I’ve shown off my photos of other people’s stuff. Turns out that other people were taking photos of me and my stuff too. Be warned, you can’t unsee it. … Read more
I still have several copies of VWORP!1 on hand, so I may see about doing another event at some point… when my brain is done melting, that is.… Read more
Obi has a bucket.
Due to all the VWORPing going on around here, the time-space coordinates of the contents of the white bucket have been distorted a bit. But trust me when I say that some of the rarest goodies at OVGE will be found here. … Read more
It seems like, for nearly every OVGE I attend, there’s one Cool Idea that falls through the cracks – something I just ran out of time or money to execute properly. This is one of those. But I might just save it for some unspecified point in the future. … Read more
A great big box of books landed on my doorstep with a resounding thud today, which is pretty much the last step in getting ready for OVGE this Saturday. I think that may actually set a new record for me: I’m finished figuring out what to bring a week out, rather than freaking out the night before. (There have been a couple of years where my theme was decided, and signage and other graphical aids designed and printed to match, literally the night before.) Of course, now the trick is to not spend the next few days second-guessing myself. … Read more
A quick bit of blawg, so I don’t break my non-stop blogging streak:
VWORP!1 is undergoing last-minute revisions after a brutal editorial once-over. I had someone look it over and, you know, when you have someone look things like this over, you expect them to be uncompromising. The good news: it’s a good book, it just needed lots of little persnickety grammatical and punctuation fixes. But the knock-on effect has been a little bit of a delay and an increased page count (I realized, very late in the game, that there was stuff I’d left out). This is why you have someone else look over your crap. Sort of like the little internet meme graphic making the rounds: proper punctuation is the difference between knowing your shit and knowing you’re shit. That, and some minor formatting/layout fixes, have pushed the page count dangerously close to 400.
I printed out a copy, from beginning to end, on paper, just to look at it. I learned two things from doing this.
I hope you like it. It should still be ready for OVGE.… Read more
Over on the book o’ the face, a hint has been dropped that the date for OVGE 2012 will be announced soon. That’s the good news.
The bad news is… I have no idea what to do/bring this year. … Read more
OVGE, the annual Tulsa video game convention, looks like it’s going to be held in June this year rather than the fall, and of course I’ll be there unless that horrible dirigible accident with my name on it finally happens. But what should I bring? … Read more
Amazing true tales from OVGE 2010, a candidate for the dumbest prime-time TV promo ever, Pac-Man as a spectator sport, and lots of incoherent mumbling!
Listen here:
[audio:https://www.thelogbook.com/earl/podcast/11142010-ovgetales.mp3]
Right-click here and “save as” to save to your hard drive or MP3 player; leave feedback with this post or in the forums.… Read more
“So that’s it?” you’re asking. “No posts in over a month, and you post a picture of a stupid frog?”
Well, yeah. Something like that. … Read more
