I’ve been following his blog for a couple years.  He was not that old.   To just die, out of nowhere?  So tragic.  I don’t have anything eloquent to say.  My heart goes out to his friends and family.

Here are two links with more info about him and his life.

In light of the digital foot traffic, I thought it might be a good time to post a general little summary of what it is I do here.  Which, admittedly, isn’t too much.

I write most of my blog posts at night (although sometimes I’ll hit ‘post’ the next morning so I can double check it after some “sleep”).  Because I have a day job that doesn’t pay me to blog, unfortunately.  So there will usually only be one or two a week.

Most everything will have some tie to geek culture.

Lately I’ve been doing (usually brief) book reviews of everything I read.  Once in a while I talk about comics.  I used to do that more, but none of my (few) regular readers really cares much about comics, so it was even more of a self-dialogue than usual.  I may do it more, or less in the future.  We shall see.

Rarely do I talk politics -- other than to occasionally mock a politician -- usually done via twitter as it’s rare for one of them to be worth more than 140 characters -- but occasionally I will.  Like during an election year.

I like music.  I don’t have as much time for it as I used to, but I’ll still find a new (to me) band from time to time and push them a bit.  And there’s always old favorites to trot out…

I play video games.  Usually only one or two at a time.  Currently it’s League of Legends (PC) and Mass Effect 2 (Xbox360) mostly, with a little City of Heroes (more when the new issue & xpack come out) and Magic online thrown in.  Just in case you were curious.

Other than that, random stuff.  Maybe more leaning towards writing-oriented stuff lately, as I’m an aspiring writer armpit-deep in editing a book with hopes of someday seeing someone pay to read it.

Also, this amuses me more than it probably should:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRnSnfiUI54

And I’m ok with that.  After all, even if it’s only me laughing at my jokes, someone is laughing.

If I have any avid blog readers, they may have noticed me removing all direct traces of the infamous “d*nkey p*rn” phrase from my blog.  It was funny for a while, but now I’m trying to clean up my hits and see what people are actually finding me for, as well as umm… ward off the wierd ass fucks who came here actually looking for the aforementioned crap.

The original post and follow up still exist, for purposes of historical amusement, just with the text changed a little bit, hopefully that will help.

Interestingly, I don’t think I got many more comments than I would in a standard month, nor did I really pick up any new active commenters – which is kind of the point I guess?  A discussion is only so lively as its participants – assuming they exist.

So?  Where from here?

Same place as always, duh.

I’ll be back to my more leisurely pace I think, and devote the extra time I spent blogging to (hopefully) working on that book I want to finish before my knees give out and the brain starts going.

Huzzah!

Hopefully not too much.

Why?

• More customization: I can dl whatever theme I want (even though I’m not using that).  I can edit the .css and .html for the themes (you may not notice but I will!).
• I can hopefully allow other kinds of media embedding – wp.com embedding was driving me nuts.
• I can add new plugins and widgets.
• Better management.
• Maybe I can get some google adwords and make tiny bits of money – still need to look into that.
• More self-learning as I set this and the aggregator blog up.  More on that later maybe.

Why not?

/shrug

Let’s see how it goes!

Much as I’d like them to be separate, it’s not like I have any/enough readers for there to be a point.  So, violin!  More comic related posts for the rest of you ;).

They will all be in the “pullbox” category.

There are some pics up here.

It’s been a long, stressful road, but (duh!) of course it was worth it. It will be more worth it when we can take him home – he’s on anti-biotics and has to stay at the hospital for at least 72 hours.

Double of course, he is fucking adorable.