Ten years ago, I snuck onto my parents' computer while they were out and used their e-mail to register for a little site called BZPower. Today, home from uni, I briefly hopped onto their computer to deal with investments for the coming year. If you need me, I'll be in the corner, curled up into a ball and mumbling about how time is really, really weird. -------------------------------------- But seriously, this is more like a two-year anniversary for me, or maybe a three, given those sev
The nice bit about posting an epic you know will only be three parts is that you can make an entry for every chapter without clogging up your blog! In any event, it's over here. Feedback is awesome as always, and fingers crossed the third and final part'll be up rather sooner.
It's a New Year and with it comes a fresh opportunity to shape our world. So this is my wish, a wish for me as much as it is a wish for you: in the world to come, let us be brave – let us walk into the dark without fear, and step into the unknown with smiles on our faces, even if we’re faking them. And whatever happens to us, whatever we make, whatever we learn, let us take joy in it. We can find joy in the world if it’s joy we’re looking for, we can take joy in the act of creat
I promise, it wasn't on purpose, things just got out of hand. It's over here, so take a gander. It's got Hahli, and that one alternate-universe Teridax who turned out to be a good guy and then got left in the dust by the storyline ending, and Rahkshi, and other fun stuff. It started as a short story, so the bulk of the thing's written. Expect three chapters. Feedback is awesome as always.
A Merry Christmas (or other holiday of choice) to all of BZP! May you spend it with your loved ones, or barring that, some pretty decent folks, or barring that, with other people on the internet in the same boat. Because the internet is for nothing if not shared misery.
Handsome semi-canon Professor Layton wishes you all a good day. Lego robot Layton does not, because he can't talk. He is a Lego robot, and not the kind that goes around in groups of six and fights ambiguously-sci-fi evil. (Also, I'm hoping to post a pseudo-epic sometime in the next week or two.)
Wisconsin pays little heed to such things as 'continuity of climate'. I support this claim with the evidence of it being 55 on Thursday where I was, and 20 with three inches of snow on Friday. In the James Bond movies, Q is now essentially Otacon, only British and with (presumably) less love of anime. November novels are nice. Writing as you like without making it into a race and juggling it with college is nicer. Jiro Ishii gave Kyugo Shindo a deLorean and his daughter an orange jacket sol
Just a heads-up that I'll be out of town until Sunday evening with the possibility of limited internet, so I might be slower to respond to PMs and the like until then. In the event I really can't get on to BZP at all, an early happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Americans!
So, hypothetically, if I had a 20k word story sitting completed save revision, would it be better posted as a short epic than as a very long short story? And hypothetically if I made it an epic, would ~7k long chapters work, do you think? Purely hypothetical question, you understand. Also: If I hypothetically wanted someone to read over this hypothetical story to give some feedback, would anyone be interested? Alright, I've got three pairs of eyes on this from this blog entry alone, so I th
Add me to the tally of BZPers who've voted. In the spirit of keeping things non-political on BZP (first person to make the oxymoron joke gets one right in the kisser), I'd rather not disclose my vote publicly, but it's one I was proud to make. (If you are madly curious for some reason, feel free to contact me privately.) If you're reading this, and you've yet to vote, and you're able to do so - do so. Even if you're not in a 'swing state', your support does matter - the electoral vote might
...That is the time you will be given to finish 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors before its sequel Virtue's Last Reward comes out on the 23rd. So, about eight months back I made a very excited blog post to celebrate the announcement that Virtue's Last Reward was coming stateside. As we are now nine days out from its release, it felt appropriate to return my sig to Sigma and Phi (sorry Forum Mentor Newb banner) and repeat my explanation of the series: So yeah. If you have a DS,
The little being opened its eyes slowly. It knew that it had eyes, and it knew where it was, and it knew what it was. I am a Tohunga, it thought. With trembling arms it pushed itself to sit up. Across from it, three cloaked beings watched intently. Its eyes focused and refocused, photoreceptors of metal shooting electricity back through tissue and wire alike to its central processor. The first of the three spoke not unkindly. "Please identify yourself." The little Tohunga's voice wa
Today I have Read the Red Wedding in A Storm of Swords Watched the final episodes of Cowboy Bebop Watched "The Angels Take Manhattan" in that order. Shakespeare only wishes he could pack this much tragedy together.
It just reads what it wants. Oh my god, watch it write. Look at it: What's that in its hands? Oh, it's got a novel? Oh, it reads backwards? The book badger. (Awesome member title by Tolkien, courtesy of Hahli Husky, and awesome art by Bri Hermanson, courtesy of Google Image Search.)
I could write out a long talk about the graphics, or the fact it's kind of disappointing they seem to have dropped Apollo, or the new systems. But there's really only one thing worth noting: Winston Payne's younger brother is straight-up Gangnam Style.
Hoo boy. Where to start? Well, last Wednesday sounds good. So as you may have heard, last week was my final week at Microsoft. This was all well and good, but there was also the slight issue that this meant I needed to present my summer's work to management on Thursday morning. (I actually wound up doing it twice at my boss' request, but more on that in a second.) As you might expect, I was pretty busy Wednesday revising and re-revising and practicing my presentation. When I did finall
Long story short: I got hired back for another summer at Microsoft next year. Now to get back to Wisconsin, get my stuff together for junior year, and move into my new apartment. Once things have settled down in a couple days, I'll probably make a blog post going into this crazy week in more detail. 'Till then, back to packing.
There are two things I took away from my time at Valve: 1. The people who work there are incredibly driven, intelligent, and dedicated to what they do. The work environment they've established for themselves enables them to guarantee that anything that goes out with their name on it is something they are immensely proud of. 2. Their hallway art is way better than ours:
I was going to post a funny gif here, but I can't think of any to represent "busybusybusybusybusywhyyyy" So yes. Second-to-last week here at MS, moving back on the 25th. Semester starts on the 2nd. This is probably going to be the first year I can say I'm less busy during school. On a somewhat more BZP-related note, I've actually got an epic idea that will probably get written. No, really! It's got protagonists (three of them, or four, or six, depending on how you count) and antagonists
