I’m starting to recover a bit of energy, though the unseasonal coolness I’ve been enjoying for the past week is supposed to end tomorrow so we’ll see how that lasts. I’ve cut a few distractions out from my daily routine…
I just realized at 10:20am that I’d been meaning to have something up at 10:00am. Oops! I’ve been, for the last little while, in a state of slightly frantic energy with no particular direction to vent it in. My brain…
Not a great week. I thought my energy would pick up as the weather cooled off a bit, but if anything it’s been the opposite, where I’ve been feeling weirder and more out of sorts as the temperature drops from…
I haven’t been writing. At first it was just about writing this big piece I’ve been working on, and even then it was an issue. The experience of writing a 5000 word analytic piece is extraordinarily different from the experience…
They say we’re getting better at multitasking, that being raised on modern technology teachers us to look in many directions at once, perform many tasks simultaneously. Is it really possible to do two things at once, or are we instead…
I don’t have anything right now. I feel overstimulated and harried. The world is clipping like noise through speakers, fuzzy and electric and slightly wrong, so I don’t think I’m going to write a whole thing today. I don’t think…
I have made an album. It is entirely instrumental electronic music, largely inspired by video games but not beholden to the formatting constraints I’d worry about if I were actually composing for a game soundtrack. Right now I’m still too…
A couple of years ago, I was driving across the Bay Bridge when I realized it wasn’t over. That makes it sound like I was in a way darker place than I really was, but there was a part of…
Whenever I decide I’m not going to do something I’d intended to do, whenever I decide to let myself off the hook, my jaw loosens. I don’t notice the tension until it’s gone. I put these burdens on myself and…
The Game Developer’s Conference is starting today, and I’m not there. I haven’t yet managed to reach the heights of either profitability or notoriety that make attending practical, so I have to sit out for now. It’s not a disaster,…
