MightyPirate's Mind

Magic the Gathering

2012-02-05T05:04:00.001-05:00

So, CyhAnide and I downloaded a program that allows you to create Magic the Gathering cards (of which we are both players of). 4 hours later, we had created these:

If you want to create your own, download this awesome program.

Podcast!

2011-10-24T00:03:00.003-04:00

We now have a semi-regular Mind the Gap podcast! Check it out: http://mindthepodcast.blogspot.com/

Harrison's Mind - Episode 3

2011-10-10T19:26:00.000-04:00

Harrison's Mind - Episode 3

Huzza! I FINALLY finished Episode 3 of Harrison's Mind. That took forever and it was entirely my fault. I kept chipping away at it but found it hard to make time for more than an hour or so which ended up being very unproductive. I blame my girl-friend. XD

Well, not really, I've been super, super busy (as usual) and had lots of other things keep getting in the way. Plus, I kept agreeing to help people out with various projects which had deadlines greater than my own. Oh well, all that's behind me and hopefully I'll be able to work on these episodes more frequently. Don't expect them every week (or even every month) but more than one a year, that's for sure. I'll keep you guys updated on the progress of Episode 4.

Ciao.

P.S. For those people who wonder why I don't update this blog as often. I make lots more updates on Facebook and save this for the longer winded posts. Check out our Facebook page for more mind stuff.

Animated Barney's Mind

2011-08-18T10:19:00.003-04:00

A skilled fan just created an animated Barney's Mind video! It's wonderfully done and hilarious from start to finish! He's also made a Freeman's Mind animated video and is planning to create more. Check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3Kpmk9lC6s

Interview with GLaDOS (Ellen McLain)

2011-06-26T02:15:00.001-04:00

Interview with GLaDOS (Ellen McLain)

Caboos15 (who has interviewed Ross Scott, myself, and the other mind makers) interviewed Ellen McLain who does the voice of the HL2 Combine Overwatch Dispatch, the TF2 announcer, and GLaDOS in Portal 1 and 2. Also, her husband is the sniper in TF2 and the generic HL2 citizen.

So, yeah, check it out. TOTALLY worth the 45 minutes if you're a Portal fan. You'll learn some interesting details.

Meeting of the Minds 2 - Ross Scott Edition

2011-05-21T02:04:00.001-04:00

So, here's the audio from the latest Meeting of the Minds with Cpt. Cool, Krimsin, CyhAnide, Curtis, Simon, Pirate, and Ross Scott.

Download mp3 of Meeting of the Mind 2
or
Watch the Video on YouTube

I figured I'd give you guys all a treat and put it up here first before I get it on YouTube and this way you can also download it for listening on your iPods and other media devices. Feel free to take it and redistribute it as you want, just give us credit or a link back here. Don't worry about telling Ross Scott about it, by the time you read this he should already have a copy.

As I'm sure we all did, I really enjoyed getting a chance to talk with Ross. He's a great guy to talk with in person and this was definitely a treat. Enjoy almost 2 hours of Ross Scott and the "Master Minds" talking, rambling, answering questions, and generally having a good time.

YouTube video of the Meeting of the Minds coming soon, too.

Cool's update, because I'm lazy...

2011-05-11T10:29:00.000-04:00

If anyone reads my blog and not Cpt. Cool's check out his most recent post for updates on upcoming awesome things and a new regular member of our "Master Mind" antics.

More details to follow shortly, sorry that I haven't been around big things are happening behind the scenes. Very big. Can't say any more.

Everyone remember that platform?

2011-04-21T14:34:00.000-04:00

Hey, remember this video:

and this post: http://barneysmind.blogspot.com/2010/07/paper-mill-platform.html

Anyway, I just wanted to give a long overdue update on that platform (assuming it's actually interesting). The new platform has been finished for almost 6 months now and I've had a bunch of pictures of it's construction on my desktop at work and I figured I should share them. Pictures:

This drawings shows my overall design for the platform. Notice how there have been some significant changes over the original design pictures I posted earlier.

The first of the new steel columns to be put in.

Oh noes! It's a platform 50 feet off the ground and it's got no handrails! XD I had to use a harness whenever I went out there.

The old platform.

The new stairway.

The new platform, almost complete (still lacking handrails).

This is a new girder truss I designed that spans almost 40 feet. I had to carefully design it to both support the load of the platform and allow that pipe to travel through it.

