Davis Ray Sickmon, Jr

Another Offer, What The Hell Was That?, More Horrorible

Another Offer So I’ve been offered a position on the Advisory Board for a degree program in “Interactive 3D”.  This is on top of other discussion on being on the board or being an instructor for a game development degree track.  Wuuuhat?   It just seems so strange to suddenly get offers like this.  And …

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The Call Completes It

I know shouldn’t but I still do, look forward to those phone calls, from me to you. It completes my day, and elevates it, and makes it at least OK. I never fail to smile, when you say sure, let’s talk a while. We often talk for hours, sometimes making me think, I should really …

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Professor Sickmon?

Professor Sickmon? This one has a little bit of back story to it that I’ll explain how things got to this one statement – there’s an off chance I might become an instructor or lecturer at a local college (the Professor part is a joke ).  Because none of the details are really worked out, …

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Blog Move!

If you haven’t noticed, my blog moved to it’s own domain! It’s been a bit since I’ve updated it – mainly because I had the idea of moving it to it’s own place, wanted to change the visual feel of things, and a million other little tweaks to it.  And just to add to that, …

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Fame? WTF?, New Pickup Line, My First Festival, The Next Book is Not a Book, Speaking

Fame? WTF? I strive for the limelight, no secret there.  But I’ve never achieved fame, and probably never will.  Unless I reconsider something about the idea of “fame”. Writing the book lead to a newspaper blurb (small one), and then to a TV interview on KSN News (and a radio station wanting to do a …

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Suicide, Damnit – ALL of Them Have Found Me, Blogging, Media Whoring, New Higher Profile Clients, I own part of a WHAT?

Suicide So I get a txt message from a friend a week ago Monday.  The person asked, “Have you talked to Robert Potter in a while?” “It’s probably been a month since I’ve talked to him.” “Did he live at (insert address)?” “Yes.  Why do you ask?” “His file just showed up on my desk.” OK, …

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Book Signing for The Story of Gamer Zone

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/Zcdu2)I’ll be doing a book signing at the Clifton Square Arts & Music Festival in Wichita, Kansas on March 21st from noon until 8PM (not accounting for breaks I take to swill some beer).  This the only signing I have planned for the book, and there will be no tours – …

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Book Signing for The Story of Gamer Zone

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/Zcdu2)I’ll be doing a book signing at the Clifton Square Arts & Music Festival in Wichita, Kansas on March 21st from noon until 8PM (not accounting for breaks I take to swill some beer).  This the only signing I have planned for the book, and there will be no tours – …

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Order Your Copy Now!

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/BRaT2) The Story of Gamer Zone is now available for order through Amazon! So what is The Story of Gamer Zone?  Ages ago, a LAN Gaming center was opened at Harry & Broadway in Wichita, Kansas. For two years Gamer Zone was a gamer gathering point. This is the story of …

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[Blog] Order Your Copy Now!: The Story of Gamer Zone is now available for order through Amazon!So what is The Story of Gamer Zone?  Ages ago, a LAN Gaming center was opened … http://s3nt.com/drjc

Order Your Copy Now!

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/BRaT2) The Story of Gamer Zone is now available for order through Amazon! So what is The Story of Gamer Zone?  Ages ago, a LAN Gaming center was opened at Harry & Broadway in Wichita, Kansas. For two years Gamer Zone was a gamer gathering point. This is the story of …

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[Blog] Order Your Copy Now!: The Story of Gamer Zone is now available for order through Amazon!So what is The Stor… http://s3nt.com/drjc

My Picture in the paper (uh, well, again)

http://www.kansas.com/business/story/702188.htmlMy picture is on the front page of the Business Today section of the Wichita Eagle. The article isn’t about me, it’s actually about Twitter and how a local business I’m friends with, http://www.52Teas.com utilizes twitter as part of it’s marketing strategy (without being a spammer). Not too bad of a picture 🙂

The Urge

For years, I fought the urge.  It’s tugging, it’s pulling. Years ago, I had given into the urge, and it was wonderful for a while.  Actually, it was wonderful for five years.  I reveled in it, it consumed me, it nurtured me even. Then towards the end of five years, it soured.  The choices I had made began to …

