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Day 20 of 365: Day 2 Of Infinity?, Game Engine Goals, .Gif Theater: Ordering Whiskey In The Old West 1

Day 20 of 365: Day 2 Of Infinity?, Game Engine Goals, .Gif Theater: Ordering Whiskey In The Old West

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][custom_headline type=”center” level=”h2″ looks_like=”h2″ accent=”true”]Day 2 of Infinity?[/custom_headline][text_output]Yeah, I’ve been here before. I’m coming up on 48 hours without smoking, and I’ve been here multiple times. This time, however, is a bit different. Actually, I’d say it a lot different. I’ve done this before with medication, I’ve done it with cold turkey, and I’ve …

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Day 19 of 365: The First 24 Hours, Changing My ‘Stats’ Setup, Weekly Weigh In

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][custom_headline type=”center” level=”h2″ looks_like=”h2″ accent=”true”]The First 24 Hours[/custom_headline][text_output]Well, I’m back at it again. Saturday night at Midnight I ran out of cigarettes, and haven’t smoked since. Of course, it’s only Sunday, so it’s not exactly a stellar run towards quitting. But, I will say this time it feels a bit different. I’m considerably less …

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Day 18 of 365: Red (Jumpman Forever) 2

Day 18 of 365: Red (Jumpman Forever)

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][custom_headline type=”center” level=”h2″ looks_like=”h2″ accent=”true”]Red (Jumpman Forever)[/custom_headline][text_output] In the process of designing Jumpman Forever, I came up with the idea of a second character – Red – was was originally designed for a different game that would have acted as a sort of prequel to Jumpman Forever.  I’ll save you the whole story of …

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Day 17 of 365: Facebook's Biggest Mistake, The Universe Finds Humans Scary?, An Online Toy You HAVE To Play With - Face Substitution 3

Day 17 of 365: Facebook’s Biggest Mistake, The Universe Finds Humans Scary?, An Online Toy You HAVE To Play With – Face Substitution

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][custom_headline type=”center” level=”h2″ looks_like=”h2″ accent=”true”]Facebook’s Biggest Mistake[/custom_headline][text_output]For users, Facebook is a free service, and nearly ubiquitous. Nearly everyone has a Facebook account. There’s tons of services that use Facebook as a way of logging in. Businesses use Facebook to stay connected to their audience. Heck, news is started to use it as link fodder …

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Day 16 of 365: Sharing Back To The Engine, Focusing An Image 4

Day 16 of 365: Sharing Back To The Engine, Focusing An Image

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][custom_headline type=”center” level=”h2″ looks_like=”h2″ accent=”true”]Sharing Back To The Engine[/custom_headline][text_output]There’s a number of things I like about game development, particularly when dealing with a pre-made engine.  One of those things is a strong, active community. The engine I’m making use of for Jumpman Forever has a decent community behind it.  That gives you a great …

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Day 15 of 365: Playing Jumpman Forever On The Ouya! 5

Day 15 of 365: Playing Jumpman Forever On The Ouya!

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][custom_headline type=”center” level=”h2″ looks_like=”h2″ accent=”true”]Playing Jumpman Forever On The Ouya![/custom_headline][text_output] I’ve been trying to get Jumpman Forever running on the Ouya for a bit over two weeks now.  Sheesh.  That ended up being a pain, the likes of which I never suspected. But, there’s some serious satisfaction going on here for me:  I sat …

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Day 14 of 365: Cold Feel – For Real! – And Unexpected Consequences, cool little movie: Junk Head 1

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][custom_headline type=”center” level=”h2″ looks_like=”h2″ accent=”true”]Cold Feel – For Real! – And Unexpected Consequences[/custom_headline][text_output] So, today, I had a setback – I smoked, quite intentionally. But, I didn’t expect what became of it. Lemmie go back about half a day, to the night before. Actually, let me start by going back even further than that, …

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Day 13 of 365: Maki Sushi Of Now And Past 6

Day 13 of 365: Maki Sushi Of Now And Past

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][custom_headline type=”center” level=”h2″ looks_like=”h2″ accent=”true”]Makisushi Of Now And Past[/custom_headline][text_output] Today I did something I haven’t done in ages – I made sushi. Well, makisushi actually – if you’re wondering what makisushi is, think of California rolls, where the rice and contents are wrapped in a sheet of seaweed. Pretty much the only sushi you …

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Day 12 of 365: Hour by Hour, Weekly Weigh In 7

Day 12 of 365: Hour by Hour, Weekly Weigh In

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][custom_headline type=”center” level=”h2″ looks_like=”h2″ accent=”true”]Hour By Hour[/custom_headline][text_output] Right now, I’m counting time closely. I’m at 22 hours. I smoked my last cigarette at coffee clatch last night, and didn’t pick up any more on the way home. Or this morning. I’ve been this route before, though it’s a bit different than my last attempts …

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Day 11of 365: Shabbat

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][custom_headline type=”center” level=”h2″ looks_like=”h2″ accent=”true”]Shabbat[/custom_headline][text_output] “Bother me tomorrow, today I’ll buy no sorrows…” Creedence Clearwater Revival, “Lookin’ Out My Back Door” The Sabbath (or Shabbat, if you go the Hebrew route) is a day of rest. I try to take that very seriously, as the commandment is “do no regular work.” There’s some exceptions, …

