(A man with a suit and fedora stands before you, leaning on an axe) Good evening. We will both be out tomorrow, so we are posting this slightly early. I would say my landlord is….abusing my presence. He used me so often this week, even with commenting, that I stated “Well why do I not […]

(A man in suit and fedora stands before you. Looking closer, you see his cane is actually an axe) Good evening. While I was wandering around the internet, my landlord asked me to drop off a few comments, and summarize them below. If this keeps up much longer, I may have to ask him to […]

To reflect, I listened to 3rd Millenium Horror. From the beginning, it appears that this group also worked towards a modular construction, with each member contributing. I liked the consistency of the hosts, each talked about the movies opening weekend and real world reception. Since I am writing this as I am listening, I must […]

No one is more qualified to give a status report than someone who can wander around your computer. Morlium, in a joint venture with Blair, has been directed to audit the Department of Health and Human Services. I took on this assignment because it is a good fit for multiple hosts. —————— Our findings are […]

When I heard the voice of Spooksy and learned a little bit about his backstory, I thought he was hilarious. When I saw host-host interaction, I knew I had to use Spooksy as one of them. I had also had my eye on this particular audio assignment for quite some time, since it was an […]

The fact that this week’s assignments must involve two characters constrains to a certain extent what assignments can be completed. This one looked interesting (I enjoy writing about food-related things), and certainly was a go for involving multiple characters. I looked around the characters, and found some extra company. We are a go. “Good Evening […]

Inside the apartments of Eagle Landing are two closet doors right inside the main door. One contains a closet, the other, a door which not even your room key can open. Upon first realizing this, I wondered for some time…what could possibly be behind this door? Spatial reasoning demonstrated the room was not very large, […]

This week was Fall Break. All I will say is that not having a serious internet connection for 4 days at home is a serious detriment to completing everything. Not that I would necessarily want to work over Fall Break anyways (what with it being a break and all). The radio assignment did go better […]

This is more of a completion than a summary, since we ended up completing the assignment a bit early.Shout outs to Michael Young for compiling everything, and also for Audrea and Cherish for their contributions. As expected, we did do the show in a somewhat modular fashion, and Michael did a great job tying the […]

Now listen here, in the Great War, some days you rode the tanks, and some days the tanks rode you. We almost bit off more than we could chew on D-Day, and had things gone a little differently, our Red Cross Parcels might have started including water wings. People forget that storming and shooting wasn’t […]

9:00am: Alarm is blaring. Remembering the weather reports, I peek out the blinds (without leaving my covers, mind you). The parking lot is covered in sheet ice. I put my head back on my pillow and go back to sleep. 11:00am: after much yawning, stretching, and internal dialogue, I finally conclude it would be wise […]

(A man in a suit and fedora stands before you, leaning on an axe) Good evening. My host is a little…sleep deprived this evening. Due to his circumstance, I will be introducing his work this evening. Are you aware of the social definition of an introvert? It is one who drains oneself of energy when […]

When I saw answering machine, my immediate thought was the Rockford Files, where a comedic blurb occurs at the beginning of each episode. Unfortunately, after rereading the assignment, I realized I was creating a message, rather than leaving one. Out comes Morlium again. As a man who resides on electronics, he is there to answer […]

Another audio assignment, another chance to develop my character. What is good news to a dark, literal, unemotional character? How about getting up in a dystopian universe doing the same tired thing over and over. When I think of a greeting shouted to the world, I immediately think dystopia.   Why do I skip to […]

Spam? I have loads of it. In fact, it is starting to make my college e-mail unusable. Good thing I will be rid of it soon… After finding a suitable piece of spam, I decided this would be a good opportunity to develop my character. Low voice, deliberate speech, comically unemotional (very innappropriate for the […]

Weather? We have had a lot of rain recently, in fact, it was even raining this evening. Before I came to college, I lived in a corner house. Rainstorms were noisy, with more than just rain. Other sounds I would hear included heavy runoff onto wood, the sound of cars driving on wet road, and […]

Since our radio group is having an interesting time finding common free time, it was important that some time be spent for the more modular portions of the broadcast. As someone who is terrible with pictorial representations, this meant an audio blurb, which meant a bumper. Going in, I knew that our show would be […]

I will say, our team is off to a rather slow start. It was rather difficult for all of us to get into contact with each other. It would seem that most of us have a twitter account specifically for this class, and don’t have one otherwise (like me) or perhaps simply don;t check it […]

As part of my continuing effort to get more into the community, I pushed forwards on the commenting on other people’s work and thoughts. Before I get into specifics, I will note a few things. I used the random post link on the ds106 feed page to find content to look at. The blog list […]

There it was, on the desk beside her, some soul had returned it to her, unfortunately too late. When the Yeller’s come knocking, you had better have a good response ready. When you are a few hundred short, you have to get resourceful, real resourceful. They are only interested in two things, cash repayment, and […]

Looks like I missed Friday. Thankfully, Morlium had me covered. I may have to talk to him about his quality of work, though… So, happy design week. Design assignments sure do cover quite a variety of topics. I created an icon for my blog, now I have to find out how to get it in […]

  There is no story behind this picture. A story implies an end, something completed. What do you call something still in its infancy? An introduction? Yes, there is an introduction behind this picture. An introduction of a man to a woman he knew well. An introduction that could occur despite the two already knowing […]

HMmm…Maze. At first I was tempted to go inception on this assignment (take 2 minutes to draw a maze that takes 1 minute to solve), and do something simple and trivial. Fortunately, I came with a better idea. I am a fan of iterative design, and the easiest way to iteratively design a maze is […]

What drew me to this assignment? An opportunity to express personality without talking about myself. How convenient. Obviously, my icon is going to be almost a square, and it has to contrast with an orange background like that of my blog. Lessgo… I actually took two iterations at this assignment. The first was a broken […]

Wow, a minimalist poster? sounds like my kind of assignment. Lots of thinking, little tedium. When it comes to deciding what movie I wanted to do a minimalist poster on, I only had a few options. The example posters all had readily identifiable nouns in their designs, and I know of very few movies with […]

Hmm…imaginary warning label. The only question is, what can I think of that could be dangerous enough to warrant a warning label? How about whatever inspired this commercial: Not stated in the commercial is the following. How could they neglect putting that in the commercial? Must be the Alliance’s payment for letting them put subliminal […]

As part of the discussion on design, I watched Planet of the Vampires. Personally, I believe there are a lot of flaws in the movie, but I won’t be talking about the plot or the acting, but instead focusing on the design elements of the movie. The unforgivable flaw in the movie is the lack […]

Wow, the design article is quite a read. I will focus on just a few points of the article, lest I start to ramble (there is a certain difficulty in covering 90+ pages of material, even if it is a short read). It is interesting that the examples in the paper, such as the paper […]

(A man in a suit, fedora, holding a large hatchet as a cane stands before you) Good Evening. As you may have realized from my last appearance, the usual writer of this blog is…not present. As he has decided to shirk his responsibility for this post, I have taken the…liberty of filling in for him. […]

Good Evening. The usual writer of this blog is…otherwise detained. Because he has seen fit to shirk from his duties and responsibilities, I have decided to…borrow his reputation to present to you that which is…disturbing to a twisted mind. A man wandering through the woods of time and space sees many things. From the moments […]