It's problematic to try to be a renaissance man. Maybe it's just impossible to be all of the following at once:

-Writer
-Poet
-Game designer
-Bassist
-Entrepreneur
-Mathematician
-Literature scholar
-Multimedia/sound engineer
-Interactive drama theorist
-Socialite
-Disk Jockey
-Activist
-Martial artist

May as well try anyway...

It appears that the reason I've been so unproductive, stressed out and cranky all year (aside from finishing two majors, working on an honors prospectus and working 5 hours a week as an OSCA board representative) is because I haven't been eating nearly enough for the entire year. Force-feeding myself has led to me actually feeling like I can ( Read more... )

I haven't read all that much Shakespeare in my life, but it seems to me that Chris Crawford's interactive storytelling heuristics are based on a Shakespearean schema. Just my intuition. Speaking of which, why have I read so few Shakespeare plays? Ugh. It must be some fragment of Milton's soul making me struggle to sit still and read Hamlet.

Awesome rumor: collaboration album between Siouxsie Sioux and Angelo Badalamenti. Already did a collaboration for part of a soundtrack:

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Other than that, been spending all spring break working on my honors proposal, but my plans still feel anemic. On the good side of things, I've been having instant-messenger sessions with the one and only Chris ( Read more... )

I feel so rejuvinated today. Having fun and then catching up on sleep does wonders. Now let's see if I can catch up on all that work.

Played Civilization with a friend drinking PBRs, saw an amazing Bowie cover band, went back to my room to eat cold pizza and watch The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. A good night as far as sausage-fests go.

Too much free time led to this analogy that my friends and I started making up. We took the entire literary canon, and decided who would be what musician. The general heuristic was that classical authors were pre-60s, medieval times was the 60s, the renaissance/enlightenment was the 70s, modernism was the 80s, and pomo the 90s/now. But this is ( Read more... )

The semester looks like it might not be as bad as I expected it to be. Information Theory is really hard; I have the know-how, but it's going to take me a ton of time and energy, and not without substantial office-hours trips. On the other hand, Artificial Intelligence is not going to be nearly as hard as theory, graphics, or algorithms was *phew ( Read more... )

Note to self: Infrastructure is key

When it's late at night, I can't think. I try to be creative, but I just sit and stare,a nd then go to bed after feelings like I've wasted my time. Trying to write, or anything else like that, seems to just do a number on my brain. Then again, I haven't seriously read fiction for a long long time, even though I read Invisible Cities last ( Read more... )