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So for the past bunch of years I’ve been trying to make it E3, GDC, or PAX. Have I made it to any of them? No… I have not. Well this is different.

I’ve been approved as someone in the industry to go for free.

My plane ticket has been bought and it only cost me $4 extra from the credit I had from last year.

My boss said I could stay with him at his hotel at no cost.

and being at E3 will not cost me any vacation days.

It all sounds too perfect a set up. I hope nothing goes wrong. I’ll take bunch of pictures and post them when I get back or during if there is wifi in the hotel room.

Wish me luck. I’ll be taking off on Monday and flying back on Thursday.

Yay!

Hackers… are they perverts? Or is it the rest of the pervert nation that just benefits from their hard work.

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Just popping on to wish everyone a happy Zombie Jesus weekend.

WoO!

Just popping on to wish everyone a happy Zombie Jesus weekend.

WoO!

For some time now I’ve been trying to make time to upgrade my blog’s wordpress junk. A new version came out some months ago with new features and such but I just couldn’t get around to doing all the leg work required. Well I finally did it. Yay! Now my blog has threaded comments, which is a feature I’ve wanted for a long time now. Only problem was… they didn’t work. Crap… now what… Well the reason was that my theme was not compatible with the new wordpress. So back to the internet I go to find a theme that I like so I can mess with it and put it up on my site.

I get really nervous messing with other people’s themes. I’m not a programmer at all. I can barely do basic stuff at the best of times. I actually thought I screwed it all up but thankfully it was okay. So now I have a new theme AND threaded comments AND avatars! Woo!!!

Actually the avatars are called Gravatars. It’s some sort of universal avatar system that works with wordpress sites. I had my doubts about it but after trying it out it was super easy to do and I don’t have to worry about any of the backend code stuff to make things work. If you’re registered at my blog I recommend you go get one.

The only thing I could get working was the lightbox2 plug in. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong but I’ll live with it for now. I guess it’s all a learning process.

Holy crap… what the hell has Joe been up too? He finished his 366 post thing and then went and disappeared. Actually, I’ve been sick. I caught some sort of viral infection and it knocked me on my ass. I had flu like symptoms for a few days and then my throat got so sore I wanted to shoot myself in the head. It was so bad it would keep me up at night as I laid there and tried to resist my bodies natural urge to swallow. I didn’t want to eat anything and if I had a nap I would wake up in absolute pain from my throat.

It was awful. I’m not so bad now. It’s been reduced to a cough that won’t go away now. At least that’s better then shooting myself in the head.

In other news… I’ve decided to try and learn the Game Maker program. I mean, I can push pixels and make game art… heck… it’s what I do for a living. But I want to try and make some simple games myself. I have ideas that I’d like to try without having a studio get in the way and screw up what I want to do. Plus, even if I suggest an idea to the studio, it becomes their property. I won’t be able to use it at all, so I’d rather try and see what I can do by myself. Nothing complex… just fun. ^_^

I’ll post any good results that I have ^_^