In just a few hours I will be starting work on the Rails Day 2006 contest. My teammate and I basically have 24 hours to create a website from scratch using “Ruby on Rails.” What is Ruby on Rails? Good question. I have abso-farking-lutely no idea. Code is not my shtick, so I will spare you my uneducated guess. I’ll be working on graphics at my workbench of choice: Adobe’s Creative Suite 2. I’ve taken a lengthy nap this evening to prepare for the workload ahead. Although I don’t think I will be linking publicly to any versions of our site, I might make some posts throughout the morning/afternoon/evening regarding our progress. If you are one of the two or three people who actually read my site every once and a while, you might be summoned for usability testing at some point during the day. I’ve heard of contests like these before, like the 48 Hour Film Festival, but I’ve never participated in one. This should be interesting.

In case you haven’t heard of them before, Minibosses is a band that plays rock versions of NES game music. Here’s a video of a live performance and here’s another one (links go to YouTube). Good stuff.

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Funny stuff, but Paperboy and Metal Gear Solid are still my favorites.

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I’ve been to two concerts recently. Two weeks ago I saw Neil Innes at Rhino’s. Good show. Monday night I went to a punk horrorshow at Uncle Fester’s — Sloppy Seconds being the headliner. It’s one of those mestos, you know, with the nadmenny nadsats outside. I was there, I being me, with one of my droogs — Michael — and we were there for a bit of the ultra-violent. Started off with a razrez and some peeting with the old punkydrunks. And then came the krovvy, O my brothers, real beautiful.

Video Games According to Grandma

Honest Game Titles

Megaman Gets Equipped

Street Figther II is coming to Xbox Live Arcade on June 10th! Are you ready?

This semester I have been taking a Maya class through the School of Fine Arts here at IU. In this class we started out learning the basics of Maya and then shifted towards making virtual environments. For my project I made a large forest with some tree houses and a tower. Inside the tower is a hole that leads to an underground tunnel. I’ve got a few renders of the project posted on this page.