Top o’ the world

Posted under Blog on May 26th, 2007 by

Chocorua

I wear a necklace with a small brown rock on it. When people ask about it, I tell them it’s from the top of a mountain that my father and I climb “every few years.”

But we recently realized we hadn’t climbed Mount Chocorua in nearly ten years. The last time we went up, I had just graduated high school. We’d tried to climb it various times over the years but various things interfered, such as college, weather, and one time, a hangover (whose? I’ll never tell).

Yesterday was my father’s fifty-second birthday, and we celebrated it by taking the day off and conquering Mount Chocorua once more.
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Roundhead #5

Posted under Blog, Roundhead on May 24th, 2007 by

For whatever reason, at this point I abandoned the storyline I started in the previous strips to do a more “classic” one. That is, this strip is what can be considered the archetypal Roundhead strip. I believe this one was titled “Roundhead: The Special Edition,” hence the unnecessary appearance by Yoda.

Roundhead #5

The post about the Halo 3 Beta

Posted under Blog, Halo, Videogames on May 24th, 2007 by

As anyone who’s been paying any attention to this blog knows, I’m pretty excited about Halo 3. A few weeks ago, my wonderful girlfriend DG got me my very own copy of Crackdown, which included access to the Halo 3 Multiplayer Beta (fortunately, Crackdown is a great game too—you can read my review of it here). The Beta is not a demo of the regular game, which is due for release on September 25. Rather, it’s only a test of the game’s multiplayer component, which allows players to battle one another on three maps (such games are colloquially referred to as “deathmatch”).

(Warning: Halo 3 gameplay spoilers to follow)
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Ace in the hole

Posted under Asides on May 21st, 2007 by

A creepy metafictional ad campaign for Gotham City DA Harvey Dent has given us the first official image of the Joker from The Dark Knight.

Based just on the picture, I’m guessing Nolan is going for a realistic, serial-killer Joker, rather than the cartoon villain portrayed by Nicholson. And I’m on board. Even in his first comic book appearance the Joker was portrayed as a murdering sociopath, and it looks like that’s the Joker we’ll be seeing in the new movie. I think that’s the right direction for Batman. Here’s hoping there are no silly microwave bombs or speeding trains this time around.

Roundhead #4

Posted under Blog, Roundhead on May 18th, 2007 by

In today’s strip, Roundhead and Bob drag Roundhead’s damned arch-nemesis, “Mr. Z,” out of hell so he can once again be a foil for our heroes. But things don’t turn out quite as planned. You can see I’ve started to play with action and perspectives a bit more.

Roundhead #4

Rise and Shine

Posted under Asides on May 18th, 2007 by

Some friends of mine made a short film a while back called “Rise and Shine.” It was short enough that I suggested (in August, I think) that they put it on YouTube.

At long last, they took my advice.

Rise and Shine

Halo Beta II

Posted under Asides on May 17th, 2007 by

Well, they finally got it working. As expected, they tacked on more time (four extra days) to the Beta to make up for the errors.

I’ve downloaded the client but haven’t had a chance to play yet. I’ll probably toss up a few comments over the weekend after I’ve had my butt sorely kicked by the diehards. In the meantime, check out the Beta-celebratory video from the folks at Red vs. Blue.

I guess it really IS beta

Posted under Asides on May 16th, 2007 by

In my review of Crackdown, I mentioned that a big part of my reason for wanting the game was the access to the Halo 3 multiplayer beta test. As such, I was pretty excited to give it a try this morning before work.

No dice. Looks like there was a glitch in the servers; as of 3:45 pm today, Crackdown owners still can’t download the beta. A minor disappointment for me, but I can only imagine the reaction of the fanboys. Actually, I don’t have to.

Wandering

Posted under Blog, Writing on May 16th, 2007 by

Nearly a week into the new design and I’ve put up a single post. Tch—typical.

I’ve decided once I’m done with the editing, I’ll post The Wanderer here on the website. There are a few good reasons for this. One, it’s a novella, which is a notoriously difficult genre to sell. Second, it’s a fairly straightforward zombie story, making it a niche market of a niche market of a niche market (novella–>horror–>zombie).

Finally, authors such as John Scalzi have found that putting some of their books online has helped increase their visibility among readers. Of course, having basically no readers at all, I suppose posting the story can only help, or at least, can’t hurt.

Here’s my question, though. Would people prefer getting the story in sections, or would you like to have just one long post? Any preferences?

We needed a bigger boat

Posted under Blog, Roundhead, Site info on May 12th, 2007 by

Welcome to the new Biggerboat!

Yes, a redesign has been going on in secret for a few weeks now. All the work was done by Sean, who also designed The Ed Zone. When we tried to go live yesterday and discovered that the new design didn’t want to work with MovableType, Sean buckled down and transferred the entire site to WordPress?including all the old content.

I can’t thank Sean enough for all the hard work he put into the site. Really, I can’t?he won’t let me. So be sure to comment and let him know how totally awesome you think it is, because you do (right? RIGHT?!).

Since the site is now running off WordPress, you’ll need to update any RSS or other feeds you’ve been using; the old ones will still link to the old Movabletype site.

Poke around a bit. Nothing is substantially different, but you should find it a bit easier to get around and to comment. Also, be sure to let me know if you find any dead links or malfunctioning content.

In the meantime, I believe I owe you not one, but two Roundhead cartoons. These two begin the “storyline” in which Roundhead and his evil twin Bob go to Hell to find Roundhead’s archenemy Mr. Zem. The third cartoon is the first to be hand-drawn and also contains the first thing to actually make me laugh while re-reading these. Enjoy.

(P.S. The “Columbian necktie” gag comes from Loose Cannons, the first rated-R movie I was allowed to watch in its entirety as a teenager. At least I think it does.)

Roundhead 2

Roundhead 3

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