It’s funny. Some of these posts are from a few days in the past and simply scheduled to show up in their due time. Something could happen to my ability to access this site and make updates and it would still plug along on its schedule.

What I’m really doing at 10:00 most mornings is stepping out of the shower so I can go to work. With everything up and running, I can take advantage of the atypical long down-times at my job and make posts for the whole week! The beauty is, if I want to, I can simply bump a post off to another day or make as many at once if I choose - it really is cool.

There are drawbacks though, my own main page poster program is not equipped to deal with scheduled updates (yet?), so I have to make them manually. That’s to be expected though, sometimes it needs a little hand-holding to work. Even the base functionality is a little incomplete.

Also, what if something really does happen, and I’m unable to get to a computer. Do I want to give the impression that I’m still making posts? Why could that be a bad thing? Immediately, I can think of a mundane example that can be applied to real situations. What if I make a post that says “My Pen is Blue” and scheduled for a week or so in the future. In the mean-time, it turns out my pen is really red, but I don’t change my post? It makes me fuckin’ liar is what!

“With great power, comes great responsibility.”
- Uncle Ben, Spider-man

Also, I’ve taken to adding quotes to the end of some of my posts. I think I like it, but I can’t guarantee one every time, and if there is one, it might not even make sense! It kind of reminds me of Jon Stewart’s “And now, your moment of Zen” segment at the end of The Daily Show.

I feel like I have a lot of catching up to do around here. I neglected the site, but I made it more mine by hosting it myself on my own space.  The ads are gone, but I imagine I’ll put them up again. It’s not terribly attractive though because Google doesn’t pay out unless there’s at least $100 accrued to the account. I may put that operation on hold unless I get enough traffic to even be thinkable.

School will be starting up soon - that’s right, school. Just a quick recap, I got my BA in Arts & Technology at UTD in 2006. I want to go back to school and eventually be a physics guru or professor. Really, the goal is to be like Tony Stark.  Aside from the womanizing and alcoholism (and whatever vices he has), becoming more like the “mild”-mannered businessman behind Iron Man is a pretty sweet gig. It sounds like a childhood fantasy, but frankly, if you remove the fantastic elements from Iron Man’s world, it seems doable - and I count the flying suit as fantasy… for now.

Part of my Iron Man-ification is learning electronics and welding as well.  The physics professorship would be like Indiana Jones’ day job as a *yawn* archaeology professor, but by night I can make doomsday devices and power suits. Ame really wants a death-ray, and I think I could oblige her on that eventually.

This website is also an endeavor of mine, I want to continuously make it better and offer more, almost always with in-house code, or at the very least custom CSS.  CSS seems a simple concept to learn, I just need to master it so I can wield it properly. I leanred HTML by myself many years ago, so this shouldn’t be too difficult.

There are my game design projects too. These may end up purely academic, but I really do love it, even if the industry is as cut-throat as it is. Maybe I can make some games on the side as well as being a super-villain - especially cool would be if they were good and people liked them! I was dabbling in Flash about this time last year, and I have a few simple designs around collecting dust that wouldn’t be a bad idea to build upon.

And it’s not all technology either. I have my art that I really like doing and I really think I have reached a level of quality that makes it marketable. I look at art available out there for sale on speculation and commission, and, in my own biased self-hating opinion, I think I am at least no par with the offerings. I don’t do medium on media (not out of disdain, I just don’t have the talent for it), unless pixels in Photoshop counts. A great inspiration of mine is Brandon Bird - and I have some hilarious ideas, I just need to create them and make them available.

So, there you have it, the latest and greatest on… things. Too bad vocabulary takes a hit.

Brain the size of a planet.
- Marvin, the paranoid android, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

NASA has recently opened up their photo archives and it is simply amazing.  It literally makes me all misty to see what’s there - especially the lunar landing photos

I can’t do it justice so go ahead and check it out and see for yourself.

It took awhile, but I finally got it! Well, mostly.

The main page is functional enough for publishing. Don’t let the simplicity fool you though, there are some inner workings in the background that will make it a breeze to make posts in the future.

I only have a few minutes at a time to myself as per the nature of my job as a phone-jockey doing tech support.  What amounts to less than 50 lines of PHP and HTML is several weeks of work. I could probably have banged it out in a day if I had one to myself, but now I have mostly working code.  There are some bugs in it, like I can’t do PNGs unless I do them manually. There may be some oddities in the navigation of the posts. There is no random page at all, that just breaks outright.

In any case the major functions are there, and I’m proud of myself! Hopefully I’ll update regularly, and I need to add functionality for NSFW content.  I call it art, but hey, some manager out there or *gulp* even mine may not.  I’m thinking like adding an extra field like thumbnail, or censored version, or something.

I’ll try to update here more regularly as well. Try, try, try.

Anyway, cheers! (I’m not even English!)