01.31.07
Link Wednesday: Mashup Potatoes
Technically my little deal from yesterday wasn’t exactly a “hack”– it’s more appropriately defined as a “mashup”. Also, it was pointed out to me that the Wii could use Google Reader to handle all the RSS feeds you could want, but then again, Reader doesn’t make the disc tray glow blue. And as everyone knows, glowing = better. Ordinarily I’d go back and revise it, but nobody’s seen it, so who really cares?
Anyway, speaking of mashups, I’d completely forgotten that the Mickey/Mizuguchi mashup “Meteos: Disney Magic” was going to be out next month until I saw this article about how the DS is “addictive” and an “American Obsession”. Sounds like the author is a mashup of Penny Arcade and Jack Thompson, whilst somehow managing not to annihilate himself between the two opposing forces.
Terse authors: the results are brilliant. Orson Scott Card; mixed emotions continue.
I’d link this with more zeal, if it actually let me save the images it produced, but in the vein of the Objection Maker, there’s the 360 Achievement Maker. You can get yer comedy here, folks, but you can’t take it with you.
Inconsequential Update: Over 75,000 words done and under 21 scenes to go. I added another scene to the outline, and realized that I may want to rewrite one of the existing scenes, but I’ll save that for once the draft is complete. I’m still well on track and finishing roughly six or seven three or four scenes a week, so three five weeks’ time for a ready draft isn’t terribly unfeasible. I still have yet to get up the nerve to approach an agent.
Incidentally, it occurred to me while looking through some old data the other day that in May, I will have been keeping a regular journal for six straight years (the stuff from 2001 to 2003 was done in a service that’s now defunct, but the archive of it that I have isn’t going to be released anytime soon). Odd, isn’t it? Doesn’t feel like six years.
EDITed because I suck at math this morning.