Rabid Family Blog

The one sure thing in my life.

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:25:31 GMT

I've just discovered, that inevitably, no matter what day it is or how I feel, whenever I eat jalape�os, they will exact revenge on me all night long.

I hope this was enlightening for you.

I was going to tell you about the mexican guy I saw today hiding behind the obese woman, but I'm too upset that I didn't think to take a picture and put a caption on it until it was too late :(

Why do people like Facebook so much?

Mon, 26 May 2008 20:53:48 GMT

Sure, we all know the terrors of myspace. Especially developers who've been sent to an insane asylum after laying eyes on its HTML sources.

But what's so great about facebook? I joined because of all the hype, but I'm disgusted by it, personally. They began with a great idea and then took it too far and ended up ruining the entire site; so much so that now it's worse than myspace!

And now, unfortunately, myspace is following in its footsteps to compete.

On the plus side, they have less evil Tacoda/etc. ads, but the ones they do have are almost as bad.

Beowulf

Mon, 19 May 2008 18:11:10 GMT

3 out of 5 stars

-1 star for guy butt

whoh

Sat, 17 May 2008 14:26:44 GMT

The Golden Compass is really violent for a kids' fantasy movie.

I actually had to do a double-take on the ending of the bear fight scene. That's officially how I want to shut people up =D

CBS buys CNET...

Thu, 15 May 2008 22:39:05 GMT

...and promises to no longer focus on technology reviews. You know, not focus on the whole reason people use CNET in the first place.

This is great news for our company and its employees, considering they were our biggest, most ruthless competitor until they were acquired. =)

Always use libraries! NOT HAHA

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 22:55:44 GMT

I have a problem with people telling others they should always use a library if possible. I don't have a problem with the implied meaning, I have a problem with the way it's phrased.

This is telling other programmers to be lazy, not just with their amount of work, which is a good thing, but with their skill level, which is usually a bad thing.

There needs to be a new way of phrasing that. Something like: "You should use a library only once you understand the underlying concepts."

The reason I say this is because there isn't a library out there for everything, and you're going to encounter problems on that lower level that you'd normally use a library for; you will need the skills to deal with those problems. Also, most libraries have a few bugs that you won't be able to fix without being able to understand the internal code.

What are you going to do when you've embedded Prototype into every page of your site and suddenly a Prototype bug prevents development? Are you going to recode your entire site?

Use libraries all you want, but don't actually rely on them if at all possible. This doesn't mean you need to take apart the .NET CLR; you have to draw the line somewhere, but there is no reason why you shouldn't know several forms of AJAX if you're into AJAX development.

I mention prototype because I've noticed that nobody cares to learn classic AJAX anymore. They use Prototype, calling classic AJAX obsolete, yet you can't work with the internal code of prototype without knowing classic AJAX.

oh god

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:23:07 GMT

live action movie of Dragonball. Staring a very non-asian goku, and Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

This is the real reason god is so vengeful.

my dreams are so cool

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:19:25 GMT

this morning in my dream I climbed out a window, picked a lock, rescued 3 pigs, and kicked a handicapped guy in the face. pure awesome.

My new sites

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:19:37 GMT

I can finally talk publicly about these sites because I finally parked their domains =)

http://www.rabidentertainment.com/

This will be my official game news site, and will be the portal to everything concerning my games. I actually have it partly built already, but I have no graphics for it yet.

I will post links here to my company's games' news on this new site's blog once I push it live, but if you're interested, check it periodically to see when it goes live.

http://www.wasatchtrader.com/

This will be a new side business that I am starting. It will be a classified ads website that I hope people will use for its extreme user-friendliness, simplicity, and features. I realize it would be extremely hard to make a success, but it's an area that has room for improvement. I mean, people still use craigslist for crying out loud.

I made quite a bit of it last year, but I decided to redo the entire site now that I have much more extensive experience.

I will keep you updated as to when either of these go live. I hope some of you can help me get some traffic to WT when it's finished :)

I hate utah....

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:09:51 GMT

It was hot as ass all of last week. But this morning, my car doors are frozen shut because of a blizzard. I loathe utah and its bipolar weather.