I completely missed the whole pokemon thing...

Did it start as a cartoon and then turn into a video game?

Is it still going?

What's the essence of its attractiveness?

Fill a brotha in.

The Interviewer interviewed me! My inters feel viewed!

http://theinterviewer.newgrounds.com/n ews/post/627896

It inspires me when people break down society's impositions and do the right thing their heart tells them to do.

Commence flame comments.

We made a commercial for a new online "English as a second language" course at WoogiWorld.

I'm really proud of how it turned out. Watch it in English and Spanish.

I was waiting for the guy to start shouting "gooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllll" in the Spanish one, but it never happened.

After being down and out with bronchitis, I'm slowly getting back into reality. I had lots of time to lay there and think.

My dream (interpretations?):

I used to get really high fevers as a kid and have hallucinations. This time, I had a high fever, but just had a weird dream:

There was this new kind of tick, that had a long body with a large green translucent abdomen. When this tick would burrow into someone's flesh, the abdomen would glow green and pulsate.

My body was covered with these new insects, all burrowed in past their heads. It looked like I was covered in scales there were so many of them, all pulsing and sucking away my life.

I would methodically unscrew them from my skin and cast them aside, but somehow they filled back in as quickly as I could remove them.

At one point I sat down in the passenger's seat of my car and ran my hands through my hair when, to my horror and disgust, I discovered that even my head, under my hair, was layered with the ticks.

The dream was one where it all feels like reality and just when you're about to abandon yourself to the despair of living your life in the horrid circumstance, you wake up and all you can think about (as you lay there in your broken-fever sweat) is how grateful you are that it was just a dream.

My home office somehow became the dumping ground for everything in my house. So much so, that I started working in my living room on a TV tray.

This situation lasted about a year, until this weekend, when my wife and I decided to reclaim my office! (she was tired of me working in the living room too)

After cleaning and taping and painting we moved in some furniture we picked up on Craigslist that's been waiting in the garage for just such a day.

Most importantly, I finally got to put up the huge Chibi Knight boss posters Jouste made for me and Renaenae printed.

Picture of the amazing wall below and an interactive virtual tour here.

So, I love playing Settlers of Catan, especially the expansion scenario "Seafarers of Catan" where you can explore islands with boats.

My uncle is an even bigger Settlers fan and just recently retired, so I thought of a neat retirement gift for him: Gold Settlers of Catan pieces!

Most companies give you a gold watch or something when you retire, but these will be something he can actually use!

My friend Matt is going to precision cut the pieces for me on his CNC machine out of aluminum, then we're going to anodize them to be gold colored (no I'm not using real gold)

I couldn't find any dimensions for the settlers pieces, so I got out my trusty school ruler and drew up some plans (someone out there might find these measurements useful):

Settlement: http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/77 73badb41127bdacf6deaa9d084c36b
City: http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/42 f0b83b800a16b6e8341a8ad934da09
Road: http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/49 e6919d00845f0b83c2e0e6c557aa39
Boat: http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/ca 785e5c6629a17dea6e2d5c05c4b650
Bridge: http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/ed b4c196707dd7127d0a1ca3e4ace0cb

I'm pumped to see how these turn out, I'll post pics when they're done :-D

I'll be attending the Flash Gaming Summit on the 27th in San Francisco. I figure since I live within driving distance and Chibi Knight was nominated for an award and last year's event was pretty fun, I'll head over again.

If you'll be there, let me know and we can meet up for a glass of milk or juice (did I mention this event is well-catered?).

Every day since the middle of December, the sun rises a little earlier and sets a little later. I can feel the extra minutes of solar power invigorating me and replenishing my energy nacelles.

Please take a sec and vote for Chibi Knight as "peoples' choice" at FGS. If it wins, I'm taking my daughter (who was the voice of Chibi Knight) out for a banana split. http://www.flashgamingsummit.com/award s.html

I was really surprised to find out that Chibi Knight has been nominated for a couple "Best of 2010" awards. So I'm assigning everyone who likes my stuff to go vote and help me win the praises and accolades I DESERVE :-P

1. "The Mochis" - peoples' choice: http://www.flashgamingsummit.com/award s.html
Click the big blue arrow button that says "vote for the peoples' choice award"

2. Jay is Games Best Adventure Game: http://jayisgames.com/best-of/2010/act ion-adventure/
This one can be voted on once a day I think so put it in your scheduling program or something.

In honor of Chibi Knight's nominations, check out these huge fan-art posters Jouste made. Renaenae was super kind and printed them for me. My wife then found a great deal on some giant frames! These will go up on my office wall once I get around to painting. (Meatboy pictured to show scale)