Thoughts from September 7, 2001

I have a headache right now. I had a bunch of carrots at lunch and now I have a headache. Coincidence? I think not! I don’t really know what the carrots could have done to me, but my head and eyes hurt. Does this mean too much of a good thing is too much of a good thing? My years of research in this area have brought me to one conclusion. I don’t know. I know one thing that might help me with my situation. I’m going to the restroom. That’s right, I’m going to the restroom and I’m not afraid who knows it!

I’m back. It was very yellow. I feel better. I also stretched while I was in there. Life is good again. It’s not perfect, but it’s good.

I found a site where I can post my videos/animations on the internet. There are other sites to post my pictures and (perhaps) audio files. My primary concern is getting my animations on the web through my Kirwanland website. Supposedly, there is a way I can add a reference to my animations while staying on my site. Now, all I have to do is just do it. (Future note: If I were into sports, I would have made a Nike reference here about “just do it.” If I did, it would have just been to make fun of the phrase.) I don’t know what exactly that entails, but I guess I’ll find out. I’m going to see if I can do a sample right now. Bye.

Future note:

I am writing this future note about 22 years past the time I originally wrote this Thoughts paper. It’s amazing to think how different the internet was back then. YouTube came out in February 2005 so many of the problems I was dealing with were solved with it. Kids who weren’t even born until 2000 missed out on all the torturous fun of dealing with videos on the internet. You had to get videos in just the right format, size, and compatibility for the internet location it would appear on. My patience for internet problems is off the charts from dealing with issues during these years. I’m actually much more patient than other people because of this and working on computers in general through the years.

Kirwanland was my main website before BrianCreates.com became the main source of all things Brian. Kirwanland was conceived as a map of different lands where you could click on each land and be taken to the different things I created. There was The Artville Garden, Movie Town, BK Castle, The Word Forest, and Mt. Music. The map looked remarkably like a map of Disneyland. I had a hedge maze in the middle of the map that, if you clicked on the right spot, would take you to a secret behind-the-scenes area of the site. This was not the only version of the website requiring people to click on images to go to different parts of it. Eventually, I figured out people just want to go to the area of the website they were interested in and they really don’t want to explore an image to figure out how it works. I thought it made the site interesting, but it only made it frustrating for visitors. As a treat for reading to the end of this Thoughts paper, I present to you the map of Kirwanland with the included dedication.