2009

Nothing has been going on around here lately, I hope you guys are enjoying the daily sketches. I might do something in a few days, I might take one and do work on it and post some in progress pictures. I figure it might be fun to do that, I don’t know if anyone would be interested though. I have the perfect picture to start with though, one I drew today. That should be up either tomorrow or the next day and when it is, I will do the step by step digitalization of it, or at least try to, after all I have never actually done anything like this before.

I am not sure if my art is improving or not, but hopefully it is.

Our friend Lucy died last week. I haven’t really felt right since, tonight I think I am feeling a bit better, after I got some information that makes some things make sense. I only knew her for a few months, but she was cool. We’re all going to miss her.

Other than that, I have been trying to get my mind off of things. My Xbox has stopped working however. It isn’t anything serious, just that I can’t connect it to the internet. It sucks, especially if I want to pick up Halo Wars next week, since any RTS is funner when you are playing against other people. Games that are meant to be played with others, like Left4Dead, Halo Wars, Resident Evil 5 are lacking when you play them alone.

On the work front, MyJokeCafe has more than 30,000 members. We grow more and more everyday and with the addition of Comment Cafe, you can now have your own comments to put on other people’s pages. The testing server for the sites, however, isn’t as powerful as the live server, so putting the 30,000 members along with all their information into a database on that server was a bad idea. I just hope I can sort through it in the next day.

I guess that’s it. This weekend, I don’t know what is going on, but I do have some stuff to do for work once everything on the testing server is sorted out. Things with my site, are paused. I have had the Spiderman 3 synopsis typed and done, just adding pictures, but I haven’t gotten around to getting all the ones I need. After that though, some big changes might be coming. Stay tuned, it will only get better.

I managed to sit down and play the Halo Wars demo over the weekend. Originally I had low expectations for this game, Ensemble has made some addicting games over the years, namely the Age of Empires Series, but never did I thought a Real Time Strategy game would work on a console, let alone a Halo RTS. I was wrong though. The game works, the controls are built for a controller and not for mouse and keyboard that are ported over to a controller. It also gives insight to the Halo series for those who didn’t read the books.

I know that this was the last game Ensemble was working on, and Halo 3:ODST is the last Halo project Bungie is working on, but I am still hoping that a new Halo project is announced after the latter. I love the Halo series, especially the Master Chief and Arbiter storylines, so maybe they will continue once ODST is out.

The new layout is up. I believe is is much cleaner, even if it isn’t much of a big change. I have added a Twitter section so I can update on the go with what I am doing and whatnot. I added the updates to the sidebar for the time being, until I can get more content for the homepage.

We have our first ever Guy of the Moment, so I would like to congratulate Jonathan on being the first. I hope he is proud, he had gotten almost double the votes of second place, so that is something to be really proud of. I didn’t have much participation getting guys to sign up, but the voting really took off, so I might do it again in the future.

I have been busy lately. First, the Guy of the Moment Contest is open for voting. It has gotten almost as many votes with three guys in the first few days than the Girl of the Moment contest did in its entirety. I am really excited about this, maybe I will do a contest every month, alternating between guys and girls. What do you think?

The second thing I am really excited about is the return of the official Lep’s Lair Proxy! This was huge before I had to take it down, so I hope that it will be big again. If you need a proxy, or just want to browse the web anonymously then go use it.

I have been a fan of the Resident Evil series since I first borrowed Resident Evil from my friend Brett for the original Playstation. Over ten years later the game still freaks me out. This time is different, this time you have a partner with you and you aren’t alone. Also they aren’t zombies anymore, they are tougher creatures, much like you fought in Resident Evil 4, but if they try and kill me in a Resident Evil game I will refer to them as zombies now and up to Resident Evil 10, if they make it. I am not sure if I will be picking this game up when it comes out, since it will be out ten days after Halo Wars, but it will definitely be a game I will be picking up at some point.

I have been working on a lot of projects lately. Things for new clients, things for old clients, and a lot of things for Lep’s Lair recently. Guy of the Moment is going very slowly, I have a couple guys that have signed up, but that’s it. I don’t think the response for the initial entries will be as great as it was for Girl of the Moment.

I am still working on the things I’d hope to someday do, mainly I am thinking of different things and put them in a database. I will eventually create a page on the backend for it, but right now it is fine putting it right in the database via PHPMyAdmin. I am hoping to come up with a few more, I have around sixty right now. When I get to at least seventy five (or by Friday) I will start working on the page for it to be displayed on.

