Yesterday, for April Fools, Google announced Project Virgle,
which was supposedly a joint venture between Virgin Galactic and Google (hence "virgle")
to colonize mars. They invited everyone to submit youtube videos as applications
to be among the first colonists.
This was my entry, with the
caption "I am death. Every space adventure needs a good dose of death."
March 4, 2008
I've added some new books into my bookstore
that are based on Markov Chains,
a statistical model for predicting state changes based on the last few states, or tokens.
The wikipedia article makes it look atrociously complex, but for the purposes of randomly
generating text that looks a lot like the original sources it scans, the program is quite
simple. To generate some new text on the spot, for your amusement, I've made an
online version.
February 29, 2008
Happy leap-day!
I've opened up a storefront through lulu.com,
which is the cafepress of the book publishing world. To get started, I've
already authored two books in under 24 hours! Check it out here:
One is a book entirely consisting of "This page intentionally left blank" notices.
The other is completely computer generated using a script I wrote a long time
ago (view a random output sample here).
It generated the book in probably less than a second. It took a lot longer
to format the pages and create the cover design, as simplistic as it is. :)
The Droid Project has begun.
It's sharing my lightsaber website, since they're both Star Wars hobby
projects.
Also-- I've finalized my CoA! (Coat of Arms)
December 2, 2007
As of a few days ago, I've started up a site that was suggested on one of
the forums. SwordWiki.org is a wiki for
sword information. It's slowly getting fleshed out... Hope it succeeds!
August 17, 2007
After discovering that DOS-BOX
will run my old freeware/shareware games and programs in Windows, with the
audio working (this is huge, by the way), I decided it was time to make an
all-in-one package. It's less than 4.5 MB in size, as of this
writing, including 22 games and screensavers/demos.
Also, to celebrate, I just released a "new" one that I wrote a number of
years ago but never released. It's the "LCARS" screensaver program I've had
collecting dust here. It's included in the archive package, but also can
be downloaded separately.
NecroBones.com is 10 years old this month. The domain was created on
March 6, 1997. Wow how time flies!
March 20, 2007
Just migrated my account with linode.com to their
new east-coast datacenter location, and they also recently doubled
the resources for all of their plans. Woohoo! Linode rocks!
December 11, 2006
My new Arms & Armor page is coming along nicely.
Many hours of work have gone into measuring and photographing each piece
and webifying the results.
December 5, 2006
Finally got around to posting a video of one of my old DOS demos. Quality isn't
very good in compressed video since the 3D vector-pixel animation blurs out,
such as the starfields at the beginning and rotating map display at the end.
New comics on the Bones Comics site, with
sunday releases auto-scheduled up into August, and I'm still adding.
(update 7/4: releases are scheduled up through most of October now)
June 7, 2006
Bones Comics is now on it's own domain name:
bonescomics.com. I've also added the first strips in about 4 years, and
updated the CGI code a little (with new hecklers, the best part!). Updates
will likely still end up being years apart, but it's about time I got around
to doing some of the things the site needed. The comics series will celebrate
its 20th birthday this coming January, so I may need to think of some further
ideas too.
Also, there is now a combined
Movies Page that has the movies I'm making across my websites. I love
what can be done with symlinks and server-side includes.
April 22, 2006
I've started to get bitten by the video-editing bug. The first
completed project so far is a video slideshow of my 2005 Halloween
photography. There will be more to come on the
Halloween Movies
page, and probably elsewhere on my websites.
April 12, 2006
necrobones.com is getting streamlined
a little. I'm finally trimming some of the fat, while making some of the more
important links more obvious on the front page. Some older content is now
archived away. (update 4/13: the front page in particular has been
updated to get back to the core areas that NecroBones was created for and
influenced by. The main link buttons take you to my software, game pages,
halloween site, and comics sections).
Meanwhile, the halloween ideas
are still underway, gradually. When it's the off-season, there's just so
many other things to do! Like spring-cleaning... ugh.
February 11, 2006
Halloween in February?
halloween.necrobones.com has gotten a face-lift, and in
particular, the
2006 projects have already begun. It shouldn't come as too big
of a surprise. My whole spooky web site theme in general has been
one long Halloween sort of thing. It never really ends around here.
September 29, 2005
It's almost October! I've finally gotten around to cleaning up my
Halloween page and pictures, and making a nice consolidated site
for it all. Check out
halloween.necrobones.com to see it. :)
June 6, 2005
I finally got around to registering more permutations of the necrobones.*
domain names. There's probably more I could grab, but I have the important
bases covered.
I also finally got around to putting up a tribute page to my old BBS,
The Sorcerer's Quarters.
November 11, 2004
As of last week, NECROBONES® is now a registered trademark! Woohoo! Now I
can put those little '®' things next to the name everywhere. It took nearly
a year for the trademark to get approved by the USPTO,
partially due to a categorization mistake on my part at first, but it finally went through!
I probably should have done this a long time ago... I figured after about 10 years of
using it as a trademark, it was a good time to do it. :)
September 16, 2004
My websites are now completely off of the Verio hosting, and are now operating
under my Linode account. More control,
more bandwidth, more disk space, what else could I ask for? :) It marks the
end of an era, in a way... necrobones.com
was originally set up on HiWay's hosting, back in March of 1997. They got bought
out by Verio, and I had been with them ever since.
March 18, 2004
New domain named added to the mix here: int19h.net.
Also, I've set up a host at linode.com to handle
the web content for many of my domain names. If I like it enough, then who knows,
maybe some number of months down the line, I'll move this site there too.
