23rd year on this earth is today.
Lots of birthdays around this time.
I said there were going to be pictures but i haven't uploaded any yet.
Party was chill. nothing crazy. so there's normal pictures. But there WAS a cake fight. It was great fun.

Got a few CD's (Blink-182, RHCP, STP) and a Petco Giftcard. Got some shrimp and a plant for my fish tank at work.

I joined this site when i was 16. Wow I've been around for a while....

My band, Positive Chaos, has finally completed our first full-length album.
We have released a single to the general public; "Safe"

http://www.positivechaos.com/single

Take a listen and let me know what you think!

It's free BTW
And please, enter a real name and email. We're using them for documentation purposes only.

Hurricane Irene. It's coming straight for CT. They have already started evacuating parts of my town and the neighboring town. So Im going to use this journal to document and update whoever cares. There's already water seeping thru the cracks in my house's foundation. There's some water in the basement. Our grid has no power. Fun fun fun.
http://img854.imageshack.us/i/imagerec.jpg/
Backyard is flooding too.
http://img18.imageshack.us/i/imagegiv.jpg/
breakfast on the grill. Yum... Grilled bacon delish.
Still safe for now... A tree fell down and hit my neighbors pool. Thank god only about a foot of water drained because it came straight down the hill and into my yard. Sucks for them but I'm safe and the rain for now has stopped (12:16pm EST) now it's just wind and the eye is approaching from what the radio says.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5anZsCYTvQY&feature=player_embedded#!

thats the route i take to work. flooded....
thats not me by the way just a video i found

My Map "In The Kitchen" Is featured on the front page of Planet Phillip today! Its part of 100 days of Nostalgia!

Why is it featured? I have no idea, it's pretty mediocre.
http://www.planetphillip.com/
http://www.planetphillip.com/posts/in-the-kitchen-half-life/

Definitely cool tho!

Anyone ever play champions online? First off its free, secondly, the character customizations are phenominal.

Ps.
Guess who this is.

How the hell did Notch know I was going to be playing Minecraft!?

Awesome.

Saw this about 5 minutes ago.

http://imgur.com/gallery/bFN1r

Idk how long it's been around, but it's pure genius.

Custom models are a pain in the ass.
I spent 2 hours tonight going through DonPunch's XSI modeling tutorial and everything worked, save for the textures.

Come to find out .png's don't work. (yeah im an idiot) So i booted up vtf edit and all those and i tried making a texture from a targa and putting it in my proper folder and making the .qc file and making the vtf, vmf, all those.. included $vertexlitgeneric, blah blah blah.

well I went through about 40+ iterations of different combinations/ file locations across the span of 4 hours... Then I gave up. Model materials have defeated me. [HELP!]

BUT

In the process, i learned how to make custom textures for use in source, NOT ON A MODEL, and i also scored a free plugin for paint.net that makes it SUPER easy to create bumpmaps from any picture..

I made a nice grungy rusted metal texture and bumpmapped it myself:I'm so proud of myself.

But i still cant get the freaking model texture to show up. The model is there, but its all checkered and junk. Also that texture is just a random picture my g/f took and left on my desktop. It was just pure laziness that it was right next to the VTF edit shortcut so i could just click+drag over and it automatically trimmed/re sized it.

Yeah. so anyone know how to make model textures? I'm baffled.

So Everyone in the Northeast USA is getting a fair bit of snow. It's at 16 inches right now, and it's supposed to keep going well into the afternoon. It's 9:36am EST right now, and here's the snow situation:And my boss wants me in work.
No thanks.

Got a new toy in the mail today:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4My8NI8URhE
At work we do a secret santa. I bought one for the IT guy, and i couldn't resist getting one for myself.

Star Wars: KOTOR 1
On sale on steam for $2.50 USD

And... my new leather strap came in today!
It's a great compliment to my new guitar!The Guitar is a PRS 513, BTW.
Hands down, THE most incredible guitar I've ever played.
Trumps even the Les Paul in my opinion.

To Everyone who celebrates Thanksgiving today;
Happy Thanksgiving!

(And after playing it, AOE3 sucks. Sorry for wasting 10c for whoever bought it)

Fans of strategy games!
Windows is selling Age of Empires 3 for only TEN CENTS!

$.10 USD!

It's outrageous!

Check it out

To prove the legit-ness, i just purchased it.DownloadI admit, it takes like 15 minutes to do all the signups, unless you have an x-box live account/card set up already, but IMO it's completely worth it.

If anyone lives in the northeast of the united states and needs a car, i'm selling mine. (i live in Connecticut)

Craigslist linky

[ i'm gonna miss that car.

Got myself a new Guitar - I've had my eye on this one for YEARS. Even before i got my blue Schecter.

The PRS 513 - 25th Anniversary Edition. Charcoal Burst with Nickel Hardware.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2052191&id=37403282&l=4944992113

How much did i pay? - Too much..
But it's worth every penny.