I am working on something else, but I think that I will need to modify the layout for it, which is fine because a two column layout is getting dull, I might need to change it to a three column one soon. I don’t know when that would happen though, I have to really think about how I want to invest in this new idea and how to fully make it come to my advantage.

In personal news, I am absolutely obsessed with Heroes. I have watched all of season one on DVD and have seen the first three episodes of season two. I can’t believe I have missed out on such a great show for so long. I will be watching a lot more television lately it seems, Sarah Connor Chronicles are moving to Fridays, which rounds off the week of television that includes The Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, Fringe, Smallville, Lost, and the Office. Hopefully this season of Lost will blow me out of the water like last year’s did.

I decided that since Girl of the Moment was a success, and I think it will only get bigger with time, I would try and do a Guy of the Moment. I don’t know if it will take off like the Girl of the Moment did, but I am going to see what comes of it, if anything. For anyone interested, you can apply here!

Took this from Tim:

THREE NAMES YOU GO BY:
1. Sean
2. Lep
3. Leprakhauns

THREE SCREEN NAMES YOU HAVE HAD:
1. leprakhauns
2. amricasproud
3. swtguy1984

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. My eyes
2. My smile
3. My… you know

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU DON’T LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. I have more fat than muscle
2. Some of my teeth are crooked and I have a gap in my teeth two top front teeth
3. I have way more body hair than most

THREE PARTS OF YOUR HERITAGE:
1. Irish
2. French Canadian
3. American

THREE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU:
1. Snakes
2. Car accidents
3. Rollercoasters

THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS:
1. Email
2. Sleep
3. Food

THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW:
1. Red t-shirt
2. Black sweatpants
3. Joe Boxer boxer shorts

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE BANDS OR MUSICAL ARTISTS:
1. Machinae Supremacy
2. Disturbed
3. Eve 6

THREE THINGS YOU WANT IN A RELATIONSHIP:
1. Love
2. Closeness
3. Fun

TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE:
1. I have a black belt in Karate
2. I’ve lived in three different states.
3. I have a Katana

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS ABOUT THE PREFERRED SEX(es) THAT APPEAL TO YOU:
1. Eyes
2. Lips
3. Breasts

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES:
1. Video Games
2. Comic Books
3. Photography

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO REALLY BADLY RIGHT NOW:
1. Sleep
2. Play Marvel Ultimate Alliance
3. Have a cheeseburger from Friendly’s

THREE CAREERS YOU’RE CONSIDERING/YOU’VE CONSIDERED:
1. Writer
2. Computer Programmer
3. Film Director

THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO ON VACATION:
1. Ireland
2. Las Vegas
3. Paris

THREE KID’S NAMES YOU LIKE: (List 3 boy and 3 girl names)
1. Sean Jr.
2. Mark
3. Sam

1.Shawnna
2. Nicole
3. Tara

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE:
1. Write a book
2. Learn to snowboard
3. Have a pet monkey

THREE WAYS THAT YOU ARE STEREOTYPICALLY A BOY:
1. I like explosions
2. I like violence
3. I have a… you know

THREE WAYS THAT YOU ARE STEREOTYPICALLY A CHICK:
1. I like gossip
2. I stop at every mirror to check how I look
3. I can spend a long time in the shower

I started writing a new section, basically it is what I want to do. So far I only have 25 and I was thinking that I would have at least a hundred before I put it live, but at this rate if I can come up with thirty then I might just put it live. I never realized it was this hard to come up with goals that you want to accomplish in your life. But it also brings up another question, why do I have such a hard time coming up with goals? Is my life so fulfilled that I don’t need many goals? Is it that I just don’t wish to accomplish much? I don’t know, but I think once I figure it out I will learn something huge about myself.

I just installed the WordPress plugin, Wordbook so let’s see if it works and plays nicely with Myspace’s plugin.

[Edit] Not only did it work, but it fixed some problems I was having with the Myspace plugin. Maybe the trouble I was having with both of these earlier today will be worth it? [/Edit]

I have started the one hundred pushups and two hundred situps exercise routines. I have just completed the first week and I am doing over fifty pushups total and over eighteen situps consecutively. When I took the initial test I was only able to do about eight pushups and two situps, so I think I am improving immensely. I do another test at the end of week two to see how I am coming along. I did 22 pushups consecutively today so I think by this time next week I can be in the upper column of 25 or more pushups total, which would be really nice.