Matt Hackmann

MattHackmann

The thoughts and goings-on of some programmer dad.

Digital Double - "Garm's Food Shack"

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Yeah, so, Monday is going to be a crappily drawn black and white comic whereas Friday's shall be CG cleaned and full color.

About the comic itself most of the story credit goes to devusb. Kick ass!

Digital Double - "This Calls for some Booze"

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Today's escapade into laziness calls to mind that, yes, I have been working at the mines of Wal-Mart one year today.

And as for keeping the customer's ignorant, it's true. We cater to their every whim and at some point, when they can no longer think for themselves, the cashier's of the earth will rise up and take control and we shall see a new era... an era of peace and prosperity.

Ugh

Well, it seems my hosting service people had a server crash and loaded everything from backup... without telling anyone. The sick bastards. Sigh...

Oh, be sure to check out today's comic. After the last one, understandable by all, I bring you one which maybe five people in the whole world will get. Go me!

Various shit

Firstly, today's comic.

I'm not sure if I've said or not, but I'm currently in the middle of my two week hiatus from Wal-Mart (unpaid, sadly, but I'm not one to quibble when it means two weeks of care free goodness). One of the things I vowed to do in my two weeks of freedom was teach myself how to play piano. Overall I'd say it's going pretty well and having a keyboard that totally rocks helps ;-). But don't take my word for it, here's me playing a little piece of Zelda music (actually, I've been passively working on learning this piece for over a year :-P):

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I'm hoping that by next summer I'll be proficient enough to play the song in its entirety (without screwing up) along with some others (Final Fantasy X's To Zanarkand being of them).

Speaking of FFX, I am currently enjoying being beaten by the game. The story started off kind of slow (almost to the point of me deciding never to play again), but it's picked up to the point of having me completely sucked in. So I've been playing a bit lately (excluding all my annihilations I believe my play time is somewhere around 26 hours) and hopefully I'll have beaten the stupid thing before I have to go back to work (at which point I'll start playing FFX-2).

I've started on a DS game. That's all I'll say because I tend to make these announcements with all sorts of grandiose promises and give up after about five minutes of coding. Yeah... it's dumb.

Okay, now you're all caught up for the next several months. I'll probably post something again before I go to college next fall.