I'm a bad boy
November 11th, 2008 @ 9:20 pm 1 commentSo it's been about 2 and a half months since I pulled up my website and typed anything into it. Sometimes I wonder if I should be allowed to have a website, because I am awful good at not doing anything with it.
Speaking of, I told a friend nearly a year ago I'd help him get his website running. Then I didn't because I really don't like doing things I do at work when I'm not at work. Call it selfish or lazy, but sometimes I get tired of building websites.
Well, I don't know what it was, but suddenly something hit me. Fucking use wordpress instead of my own craptacular backend. So I did it, and in 3 days (the time it took him to get me a design and for me to get around to templating it) he had a website (hint - click the link).
It also kind of inspired me. There were things in the wordpress backend that I do have and other things that I wish I did. being a developer is sometimes a tremendous curse, because if I think I can build it, I try. Until something awesomer catches my eye.
My wireless keyboard died today. I am sad. Now I have to learn another keyboard.
Also, Fringe. Kicks. Ass. I turn my television on for the express purpose of spotting the Observer, and keep it on for the crazy crap that goes on.
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huuuuuuurrrrrgggghh
May 5th, 2008 @ 2:38 pm 4 commentsYesterday was probably the strangest day of my life. I was working away on my computer (i.e. "Playing games and looking at online comics"), and I have a faint recollection of planning on starting some work on a game idea I have been throwing around in my head. I sort of remember it being about 4 or 5 pm, and then all of a sudden I wake up and it is 10 pm, and I am still wearing all my clothes and my shoes. My blood sugar was pretty low (around 52), and I wasn't really thinking straight. It took me about 30 minutes to remember that I hadn't eaten dinner yet and that I was hungry as hell.
I'm pretty sure it was a diabetic episode, and that kind of scares me. What if something like that happens at work? All my co-workers know I am diabetic, but if I had the sense to get into bed (although everything that had been on my bed at the time had been haphazardly pushed aside in such a way that the pile of crap had pulled my alarm clock off the shelf it sits on), if I were at work I may have the sense to curl up under my desk or something equally as insane. Then everyone would walk past my office going "Where's Gabe?". What if something like that happens in some public place? If my first instinct in a hypoglycemic stupor is to crawl into bed and go to sleep, what would I do if I were no where near my bed? Kind of hilarious if you think about it, and makes me wonder if I need adult supervision.
Posted in BLARGH, Diabetes, Fall-Out Boy is Dumb
Well Crap
April 27th, 2008 @ 6:15 pm 0 commentsToday I got the idea to install Dungeon Siege 2 on my PC. I was able to play for about 5 minutes before my computer froze. I restarted it, and thinking I didn't want to play Dungeon Siege that bad started going through the process of uninstalling it. Then my PC froze again. Now it can't finish with the boot process without freezing (at one point it pulled up the motherboard logo and froze halfway through so it looked all screwed up). I can't do anything about it either because "Safe mode" isn't on my list of options when pressing F8 during boot up - evidently it's inaccessible by default now or something extremely retarded about my computer is keeping it from appearing. Guess it's time to upgrade. I'd been thinking about doing it for a while (games nowadays seem to want to be all choppy and crap anyway). My only regret is not backing up certain files. They are files I can live without and the really important files are safe and sound on an external hard drive, but I got a crap-ton of bookmarks to websites I like to keep up with and now, blargh. something in my computer's insides have made them completely inaccessible.
Crap crap crap.
Crap.
Posted in BLARGH, General
Delays can only mean 1 thing
April 22nd, 2008 @ 9:32 pm 1 commentI am lazy.
But enough about that.
I recently started going outside again. It's been a while, and at first it was kind of weird going out and doing stuff by myself, but I got tired of the people I know saying I have strange taste in movies. So one day a few weeks ago I went out and saw shutter. It was kind of creepy, but not a whole lot. It was my kind of movie though. And then last weekend I saw The Forbidden Kingdom. Jackie Chan AND Jet Li. They kicked and punched the crap out of everything and it was awesome. At some point I think I am going to have to see Zombie Strippers.
I can't say that title without giggling.
On the "Gabe is boring" front, I have been reading up about python in games, and getting generally frustrated with it because while it appears that a majority of the games that do use python use it one way, I have everyone that uses python telling me to do it another way or they will point and laugh at me.
Yeah. Okay. Fine. Whatever. I am one of a billion wannabes out there that want nothing more than to make games. I try to be realistic about it. Games are very complicated bits of software. It's not like writing an online store (which I have done a few times at my current job). There's graphics (my main obsession), physics, audio, networking (if you're in to that sort of thing), design elements, blah, blah blah, blah blah. Games are fucking huge when you start from scratch.
But I have ideas bursting out of my ears in a bloody mess and then my brain starts moving a mile a minute to figure out possible solutions - How would I program it to do this or that? How do other people do it? I'll open up a piece of open source code and make my eyes water and forget about it, or do what I did while I was in college and buy a book about programming in games, only to stop reading it halfway through to play whatever new came out on the PS2/Wii/Xbox360/PC.
I'm determined now though. Some of these free games like Eternal Daughter and Cave Story fucking inspire me.
Posted in BLARGH, General, I am a retard, Movies, Swedish Howler Monkey, Video Games
Busy Busy Busy
February 29th, 2008 @ 11:00 am 0 commentsI have been super super busy at work so I haven't really had time to update. Expect a long article about boring things later, probably tonight or sometime this weekend.
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