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First day of school photos

mcummings — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:13:30 +0000

For those that couldn't see these on facebook

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Happy Birthday, pumpkin

mcummings — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 14:51:14 +0000

I'm sure that there will be a photo shoot to follow later on, but I just wanted to give a big global shout out for my newly minted four year old. As today is her day (not that I'm a prolific blogger anyway), I think I'm going to spend time making kids laugh today instead of smithing words. That is all.

Return to normalcy

mcummings — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:18:39 +0000

I know, it's been rather quiet from these corners the last week or two. School started back up this week, which has a lot to do with it, but its also a question of re-evaluating some things, most of which isn't the point of this blog post. For those of you interested that aren't on facebook, there's a link at the bottom of this post to the public gallery of photos from the first day of school. Let me know if the link blocks you or requires you to have an account on facebook and I'll see what I can do to put the photos up somewhere else.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2079807&id=1419407451

I'll post something more when I have, well, something more to post

Another new TRON player

mcummings — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 21:10:00 +0000

Alas, learning tron can take it all out of you.

Write or DIE!

mcummings — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:00:30 +0000

OK, so when I wasn't moping around the house or out with Kim running errands/eating/enjoying the company of my lovely bride, I did manage to get zombie kills in. Oh, and some writing Biggest bang for the buck came using Write or Die - I know, I know, but really, it was great. My first test was with the settings as suicidal as they come - evil grace in kamikaze mode. If you slowed down too much, the background started changing colors. Stopped for more than a few seconds and words started erasing off the screen. Nothing can keep those fingers moving faster than the threat that everything you've written will be erased if you stop. I'm tempted to fork over the $10 for the Adobe Air desktop version of the app - case in point, Sunday night I set the lofty goal of 1500 words in an hour, and after only 42 minutes had 1624 words written. Yes, there is the threat that being forced to write like this you might find yourself just babbling in parts, but anything that helps get the first draft out of your head can't be a bad thing.

So if you're one of my writing buddies, check it out. Web app is completely free - the only advantage I see to getting the desktop app is portability and more controls, but the basics are there for free.