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I am constantly trying to think of something meaningful to post on my livejournal. It is like I am treating it like some jewel that needs only the best of my work in order to be worthy. But this doesn't spawn from an idea that livejournal is for to be given high praise. Anyone can post so it is in the same category as me scribbling something down, making a paper airplane out of it, and tossing it out the window. It seems more the spawn from my inability to allow anything from leaving my mind without it being fully formed. I mean that is a ridiculas standard is it not?

 I'm not usually an advocate of heavy sound engineering because it usually just serves to cover mistakes that can be fixed with hard work.  However, this video illustrates ways that it can do a lot of good.

It's cheesy but is some damn tasty cheese that I would eat with a fine wine.

Instead of working on the new accounting software for my work, I was pondering making a flowchart to make it all easier to understand.  That's when I stumbled upon this!

I think it sums it up nicely...


http://www.joeydevilla.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/procrastination_flowchart.jpg

I saw that they made a new app for the iphone so I added it to my itouch.  Though I am disappointed that it won’t let me read my friend's posts on it.  It just lets me post to LJ.  I hope they update it soon because I find it ridiculous that I should have to use two different apps for one website! 

Recently, a friend of mine got back to me about a project that we talked about working on over a year ago.  It was to start a game company by producing a humble tabletop RPG.  We were both excited about it, for many reasons, not the least of which being our extensive experience with tabletop gaming.  But also because of an acute understanding of gaming mechanics, and eye catching concepts.  Over the past year I have pushed it to the back of my mind so I could focus on school and generally not thinking much of it except in passing.  Recently, he got back in touch with me and now tells me that he has been working in developing the company this whole time.  He calls it Red Feather Games and has been in the development stages of a game that marries a card game, a tiled board game and an RPG.  Now this idea has been done with games in the past and they have largely been flops.  However, this is not really a discouragement because it remains an unfilled niche, and these past games serve as an opportunity for us to learn from their failure.  With several others on board they have been hammering out basic game mechanics for our first game, which is of the zombie variety.  Eric, the mastermind behind it all, whom used to work for Wizards of the Coast, has brought me onboard as the lead writer to start developing the handbooks and rule manuals.  The down side is that we all have to work pro-bono until we launch the first game as we have no real funding.  But hell, I get free business cards out of it so that’s enough to get me excited!

A couple weeks ago my Capoeira school did a performance for YouTube. We were selected as one of the exceptional performing arts on YouTube. I couldn't go to the performance because I had to work that day but someone uploaded a video of my fellow capoeiristas in a warmup roda.

The bastards dubbed over the singing but it is still a cool vid.

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For those of you who are looking to get me something for christmas. You can't go wrong with this!

As most know I am a huge Monkey Island fan. One of Lucas arts' piles of gold that remained relatively pure when George Lucas started to jerk off over his own franchise. So here is some good fun with Monkey Island!

Very Very Funny



Very Funny (it lost a "very" when translated)



What happens when nerds have too time on their hands!

So I got the last of my classes done.

Classes:

Bob Dylan (an inquiry into the beat poet)
Food Wine & Culture in California (We get to take field trips to wine country)
San Francisco (A look at SF as a cultural and social phenomenon)
Jazz Band (Always a favorite)
Music of World Peoples (Hafez's world music class)
Short Story Writing Workshop

Strangely enough all of these classes are classes I need to graduate and none are just for fun... I love my major.

Some of these classes interfere with Capoeira a little bit so I will have to take it upon myself to train in my free time. Luckily I have some big breaks on certain days so as long as I can find a good place it should be all groovy. And once again I managed to get Fridays off which will give me time for other things like working.

The new page of Crimson Dark is definitely a good one.

http://www.davidcsimon.com/crimsondark/index.php?view=comic&strip_id=228

Finally someone stuck it to Kari. Every time his comic gets too infested with bad Star Trek logic and boring plot development he seems to keep pulling me back in with his characters.

For those who don't read the web comic it's worth at least a look in my book.

Have you ever wondered what Natto tastes like? Or why you vomit in your mouth a little when you see pickled pork rinds on the supermarket shelf? Well probably not, but one man does! Steve eats things you would never want to. And for the most part there is a good reason. But every once in a while something that sounds disgusting is actually delicious! Plus hes entertaining to read.(Please note that all foods in his blog are actually eatable and no he does not eat dog poo or poo related products so don't ask.)

http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/cat_steve_dont_eat_it.php

Don't try this at home.

When I was in high school, during one of my less focused years, while I was in summer school, I had an English teacher who, like many, are teaching for all the wrong reasons. A teacher who set in me a grammatical bit of self-consciousness when he asked the class to define the word "too" so as to not mix it up with "to". So I raised my hand and answered "it means in addition or as well." And snapped back "no it doesn't!" Now from that day forth I would always write "to" and then erase it for "too" and change it back to "to" again. Until today when I was writing without a spell checker and simply looked it up in the dictionary and found that I was right all those years ago and the teacher was wrong, a realization that I would have come to long ago had that teacher not snapped at my answer. He was always a surly man anyway and seemed to loath looking after juvenile delinquents because he needed extra cash. What I take from this is not only the proper use of the word "too," but also that you should never snap at your students unless the lesson is snappy.

That is all.
( Have a complimentary story for reading this. )

The international library of poetry picked up my poem “The Pack” to be published in their next collection of two hundred poems, titled Immortal Verse (Working title). Since the book is this giant hardbound $70 book, and I don’t even get a free copy of it I figured I would post the poem here.

The Pack

We have all fallen into hot water
Dissolving into our lesser parts
Taken by others to be used as fodder
Reshaped and molded into the arts
No need to think
Our Path is set before us
A thread for another to link
Free to peruse our lusts
And yet life is incomplete
Wandering about doing all we please
Comes the urge to compete
Breaking the bonds for release
Tell me what makes it worth the slaughter
That I’m not just drowning in hot water

Anyway I’m really happy about this because now it will be a lot easer to get my other works published because I was chosen to be in this year’s who’s who of poetry. Plus I have a chance at winning $10,000 if they decide mine is the best out of the bunch.

Alice Coltrane died on January 12th 2007 of respiratory failure. A little bit late but may she rest in peace and be reunited with her departed husband.

Perhaps it is because I have the blues but spending the entire day playing my Saxophone made this a near perfect day.

Hizah! Done with finals! And thank the gods for be a creative writing major, I am done early and thus do not have to attend the last week, or as one of my professors calls it “losers week.”

Walking outside today into the fog at around 11am with sax in hand ready to go to school, I stop by my car to grab my umbrella incase of rain and notice that the whole back seat is soaking wet and there is a pool of water about 3 inches deep on the floor of the rear passenger seat.  What’s better is I have no idea where the leak is and don’t have time nor energy to fix it until Thursday.

One more paper and one more test to go plus a recording session.  By the gods I will be glad when this semester is over.