The top of the new platform. Still needs some grating on the far end.

More of the new platform.

The underside.

Closeup of the end of the truss.

Closeup of the grating.

The last section to need grating.

Showing the connection of the lateral bracing and the top of the new truss.

I got that pipe perfectly positioned using nothing but a tape measure, go me!

So, yeah, that's the platform. There were a few minor problems with my design (a pipe in the way here, a small change needed there) but overall it was perfect and was installed in only a few weeks. The final platform cost something around $80,000.

In other news, I'm super busy. Well, that isn't news I suppose, that's been the case for the past 7 months it seems. However, I'm now even more busy than that. I'm trying really hard to get this all done ASAP so I can get Harrison's Mind - Episode 3 done. I really, really want to finish that episode so much. Thank you everyone for waiting patiently.

P.S. Also, I haven't forgotten about that webcomic I started. I've had half of the first comic done for weeks now but vowed not to work on it until I finish Episode 3.

P.P.S. If any of you are wondering CyhAnide has told me that, yes, it's likely she will do a mind series of Portal 2. However, she obviously still has to finish Portal 1 so, please, don't bug her about either one.

New Computer - Part 2

2011-03-27T15:42:00.000-04:00

So, new computer is all assembled and running wonderfully. Crazy speed, windows 7 is great, lots of good stuff. HL2 and L4D2 look great in 3D, tried a bunch of demos such as Arkahm Asylum and it runs them all super smoothly in fantastic 3D. Picked up a copy of Just Cause 2 and that has to be the most entertaining game for 3D I've tried yet. Love it so much, gonna play some more after this.

Sandra benchmarks:

Overall:
Combined Score - 766

CPU:
Combined Score - 70.92 GOPS
Dhrystone iSSE4.2 - 103.3 GIPS
Whetstone iSSE3 - 48.71 GFLOPS

Combined Score - 130.43 MPix/s
Inter-Core Bandwidth - 8 GB/s
Inter-Core Latency - 44.2 ns

Memory:
Combined Score - 17.23 GB/s

GPU:
Aggregate Shader Performance - 52.64 Mpix/s
Native Float Shaders - 105 MPix/s
Emulated Double Shaders - 26.39 MPix/s

Aggregate Memory Performance - 22.55 GB/s
Internal Memory Bandwidth - 100.14 GB/s
Data Transfer Bandwidth - 5 GB/s

Aggregate Shader Performance - 440.6 MPix/s
Native Float Shaders - 1.3 GPix/s
Native Double Shaders - 149 MPix/s

HDD:
Drive Score - 109.28 MB/s

Pictures of the build:

New Computer - Part 1

2011-03-23T13:18:00.004-04:00

SO! Big new guys. I just played with Teh...

Okay, enough of that.

But my other big news is that I have recently purchased the parts for a brand new PC! Named by Cyh it shall be called the Jolly Roger (continuing the obligatory pirate naming scheme where my desktop is PiratesCove and my lappy is PirateShip). I'm SUPER excited about it, mostly because I've been agonizing over parts for the past month or so and it's cost me a lot.

Total price tag (not including monitor, keyboard, mouse, headphones) is a little over $1,400 (US).

Yeah, that's a lot but it's been LONG overdue as my current desktop is just about to become 7 years old in about two months (excluding the video card which is only about 2 years old...but it's a semi-yucky AGP card so it still sucks). Plus, it's worth it, I bet I'll be able to upgrade this thing to be a great PC for the next 2 years at least and, as my current system shows (for which I paid about the same price back in 2004), I'll probably be able to keep this system playing the latest and greatest games for at least another 5 years or so.

Anyway, enough back-story, you guys just wanna see the shiny stuff, right? The computer will be a state-of-the-art PC, there's really not much more power I could squeak out of this without going really ridiculous and spending another $1,000.

First off, the case: Lian Li Lancool PC-K62 - $99.99

A nice case with 4 large fans which should have a great balance between noise and cooling. I may pick up a fan controller for the top two if they prove to be too noisy. I love the cable management at the bottom of the case and it should look great with the black and blue MSI mobo (below).

The motherboard: MSI P67A-GD55 (B3) - $164.99

This one took some fighting with as all the motherboards using the P67 chipsets were recalled earlier this year for a problem with the 3 gb/s SATA ports. It wasn't a "OMG my board is ruined now" problem, but I'm glad they recalled it. However, it meant stocks are limited and I had to wait until now to buy everything.

The CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz - $224.99

This is what I'm most excited about. The Sandy Bridge CPU's offer about a 25% performance increase over the Nehalem i5s with only a $20 price increase. In addition, the K-series (unlocked) i5 is EXTREMELY overclockable. Most people are reporting OCing the i5-2500K to 4.3-4.5 Ghz with stock heatsinks and only minor voltage tweaking. Plus, since it's unlocked, I can OC the CPU and the RAM/GPU separately. This will be really useful later on in the life of this PC.

The GPU: EVGA SuperClocked GeForce GTX 560 Ti - $259.99

I was kinda on the wire about what to get for the GPU but I knew I wanted an nVidia card so that I can use their 3D Vision system (below). I eventually settled on the GTX 560 Ti as it offered very nice benchmarks at a fairly reasonable price. I chose the EVGA version for their customer service and quality (and looks) even though the Overclocked Gigabyte 560 Ti has about 10% more performance at the same cost.

The RAM: 2x G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 4 GB - $84.99 (total)

Again on the wire about this one but after looking at prices I decided on the slightly lower speed PC3-10666 RAM and got 8 GB (vs. 4 GB) of it in two sticks to take advantage of the dual-channel motherboard. I was hesitant about the color choice (red in an effectively all blue and black desktop case) but decided that a little splash of red wouldn't hurt. The only thing that worries me still is that the higher heat-spreaders might contact a larger CPU fan if I decided to upgrade and OC my CPU. If it does then I guess I could just go watercooled. :D

The PSU: Corsail Enthusiast Series TX650 V2 650W ATX PSU - $99.99

I think this one I might have goofed on. It's perfect for what I need right now but I'm wondering if it wouldn't have been worth it to get another hundred watts or so. If I get another video card down the road and SLI it with the 560 Ti then it would be really annoying to suddenly be short 50 watts and have to get a new PSU. Either way this is a great PSU with PLENTY of amps on the 12v rail and enough watts to power plenty of externals.

The nVidia 3D Vision System: NVIDIA 3D Vision Kit - $124.99

This is going to be the real stand-out thing on my new PC. About a year ago I purchased a 120 hz LCD monitor with the intent of purchasing this kit when I bought a new PC. Since then more reviews about how great this is have been posted and the price has come down a lot (~$200 when I first looked at it). So, I'm super excited to see what L4D2 and HL2 look like in 3D. I loved the 3D on Avatar so I highly, highly doubt I'll be in the minority of people who find these 3D glasses give them headaches. In the future I may hook up a blue-ray drive to the PC and get Avatar 3D whenever ~~it comes out~~ Samsung and Fox stop being idiots.

The Speakers: Cyber Acoustics CA-3602 30 Watt 2.1 Speakers - $32.99

My old desktop speakers are dying. I could fix them but I really don't care to since speakers are so cheap. Also, since I'll now have two desktops it makes sense to have two sets of speakers. I didn't go crazy with speakers though, mostly because I play games at night a lot and speakers bother the downstairs neighbors. However, I wanted ones with decent quality as whenever I'm home during weekends I love to crank the sound on a good song/movie.

The other stuff:

1 TB WD Green SATA2 HDD - $69.99
500 GB WD Caviar Black SATA3 HDD - $59.99
ASUS SATA DVD/CD RW drive - $18.99
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit - $139.99
LOGISYS UV Cold Cathode - $4.99

I should have everything by Friday and I'll probably get it all assembled and running some time this weekend.

A pirate, a Cool, and a CyhAnide all walk into a bar...

2011-03-11T11:55:00.000-05:00

...and they totally redecorate the place, it was brilliant. :P

So, tomorrow, I will be leaving for a week. Where am I going you ask? To that I respond:
FLORIDA!!!! Yep, Cool and I are both heading down to Florida to hang out and have fun with Cyh and such. Real life meetings and shenanigans for everyone! So, that's why all of our usual heavy activity (sorta-sarcasm) will suddenly drop off tomorrow. :P

Anyway, because I've done SOOOOO much work on Mind related stuff (sarcasm), I figured that a week off would be good. I still have Cool's lines to do for his next episode (gonna be great!) and I need to get those done something crazy (my bad Cool). So, to remedy both of these situations I'm going to see what hilarity ensues if I try recording lines down there in Cyh's place with Cool and Cyh listening in the background. Should result in some pretty hilarious recordings, which I shall of course post for all to see when I get back.

