New in the .journal at long last: .org.10: Have a seat while I take to the sky. It’s a look back at the last ten years of my life and the .org. It’s not as thorough as I would have liked, but between how busy I’ve been and how little sleep I’ve gotten in the past forty-eight hours, it’s the best I can do. I only hope that all this hard work I’ve been putting in lately will amount to something in the end.
Scott Hall Photography “Hey yo … say hello … to … the little birdie!” (Yes, this is a real place, a couple of miles north of my house. I just passed it on my way back from getting Little Caesar’s for dinner tonight.) Yeah, that’s all you’re getting from me on that front. This post is the pretzels!
This will be the 1,934th post to my blog since I started blogging back in 2001. It will also be the last post, for the .org anyway, made using Blogger. Earlier this year, Google, which picked up Blogger several years ago, announced that they were discontinuing FTP service for Blogger. Since 2002, when I first integrated my blog into the .org (I had a BlogSpot URL before then for the blog, separate from the .org), I’ve been using Blogger to update my Website, save for…
Video Games Can Never Be Art (rogertebert.suntimes.com) The first comment Ebert got in response to this article pretty much says just that, and in a lot of ways that may be all that really needs to be said about it. However, I’ve had such a strong reaction to this piece over the past few days that I can’t let it go at just that. As an artist, and as someone who used to play video games a lot (not so much these days because of…
It’s not a secret that I’m not much of a people person. I can handle social situations well at work, and with friends I’ve known for a while and gotten comfortable with, but the kinds of encounters I have to handle when doing miscellaneous things in public make me visibly uncomfortable. (Even with friends I can be reluctant to initiate contact for no good reason, as I’ve been with one new friend lately.) As a result, I like the kinds of inventions that minimize the…