Probably a chronicle about Creation (of things including, but not limited to, Stories and Video Games), and Personal Growth. Possibly just unrelated writings in mostly chronological order.
Archive for the ‘life’ Category.
I just got an iPhone 3G on Friday. It’s cool. But it meant that my major task this weekend was this. I was successful.
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What? You’re still around? Oh. Well… thanks.
But don’t expect my writing to pick up here anytime soon.
What do we do about all the small disasters in life? Sometimes they seem so close together, like a concerted team of tragedies. There are so many opportunities to give up, to break down. So many constant, small signs any one of which would be a fine incentive to say, “I’ve had enough.” To give up, to let go, to despair. Why don’t we? Of course some do; some leave another mess behind to return to that home we can’t really remember, where it’s easy to look at things from a different point of view.
I have the itch to be elsewhere, in a story, and deep down I know it is to be in a story of my own creation, rather than that of another. I have been reading to quell the pang, but I know it has only been putting off what I really need to be doing: writing a story.
This is awesome.
On Monday I received my Kindle, after waiting three weeks. Yesterday I finished reading Small Favor on it, and I’m really liking it. Of course, I knew I would. And it seems they are caught up on the supply now; a coworker ordered one yesterday after I showed it to him, and his is being shipped to him now (to arrive tomorrow).
Two Harvard Psychologists are saying that boys who play no video games at all are more likely to get in trouble than boys who play some video games.
I found this blog from a comment on Rock, Paper, Shotgun, and just started reading his webcomic. It gets pretty funny; you should check it out.
There’s a new post on Click Nothing which links to some really cool stuff. Worth a look.
It’s kind of an interesting and silly question. And I find it pretty funny (and cool) that this guy went so far to find out the answer.
Well, I took these a few months ago, but have just now gotten around to getting them off the camera and putting them up here. This is my MINI. Of course, I love it.
From the forums at Champions-Online.com, Black_Pagoda ran across their awesome 404 page. Check it out.
On Sunday I got a reading from Robert Caruso, who is very good at what he does. The bulk of it was concerned with how to get myself to write, as I know I should be doing, and he told me a lot of very helpful things which should have been obvious before he pointed them out, but weren’t.
Here’s a link to a story. I wonder how much of it is true?
Got Super Smash Bros. Brawl yesterday and have been having fun with it. The story mode is significantly longer than it was in Melee; in that one you could finish it in an hour or so, whereas I played a lot yesterday and am 1/3 of the way through the story in Brawl. I’m glad the story mode is 2-player, so my daughter can play that with me.
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Well, today would be a fun day to be born.
For all the spam bots out there who seem to comprise the whole of my readership: celebrity nude picture to you, too.
Been a while since I posted here, huh? Hmm. : /
Well, an update on what I’ve been doing:
I am starting work on a video game version of Stardust (you may recall that Stardust is the working title of my board game side project—or you may not), using XNA Game Studio 2.0, which I hope to eventually make available on the Xbox 360 (through Xbox Live Arcade or the as-yet-unannounced XNA distribution mechanism, if it is suitable). XNA was chosen because I like the ease of programming in C# and it’s kind of cool to be able to make games that work on the 360 (functionality I have not yet tried, since I don’t plan on paying the $100 for a year of the Creators’ Club until I have something worth testing on the 360). This is the first time I’ve done any graphics programming (I haven’t even done a custom Windows forms control before), so the fact that XNA makes it a bit easier is another benefit. I’m doing the graphical stuff first because it is good motivation when I can literally see the progress I am making. So far it basically just draws the board.
James Portnow has yet another good article on Next Generation, this one about sex in video games.
