By Brandon Kirk
[This is part two of an ongoing narrative based around a single playthrough I did of the Indie game FTL. It's highly abstracted and fictionalized, but it's entirely based on in-game events and situations. It's a fun game. You should play it.]
Dear Diary...
by Brandon Lionel Kirk
[This is the first in a series of posts narrating a single playthrough of the indie game FTL. It's all made up, but entirely based on things that happen in the game. We open on a aspiring young captain, setting off on a vital mission to save the Federation . . . ]
I enjoy riding a bike. They provide cheap transportation (over short distances), they’re fun to work on and maintain, and they’re pretty good excercise. The problem - especially for me - is that they take up a lot of space. I have a 2009 Specialized Secteur, and ...
So here we are. You put together a handy and adorable little Internet, built yourself a pretty neat little website place, and bought yourself some web space. The time has finally come to put that puppy online and be an Internetman just like me. Without further adieu...
Wordpress has plenty of settings for changing different things. However, there’s a limit to what you can tweak with checkboxes and dropdowns. The real power of Wordpress lies in the fact that it’s all built in PHP, which you c...
A website isn’t really worth much without any content on it (unless you’re like a Pinterest and you have millions of people all over the world to make your content for you). Right now, our little website may look kind of neat, but it’s pretty much blank. Today we...
This is where things get a bit tricky - for me, not you. Now that you have a fully functional website running on your computer, how you set it up is entirely up to you. What kind of website do you want? Basically there are two types of websites that we’re dealing with...
Are you ready to put a website together, now? I bet you’re thinking, “hey, this hasn’t been terribly easy and all we’ve done is set up some useless web server that we can’t even really use. I don’t really know how to PHP or anything. How...
How’s “My First Web Server” treating you? Have you been playing around with making cool website places? Do you want me to just shut up and get on with the next part of the tutorial?
Well, it’s hard for me to explain what to do if I have to shut up...
So you’ve enabled your computer’s secret ability to be an Internet. Big deal! What do you do with that puny little Internet of yours? You make a website, of course! Ok, then, off you go; go have some website. What, you still don’t know how to website?
Oh...
Have you always wanted a super cool website? Do you want to enter the exciting and unfathomably vast and lonely sea of websites and mostly garbage that is the Internet? Do you look at Me with scornful envy in your eyes, cursing and damning and cursing again...
I don’t want to get ahead of myself, here, but I am really having a hard time being in favor of gel. Yes, technically gel is better than paste ink. It’s darker, it’s less vulnerable to fading or washing, it works on more mediums, and it’s better on the environment...
...A(nother) Pen Review.
I believe that everybody should have one good pen. You should keep a dependable ballpoint in your pocket for situations when you need to jot down some notes or sign a receipt. It’s as necessary, I feel, as your wallet and keys. Through most of ...
This is part three (well, technically part four) of an ongoing series about the redesign of this website. Spoiler alert: the new design has been live for three weeks. I originally meant for this ongoing thing to actually go on as I was working on the new site and be sort of ...
So it's been over two years since I started thinking about getting my very own Web Server, and almost two years since the last time I posted here about it. Needless to say, I haven't just forgotten about it in that time. Turn the way-back machine to two years ago, then...
Yesterday we looked at some of the interesting costumes that were to be found at C2E2 this year. That's not the only reason go to a big nerd convention, though. It's also fun to check out all the neat stuff people are trying to sell...
For the last few days, there have been no ads on DenyConformity.com. I suppose that isn’t really a surprise. Before about a week ago, there had never been ads on DenyConformity.com. However, this is an annoying and frustrating turn of events. I want to be serious about...
Welcome to the all new, all awesome DenyConformity.com. What you see here is the culmination of over a year of obsessive, hard work. I know content has been a bit lax over the last year, but now I can finally show what I've been working on all this time. Welcome to the future...
From January 9th to the 16th, 2012, this website (DenyConformity.com) was shut down. Though I would love to say that it was because I was engaging in an extended protest of SOPA, it was actually something far more boring. Since I am making a post today, though, I am bound by...
Check out this ad I recently posted on Craigslist.
Free!! Act now! Up to TWO (2) sacks of old computer cords! Free!!
FREE:
Two sacks of random computer cords.
USB! Firewire! Parallel! Serial*! RCA! PS2! Lots more (maybe)...
This is part two in my ongoing journal documenting the redesign of DenyConformity.com. Think of it as the audio commentary track for the Internet. Today we'll discuss the history of DenyConformity.com.
DenyConformity.com is certainly not exactly as it was when I buil...
I started this little website in August, 2005. My first post on the new site was actually on September 11, which I always think is kind of weird.
Anyway, DenyConformity.com will be 6 years old this August, then. Six years old. It's cool that something I've made ...
So, I use Google Voice. It's a phone thing that does things for your phone thing. Whatever. One of the things it does is transcribe your voicemails to you, so you don't have to listen to them (if you don't know why that would be useful, don't bother askin...
I've been working a lot, and Left 4 Dead 2 has burned through what little free time I've had, so I haven't had much time to make any progress on this summer's project,
...For the past few years, summer has always brought with it a bit of a windfall for me. My expenses stayed the same as the semester ended, but I suddenly had much more time to work, resulting in my income going up substantially. The sudden influx of cash always left as quickly...
John and I just got our rebate checks from Corsair for that sweet RAM I bought over the summer, six to eight weeks ago.
Check out how awesome they are.
Merry Christmas.
I just thought I'd share an adventure I had yesterday. Wind here was terrible, and it was messing with the power lines substantially. We were getting surges all day. Everything in the house flicked off and back on many times through the day. Very...
