And So Begins The Revolution That sign came with a video game micro-console, the Ouya. I always thought it was a little funny that the corner was cut off, making it look like a simplified image of Kansas. Kat looked at it, thought it was awesome, and it now resides in the front window of …
Day 44: And So Begins The Revolution – Kansas HB 2453, and The Vow Read More »
This Is Where I Post About Nothing: Seriously, there’s no real blog entry here. Honestly, I’ve tried writing one, but, I can’t manage to do it without cursing. And, it was such a wonderful day until I sat down to blog about Kansas HR 2453. I’ve got a seriously nice haircut, thanks to a friend …
First New Workout & Weigh In: I didn’t get to workout yesterday because of a fairly ugly backache. Today, however, I managed to pull it off – and it was good 🙂 For my weigh in for this week, I’m running a little late. My plan was for weigh ins on Sunday or Mondays, but, …
Facial Do’s Ages ago, I was a very consistent person. From – I’m guessing here – about age 24 to my mid 30’s I had a mustache, goatee, and long hair. I chopped off the long hair in my late 30’s, and ditched the facial hair. Then I shaved my head bald. Then I grew …
Prepped For Workouts I started struggling with the whole smoking thing, and other things I wanted to focus on for this year – particularly towards the beginning of the year – sort of went by the wayside. The two goals in particular that have suffered was working out and eating healthy. The eating healthy portion …
Cooking And Sexism This is a sort of followup to the Egg Noodles post from two days ago, but, a bit of a tangent from it. I had mentioned in the previous post on egg noodles learning to cook from my mom, and having watched my grandmother cook, and picking up some of what she …
My New Form of Captcha Anti-Spam Stuff I’ve got more sites that I maintain than you can shake a stick at. And, all of them have to have an anti-spam solution, or else my email gets even MORE clogged than it already does. But, I hate captcha systems – those little randomly generated list of …
Day 38: My New Form of Captcha Anti-Spam Stuff, and Klout Becomes Almost Useful. Read More »
Egg Noodles (or, My History With Cooking) Growing up, my mother decided I should learn to cook. My father though I should learn how to work on cars. So, I learned both, along with lots of other stuff ranging from construction to sewing. That’s probably why I view gender roles to be fluid. I’m fine …
Day 37: Egg Noodles (or, My History With Cooking), And My Egg Noodle Recipe Read More »
Words I Just Can’t Form I know what I want to write about today. For some reason, though, I just can’t manage to get them to form in a coherent fashion. What I want to write about is charity and contributing to the community. Now, there’s a specific reason I want to write about it …
Day 36: The Words I Just Can’t Form, Muse (returns!) Read More »
Let It Snow 🙂 My wife tells me I’m sick and twisted: I love snow. She, however, doesn’t care for snow at all, which is a pity, since we’re getting it right now. Well, actually, I should use the past tense, it’s just about over at the moment. We were expecting to get 6″ – …
Win Some, Loose Some Well, you can’t win every day. Yesterday, I did perfectly avoiding nicotine. Today, not so much – I ended up buying a pack of cigarettes and smoking some. Not a lot, but any number greater than zero is less than optimal. Now, here’s the thing: I really can’t tell you why …
The Accidental Smoking / eCig Brain Hack So, today was my first full day of going without nicotine. Not just going without cigarettes, going completely without nicotine. I have two great eCigs filled with hazelnut vapor liquid (a special blend I asked them to do that has quite a bit more hazelnut flavor), but, here’s …
Day 33: The Accidental Smoking/eCig Brain Hack, I missed Day 32 (Sort of) Read More »
Shabbat Is Simple Shabbat is one of the most simple days of the work for me, at the moment. There’s almost nothing I HAVE to do on Friday night / Saturday until sundown. (Yes, I’m one of those who does the Sabbath on Friday / Saturday – there’s a whole debate that could be had …
Re-Thinking My Re-Thinking On Smoking So, after the blood pressure problems from giving myself way too much nicotine with the eCigs the previous week, I had decided I would just drop the eCig thing entirely. Now, after nearly a week without them I can say this: I think I miss them more than I missed …
Jackhammering A Floor Tomorrow I get to run a jackhammer for a while. Now, this isn’t completely unheard of – from time to time I go help The Plumber break out a floor, do whatever needs to be done, and we pour new concrete. We’ve actually got it down to a bit of a science …