Ummmm, what else?

Oh, did a little work on the first comic for that gmod comic I'm making. First (real) ~~episode~~ comic should be amusing, to say the least. I also am (finally) getting back on schedule with my normal routines and, once I'm back, I'm going to make Harrison's Mind - Episode 3 top priority! I've just been getting home so late and have had too many things to do on weekends (my usual Mind-ing time). So, yeah, my bad but it will happen soon-ish-kinda-maybe-sorta-yeah.

Also, I think I may have scratched the bumper on my car...NOOOOOOOOOO! First scratch on my new car...the agony. Stupid snow bank, why did I have to back into it and why did it have to be made of ice?

Anyway, I must return to work, peace!

Oh, and don't go stealing all my stuff while I'm gone, my attack kitties will eat your face off! (Or my brother will call the cops, either works for me.)

Mind Over Matter

2011-02-28T22:31:00.002-05:00

So, remember that web comic that I was going to do?

http://mindovermatter.thecomicseries.com/

So, yeah, I'm going to try to update this semi-regularly but don't expect them on a weekly basis. I'll do them whenever I feel like doing them. As I get better (faster) with GMod I'll update it more frequently.

Yep.

P.S. There's a lot of hidden things that will be shown in every panel. Who can find them all!?

Items to be found (from easiest to hardest):

1) Rebel soldier on "premium model" toilet.
2) Peaking HECU marine.
3) Portal cake.

Why Harrison's Mind 3 is late

2011-02-10T00:02:00.000-05:00

So, I figure I should let people know why Harrison's Mind - Episode 3 isn't done yet.

First off, I've been busy as usual and have been doing some work on other projects. Plus the holidays cut into it my time a lot and such.

Mostly I recently have been busy with trip down to Washington, D.C., though. I went down there to visit friends and see the sights. I've been there once before but not during the winter and I was like 10 at the time so I barely remember it. But, yeah, that took up an entire week and I'm just now recovering from the backlog of things.

Me in the D.C. Botanical gardens.

So, yeah, that happened.

Finally, I've been working on some stuff for CptCool2 (Jared) so that's been taking up my time in the past few days. I hope to get to work done on Episode 3 (finally) sometime next week. I'm going to try to get it done super-mega-ultra quickly so hopefully it wont take too long.

P.S. Did anyone see on Facebook how I commented that we should have a Minecraft Mind series. Well, it actually happened (and it's quite good, too):

http://www.youtube.com/user/BrysonSharpsMind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaXngWpVq9Q

We're now on Facetube!

2011-01-16T20:29:00.005-05:00

A viewer suggested that we start a Facebook page....so we did:

Please don't find us and friend us on Facebook. There are some places we like to keep to ourselves and we don't want to offend anyone by not accepting your request.

giggle

2011-01-12T17:59:00.000-05:00

Why so serious?

THIS!!!!

2011-01-07T10:24:00.002-05:00

You must watch it!

Awesome!

2011-01-06T20:40:00.001-05:00

There's an interesting wireless network near me:

Some other good ones:
"PirateNet" (mine)
"Try connecting now!"

Hey, Jared, I got a present for you!!

2011-01-03T14:05:00.003-05:00

Scroll down...

*EVIL LAUGH*

Oh, and here's a hilarious video a friend showed me...happy New Years everyone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yWeMIALolY

A Left 4 Dead Story

2011-01-02T17:52:00.004-05:00

So, for those of you who always wanted to play a game of Left 4 Dead with Cyh (Chell’s Mind), Cool (Freeman’s-ish Mind), and myself (you-know-who’s mind) then here’s what you’re missing out on. :P

Oh, by the way, don’t bother trying to add Cyh to your friends, she’ll just ignore them. XD

After an airplane flies overhead Cool suggested we head to the airport…and then promptly decided to conduct repairs to the ventilation. I mean, you never know when you’ll be coming back here, right? You don’t want the plants to die.

Meanwhile, Cyh decided to check out the pipe insulation. You know, it case it had asbestos in it. That stuff is the silent killer, you can never be too careful.

Leaving the greenhouse we made our way out to the roof. Ahhh, I love the smell of burnt city in the evening.

