It’s amazing. Everyone complained when Twitter wasn’t saying enough about their downtime. Now that they are working to be more transparent, they are being harassed for it. Alex Payne (no relation, as far as I know, though my youngest son’s name happens to be Alex) posted on the Twitter dev blog some answers to questions […]
Kevin Lawver leaves AOL…and Ficlets
Kevin Lawver, the AOL developer behind the amazing short collaborative fiction site Ficlets, has taken a position with another company after 13 years at AOL. I learned about it first in a tweet earlier this morning. That was followed not long after by a subsequent blog post on Ficlets. Kevin built an absolutely amazing site […]
Going to the Barack Obama rally
Democratic Presidential nominee hopeful Barack Obama has planned a rally tonight, right here in Des Moines, IA. The wife and I discussed it, and we plan on attending. Not only that, but we’re bringing our oldest son along so he can witness history in the making. If this stories are to be believed, tonight’s rally […]
Skull leaving PvP?
And just 3 months later, it happens, just as I (and likely many others) predicted. Skull appears to be preparing to leave the PvP offices for good. Now, I can tell you right now that there is no way in hell Kurtz is actually going to allow his fuzzy, silly comedic foil to simply disappear […]
WiiWare launches today!
Today is WiiWare launch day! So, when I get home today, I’ll have some purchasing decisions to make. Luckily, those decisions will be relatively easy. Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King. This one’s a no-brainer. It’s a Final Fantasy building sim that looks gorgeous. Sure, it’s $15, but I was just going […]
My creative project for the past few days: Minific!
I haven’t crafted a drawing or written much fiction lately. Instead, I’ve been working on another creative endeavor: Minific. Minific physically is nothing more than a pretty front-end for the Twitter tweme #minific. Conceptually, it’s much more. It’s a store house for bursts of creative insight. A repository for a flash of fiction. An ever-changing, […]
Talk about a shake up
Scott Kurtz appears to be true to his word when he said that he was planning to shake things up in the PvP universe, and that things might not be the same when all was said and done. This must be how it begins. The way I figure it is that Skull must be some […]
We’re alive
No nasty accidents on the way home yesterday from our trip to Iowa City. We did have to chisel the van out of nearly two inches of ice that had accumulated over the day on Saturday, however. That was a part of the Iowa life that I always forget about come winter. We had an […]
Smashing and brawling delayed
Amidst the slew of Nintendo announcements yesterday was a little nugget of despair for Japanese gamers: Super Smash Bros. Brawl would be delayed a couple months. No biggie, I’m sure it’s for localization purposes and that the US version will still ship at the beginning of December as planned. Uh, no. Super Smash Bros. Brawl […]
Tons of awesome Nintendo announcements
Nintendo held a press conference in Japan last night and announced a plethora of fantastic upcoming items of sheer coolness. IGN Wii has a live blog of the event posted, and I’ll throw out some links to some of the highlights here. Sonic is officially in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Check out the intro movie […]