skullblog is authored by kalavinka. this blog is an extension of her memory banks, which makes kalavinka post-human. it helps her to keep track of ideas, reviews of movies/music, documenting travel, and the metamorphosis of life. maintaining this blog has also been an exercise in coding.

the entries in skullblog are written without adhering to traditional confines of grammar and punctuation. this is more stream of consciousness while laying on the floor rather than reporting from a high tower. sometimes i write the mundane, sometimes i am profane, but i do my best to write something everyday, er that is until 2008 when i decided to cut the quantity for quality.

skullblog was created in 2003.

skullblog is powered by movable type (version 3.33). the contents are copywritten under creative commons. it is the goal of skullblog to utilize css and be free of tables for design purposes. the calendar is done with tables. the flickr javascript generates the images at the top and uses tables. due to the overwhelming amount of spam, comment moderation is in place. later on, stronger measures might be used in the war against spam.

items in the sidebar explained:

• the projects link to 43things where the author keeps track of goals and other things such as places to visit at 43places. (recommended for those with time to kill and like to write lists)
• the playlist is kept track of by last.fm using audioscrobbler. (fun way to log musical listening habit stats and compare with others)
• netflix is where the author rents movies from. (recommended for those that never leave the house)
• delicious is where the author stores links, organized by category. (recommended for remote viewing of one's bookmarks)
• the blog roll is created manually and is a list of (mostly) blogs that the author reads often. (for keeping track of feeds online so you can catch up on your favorite blogs no matter where you are in the world nor on whose computer, try bloglines)

kalavinka enjoys talking about herself in the third person. no, of course i don't. my first exposure to the internet was in 1994 and i learned basic html in a computer class in 1995. anything beyond that i learned on my own through experimentation and peeking behind the curtains of well-designed sites. everytime i saw a void in cyberspace, i wanted to create a web page for it and spread myself thin doing so. then came the dormant period during which i didn't create much of anything (got a real job) and new tools and standards came into being, which explains the simplistic look of this site.

skullblog is currently based out of los angeles county, california.

previously based out of santa cruz county, california; auckland and wellington, new zealand.

music: you can listen to my loop-based experiments at ACIDplanet, Ourmedia, SoundClick

film: my camera is broken at the moment but you can view a short film i did in 2003, fatima mansion

photography: the string of photos at the top is a sample of my photos available at flickr, which are mostly tourist shots

computers: currently into all things mac

internet: i've done this and that but notable fan sites i made include buck-tick zone (highly active), are you there margaret? it's me, mariko (currently in a coma), james duval (currently in a coma)

podcasts: naruhodo japan: the podcast for learning about the language and culture of japan from a nikkei perspective

improve skills in my interests listed above,
increase my capacity for patience and tolerance,
refine my japanese language skills & learn the okinawan dialect + spanish,
travel the world & experience other cultures on an intimate level,
learn to cook delicious vegan meals & understand macrobiotics intuitively,
develop social skills enough to hold a conversation with anyone,
to make everyone laugh as much as possible,
become more eloquent with words in order to say more by saying less,
free the world from injustice and oppression.