A sharpie pen I think I won

A sharpie pen I think I won because I don't think is it is a freebie.

I won a pen today

Today I got an email that said I won a BIC Triumph 730R Roller Pen. Way to go me!! It's the first prize I have won in over three weeks. I wonder if I will win any more prizes this month. I guess I will just have to wait and see.

For the past couple of weeks I have

For the past few weeks I have been working throught the web design tutorials on tizag.com. I have finished reading the html, css, and javascript tutorials. And now I want to lean about javascipt frameworks.

I was not interested in using javascipt frameworks until I read a post on coding horror mentioned jquery. So began my quest to learn jquery. Of course I am not sure I will ever make anything useful using it, but I want to try and learn jquery. I also want to use a few other javascript frameworks: meteora, jsAnimation, and XRegExp. I leaned about the last three frameworks from reading either hacker news, dzone, or reddit. Let the fun begin.

I won three times in June

I won four tickets to a six flags theme park, a coupon for a jar of salsa, and a one hundred dollar gift card. Not to bad considering that I did not think I would get a win at all last month. This year I have not won nearly as many prizes as I won last year so hopefully the wins will pick up, but if they don't I have lots of fun entering sweepstakes.

It's been a while since my last post

In my last post I wrote that I wanted to write one or two posts a week, well it has been almost a month since that post. So much for that idea. So I decided not to worry about how many times I post on my blog. Instead of saying I will post once a day or twice a week, I will post when ever I want to.

Also in my last post I wrote that I have nothing interesting to write about, well it is true I don't have anything interesting to write about, but I won't let that stop me from blogging. It may stop people from reading, but It wont stop me from blogging, no siree!!

I want to post one or twice a week on my blog instead of once a day so I have more time to lean what I want to learn. I would like to post every day, but I don't have anything interesting to write. So I should concentrate on leaning how to program and making things with blender. The things I want to lean are:

1. html


2. css


3. javascript


4. php


5. xml


6. mysql


7. Make game for stella the atari 2600 emulator


8. Blender


9. The gimp


10. python

I don't know how much of that stuff I will be able to lean, but I want to lean the basics of all those things.

Some atari games I enjoyed playing

Today I want to talk about some of the atari 2600 games I enjoyed playing. I am not sure of the exact names of some of the games, but I'll write the post anyway. My favorite game was volleyball. I could play that game for hours it's so fun. Why I like it I don't know.

My next favorite game was donkykong. The sound effects were great. And my next favorite game was battlezone. I can't remember much about battlezone either, but I do remember there was a yellow plane that would always destroy my tank.

Some other 2600 games I played were: baseball, E.T, pitfall, space invaders, pac man, frogger. I was not that good at any of the atari 2600 games although I did enjoy playing them.

And silly goes on and on

Continuing with what I wrote yesterday about wanting to learn one programming language. I want to focus on learning php and javascript along with mysql so I can make a website. I also want to lean batari basic and DSAM so I can write atati 2600 games to put on my website.

In other words I want to focus on learning more about web design. I want to lean things besides the programming languages that are used on the web.Things like typography, color theory or whatever else I need to know about web design. I have a lot to lean, but if I focus maybe I will get something accomplished.

I have written all this before, broken record

I know I have written this before, but I want to start making programs that do something useful. Right now I still go from programming language to programming language. From tutorial to tutorial and never seem to accomplish anything.

Sometimes I think I will never be able to make anything useful, but maybe if I work hard I can eventually make a program. But first I need to stick with a programming language long to lean it. Today I was thinking I've had my computer for four almost five years now. What if I would have stuck with one programming language and learned that for the past few years. If I would have done that I think I would be able to write a useful program.

I don't think it's to late for me to become a programmer, but I need to decide what I want to do and stick with it instead of deciding what I want to lean and then changing my mind a few days after I make a decision to learn a certain programming language. I hope by this time next year I will have learned how to program. I hope I can do it.

My blog is over a year old

I started this blog on may 23 2008 so I have been blogging for over a year. I never thought I would be able to make it this long, but I did it. when I started this blog I probably thought if I make it a year my blog would be popular. But I am probably the only person who reads the blog and you know what that is OK with me. I'll keep writing as long as I want to. I am sure popularity has it's downsides.

I fell a week short of reaching my goal of writing a blog post every day for a year. I almost made it though. Posting almost every day for a year that is something I am proud of. Maybe I will come closer to posting everyday in the second year of my blog.

I changed my mind again, wow that never happens

A few days ago I wrote the I wanted to learn one programming language at a time. Well now I am changing my mind, but I still want to lean python though. I changed my mind because I like fooling around with any programming language I want to when ever I want to. It may not be the best way to learn how to program, but I have fun working that way.

Also today I spent some time reading the tutorial on the batari basic website. I may not ever be able to write an atari 2600 for stella, but at least I can follow the tutorials on how to set up and IDE for betari basic, yay.

Wasting more time

Probably about a week ago I download the batari basic compiler which I found on the stella website. So today I decided to see if I could get the compiler working. And wow I got it working, yay for me.

Setting up the batari basic compiler got me thinking again for the millionth time about what type of programs I want to create some day if I ever learn how to program. As I have said before I want to put up a website. I also want to put the artari 2600 games I hope to create on that website.

I also want to learn python so I can use it with blender. I am not sure how knowing python will help me with blender though. I want to eventually creat short animations with blender although I am not sure I will ever be a competent blender user at the rate I am learning the program.

So I want to make games for stella, short animations, and a website. I probably waste my time always thinking about what programming languges I want to lean and what I want to make with those programming languages. I want to start making things, I just hope I can make something useful.

What kind of video games do I want to make

I am sure it will probably be years before I can design and build a small video game, considering I don't know a programming language or how to design programs. But I want to talk about what type of games I want to make.

I have always enjoyed sports video games more then any other genre. I probably enjoy sports video games the most because I am terrible at any other type of game. With sports video games I can loose all the time and still want to play the games. Actually I was pretty good at the sports video games I had on the NES and Sega Genesis although the games I had were not that hard to beat.

But the other games I had I was terrible at. Games like: top gun 2, contra: I did beat contra, but only when I used the cheat code that gave me 30 lives, jackel, and sonic the hedge hog. I never got past the 2 or 3 level for those games. I did beat super mario 2 so I was not horrible at every non sports game.

I enjoyed playing football, baseball, and basketball sports video games the most so I hope I can make those types of sports games in how ever many years it takes me to lean how to make video games.

Boring, Boring

To learn python I want to start with python 2.5. I want to learn python 2.5 because blender does not use python 3.0 yet. The first book I want to read on python programming is dive into python. I have tried to read dive into python in the past, but I don't believe I have read past the first chapter. After I finish reading dive into python well I am not sure what I will read.

Another programming language I want to lean more about is basic. Since I need to know basic to program games for stella I want to lean just basic and basic 4gl. I have a lot I need to lean besides programming languages, I hope I will be able to lean everything I want to lean.