I’m Done. I have finally satisfied the Muse. Â The book, in it’s current first draft form, is exactly 320 pages long. Â I didn’t plan it that way, and I didn’t try and stretch it to get that – it just worked out that way. Â 320 pages makes it a Novel, rather than a Novella. Dear …
“Alright, let’s do this.” I called Brandon the other day to help out with a plumbing problem, and long story short, he didn’t fix it that night, but was going to come back the next day to work on it. Â However, since he looked at it, I suddenly owed him supper 🙂 We headed down …
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More Book Stuff… So, for the first time in a while, I haven’t had a schedule crushing down on me and three or four different things to do. Â By no means am I out of work at the moment (landed another very small job on Saturday – great way to wake up, BTW – and …
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The Life Eater… One of the projects I picked up a while back turned into an out and out life eater. Â 12 hour days minimum, and most of them are 14 to 16’s – a real bitch to try and get any work done. However, the project is over now. Â Well, MOSTLY over – official …
I ought to write a book. Wait – I am writing a book. Dear Sir or Madam, will you read my book? It took me years to write, will you take a look? It’s based on a novel by a man named Lear And I need a job, so I want to be a paperback …
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Welcome To The Complete Fucking Meltdown “Superman where are you now, when every thing’s gone wrong somehow. The men of steel, men of power, Are loosing control by the hour.” — Genesis, Land of Confusion I started to make a long post about the World economic situation.  I deleted it – I can sum it …
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OK, I think I may have just helped perform the strangest possible task for the week. Nope, I’m SURE of it. Doc was having problems with one of the wells at the farm, and I went out to help. Â Pulled the old well pump out, pressure tank, and the piping down the well. Â The well …
Apple understands a great many things. Â Apple understands hardware, Operating Systems, Interfaces, and how to make Hardware / Software sexy. Â I mean, to the point of nearly being a cult sexy. I am a huge Apple fan. Â I’m writing this on my customized MacMini (which I should throw some pics up of someday – it’s …
Apple Understands Computers. Apple Doesn’t Understand Developers. Read More »
Digital Archaeology I mentioned having ran across my old LiveJournal and I pulled all the posts from it and throw ’em on here, plus my old GarageGames posts (I’ve pulled down the MySpace posts too, but they are much more manual to import into Multiply.) Â Google turned 10 this week, so they pulled out …
You hear about businesses closing all the time, and usually you get a little recap at the end about what happened from some outside or low level person at the company. Gamer Zone was one of the businesses I was involved in – starting out as a PR guy and eventually being the captain of …
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I don’t usually laugh at most people’s misfortune. Â OK, that’s a lie – I do. Â But I don’t usually laugh with such glee! Jack Thompson has been disbarred. Â Ok, if you don’t know who Jack Thompson is, then you might find this a little less funny. Â Lemmie give you the highlights…Â Jack Thompson decided there …
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Oh Dear God… Sorry Folks!!! “Freeze this moment A little bit longer Make each sensation A little bit stronger Experience slips away…” — Rush, Time Stand Still OK, if you just noticed um… like 8 pages of blog entries by me, I’m really sorry about that. Â I had this idea… I ran across my old …
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An interesting piece read by Carl Sagan.
I’m a fan of Open Source / Free Software licenses. Â I’m a REALLY huge fan of them in development tools. So what am I bitching about here? Â Developers who fail to understand licenses, but insist on using them without really knowing what the hell they are doing. I’m going to give two examples – both …
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So, I’ve got a personal blog I share with my friends, and I’ve got a blog for Taillefer Farms that covers my involvement there. But I keep wanting on just specifically for business and tech stuff. And here it is. And there was much rejoicing (yay). Some trivial bits about it…
Would you just quit costing yourself money already? So I get a call today on the biggest of the pending contracts. Â They already broke the project down into Version 1 and Version 2, which means I get paid twice on the same project do redo part of what’s already done. Â I don’t mind the money, …
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Missed The Boat… When the iPhone development kits were being released, I snagged a copy to look at (which, well, I do that with pretty much any new piece of tech that’s going to get widespread acceptance. Â It’s part of what people pay me for – to know stuff.) Â I then immediately decided not to …
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Dead Horse No, this isn’t the figurative dead horse (as in, to beat). Â Sunday I spent the better part of a very tiring day walking the farm looking for a horse that we were sure had passed away. Â Doc, Brandon, and myself basically started at one end, and doing basically a full search grid for …
God, Save Me From Screwball Customers Quite a while back (March), I had a female customer that, while a nice lady, it just wasn’t going to work out. Â I did a website for her – she didn’t know what she wanted, but she didn’t like what I did. Â So I took a second shot at …
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Another Blog So, I’m starting another blog. Â I’m not getting rid of this one or anything, I’m just starting up a second one. Â Here’s the deal – Taillefer Farms (Doc’s farm) has a webpage, and a “plan” behind it. Â Part of the plan was for Doc to add content to it in the form of …
Stampede! Working with horses can be dangerous – you can get kicked, bucked off, stepped on, crushed against the wall, all sorts of mean and nasty things. Â And I suppose it’s inevitable that you’re gonna end up in a bad situation at some point. I am by no means an expert with horses, though I …
http://www.break.com/index/banned-commercial-for-guiness-555604.htmlThis is a must see – I don’t wanna ruin it!
“Greetings, Program!” — Tron For ages there’s been talk of Disney trying to revive Tron and produce a sequel – and they did, a video game called “Tron 2.0” (and another version called Tron 2.0: Killer App). Â The original Tron cost $17 million to make, and only pulled in $33 million in theaters. Â Which …
Update “I been one poor correspondent, and I been too, too hard to find But it doesnt mean you aint been on my mind.” — America, “Sister Golden Hair” OK, it’s been way too fucking long since I’ve updated this thing 🙂 Let’s see… what all has happened since my entry…  Yep, I moved in …
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The Long Road… I’m Sick And Tired Of The Damned TV,I wanna star in the late night show,Where all I need is my video…— Def Leppard, Action! Not Words It’s not much of a secret that I plan on doing movies. As in writing ’em, producing ’em, and even being in a few. The long …
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This is stuff shot with my new camera. The CHEAPEST HD Camcorder you can buy. Consider this “Part 1” – the next good sunny day I’ll be out with the camera again, testing the circular polarizer and threads I added to the camera.
Expansion I: New Tools I love new tools. It’s one of my favorite things in life. Well, this week I’ve got a new set of tools, ones that I know a bit about, but never actually use: Marketing. In the next two months, Midnight Ryder Technologies is undergoing some major changes. Marketing is something that’s …
Game Time! I just posted up a link to a First Person Shooter that I’m proposing we all get together and play one of these days (probably right after I get my new home), and maybe play one night every two weeks or so. I’m planning on hosting the “event” and doing it twice a …
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http://alientrap.org/nexuiz/A while back the discussion came up about playing some FPS type games online from time to time. I had suggested Unreal Tournament (for various reasons), but started looking online for something free and good. I played quite a few of ’em until I finally settled on suggesting Nexuiz to everyone. Why a freebe FPS? …