Cool was still playing around with the plants, though. I have no idea why he’s standing in them, though. But, look! He’s made a new friend.

We forged on, Cool leading the way. However, behind me Cyh tripped and slipped of the edge of the buildings. Damn, lack of handrails.

Cool went to help her. But then he found a penny and, well…this happened.

So, while I helped Cool up from his hunt for loose change, Cyh decided to have a wrestling contest with some guy. Oh well, at least she’s making new friends, too.

To stem the loss of blood Cyh applied some band-aids and a little gauze. You know, because that’s all you need when you’ve been viciously mauled by 20 zombies.

Obviously upset, Cyh decides that she doesn’t care much for this artwork so she decides to kick it. Unfortunately, it gets stuck on her feet which just makes her even more furious. Look and that scowl…

We left the apartment by means of a confident adjacent roof. Apparently someone was hungry, though. Kind of silly if you ask me, there’s a whole greenhouse full of plants back there, I’m sure some of them are edible.

Anyone need a hand?

Cyh decided that what that apartment really needed was a good inferno. I’m not complaining, my hands were cold.

Cool! Don’t you know it’s impolite to stare at a woman’s chest? (And it’s even more impolite to shoot her in the chest?)

This looks like a nice hotel. I hope they have free wi-fi, I need to check my facebook.

Cyh’s keeping the evil police officers off of me. So much badass-ery in this picture!

Form a line please! One at a time!

“This is my door! There are many like it but this one is mine!”

Bill’s gotten so old that he doesn’t even know he’s not holding a gun.

Oh, yay, a bonfire. I wonder what’s cooking?

“We’ll be fine just as long as the zombies don’t figure out how to tightrope walk on barbed wi—DAMNIT!”

Hey! Did you know that your heads come off?

Wow, look at the blood on that wall, somebody must have slipped or something coming down from there.

This is my fire escape, go find your own! (And why do you look like you’re trying to cough up a hairball?)

Goodness, these things just fall right off!

Good job (un-)Cool, you managed to fall out of a window.

And then there was fire…

Agh! It’s all sticky! Why is it sticky?

D’awww, it’s a guy in a hoodie. I wonder if he wants to be my friend?

Oh great, captain steroids is loose.

Don’t worry, Cyh will take care of it.

Nice one, Cyh!

“I hate lawyers! When are they going to get done practicing law.”

Impressive, Cool.

Oh, look! It’s Cyh greeting some of her many fans.

This is what happens when you ask Cyh for Episode 6; she shoots your head off with a shotgun.

Cyh looking badass.

Cyh is so pissed at Cool for shooting the car. I mean, just look at that scowl.

Cyh’s finally given up on Cool and is running away from him as fast as she can.

Cool decided he really, really hated that door.

Here Cool, have some pills.

Wait, why do you look like you’re about to hit me with them? AH! Dammit! No, that’s not how you do it! You’re doing it wrong!

Heh, it’s Cool looking cool.

I think here Cyh is swearing at Cool to stop being such an idiot whilst Cool decides to practice his ninja skills.

Man, Cyh’s just getting all the achievements today.

This is Cool’s trophy picture. He got a 12 point Tank.

Cool’s about to be slapped in the back of the head and he doesn’t even know it.

Something tells me the flights are delayed today.

“I claim this luggage pile in the name of all that is Cool!”

More fire. This one was my fault, I think Cyh’s in there somewhere, too.

Cool has decided to continue his conquest by claiming this police car.

I guess Captain Sullenberger wasn’t flying that one.

Someone must be having a really, really bad day.

Cyh is ready for awesomeness.

I would, too.

Cool’s practicing his jumping again.

Whoops, sorry Cyh. I didn’t mean to set the entire airport on fire.

“The phone’s dead.”

I think Cyh just got me back for all the times I set her on fire.

Cyh is hoping that she doesn’t run into any more fans while Cool is again practicing his ninja skills.

I think we broke physics.

Cyh’s tying her shoelace.

Missed me!

Goodness Cool. Stop jumping!

I don’t remember exactly what happened here but I’m guessing Cool was jumping up the stairs, slipped, and fell down and broke his neck. Good job, Cool.

Oh great! This is fun.

Gah! What’s wrong with your teeth?!

Trust me, this isn’t what it looks like.

Damn it Cool, you just had to walk through the metal detector, didn’t you?

