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