Imagine Looking At This
Now, imagine looking at this for about 10 hours. Fast forward to 2:30 AM. Shut down computer. Sleep.
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Blog as Psuedo-Honest Dialogue Between Friends
"If you didn’t want me to know about it," says Alex, "you should never have linked to my site. That’s how I found it." Early at the start of this blog, I was hesitant to "give out" the address. I was worried that it would somehow compromise my ability to say what I was thinking,…
Justin Gets Things Rolling
I woke up early today, around 8 AM, and logged some hours in on fine tuning the rough interface for the radio station project (Warning: Requires the Flash plug-in). I got the basic mechanics working with blobs of color. The game is a "matching" game, where baby pictures of radio station DJ’s (that’s jocks, if…
Talking with Friends About My Blog, and the Weirdness That Accompanies That Conversation
Interesting. Slightly disconcerting. Weird. More later.
Rob’s Opening, Better Late Than Never
Elissa has been calling me the past few days, and we’ve played phone tag, trying to coordinate a time where we could both visit Rob’s gallery and see his work. Rob, along with his good friend Jake, share gallery space together. They both wrote up separate "Artist Statements", and I thought I’d enclose snippets from…
Determining Whether I Have a Drinking Problem or Not
It seems to be a bad idea for me to have a bottle of whiskey around the house. The process seems to be: Come home. Throw down 2 shots. Feel fuzzy. Throw down some more shots. Get sleepy. Eat. Sleep. I guess… what doesn’t kill me, only makes me stronger and drunker.
Fate vs. Free Will (Point / Counterpoint)
I was going to write a Pro vs. Con type entry regarding Love and Fate and Free Will. But I’m a little too tired, and a little too drunk to get into it right now. Tomorrow is Friday, and that means it’s a Metra day. I’ll try to compose some entries on the train, and…
Darts of Poison Extreme
Played a FANTASTIC multiplayer e-mail based game today, called "Darts of Poison Extreme." It’s one of the many games offered by MOHYSE.com, and quite addictive. I played a3dmofo and jverbal; lost to mofo, and won against verbal. Check out some of the screenshots: A few thoughts here. From a design standpoint, they are very slick…
The Muse Has Been Having Teeth Issues
The past week, I’ve been driving to work, hoping to catch a positive sense of the morning and put it into a poem. But I’ve been preoccupied a bit, thinking a lot about my teeth. I haven’t been to a dentist in ages. Almost 5 years, I want to say. But today, I called and…
The Ratio of Secrets and Events
Today, I began thinking about You. Whoever is reading this thing that I update on a day to day basis. Unnamed, stranger, quiet observer who is You. And in thinking about you, I realized that there are certain expectations that have established themselves between us. For me to write in this particular "style," I have…
Drinking Allergy, Part 2
I’ve noticed that, what I will heretofor refer to as "splotching," occurs only when I’ve had food, or am on an otherwise full stomach. I still have no idea what this means. I’ve also noticed my tendency to come home from work, throw down a few, and then stumble and hiccup my way through dinner….
Fate and Free Will
A coworker of mine, Jan, recently got married. At a party for her, a few weeks back, the two of us shared a rather slurred converastion about love and "fate." She asked me if I believed in it, and I said "no." We then talked at length about love, and how you "know" whether someone…
Freelance Work
My friend Justin IM’ed me today, and basically gave me a nice little gift. A small freelance gig, creating a "matching" game in Flash for a radio station. The bulk of it should be ActionScript, which is very exciting to me! It’s due Monday, so I’m hoping to get a few good days at it…
Ozone Action Days
For the past two days, the city of Chicago has declared an Ozone Action Day. Before moving here, I had never heard the word. In fact, after almost two years in the city, yesterday was the first time I had heard a reference to it. People who are already especially vulnerable to ozone are even…
Only Geeks Stay Up This Late for Documentaries
Alright. I had dinner, drifted off, and fell asleep on the couch. I woke up sometime around 3 AM, and saw that a NOVA documentary on the trebuchet was on. This was the coolest thing ever. I stayed up and watched it for an hour. What makes it even geekier is that I’ve seen it…