Crossing Uncanny Valley

Yesterday morning I succumbed to gear lust and picked up a PS3. I could rationalize it because my roommates also were looking at getting one, too, and I just beat them to the punch. They wanted to play the most recent version of Ratchet & Clank, a series they’d enjoyed on the original PlayStation as [...]

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OstiNote: Plans for 2010

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One-Hour Challenge

What can you make in an hour?

OstiNote: Tools

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Changes happen in life

Just when you’ve settled into a life pattern, something comes along which knocks you out of your rhythm. This has been a constant in my life the last few years. Or, to put another way, the old saw about the only constant being change has certainly held true. Things have been tracking poorly over the [...]

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Calm Seas, Clear Skies

Calm Seas, Clear Skies is now released! 50 minutes of soothing, calming music designed for meditations & massages. Price is $10 per disc, plus $5 for shipping via USPS Priority Mail. Go to the Store link above to buy now!

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Changes

So the day-job folks have essentially said goodbye. Unless they decide to suddenly ramp up their web development, I’m basically out of work. I know this is a very common thing currently. Doesn’t make it any less of a change. This provides me with not only a problem, but also an opportunity. I can focus [...]

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Adding a store in the probable future

Friday afternoon a coworker at the architecture/construction firm I used to work for asked me about some consulting work on getting a shopping cart to work with his roommate’s website. The name of said website has, as Wil Wheaton is known to say, gone to the land of wind and ghosts. However, like this site [...]

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Good with the ugly

One of the interesting things about an artist’s life–or at least this artist’s life–is the fickleness of happiness. Really, it’s a transient thing. I can go from abject depression to ebullient joy in a heartbeat, usually from just choosing one vs. the other. Emotions in general are transient. That said, sometimes a particular emotion, say [...]

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Calm Seas, Clear Skies coming on Monday

Good news has now arrived. Calm Seas, Clear Skies should be arriving from the replicators sometime on Monday. After that is the fun part: marketing. Oy. EDIT: There’s an issue with the CDs themselves which will delay the release somewhat. ETA is unknown at this point. Oh well, such is live I suppose…

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