Memoirs of an English Major

Just a quick one for right now. After listening to the latest Net@Night episode, I found out about a site called namechk. It’s a website that lets you search a name over multiple social networks to see if the name is free. While searching which social networks I’m part of, I found my online doppelgänger – and he’s French and, for the most part, seems to be the polar opposite of my postings. So, if you’re interested in the ongoings of a citizen of France who happens to love Rap, check it out at http://vincent404.skyrock.com/.

“Shades of grey wherever I go
The more I find out the less that I know
Black and white is how it should be
But shades of grey are the colors I see” – Billy Joel

I’ve been recently thinking about  my political alignment. For years, I’ve considered myself a liberal democrat, one ready to fight for pretty much any cause and vote right off the bat for any democratic candidate, regardless of who. Now, before I go into my ramblings of my introspection, I will state I voted for Obama in the recent US election. I’m not going to go into my reasons, as that would be another ramble, but mainly to just set the stage of this post. It wasn’t until recently that I even thought of myself politically. It’s amazing what time does to a person…

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“Boasting is not courage. He who boasts much cannot do much. Much gesticulation does not prove courage.”

This might be the earliest post I have made, but I’m trying to get back into the habit of writing more and my mornings are one of the few times I have the ability to concentrate on this. Today’s post may be a bit more of a rant than my other posts, but to be honest I woke up in an angry mood today and I need some sort of outlet before I greet the day. This morning I finally figured out what character trait I hate and loathe over ever other trait: arrogance.

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So, thanks to one of my friends, my 360 has a blog now : http://360voice.gamerdna.com/tag/vincent404. Check it out

“Gamemastering involves writing, planning, acting, refereeing, arbitrating and facilitating, When you’re the Gamemaster, you’re the guiding force of the game” – D20 Modern Core Rulebook

Writing in general is a daunting task in it’s own right. Keeping track of characters, the universe that is created, and the plot can be a task even a seasoned writer may find crazy. For the most part, I can handle this element very easily with no trouble, even to the point where my characters react to things differently. But what if you threw real people as your characters, each bringing their notion of the story and what to do?  This is the world my new cyberpunk story exists.

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Just a quick update. I just set up a stub page for my projects. After looking all over for a way to track the progress of my projects online, I realized that it was best done here on the site on a page. I’ll tweak it more this weekend. In any case, it’s a first step in tracking the progress for all the things I need to complete.

“Life is too short to waste
The critic bite or cynic bark,
Quarrel, or reprimand;
‘Twill soon be dark;
Up! mind thine own aim, and
God speed the mark!” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hello there everyone. I realize this is late, but Happy New Year everyone. This is the first post in not only a while, but also for 2009. The year is already in full swing and , at least the states, we are approaching possible one of our finest moments in a long while as we welcome our new president Barack Obama. As for me, I’ve have plenty of projects on my plate that I want to complete by the end of the year. I’m probably going to implement a tracking system of sorts to track online the status in a more formal sense and not in a simple “percent done” state.  If anyone knows of a web based application that already does this, let me know. If not, I’ll figure out if one of the many of web apps that I’ve already signed up can do the job. In any case, on with the list

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“You make me hard, when I’m all soft inside
I see the truth, when I’m all stupid eyed
The arrow goes straight through my heart
Without you everything just falls apart”- NiN, The Perfect Drug

As usually, I am late in posting and well, I don’t have an honest answer except the usual laziness response. I will say this. At this moment, I am using the native Wordpress environment for writing and it’s come a long way. As it stand right now, I have the page in a Full Sceen view which ,combined with my browser in a similiar mode, makes for my perfect writing expierence. I’m still in the process of tweaking the interface, creating the ideal interface for my type of writing, which is going to take a bit of time tonight. In any case, that is for another post.

Tonight’s post focus is simply for my sake. In other words, I am merely writing this to get back into writing in some form or fashion. To be honest, the constant thought in my head is the most effective way to write “in the cloud” in the fashion that I’m used to on my own computer. And the more I thought about my dilema, the more I realised I already had a method implemented and ready to go: my blog. As this has been where I tend to share my writing, I’m going back to my free form roots and simply writing anything and everything here, so hopefully with this epiphany, there will be more posted here and more of it will be actually content and not simply informational. It will probably be a slow process, but once I’ve set up a regiment, it should be second nature. In any case, tonight I’ll be tweaking the inner sanctum of this site and tweaking the admin inferface to ultimate perfection. With that, I’ve got a long night ahead of me, but it should be fun. The spark seems to be back.

Hey everybody. I’m still getting back into the swing of things here on the writing front and trying to figure out the best way to work on my writing “in the cloud” as it were, but I felt I should as leats post this from work.  Sometime today, I’ll be upgrading the site and cleaning up some dead pages, like the Wiki and such. Guess it’s a bit late, but it’s time for some cleaning. I’m also going to be cleaning up my computer as well and probably coming back to writing on the Wordpress text editor. In any case, I’m going to write a full post tonight once all is done.

“Well, if we’re so fucking advanced, then what are we doing working here?” – Randal Graves

     So I realize I haven’t posted a full post in a long while and by “a while” I mean it feels slightly foreign to even write a post these days. Oh don’t get me wrong, I have been writing in the background and keep notes on some of my longer works, but in the foreground, I’ve been unpleasantly silent, almost dormant. I think it’s far time I at least write an update as to what has been occupying my time. This would be my new life in Austin. It’s been a whirlwind of various things from buying a bed, moving my roommates belongings, doing laundry, working a strange schedule, and other tasks. It’s been a crazy time so far, but I am loving every minute of it. It’s just strange because it feels like this is a new phase of my life, almost as if it just started. It’s not to say I didn’t enjoy my time in Weslaco or Laredo, it just I never felt that I had started my life when I was in Weslaco. It always felt that it was pretty much just more of the same. It was weird when I moved here, I didn’t quite get it. Hell, I’m still getting used to the whole idea of living in Austin and actually living here. I still feel I’m one of my short trips up here and that it’ll all end next week.

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