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Buy a damned book already!, Fountain Street Productions, Social Networking Might Work TOO Well…

Buy A Damned Book Already! OK, just kidding.  But, The Story of Gamer Zone is now in print.  In about 15 days you’ll be able to pick it up at Amazon.com, or you can buy a copy now if you really want at CreateSpace: The Story of Gamer Zone (softback) Or available for Kendel (already …

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She Calls Me

She calls me, sometimes when I’m working on something else.  I ignore her, but she’s insistent.  The calls keep coming, over and over, disturbing me.  I ignore her the best I can, but she just keeps calling She calls me, sometimes when I’m in a conversation.  Again, I ignore her, but she’s insistent.  She wants my attention, my undivided attention.  I …

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The Relevance Of Blogging In History

We’re living in interesting times when it comes to history.  There’s a huge number of people who study the past.  Anthropologists, Archaeologists, Historians, and all sorts of other folks who piece together what humanity was.  It’s not an easy job – the farther you go back in time, the less information there is to work …

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More Book Crap, Fun Outings, More Work in This Economy?

More Book Crap ISBN 978-1441446749.  That’s my number 🙂 Well, it’s almost ready to roll.  It’s been edited, tweaked, coddled, kicked, and all sorts of stuff to get it ready.   Honestly, IMO, it’s still a pretty crappy book.  But I would kind of think that – it’s my book, and my first book at …

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Of Twitter, Tweets, and WichiTweeps

Recently I’ve been hit by a big wave of nostalgia.  The source of that nostalgia is Twitter and Tweetups, and in particular the WichiTweeps group.  It reminds me a lot of days I thought were gone – the old BBS era. I got into BBS’s back in the day when online communication wasn’t pervasive yet. …

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On iTunes Now, A Trend Reversal

On iTunes Now So, if ya’ pull up iTunes and type Davis Sickmon or Midnight Ryder as a search, you’ll find me now.  Not too impressive – it really falls under the category of “Tricks Any Asshole Can Do.”  What I’ve done is taken my Midnight Ryder blog and made an associated Podcast with it. …

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Distraction

I hate distractions.  My life is my work, so I have slowly minimized distractions so I can get on with my work.  Sure, work is loosely defined somedays – writing, for instance, is considered part of my work whenever The Muse calls. I reduced the number of things I own many years back, and discovered it reduced …

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New And Improved – Now With Podcasting! My Blog returns

Midnight Ryder’s Blog has been abused and ignored for too long now.  One of my New Years resolutions is to start updating this at least every two weeks.  Not only am I going to update it, I’ve decided to throw my hat into the podcasting ring – every update will have an associated podcast with …

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Christmas 2008

Well, Christmas was fairly unexciting really, though I managed to catch up with some people here and there. Had lunch with Doc – we found one of the Chinese places that were open.  For Christmas Eve I was planning on making a really good stew (sure, not Christmas food classically, but, it was something different), …

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Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone!  Hope ya’lls are having a great holiday!

Pro Tip: Don’t Body Check Round Bales

So, I’m helping move hay today at the farm, and this one bale was just a couple inches from being where it needed to be.   No problem – I crouch down just a bit, and give it one hell of a body check.  These things are heavy, so I made sure to give it …

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Working With Publishers, Facebook & Twitter, Partying, Blogging Change

Working With Publishers (Trying again – Multiply ate my first entry.) So, I’m still researching the whole publication situation off and on.  Self publication costs money up front (unless you do print on demand, and with the exception of a few places, I’m seeing a lot of bad articles and reviews on them), or traditional …

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Terminator: Salvation (T4) trailer leaked – Oooohhh coool!

http://tinyurl.com/65teyoPromise – no evil link this time 🙂

HAVE YOU HEARD?

http://aboutthebird.com/

Hehehhehehe…

OK, there might be a reason why dating sites aren’t for me.  I created an account on one of the freebies that uses a “match” system (though it doesn’t make you jump through all the hoops like eHarmony does), and it matched me up with a couple of people.  My goal here is to relearn …

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