Clocky

For those of you who have trouble getting up in the morning...hitting the snooze button five times in a row...here's a clock that runs away from you when it goes off and forces you to get up and chase it. Better chance of you actually getting up ;)

http://www.nandahome.com/products.clocky.html

Career

So with the course selections for this semester I've been thinking about the types of careers available to me in the future. Despite my love, and skill...I don't like to be vain, for music I don't see it as a career path. The next thing would be Business. Definitly a future there, Accounting is always a good position, I could even go into Music Business & Management I'd just rather do something creative, I'm not one to want to sit in an office all day unless I'm doing something tedious like underlining (don't ask me why). The rest of my interests revolve around computers.

Computer related stuff will definitly be important in the comming years as technology grows so programming and design will be strong careers. I'm sure there's tons of different areas in Computer Science but one thing that always sparks my interest is gaming. My only problem with this specific field is the aspect of being a game maker. Not the title I'd particularly want but it could be interesting. I'm torn on the necessity of new people to this industry. On one side I've been noticing a drop in creativity for games, seems like all of the games comming out are clones of each other, especially the overly medieval, saturated MMO market. This lack of originality may not bode well for the industry and it may not be the greatest of choices. On the other hand new, young designers could be just what the big companies need. Young, creative thinkers, the consumers of their games over the past few years, are the ones that they need ideas from and we could very well be the creators of a whole new line of unique games, we just need to stick our heads into the mess and throw our ideas out there.


I dunno, such a complicated thing to think about.
Career...

Game-idge

Well I've been getting back into gaming lately...plenty of Unreal Tournament 2004 and Minion of Mirth. I should be getting a new, Windows, computer custom made. Probable just gonna build it myself. Gonna try and get Everquest 2. Can't wait for some news on Hero's Journey. Looks like it could be a great game with that unique engine that they built, the MMO market needs some fresh ideas.

On the topic of HJ, if I do get this excellent computer I'll be back into the MMO market putting me in a good place for HJ beta, assuming its not vaporware as rumors are saying. I wonder what other new MMOs are in the woodwork...Diablo 3 maybe? Or a Starcraft based RPG of some sort? Certainly surprised to hear Ultima Online is still up and running.

Some of these upcoming MMOs are intriguing too...I'll have to look out for some betas over the summer. Dungeons and Dragons Online, Warhammer Online, Age of Conan, interesting market.


Now that I've made up for my lack of gaming news since forever perhaps I can get into some specifics next time I post.

Infrastructure's First Gig!

We finally got a gig, after all of those tries over the past year it might work out. We had a small time slot at a local coffee shop, Peaberrie's, they've got open mic nights every week so we might keep doing that. Our cover of One went well and our guitarist, Mike, played one of his own songs. Hopefully we can start going to the Teen Center's acoustic shows, would be fun, but they usually don't have much of a turnout.

As for the rest of our stuff..we might try one more time to record One...maybe the bongos will work or I could jump on set and do a quiet part. We also want to learn some other songs like Aeroplane Over the Sea or King of Carrot Flowers, if anyone listens to Neutral Milk Hotel. Personally, I don't think those would be a good choice for the kind of setting and crowd that is listening at Peaberries but we'll see how it goes.

See ya'll later

Music, Haikus, and ...

Feelin' good about Infrastructure, we recorded a cover of One by U2 over the weekend, I hate the bongo part I made up (it was a 20 min job anyways) so i invented a new one and it sounds a lot better, were gonna record it this week. Hopefully Michelle decides to start writing her own songs...

The current version is here:
http://www.purevolume.com/infrastructure

Thinkin about getting a stratocaster, I've got the cash but parents are stingy. I hardly need one anyways, I play piano and I've already got a drum set and a bass. Maybe I'm being brat about it but I just like being able to play different instruments...w/e I'll figure something out. Bass is averagely enjoyable, not my favorite, I'm probably still in love with drumming so maybe I'll sell my bass and amp at some point and buy some guitar stuff...that's what I really wanna do, too bad parents will never understand that. CANNOT wait til I have my own place.


Also found another webcomic...its called MacHall, totally story of my life. Ya'll should read it sometime:
http://www.machall.com

Here's a favorite, totally describes my life, read the title:
http://www.machall.com/index.php?strip_id=20



Besides that I plan to start writing album reviews in the school paper...I'll post 'em up here as I finish them, gotta decide who I should start with...nothing too emo and probably nothing mainstream but nothing so indie that no one will care. Maybe Decemberists, I could always do combo articles describing either the band or another album that people woud've heard before.


later