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Day 10 of 365: Wins & Losses

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][custom_headline type=”center” level=”h2″ looks_like=”h2″ accent=”true”]Wins & Losses[/custom_headline][text_output]Every week has a certain level of wins and losses for me when it comes to my goals. Overall, I consider the week a win – but, unless things go really, really wrong I consider pretty much every week to be a win. Workouts and smoke both had …

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Day 9 of 365: Always Another Tomorrow 8

Day 9 of 365: Always Another Tomorrow

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][custom_headline type=”center” level=”h2″ looks_like=”h2″ accent=”true”]Always Another Tomorrow[/custom_headline][text_output] Last night before I went to bed, I tossed my pack of cigarettes.  My goal was for today to be a solid first day without smoking (keep in mind, I still have ecigs here that I’ll use, just no “real” cigarettes.)  It all went great until I …

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Day 8 of 365: Almost there – The Magazines Get Closer

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][custom_headline type=”center” level=”h2″ looks_like=”h2″ accent=”true”]Almost There – The Magazines Get Closer[/custom_headline][text_output]Today I got to set down with Jeff Wilson, the man who’s going to be the new editor for Residential Aliens Magazine and Fear &  Trembling Magazine. The whole magazine thing is pretty awesome really, and I can’t say that this was something I …

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Day 7 of 365: Changing My Eating Habits 9

Day 7 of 365: Changing My Eating Habits

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][custom_headline type=”center” level=”h2″ looks_like=”h2″ accent=”true”]Changing Eating Habits[/custom_headline][text_output] I realize, glancing back at the first post for the 365 Project, I missed one thing on my goals.  When I mentioned workouts, I forgot to mention that “eating healthy” went with that, too.  In my mind, those two lifestyle choices go hand-in-hand:  if I workout, but …

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Day 6 of 365: Relearning To Type, "Christmas" Comes Late 11

Day 6 of 365: Relearning To Type, “Christmas” Comes Late

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][custom_headline type=”center” level=”h2″ looks_like=”h2″ accent=”true”]Relearning To Type[/custom_headline][text_output] Programmers and writers:  that’s two type of people who geek the heck out about keyboards.  I cross over into both, so you can imagine how excited I was when my new Steel Series 7 Keyboard showed up today 🙂 Right off the bat I can say I …

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Day 5 of 365: Why Do The 365 Project?

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][custom_headline type=”center” level=”h2″ looks_like=”h2″ accent=”true”]Why Do The 365 Project[/custom_headline][text_output]Brent asked me why I was doing the 365 Project, and I sort of blew off the question.  The answer isn’t really that simple – like many things in my life, I’m not doing because of something I can encapsulate in a single, easy answer.  Like …

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Day 4 of 365: End of an era, Beginning of a new era, week 1 workout 12

Day 4 of 365: End of an era, Beginning of a new era, week 1 workout

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][custom_headline type=”center” level=”h2″ looks_like=”h2″ accent=”true”]End Of An Era[/custom_headline][text_output]Today marks the end if an era in my life (and Kat’s, too). For about two years now, we’ve been setting up for Torah Study at where we attend services. We’d get here around 9 AM (originally we started at 9:30 AM, but eventually needed to have …

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Day 3 of 365: The Magazines Move Forward, Goal Tracking, James Bond Modernized, Tomorrow, Again 13

Day 3 of 365: The Magazines Move Forward, Goal Tracking, James Bond Modernized, Tomorrow, Again

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][custom_headline type=”center” level=”h2″ looks_like=”h2″ accent=”true”]The Magazines I Own[/custom_headline][text_output]One of the things that started in 2013 and is moving forward in 2014 is two magazines I bought:  Fear & Trembling Magazine and Residential Aliens Magazine.  I’m also planning a third magazine, Indie Game Life, and part of that plan originally started (and paused) in 2013. …

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Day 2 of 365: 365 Deadlines, New Site Stuff, 911, Starting Tomorrow 14

Day 2 of 365: 365 Deadlines, New Site Stuff, 911, Starting Tomorrow

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][custom_headline type=”center” level=”h2″ looks_like=”h2″ accent=”true”]365 Project Deadlines[/custom_headline][text_output]I did forget to mention on the of the twists to the 365 Project: sure, everyday has a deadline, but, I got a little more harsh with it.  If I don’t hit publish by 3 AM the next day, the system will publish it for me.  So, if …

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Day 1 of 365: The 365 Project, No Resolutions, That Server 15

Day 1 of 365: The 365 Project, No Resolutions, That Server

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][custom_headline type=”center” level=”h2″ looks_like=”h2″ accent=”true”]The 365 Project[/custom_headline][text_output]I’ve been bad at blogging lately.  It’s not that I don’t do it, it’s that they never get finished.  I sit down to write out an epic tale of the various things going on (and, trust me, there’s a ridiculous amount of things going on), and never finish …

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