My poor site is getting some love today. New theme, updated all the plugins, and now a post. I am not sure what I want to do with this site going forward. I’m very concerned about the way that “AI” companies are just training their machines on everything on the Continue Reading
I’m taking a Coursera/Yale class on happiness called The Science of Well-Being. It covers the lies our brains tell us about what will make us happy and how to get around it. It’s loaded with good information. The major focus of the first video in week four is spending money Continue Reading
I feel like I should have seen #GameStruck4 coming. It’s a permutation of #FilmStruck4, which started with this one tweet: I’d never heard of Filmstruck before. As someone who does PR, I’d say this social media campaign is a resounding success. Filmstruck started by tagging four big people in film, Continue Reading
It’s been basically forever since I updated my blog. A lot has been going on, some good and some not so good. I had trouble finding a job I wanted and eventually had to settle for a low-income position at a hotel. That threw me into depression for the entirety Continue Reading
It’s been a while since I wrote anything, and this one is going to be really short, but this deserves some recognition.
I haven’t written anything here in a while. The reason for it is I’ve been writing things in other places. Now that I’m officially on staff for www.indiegames.com, I’m writing articles for them 4-6 times a week. This involves finding and trying good games on top of the writing itself. Continue Reading
My best friend linked me an article in which Steven King talks about opening sentences to books — how important they are, why that is, and what makes some more memorable than others. He spends a long time crafting the opening sentences to his books. It’s a fascinating read, whether Continue Reading
Six years later edit (April 21, 2019): This post needs a bit of extra context. It was migrated from my old blog, Of Crows, Nuts, and Bolts. That’s where my requested elements for the comission came from. One of my Ludum Dare buddies was offering fun, $1 commissioned sketches, so Continue Reading
This is cross-posted from my blog on Gamasutra. This is the story all about howMy mind got flipped, turned upside down.I’d like to take a minute, just sit right there,And I’ll tell you how Apple’s customer service punished me for wanting to make an in-app purchase. The Setup When I Continue Reading
I saw Iron Man 3 at the theater last weekend. It was a good movie, but that’s not what I want to talk about. I want to talk about an ad before the movie which starred this fine gentleman: One of the trailers was for the upcoming G.I. Joe movie. Once Continue Reading