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Saturday, January 26, 2013

Quotes - Mussolini

Quotes - Mussolini

I've been researching history all day today, mostly in broad swaths of information, but I stumbled upon this fascinating quote of Mussolini's, when he was interviewed early in 1945, shortly before he was executed.

Yes, madam, I am finished. My star has fallen. I have no fight left in me. I work and I try, yet know that all is but a farce ... I await the end of the tragedy and – strangely detached from everything – I do not feel any more an actor. I feel I am the last of spectators.
-Benito Mussolini to Madeleine Mollier

Life - Choose

Life - Choose

Friday, January 25, 2013

Life - Miss and Dance

Life - Miss and Dance

Just one of those funny moments that you sometimes have to catalog.  Near misses.

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Game Design - CloudFight

Game Design - CloudFight

A couple of renders from the second UDK game level I'm making.  These are just rough renders of my layout done with blocks and quick extrudes in Google Sketchup

It's a neat little program, I'm glad I had a chance and opportunity to mess around with it.

Anyway Enjoy!



With the popularity of Morpheus as an arena battleground, Liandri knew they were on to something special.  Quietly they purchased several huge tracts of land on Taryd and began construction of a number of the tallest skyscrapers the moon-station has ever known.  Newly commissioned as a CTF arena, Cloudfight tests combatants on their reflexes, aim and overcoming a terrifying sense of vertigo.  The gates are open and glory awaits on the newest Tournament Arena.
 

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Musings - On Gun Ownership

Musings - On Gun Ownership

What if, everyone in the world who was willing to pull a trigger had to take a shot in the chest.  No kevlar, no shielding, no anything.  What if anyone and everyone, who was willing to kill someone else had to take a hit first, had to know how it feels like, really how it feels like, before they could ever commit to the same action against others.  Had to watch themselves bleed, had to deal with the pain, with the lasting damage, with the time it takes to get better, or the chance of not getting better.  All before they could fire their own weapon.

Monday, January 14, 2013

Death - Aaron Swartz

Death - Aaron Swartz

Cory Doctorow wrote this about Aaron Swartz, whose passing 3 days ago has shocked much of the internet community, and yet is essentially unreported by worldwide news.  Swartz, who championed, wrote, and contributed to an almost inarticulate number of internet, freedom of speech, and freedom of information projects was only 26 when he committed suicide on Jan 11th. 

A more detailed reading of Aaron Swartz, a remarkable young man my age can be found here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz


Thursday, January 10, 2013

Life - Missing

Life - Missing

My opinion is that for all our technology, we also live in a tragic time of just missing one another, by inches malformed as words.  That everything we want to say is so close, and so far away.  It should be so easy, so simple to reach out and say "I miss you", "I care", "I'm here".  But we don't.  We can't.  We've bound ourselves at arms length away from one another.  I don't know why, but we do, every day and in every way.

Sunday, January 6, 2013

Writing - Gypsy

Writing - Gypsy


Gypsy
"Silver forests, and demon's shining eyes, tracing the tree-line freely,
with silken ribbons tied around my ankles. I am from a rank, where I
can lead souls across the Styx, carrying myself on the wings of silent
flight, the only guardian of the frozen gates. I am from the restless
nights, where the fireflies dance, through the tunnel visions of
infinite peace. I am from the awakening, when your soul plummets back
into your body, and the feathers fly, as a dismal reminder of a dance
destroyed. I am from the Owl's eyes, where sounds and voices cannot
escape, lonely amber tangled around darkness, in visions of unbound
paralysis. I am from the omen of death itself, until the point when all
existance runs dry, weaving its way into the forest, arriving at our
feet."

-Aubrey Osiris, Grace

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Life - Kid Stuck In A Skateboard Bowl

Life - Kid Stuck In A Skateboard Bowl

This was on reddit this morning, I thought I'd post a rebuttal.