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Bits of nothing

Haven’t posted much in the last week due my current hunger of consuming lots of media from a number of formats.  It includes catching up on TV shows, reading, playing a huge number of games, and DVDs.

Coming soon is a new posting for the games section and I want to generate a list of all the new music I listened to and enjoyed that came out throughout 2014.

In the meantime, here’s a non sequitur of two pics that show Jeff Gerstmann and Steve Carell in a similar stone cold stare.

Not about Burger King

Been loving this podcast I’ve been listening to lately. Named, No More Whoppers, this show has everything I like: games, Seinfeld, and lots of sound drops! It’s been around for a while now, but I’ve started listening to it for only the last few months. I suggest listening to episode 117 titled Daddy Warzucks if you’re interested (this was the first episode I started with). The nonsense level for this episode is at 11 and was good from start to finish.

Milestone

I’m amazed at how fast time went.  Today marks the one year anniversary of when I launched this website!

The original intention for creating this website was to get back into web design; which was something I leaned years ago, but let it slip and my knowledge on the subject got very rusty.  Another reason was to learn how to use and manage a CMS.

The unintentional effect was an improvement in my writing.  While I’m not saying my use of punctuations have improved (someone would need to confirm that for me), but I know my ability to write longer articles/essays/write-ups/whatever has improved.  Before, it was extremely difficult for me to write something that was, say, longer than two paragraphs.  I believe now I’m able to dissect a topic of discussion -- like a video game -- and break it down into many parts and focus on each item one at a time instead of before where I was thinking of the subject only in the view of the big picture and had very little to write about it.

I also like how this website is allowing me to be creative with things like pictures and images.  This allows me to mess around with image editors like Photoshop and Paint.Net, which I’m more familiar with now than ever before!

For the future, I’m still planning to crank out more articles in my games journal section, improve on the design of the website, and add more creative projects like that 16-bit Seinfeld comic.

If you’ve been following this website, thanks for checking it out!  I hope what I write appears to you as either interesting, informative, or both!

"The jerk store called..."

Earlier this year I created a number of comics of Seinfeld scenes and placed them into a 16-bit form.  I was going to let them disappear underneath the many layers of blog postings, but decided they were too precious to let that happen.  So instead, I’ve gathered them all together and gave them their own page to shine on -- like prized possessions on a mantel.  Click the link to the right of this very webpage (just below the Games link) to check it out.

Consider this regifting of material as your Christmas present from me to you.  Merry Xmas!  Or rather...Happy Festivus!

HTM-helL

So apparently I used outdated HTML practices when writing those VG Journal entries.  More specifically, those green tables that showcase the game box and release information.

Since I caught this early, I’m planning to go back and fix those tables for all of the VG Journal articles.  I’m doing this incase my rebellious, rule breaking code renders the content in the tables in a weird way for a web browser like Chrome or during an update to the CMS.

In addition, for the rare instances when I steal use an image from another website, I’ll credit the source where I got it from somewhere in the article.  I might also note what version of the game the article is based on along with other platforms the game has been released for, too.  But that’s a big maybe.

Gobble gobble

Happy Thanksgiving to all in the US!  May your turkey and gravy dreams come true.