So, I may be redesigning my website at some point. Partially because, well, I enjoy it, and I also want to make it more our website instead of my website, since I am married. Not that Megan will have tons of stuff to put on a website, but still.
This will include going through and tweaking all of the poetry I've written. I'm considering putting all of my writing in its own separate site, instead of a subsection of the main site, but who knows. I am also going to post updated versions of all my stories, including segments of stories that I've started but never completed (there's like four or five of those).
Also, I may decide to stop using Blogger for my blog, and design my own blog and have it as part of my website. Cause that would be neato. But we'll see.
My top ten lists are all going to get updated as part of the new site as well. It will most likely be several months until everything is done, depending on how much time I have to work on it.
On an unrelated note, work continues to get busier. Fifteen days until the election. Today they catered in lunch from Olive Garden - lasagna and pasta. Mmmmm. I believe they'll be catering through the election. Good deal. Makes me happy.
Monday, October 23, 2006
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Increasing the Dork-to-Non-dork Brain Cell Ratio
I enjoy being a dork, a geek, and a nerd. This phenomenom has been well documented in previous blog entries. One of the other dorky hobbies that I've developed over the years (this started back in high school) is making dream cards. This hobby of excessive geekiness involved making up my own cards for some of the card games I play. I've done this for both the Lord of the Rings: Trading Card Game and the Star Wars: Customizable Card Game.
Now, here's one thing I'm certain of. The only reason you're going to continue reading this entry is because you know me somehow (you are most likely either my sister-in-law, my mother, or a brother). The first paragraph doesn't offer a lot when it comes to hooking the reader. Dream cards? Who the heck cares? But I am semi-bored at work and haven't written in the blog for a while, so this is the topic I came up with. :)
Most of the dream cards I've created have been for Star Wars, but I have done Rings as well. I have made cards both from the world that the game is made from (different versions of Luke or Vader or Aragorn or Saruman, for example). I have intertwined them (making Star Wars versions of Rings characters and vice versa). I have created dream cards from other places outside the game's universe (making cards of myself or my friends, maybe even some relatives). These cards will (most likely) never see gameplay, but they are fun to make anyway. Sometime they are just words in an Excel file or a notebook, other times I get more ambitious and whip out Photoshop and make the cards graphical, though of course they never look as good as the real cards.
I have also tried making my own game before. A while ago, I made rules for a Matrix card game (see image - the card image was never finished, as evident in the roughness of the border of Agent Smith's picture). More recently, I have made rules for a card game based on the Bible, even though there already is one (Redemption). This game involves one player being good (Heaven) and one player being evil (Hell), and they are battling over one person's soul. The depressing thing, of course, is that the Hell player could win. :(
This will never see gameplay of course, but it is fun anyway. And besides, doing dorky things like this allows for me to fill my blog with dorky information and waste the time of some people. Lucky you! Haha!
Anyway, over and out.
Now, here's one thing I'm certain of. The only reason you're going to continue reading this entry is because you know me somehow (you are most likely either my sister-in-law, my mother, or a brother). The first paragraph doesn't offer a lot when it comes to hooking the reader. Dream cards? Who the heck cares? But I am semi-bored at work and haven't written in the blog for a while, so this is the topic I came up with. :)
Most of the dream cards I've created have been for Star Wars, but I have done Rings as well. I have made cards both from the world that the game is made from (different versions of Luke or Vader or Aragorn or Saruman, for example). I have intertwined them (making Star Wars versions of Rings characters and vice versa). I have created dream cards from other places outside the game's universe (making cards of myself or my friends, maybe even some relatives). These cards will (most likely) never see gameplay, but they are fun to make anyway. Sometime they are just words in an Excel file or a notebook, other times I get more ambitious and whip out Photoshop and make the cards graphical, though of course they never look as good as the real cards.
I have also tried making my own game before. A while ago, I made rules for a Matrix card game (see image - the card image was never finished, as evident in the roughness of the border of Agent Smith's picture). More recently, I have made rules for a card game based on the Bible, even though there already is one (Redemption). This game involves one player being good (Heaven) and one player being evil (Hell), and they are battling over one person's soul. The depressing thing, of course, is that the Hell player could win. :(This will never see gameplay of course, but it is fun anyway. And besides, doing dorky things like this allows for me to fill my blog with dorky information and waste the time of some people. Lucky you! Haha!
Anyway, over and out.
Monday, October 02, 2006
God@Heaven.com
Sometimes I wish God would just email me with instructions on what I'm supposed to do with my life. It would make things so much easier. :)
I've been doing a little more writing recently, as I talked about in a previous blog entry. The story I've been working on, The Cage, has reached over 18,000 words (37 pages in Word). It still needs a lot of work. However, here is what's been going through my head recently.
I enjoy writing, and I have at least some moderate skill at it. I enjoy writing a good bit more than I enjoy working with computers. I certainly feel more fulfillment in writing. Part of me says that writing is my life's purpose. I have found that the University of Minnesota has a Creative Writing graduate program, and part of me wants to go back to school and do this. Part of this Master's program is to write "a book-length manuscript suitable for publication." This program (or a similar one) would be a big boost to my writing skills. This would be a major career change. And yet, at the same time, if it didn't work out, I would always have my Bachelor's degree and computer work experience to fall back on.
Even if it's not being a novelist or freelance writer, I think I would enjoy writing for a magazine or newspaper or something like that more than working on computers, so a creative writing degree may have other uses as well.
But then, of course, sometimes I think the idea is silly. I would most likely make more money staying in the computer world. Of course, even if I did go to school for writing, I would stay working in the computer world until I found something else. I could just continue working in computers and work on the writing independently. My only concern about this is that I would not be able to improve on the skill nearly as much, though I could start reading a whole bunch of "how to be a good writer" books.
One of the big obstacles is, of course, money. If I decided to go back to school, it would likely not be for several years, so this idea may not matter for the time being anyway. But it is a decision that I will have to make at some point.
God, my email is cooper.joel@gmail.com, so if you could let me know... :)
I've been doing a little more writing recently, as I talked about in a previous blog entry. The story I've been working on, The Cage, has reached over 18,000 words (37 pages in Word). It still needs a lot of work. However, here is what's been going through my head recently.
I enjoy writing, and I have at least some moderate skill at it. I enjoy writing a good bit more than I enjoy working with computers. I certainly feel more fulfillment in writing. Part of me says that writing is my life's purpose. I have found that the University of Minnesota has a Creative Writing graduate program, and part of me wants to go back to school and do this. Part of this Master's program is to write "a book-length manuscript suitable for publication." This program (or a similar one) would be a big boost to my writing skills. This would be a major career change. And yet, at the same time, if it didn't work out, I would always have my Bachelor's degree and computer work experience to fall back on.
Even if it's not being a novelist or freelance writer, I think I would enjoy writing for a magazine or newspaper or something like that more than working on computers, so a creative writing degree may have other uses as well.
But then, of course, sometimes I think the idea is silly. I would most likely make more money staying in the computer world. Of course, even if I did go to school for writing, I would stay working in the computer world until I found something else. I could just continue working in computers and work on the writing independently. My only concern about this is that I would not be able to improve on the skill nearly as much, though I could start reading a whole bunch of "how to be a good writer" books.
One of the big obstacles is, of course, money. If I decided to go back to school, it would likely not be for several years, so this idea may not matter for the time being anyway. But it is a decision that I will have to make at some point.
God, my email is cooper.joel@gmail.com, so if you could let me know... :)
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