Games

Thanks for the ad credits Facebook!  Due to your generous contribution of $25 worth of free advertising, 800,000 people saw an add that links to a blog, that WASN’T PUBLISHING FRESH CONTENT for the entire run of the add…  Smart move Nick, real smart…

Anyway, I hate writing these “sorry I haven’t been writing” blogs, but this time, I actually have some REALLY good reasons why I’ve been slacking…  First and foremost, I bought my DREAM DJ controller, the Numark NS7FX.  Expect a rather lengthy article about it in a few weeks, but in a nutshell it’s a fancy MP3 Player…  A $1300 fancy MP3 player.  I’ve been spending a lot of time practicing and learning the turntable side of the DJ craft, and have been ignoring much of what gets in my way.

Also, I’ve been playing a TON of weddings the last few weeks.  Since the last time I wrote, I’ve played in Florence, Iron Mountain, Green Bay, Sturgeon Bay, and Appleton, more than once each.  It’s been a fantastic wedding season and I feel that I’ve really caught on to this year’s big trend (another blog that I have already started writing).

Monty and I are preparing for the September 25th premiere of Secrets of the Portal at Mielke Theater in Shawano.  We’ve added some new material and have been training some additional helpers, not all of which will be seen on stage.  This will be a larger production than I’m used to, and it’s certainly a show I’ve been looking forward to for a LONG time.  He was on the radio promoting the show this morning, so we should have a decent crowd in attendance.

My EVE Online friends at Cha0sTheory have escorted me to my first PVP kill ever!  Sure, the victim was on autopilot in low-sec, and yes, I stupidly allowed gate guns to take my ship, BUT I’M ON THE BOARDS BABY!  The Simplistic Syndicate and the Cha0sTheory alliance are rapidly expanding and need to make some money quick so we can build our outpost, so I crunched some numbers and will be starting a PowerBall-esque lottery in game.  As simple as this sounds, I’m expecting tens of thousands of players every week and I won’t be able to handle all of the transactions without a fairly decent system to manage the process.  I’m in the process of writing a program that will handle all of the busywork associated with the lotto.  Full details will be available when I launch, probably sometime in November.

And finally, I’ve been trying to find contacts that would be willing to speak at, and attend a TEDx event in the Green Bay / Appleton / Neenah area.  I’ve been a fan of the TED Talks YouTube page for years, but only recently found out about the TEDx program that allows smaller scale events to be managed independently.  I’d love to find or built a community of thinkers that share their ideas, and give them a forum to do so.  Right now, I’ve got an event nearly ready to put on the calendar, but I’m waiting for TEDx to reopen the application process, sometime around October 11.

OH, I almost forgot about the Greg Jennings benefit at Oneida Country Club, Touchdowns for Hope!  Greg has pledged to donate $1000 to House Of Hope for every touchdown he scores this season.  I was invited to assist my good friend Steve Richer on the photography front.  If you’d like to see the pictures our team took, you can do so at http://www.imagequix.com.  You’ll need the following login info as well.  Feel free to order a few prints, all proceeds to back to House of Hope.

• http://www.imagequix.com
• photographer ID:  D9NK69K
• Event ID:  Greg Jennings Foundation
• Pass:  gopackgo