic and future at my new site/blog. I can honestly say that I enjoy the freedoms that I have there; I can call people out by name, I could be as profane as I please, and it's super easy to modify.

I've just been to ill and I have too much to do to create my own style for WordPress—it's still something that I intend to do.
New illustrations, information on magic products and entertainment, random design stuff, shop and ordering info and supernatural-illusory shirt designs coming soon.

I'm going to run some giveaways during pre-release; you could be among influencers, decision-makers, celebrities and professional athletes wearing my new design series... that is, if you want really cool looking clothing for free. But this is the last I'm going to write about it here.

In fact, why am I posting on LJ at all? Geez. Brainfart.


I blame Criss-the-mindfunk.

I've really enjoyed interacting with this community, this group of people who've over the past few years pumped me up when I was feeling down and encouraged me to think, urged me on to share my art and thoughts... I appreciate it a lot. And I'm sorry for not in turn reading very many of your journals, I don't have an excuse other than I'm always super busy and can barely afford to make time to follow up on local news these days.

My domain, www.bradtastic.com is up with a WordPress, and my posts will be there. I'm writing about anything and everything, playing with words and using it to relax. I'll name names and swear if I want to! I'll review some tech stuff and write about my life; the blog will be a little bit random, all-over-the-place, and completely "me." So please check it out, I'm going to take pictures of my new ornate sketchbook and post the images there... it's work that I made to share and I want it to inspire and encourage others.

My web.mac site will still get new content every once in a while, but for now, it's all bradtastic!

Roger Federer over Rafael Nadal, for five consecutive wins (tying Björn Rune Borg)—and only three slams away from Sampras (likely the greatest champion of all time).

Nadal is unfortunately in the shadow of the greatest player of all time, one once complimented as "God's perfect image tennis player." He's been number two longer than anyone, and is separated by thousands to number three, and thousands separate Federer from Nadal. Nadal has 77 wins on clay, (Vilas had 53 in 1977, Borg 46 in 1977-79)... he'll be the best one day.

The serve volley game is gone from modern grass, and it needs a comeback. Sampras has been considering a return, and if he were to get in shape (recent play in Boston proves his power and prowess), he could be a top contender.

With that however, this match was one of the greatest ever. Federer was brought to tears, overwhelmed by the moment. I'm so glad for tennis in HD. To see two greats go up against each other, in this caliber of one on one—I'm amazed that ESPN2 commentators compare Federer versus Nadal to Takeru Kobayashi versus Joey Chestnut. Maybe if Kobayashi could eat 66 hot dogs in twelve minutes after catching each one flying at 130mph, all the while doing a distance to speed base twelve to base ten/one hundred metric... and doing so without being sloppy.

Federer looked like he was fresh out of the shower when he stepped up to accept the trophy; in the three minute commercial span, he transformed from a sweaty-man-tennis-ball-busting-Lord to Roger, the high-priced-watch-model.

I hope Rafa's knee heals. I can't wait to see these two in the US Open!