Mar 26, 2012

My love for Chuck Jones and all the amazing things he gave us is no secret. I’ve been involved with the Chuck Jones Center for Creativity since I first entered an art competition they sponsored. I got second place in that contest, and it led to being asked if I’d build a new site for the center, a non-profit organization Chuck founded in 1999 to...

Jan 23, 2012

I’ll admit it, I have a particular weakness for shows about the paranormal, UFO’s and Bigfoot. When channel surfing, when in doubt, I can usually find something crazy on History Channel or Discovery. There’s very little of it (if anything) I believe anymore, but I still find it fascinating. It’s partially because there are still things...

Nov 19, 2011

Following up my last post about Call of Duty, here are a few valuable truths that I’ve learned along the way. Maybe they’ll ring true for some of you as well.   1. There is no such thing as strategy When you first start playing a Call of Duty game, you might be tempted to try to be strategic, or otherwise use your brain. Forget it. Anything clever...

Nov 19, 2011

I’ve been playing first-person shooter games for quite a long time. I remember scoring a copy of Wolfenstein 3D on a 5.25″ floppy disk at a local computer store and playing the hell out of it. From there, I went on to Doom, Duke Nukem, Quake and countless variations and rip-offs, such as Heretic. However, once games started going the way of Unreal...

Oct 28, 2011

In some of my research for these Halloween posts, I stumbled across a fun little blog called “The Ghosts of Halloweens Past“. The author’s tagline is “A collection of videos and other posts that document my memories of Halloweens from the past, particularly from the 1970s, 80s and 90s.“ The site is kind of a grab bag of Halloween...