Day 30 of 365: Jackhammering A Floor, A Good Place To Be Read More »
Holding Off A Short Bit I decided to hold off just a short bit on the next quitting smoking attempt. Call it superstitious, but, my last fairly successful attempt started on a Saturday night / Sunday morning. And, well, there might be something to that. If I think it’s going to work better, then it …
That Thing That Broke Ahhh, the joys of trying to keep things running properly on here. A couple of days ago, it was the auto-publish feature failing to publish to Facebook (and, it was posting some gibberish anyways – it would post the markup on Linked-In and Google+ if I used auto-publish and the social …
Day 28 of 365: That Thing That Broke, Let’s Quit Again!, Fancy Output Read More »
Summary: You know what’s nice about auto-posting solutions in WordPress / Social Media? When it works. Trying out a new way of doing makisushi! 🙂 [vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][custom_headline type=”center” level=”h2″ looks_like=”h2″ accent=”true”]Auto-Posting Doesn’t[/custom_headline][text_output]I like stuff that just works automatically for me. For instance, publishing this blog – I write the entires, and I want it to just …
Day 27 of 365: Auto-Posting Doesn’t, Quinoa / Rice Sushi Mix Read More »
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][custom_headline type=”center” level=”h2″ looks_like=”h2″ accent=”true”]Re-Thinking Quitting Smoking[/custom_headline][text_output]It was sort of luck that I managed to check my blood-pressure multiple times during the last week of me quitting smoking. It was Sunday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday (today-ish) that I managed to check my blood pressure. Now, quitting smoking raises your blood-pressure – heck, modifying in …
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][custom_headline type=”center” level=”h2″ looks_like=”h2″ accent=”true”]Just A Quickie[/custom_headline][text_output] Today was a pretty good day of rest – as it should be 🙂 I played around with some video game stuff for a while, contemplated how I’m going to fix my desk height issue (my desk is too short to maintain proper posture when typing / …
Day 25 of 365: Of Ol’ Beans and Nails In Some Guy’s Nose Read More »
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][custom_headline type=”center” level=”h2″ looks_like=”h2″ accent=”true”]Using Video Games As Protest[/custom_headline][text_output]I rarely get involved in anything like protests. In the modern era, a loose group of people protesting has very little effect on overall situations, and often just creates a group of people (themselves) that become vilified by the group they are protesting, who usually tends …
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][custom_headline type=”center” level=”h2″ looks_like=”h2″ accent=”true”]300,000 Miles[/custom_headline][text_output] This is one of those little bits of awesome that probably doesn’t even really deserve it’s on spot on the blog, but, it’s my blog and I find it to be awesome, so here it is. The Joker, my 1982 Mercedes 300 Turbo Diesel, hit 300,000 miles. The …
Day 23 of 365: 300,000 Miles, CRAVING, Doing Away With Months Of Work Read More »
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][custom_headline type=”center” level=”h2″ looks_like=”h2″ accent=”true”]96 Hours[/custom_headline][text_output]This morning I woke up, and the world had changed. Well, my perception of the world. For three days my brain was filled with a weird sort of chaos as it tried to come to terms with having changed chemically. Sure, I still have nicotine in my system – …
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][custom_headline type=”center” level=”h2″ looks_like=”h2″ accent=”true”]Optimization[/custom_headline][text_output]Inability to concentrate on a single task for long periods (at the moment, defined as 5 minutes or more) is a serious issue for me at the moment. This morning I was working on a customer site, Dave Neal And Associates, and their site needs updates sometime soon (appearance, SEO, …
[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 …
[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 …
Day 19 of 365: The First 24 Hours, Changing My ‘Stats’ Setup, Weekly Weigh In Read More »
[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 …
[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 …
[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 …
Day 16 of 365: Sharing Back To The Engine, Focusing An Image Read More »
[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 …
Day 15 of 365: Playing Jumpman Forever On The Ouya! Read More »