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With the pen tool and a mouse on a bad mouse pad.

Muchos busy the last few days, but this just made my day:

Iron Chef Japan

It’s back May 5 on Fine Living Network!  I was so sad after Food Network took it off the air earlier this year, but I will finally get to see it again.  And, judging by this list, it looks like they’ll be starting from Season 1, Episode 1.  I’ve never seen those, so I can’t wait!

I still haven’t gotten to play James Blake.  Maybe after the Oaks.  After that last match went one and a half hours, I’ve been a bit cautious about playing.

Yesterday I won my second major and moved up to 43rd in the world at the close of my first season.  I started season two and qualified for the Australian Open.  I was ecstatic until I looked at the draw: I would have to play the #12 player in the first round.

So today I decided to play for about a half hour, because I was sure this guy would make quick work of me.  I was immediately broken and dropped the first two sets.  I thought it was over, but no, these are five set matches now!  So, in the third set, I finally started serving well and hit some aces.

The fourth set went to a tiebreak and I was losing at one point, but I somehow managed to come back.  Fifth set, deuce, match point, and I won!  Final score: 2-4, 3-4, 4-2, 4-3, 3-1.

And this took an hour and a half.  That’s longer than most real life tennis matches take me.  It was worth it, though.  Next round: world #6 James Blake!

Like Doeo!

http://www.kongregate.com/games/raitendo/doeo

I’m a pretty big Doeo fan.  I’m a pretty big fan of twitch games in general.  I’m not going to play a Flash game for more than 15 minutes most likely.  It doesn’t really make sense, but it’s true.

That’s a problem for me.  I can either choose between 15 minute playtimes with Flash and make something that virtually anyone will be willing to at least try, or I can make a game with SDL or something that people would probably play longer, but most would never download.  What a tough choice!

I think I’m going to go with Flash for this next one, even though I don’t really feel like a programmer when I’m using it.  Is that a bad thing, though?  Did Godard stop making films because he didn’t feel like a writer?  No!

So a Flash twitch game it will be.  And it will be episodic.  And it will be grand.  Those are some pretty lofty promises, and who knows if I’ll pull it off?  I haven’t in the past!  I guess you’ll just have to keep reading to find out.

I won my first major in Top Spin 2 yesterday and I’m in the semifinals of another.  And now I’m ranked something like 75th in the world, and Nike made me their standard bearer.  I want to switch sponsors to Lacoste, though, because I love that little crocodile.  Not an alligator, according to Wikipedia.  I had to check.

Yesterday I got Top Spin 2, and it’s a whole lot of fun.  I’m playing the career mode, and right now I’m in the final of my first major!  I wish they still changed the music for each continent, though.  I enjoyed that.

This is a screen from Double Fault!, a game I coded in seven days a few weeks ago.  It’s the first game I’ve actually finished in two or three years, and I think it’s kind of fun.

Double Fault! page (link)

Rare Coca-Cola

Bottle’s one seventy-nine.

NO RETORNABLE

Some Texas brisket,

Never been to Texas though.

What mixed messages!