hump

i feel that wednesdays are my whack days. it drags on and i don't feel very productive. another thing is that michelle (girlfriend going on 12 years) leaves wednesdays for the remainder of the week and part of the weekend for school and part-time work out of town.

one highlight for today was catching a glimpse of an upcoming game called LittleBigPlanet. a second highlight was obtaining a copy of the flash drive contents found tonight at nine inch nails' show in london. instead of being another song from the upcoming album year zero it was the video for the single survivalism (which - in summary - contained the band, boobies, buttsex and counter-strike). spoiler: counter-terrorists win.

between all of that and the things i do at work (which i'm probably not at liberty to discuss) that doesn't leave me with much to say.

historically i have avoided personal writing - maintaining journals and such. i've always considered it a waste of time since important things will be remembered. writing it down for nobody to read would just slow or stop me from doing other things i enjoy. the plusses never outweighed the minuses.

leave it to the internet to give me reason to do something i typically hate doing.

with those thoughts aside i suppose i'll share some of my daily sources of information. consider it an extension of my introduction from my last post.

i have a special interest in apple's technology and their platforms. i don't consider myself a die-hard apple user since i continue to use other platforms on a regular basis depending on which platform is more productive for the type of task i need to complete. i believe that apple does a tremendous job with their internet, media and creative applications.
- AppleInsider
- InsanelyMac
- MacRumors
- The Unofficial Apple Weblog
- Think Secret

my interest in gaming has continued to bring me to the following sites over the years.
- Blue's News
- ShackNews

one thing i omitted in my last post was my growing interest in the paranormal. an overall broad topic, and one which i've maintained interest throughout my life. only recently have i begun keeping tabs on various topics through sources i've either come across or have been recommended. it helps to be both skeptical yet open minded since topics can range from comical to creepy.
- Alien Video
- Daily Grail
- Fortean Times
- Further: Strange Attractor & Beyond
- Unexplained Mysteries
- World ITC

here are some personal pages - people who may be friends, acquaintences or internet randomites whom i've never exchanged words with...
- Adnan
- Crusader - a damn-fool idealist
- David - topology super hero
- demonbaby
- fhtr - designs and drawings, code and computer graphics
- hrgl - now made with 100% real bread!
- kwwrr (fantastic animation, art and music)
- paramnesic
- semthex
- turnstiled

synthesizers got me seriously interested in sound and music at a young age. my early attempts at music making on a DOS-based computer with "tracker" applications eventually allowed me to land a song on the Quake II soundtrack in 1997 at the age of 18 (thanks id software!). it wasn't until i first heard nine inch nails' "the downward spiral" album in 1994 that i connected traditional rock music to synthesized computer-made music - similar in part to the "tracker" music i was fond of. since that time i feel that trent reznor continues to break new ground with every nine inch nails release. as for myself, eventually i began to explore the engineering aspect of sound and music creation which has led me to sound design in more recent years.
- KVR Audio
- nine inch nails
- the spiral

general technology news keeps me up-to-date on the latest hardware and software.
- Engadget
- Hard|OCP
- Kotaku
- Slashdot

so there you have it. hopefully i've listed enough things to draw your attention away from here while i ponder what on earth i'll attempt to write for tomorrow.