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sweetest flash game ever
zombies.............. CHECK shot guns............ CHECK blood................ CHECK fire................. CHECK Death Metal music.... CHECK
post your high scores, mine wasnt that high, i only made it ro the 3rd round
The long road to notPop 2.0
I have been talking about notPop 2.0 for a long time now. some people think its just a myth.
The truth is I have been working on notPop 2.0 for some time now, and its going to blow notPop 1.0 out of the water.
Why is it taking me forever? Because every thing from the ground up is new, and massive. The time to code and test each piece takes a while.
notPop 1.0 was developed when I was in college. I had a lot of free time then. These days, I work a full time job coding all day. At night I split my time between remodeling 2 houses, maintaining 5 websites, and spending time with my wife. Im lucky if I can get 30 minutes or an hour a night to work on the new notPop.
I have actually been thinking about taking vacation time off of work devote more attention to coding the new site.
So to the skeptics, Im working on it. Its just going to take a bit longer, so please hold in there and send me any suggestions that you might have.
Where have all the computer nerds gone?
The other day I got asked to go to Hollywood and hang out with some other people and talk about my website with Yahoo!
When I was there I met 4 other people who have website. In the 3 hours that I was there, talking with those people, I got more ideas for things then I have had in months. It made me realize something; I miss hanging out with people who really enjoy programming for fun.
Sure I work for a big software company, and there are people all around me who write code but there is one important thing missing, fun. Work is work, you can only have so much fun when someone is telling you what to create and when it has to be done by. Most everyone I know here ends their computer life at 5pm every day when they leave work. I am not close with anyone who runs their own site, and writes their own tools. Basically I dont have any real computer nerd friends anymore. Dont get me wrong, I love the friends that I have, and wouldnt trade them for the world. I just wish I could have more technical conversations about computers with some of them.
In college I was surrounded by nerds, and I loved it. The people I was close with helped me to develop ideas mostly through conversation. If it was something great, we often teamed up and wrote a quick version of it. More often then not it was a tool to mess with other students in the computer lab, or figure out a way to get around the system admins. It was good times.
So here it is. I live in Redlands California (92373). Most of my evenings are free. I love computers, code, robots, electronics, hacking, mods, etc. (you get the picture).
If you want to hang out at a coffee shop or bar and talk about if windows vista is a rip off of OSX, or if the black mac book pro is actually worth spending the extra money on, if you want to argue about php, asp, and coldfusion we can do that also, knoppix or ubuntu?. Basically I want to meet some more people who share my passion about computers and gadgets in my area, simple as that.
metal putting me to sleep?
I have been listening to a lot of metal at work lately.
I dont know if its a coincidence, but I have been extremely tired at work. Its like my brain is worn out. When I take off my headphones and dont listen to anything I start to feel more alert.
A while back I remember Derek telling me that he listens to death metal before he goes to be because it puts him to sleep,
I think that he might be right on that one. There is so much going on in most metal songs, your brain takes it all in and tried to analyze every note flying into your ears. As a result, you get mentally worn on. I dont really know if thats the cause of me being so tired, but I have been beat lately.
music does sooth the savage beast!