Felicia Day

You might stumble through and see the site totally looking like bunghole.  That’s because I downloaded a bunch of skins to try out on the site and instead of doing the professional thing by testing them on an offline site, I’m doing it live here.     Why am I suddenly focused on redoing my website instead of the 150 things on my to-do list right now?  Hmm…

I couldn’t help posting a link to this announcement from Bioware. KOTOR are my FAVORITE GAMES in recent memory! I want to sign up now!

Well….my butt hurts.  I’ve been sitting on it for 6 hours straight, uploading the first three episodes of The Guild to various video websites.  We’re trying to really build up the fan base so that #4 gets huge hits and we can get some producing partner to help us fund episodes on a more regular basis, so I decided to diversify off of YouTube and send ppl to the website.

I used TubeMogul to upload to 7 sites at once.  That’s great, I really like the program, but unfortunately, I had to first create accounts at each site, configure all the channels, surf their sites to add favorite videos to make my pages not look bare, and then make sure the videos were set up right, they were in the right category, etc.  Gah, what a pain.  Fortunately, the Hellgate beta servers were down, so I had nothing to do but obsessively finish the task.

In my uploadings, I found a few sites that I really like though.  I’d never heard of it before, but Brightcove was my favorite site to deal with.  If you’ve never uploaded video, you don’t appreciate the small things, like their feature that allows you to play through the video and capture a thumbnail of your choosing, unlike YouTube which invariably chooses the pic with someone’s mouth open or jowels wiggling.  I also liked the widget-like aspect where you could just click on captions and edit them rather than going into an options panel and searching for the thing you want to change.  They’re not flush with amazing content, but the interface made me smile.  I also liked Blip.tv, their channels look nice.  So, now we’re up on a lot of sites, and I’ll see if we actually make money off of Metacafe or Revver.  Maybe we’ll upload episode 4 exclusively to one of them, who knows.   I’d rather have YouTube feature us on their front page again but…   We also have an itunes videocast channel now, so hopefully in a few days when it’s approved ppl will be about to download and watch us on their ipod, which would be cool   I hd my first random sighting, sitting at a street cafe and a dude stopped and said, “Hey!  I just saw you on YouTube!”  It was sooo cool!

I’m also thinking of redoing this whole site on a wordpress platform.  I can’t imagine someone really going to my other pages to check me out as an actor, use imdb anyone? ,  and the new Guild website looks so good,  all done on a wordpress platform (thank you Ryan Carter ) that I want to redo the site in pages, and have www.feliciaday.net just take everyone straight to the blog.  I have a cool skin I want to try, in fact, I may sit on my butt an other hour and implement it

Anyway, I have a stack of book reviews to post soon, yummy/grody covers incoming!

If I have a free afternoon lunch, I tend to treat myself to a nice indulgent meal of sushi, real pig out style. Today I ordered a whole plate of different kinds of sushi. And OF COURSE it came with a piece of shrimp sushi. Sigh. It’s not that I don’t like shrimp, it’s that I never know if it’s rude not to eat the tail! WHAT IS THE PROTOCOL?! There’s nothing savory about the tail, but it feels weird biting it off, leaving it on the plate so the Japanese dishwasher can look at my dirty plate in contempt, as a stupid American non-tail-eater.

I know at Chinese restaurants they stir-fry shrimp in their shells with salt, and you’re supposed to eat the shell. I know this because I ordered this as a house specialty somewhere and was served a plate of shell-in shrimp. Uh…I ate them whole because I didn’t want the ridicule of ordering something I had no idea how to eat. It was crunchy. Not in a good way. It was like…eating a shell.

Anyway, I wanted to explore the actual rules, and it turns out, after a little surfing, I’ve been pooping all over sushi protocol for years! I always dip the rice into the soy sauce. I thought that was the polite way to do it. No, idiot, NEVER DO THAT! This post I found is most adamant about this, although the analogy with putting ketchup only on the burger and never the bun made me feel like, “Wow, I don’t know how to eat a burger either.”

Also you’re never supposed to put the wasabi INTO the soysauce, which I do frequently and on and on. One interesting fact is, “Never pass food to another person using chopsticks as this is too close symbolically to the passing of a deceased relative’s bones at a traditional Japanese funeral. Pass a plate instead allowing an individual to take food themselves.” Gah, I think that’s one rule I can remember.