September 2008
3 posts
My 3 month old son has more international...
No, really.
We’re American. He already has a passport. He visited Europe before he was even born, and will go again before his first birthday. He lives, temporarily, in a foreign country where he interacts with peers from many different countries and will do so for the rest of his life. He is curious about the world around him and wants to explore beyond his comfort zone. He hears more...
McCain turns the Presidential race into an episode...
I’m disappointed with John McCain. Apparently he wanted to select Joe Leiberman as his Vice-Presidential running mate but was pressured by the religious right to choose someone church-y. So he selected Sarah Palin, a right-wing zealot who can’t think past Alaska. That’s right, I said it.
She didn’t even want the job, when asked in an interview about her chances she...
August 2008
2 posts
Starting over with GReader and Feedly
I never really used these two services after signing up because I found them overwhelming. I see a lot of people looooving them, so it made me wonder why I was having a negative experience, and by George i think i’ve got it.
Too much stuff! When you start out with these services you’re allowed to import feeds from here there and everywhere, which I thought was a great idea. I now...
Judgement Call - Should I Rickroll people who...
I make silly animated gifs sometimes, it’s kind of a hobby. Ok I’ll be honest it’s not really a hobby, it’s an artifact of my early web experiements thinking I could ‘make a name’ or ‘make a buck’ doing stock animated gifs of 3D stuff on the web. That was until I discovered the massive stock art collections that already exist.
I posted a small...
July 2008
16 posts
Have you ever felt yourself 'level up?'
I was singing along with a CD for my son this morning. The song was ‘Rainbow Connection,’ one of my favorites from childhood. Just as the chorus was ending and we sang ‘the lovers, the dreamers, and me’ Lucas looked me in the eye and smiled. A real smile, not just gas.
Remember that little buzz you got in the back of your scull and in your chest when Mario ate that...
Hanging out with my son is the most amazing...
Other than my wife, of course, but it’s different with him. He’s such a cool kid and brings the awesome every day.
“Film is the most wonderful medium invented. It’s recorded dreaming. And I...”
– Ratatouille’s Brad Bird
“Somehow, people think animation is different. It’s funny because we...”
– Pixar’s John Lasseter on animated films having their own Oscar category
“I never wanted to domesticate the show, to make it simply about Mulder and...”
– The X-Files: I Want to Believe’s Chris Carter
“It’s a coming-of-age movie, so even though I don’t think I knew it...”
– The Wackness’ Jonathan Levine
“We would not do the thing that is done so often in this type of movie, which is...”
– Guillermo del Toro
“Success and failure are equally disastrous.”
– Tennessee Williams
“Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer...”
– Paul Auster
“Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the...”
– Rod Serling
“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple,...”
– Charles Mingus
“I am a teller of tales, and in telling tales I find my delight.”
– Theodore Sturgeon
“First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him!!”
– Ray Bradbury
“There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make...”
– Brian Aldiss
I figured out why I'm bored by most RPG games.
Games (for me) are supposed to be a departure from normal hundrum life, an escape to a fun environment where i can excercise my god-complex control issues guilt-free. (Shit, that was telling…We’ll just soldier on…)
Anyway, RPGs have a series of quests that you’re supposed to solve. In the solving of those quests your character is meant to learn and grow, to gain levels...
