| Sep142009 | Only losers update their blogs |
So I’ve tried to reduce my time on the Xbox gaming in the hopes of finding the time to start a new pet project. Progress has been slow but things are starting to simmer.
Idea #1 was to learn a Radiohead song on the guitar. That got old fast. They need to write easier songs or I need to get better at the guitar.
Idea #2 was to sketch a little more and I’ve accomplished tiny bits here and there. Mostly, I’ve been drawing animals on the comment cards at restaurants and leaving them behind for the waitstaff to find. I like to think they get a chuckle out of it but maybe they’re are all like, “Aww, looks like that big retard kid had fun. Good tipper, too.”
Idea #3 was some kind of programming project. The plan right now is to parse and display JSON for Reddit pages. I’ve been ridiculously addicted to Reddit lately so it would be fun to play around with some of that data.
My plan is to whip up a quick website in Ruby and Camping. Parse the JSON and display it in an iPhone-friendly way. I have serious reservations about a) trying to run Ruby in the shared Dreamhost environment and b) trying to use a micro-framework that has been orphaned by its father. If somebody out there can suggest an alternate super tiny framework that works, I’d be happy to use it. (As long as its not PHP, I’m bored of PHP now.)
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