Writing....

I guess I never mentioned that the eye surgery thing never happened. Inheritence wasn't as much as I thought it would be. That's not good, but still I'm doing too terribly.

I'm actually starting work on my very first novel now. :). I've been wanting to be a "real writer" (Actually finish something). I'm not 100% sure about the enitre story, but I know it's going to be a fantasy story. I have a few pages of plot notes, character notes and a little scrap of what will apear as some form in the first chapter. The trick now will be to keep writing to I actually finish it.

mmm Spam

Ok. this is just bezaire. I swear the spam I'm getting is just getting stupider and stupider and more random. Like this one:

"Hey Derik,

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Harper Lee. The latter didn't even try to wite more than one novel he
published! I claim that that par

If you still are then see [URL CENSORED]. Me and
Brett both tried it and can vouch for them. Dont' worry, nothing is required
from you except an open mind.

or being built with names like Siemens and Hitachi prominent. This .
Corinth would have been long and prosperous, and Thebes would have .

Thank me later,
nik"

I didn't edit this as all, just the URL which I removed.
And No, My name isn't "Derik". My Theory is either this person is outsourced from India and doesn't speak english very good, or this is a english speaker who gets really high on drugs before writing. That's the only explnation I can think of for breaking off-mid sentence and somehow thinking harper lee, electronics companies and ancient greece has anything to do with weight loss.

Misc.

Hey! Long time no post. You come to this blog often?

Anyway, yeah. I know. Not many updates. Not like anyone actualy comments. I wonder if anyone is actualy reading this?

I probibly won't stop anyway. There's something kind of nice about just endlessly writing out your thoughts in to a blank space. Of course, I'm not just going to say anything, having my everymost thoughts recorded for all time on the cyberspace scares me.

Anyway, I've been reading Herman Heses' "The Glass bead game". A friend I know online said it's pretty good. I don't really agree with Hesse's world veiw (Which seems mostly to be a mix of hinduism and humanism), but what interested me in to reading it is 1: It is a book about someone who is a "Ludi magister" (Master of the game) and a fictional game that shares the title of the book. This caught the game designer in me. 2: It is a ficitonal biography. This got the writter in me, since a ficitonal biography is something sounds like a very interesting project I may yet want to try.

Right now I'm just writing scraps of various projects just because I have a hard time sitting on one thing at a time. I'm working on 3-4 game designs, a full length play, a musical and a webcomic.

Of course there's the whole recent debate of the better console, The so-called "Console wars". The Revolution looks really cool. Just the weird controller apeals to me, though it is also more likely to be gimiky and wear off quicker if the game arn't as good this round. I personaly don't like game company "camps", but if I was in one of them, I think I'd be sitting on the edge of Nintendo's. I can't wait for the new legend of zelda game on game cube. I got to try some of it at PAX. really cool looking. And no sailing. :) (Not that windwaker was really a bad game. Even a bad zelda game is pretty darn good.)

I have to admit that I'm kind of interested in the 360 as well. I mean, Rareware. I enjoyed the first perfect dark alot.
I also got to play Psyconaughts recently at a game store, and It intreuged me. And I played Spy hunter a while back and thought that looked kind of interesting too (Though I think that's multiplatform)
Obviously getting an 360 would be partly motivated by the abillity to play the older X-Box only games as well. Then again, I hear that can be a bit buggy with some games.

And speaking of future games... SPORE (Bandwidth warning. This is a half hour film)!

And this is just awsome! Will Wright has done it again with SPORE. I want a good computer just so I can play this.