Category Archives: Marty

No Love for Rats

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Lately I’ve been working with Andrew Gelber, a buddy of mine, to help get his skateboarding company off the ground.  So far this has included creating a logo, re-skinning a WordPress theme, and doing lots of other various graphic projects.  It’s not a lot of work, and it’s been fun and challenging to see how creative we can get.

The above rat image was created to be screened onto the bottom of a line of skateboards Andrew will be putting out soon.  I sent it off to him yesterday, and I’m excited to see the final product.  It’s a remake of the lino-print below, that I made in college for one of my art classes:

The no Love website can be found here.  it’s still pretty basic, and definitely a work in progress, but it’s getting better all the time.  if you live in the Denver, CO area and are interested in this sort of thing, give it a look.

New Games & Programs Page

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In lieu of making any actual posts in February, I’ve been working on getting my old, outdated games page set up on the blog, and I’m just about done with it.  All that’s needed to do is add a few more games to the list, dress things up a bit, and maybe convert all the old games to GM8.  You can find the link to the new page in the header menu, or by clicking here.

And yes, I’ve also been working on the Reflect Games re-design again.  It’s slow-going, as always, but it’s coming.  CSS always gets me down when it comes to turning a Photoshop comp into a working design, but I’m getting better at it.  There’s a lot to like about CSS, and in my opinion, a lot to hate too.

Anyway, I just wanted to explain my absence and point out the new section above – hopefully this turns out to be a better home for my games than the old site.  I’ll be shutting that site off and linking the “games” subdomain to that page soon. Consolidation is good.

Scatterbrain

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GeForce GPU

I haven’t been able to update the blog as much as I’d like over the last few weeks, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been thinking about things to write about.  Instead of letting all of my random thoughts go to waste, I thought I’d present them here as a collection.  If you’re just looking for a few moments of entertainment, you like reading the musings of the slightly insane, or you’re looking for something to spark your pent-up rage, the following list is probably for you!

Never Too Zune

Each time I plug my iPod (5th generation) into my computer and it freezes up, I secretly hope that it won’t come back on, so I have an excuse to buy a Zune HD.  From everything I’ve seen online, these things look pretty nice, and I’d like to try something different than iPod for a while.  I have absolutely no interest in the iPod Touch or an iPhone; the 32gb Touch is $110 more than the 32gb Zune HD, and being tethered to AT&T again just makes me feel sick.

But I digress; the Zune HD looks slick in its own right.  Wireless streaming capabilities and built-in HD radio are great, and I also like the idea of being able to output HD video and, of course, web browsing.  If Microsoft opens up the Zune to user-created applications, it would become an even great alternative to the iPod.  They seem to be making an effort to get developers to consider their other mobile devices, so I don’t think this is too far-fetched.  So far, however, they’ve been pretty tight-lipped about it. Continue reading →

Back From BlizzCon 2009

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BlizzCon 2009

Time flies when you’re having fun, I suppose – I’m back from BlizzCon 2009, and though I don’t quite feel ready to head back to work, and all the other responsibilities of non-vacation time, it’s good to be home.

My trip started off as the typical Marty-planned trip does: poorly.  I happened to hear about when tickets were being sold for BlizzCon 2009 only a few days before the first sale, but I wasn’t able to grab any of the tickets in the first round, as I wasn’t home that weekend.  My luck turned around somewhat quickly though, and I was able to get in and score a couple of tickets very early in the second (and final) round.  I also got two cheap plane tickets.  As was the case last year, this trip was to be for myself and my brother, to celebrate his birthday.

As the old saying goes, however, the best laid plans of mice and men oft go awry, and Spencer (my brother) found out only a week before the trip that his work couldn’t give him the required time off.  He was upset, and I was faced with a dilemma; I wanted to go on the trip, but I didn’t want to go alone.  Geeking out simply isn’t as much fun by yourself.  I felt bad too, since the trip was originally for Spencer.  So I could skip the whole trip and just spend the time off with him instead.  A friend of mine was attending the show this year, and he could pick up our goody bags if I chose to stay home.

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The July Hiatus

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Treetops

Has it really been an entire month since I’ve posted here?  it honestly doesn’t seem like it.  I’ve visited the blog frequently (every day), and though I’ve had a lot of ideas for things I’ve wanted to post, and have even written a fair amount of half-finished articles, I never got around to posting much of it all.

I guess I’ve been a bit busy.  Not enough to completely excuse me from my absence here, but pretty busy.  Since I feel like I owe an explanation to anyone who’s been visiting the site and wondering what happened to me, I’ll briefly run through everything I’ve been up to.

To kick things off, I got myself a new bike a little over a month ago.  My girlfriend and I have enjoyed going for walks on the roads and trails near our apartment since we moved here, and we both thought it would be fun to have bikes to better take advantage of the bike paths, as well as for a simple form of local transportation.  So far, it’s been a lot of fun to be able to hop on a bike and jet around the area for a bit, and it’s also been a good amount of exercise.  So long as the weather stays reasonable, I’m sure we’ll be doing this for many months to come this year (if not the entire year).

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