A Space Exploration Theme. This one's heavily Metroid-influenced. It's not great, but it's the first one since #2 that I haven't been embarrassed to share. Given a little more time I think I could have been pretty happy with it. I definitely feel like I'm making a little progress ( Read more... )

There's a Chinese restaurant near my house that I've been eating at once in a while for the last few years. I liked their food pretty well, but I don't think I'll be going back there again ( Read more... )

A message board I read has started doing one hour midi composition challenges - people agree on a theme and then have one hour to compose a video-game style midi. (Of course, some people just rip off existing music). It sounded fun, so I decided to join in and see how it went. Here's my second ever original midi compositionIf you think that's ( Read more... )

Because why not? I'm kind of cheating with the first two, since I started both of these well back in 2006, but from here on out I'll have to start from scratch.

2. Franny and Zoe, J.D. Salinger (2007-01-12)
1. Midnight Tides, Stephen Erikson (2007-01-05)

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Whole lotta pictures

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I don't know if anyone on my friends list watches How I Met Your Mother, but if so, did you like today's season finale as much as I did? It's hard for me to imagine a better season finale going from what they'd set up up to this point.

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Holy shit.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6150506.htmlI've never been that big a fan of Smash Brothers, but after hearing about this I'm seriously excited about the game. Even more awesome is that they hinted that they're trying to license some other characters. Sonic, anyone? Sega and Nintendo are pretty much best friends these days. Even ( Read more... )

Today I went hiking with my Mom in Tennessee Valley, an area in Marin with several hiking trails. The main "Tennessee Valley" is a paved road that's mostly closed to cars that goes out to the beach, but there are also other trails that go up on ridges in the area. We went up on one of these, walked around on some ridges, then took another trail ( Read more... )

"Imagine" + "Take A Walk on the Wild Side" as performed by George Bush. For some reason I can't stop laughing at this. I think my favorite part is the "do, do do, do do, do do do" bit.