Man, these TSA screeners are getting more and more ruthless these days. Oh well, Atlas shall save us!

I guess as long as you can smile during a zombie apocalypse you’re all set.

Dang it Cool, haven’t we told you not to talk to strangers?

Jackpot!

What? Do I have something on my face?

Oh, yay, a plane.

Uh-oh.

The runway is that way! No, THAT WAY!! ... Oh, nevermind.

Ugh, no leg room at all.

This is the reason airlines loose people’s baggage; gatling guns.

A wild dostillevi has appeared! (My old college roommate)

Dos and Cyh claim the gas truck.

And, of course, Cool claims the luggage pile.

Denied!

Seriously Cool?

Man, that tank is flexible.

Waiting to board the plane. Don’t you just hate airline delays?

The End.

Product of waking up at 5 PM

2011-01-01T18:11:00.000-05:00

42. What is the solution to the equation x = 1/raccoon

a)   x = 1/raccoon
      (x)(raccoon) = 1
      d/dx [(x)(raccoon)] = d/dx (1)
      raccoon = 0

Thanks Cool...or something

2010-12-28T14:04:00.000-05:00

So, Cool bought me gmod for some reason...ugh. NO I WILL NOT PLAY IT WITH YOU!!!! But, I am curious and I've decided to use this gift to make a regular web comic based on the various things us minders do in our spare time. It will not be regularly updated but I hope to do one or two a week ad minimum.

The regular characters will be probably:

Barney as played by Myself
Shephard as Krimsin
Freeman as Cool
Male 07 as Curtis (either that or I'll use something else for him, can't have two Freemans)
Chell as Cyh
and Simon is to be decided (probably find a Parker model somewhere, or someone who looks like Hendrix)

I'll play around with it this weekend and see what I can come up with and it will take me a while to get used to working with it but, once I have it down, expect some hilarity. I'll probably create a new blog entirely for this comic and, trust me, it will be funny.

A late Happy Holidays

2010-12-26T19:01:00.000-05:00

A late "Happy Holidays" everyone. I hope you guys had a good time celebrating whatever it is that you celebrate (be it some kid getting born or a bunch of lights or something else) and that you don't drink too much on New Years (I'm looking at you Jared =_=).

Anyway, hopefully we'll be doing a Mind the Gap episode tonight so that should be up soon.

Stupid Drivers

2010-12-15T11:13:00.000-05:00

Long rant about an idiot driver today:

So, I was driving along the freeway this morning to work in the snow and one lane is pretty much unplowed and the other has bare pavement so it's reasonably good driving in that lane.

I'm doing 60 MPH a ways behind a truck (flashing speed limit was 45, normal speed limit is 65) and quite content with that speed. Then, some asshole in a white sedan comes roaring up behind me. They tailgate me for a few minutes and then decide to pass me. As they're going by me they start revving their engine (which sounds like it was about to die), not sure why, maybe the snow was so thick they couldn't get by me? Anyway, I realize that they're not going to pass me so I start to slow down to let them by...but so do they. Whatever, I speed up and they drop back behind me.

They then decided to start tailgating me about 2 feet from my bumper, doing 60! They flash their lights at me a bunch and start acting super reckless. I have no idea what their problem is. So, I give this big exaggerated shrug and look in the rear-view mirror and they're motioning for me to pull over! What the hell? As if! I wasn't really sure what to do to make them shut-up so I decided that the best thing to do was nothing and let the assholes suffer. I was wondering what they would do if I had to brake because they'd be buying me a new car for sure.

Anyway, they continue flashing their lights and trying to get me to pull over (which is stupid, even if I do it's not like the truck in front of me is going to do the same, or any of the number of other people in front of the truck). After about a mile of this we come to an off-ramp and they swerve over and fly up it still doing 60. The off-ramp is also unplowed and I can see them skidding everywhere. I was hoping so much to see them spin off the road (where they can't hurt anyone).

If I ever see that car again I'm going to slash it's tires. One of the most reckless drivers I've seen in a while, and most of the people in Maine are pretty sane when it comes to driving in the snow.

So, did you know?

2010-12-08T15:23:00.002-05:00

So, did you know that today the first commercial rocket was launched into orbit? Something tells me you didn't (except for Cyh, she probably heard it this morning and thought, "damn rockets, I'm trying to sleep here!" :P). This is amazing, I mean, this is the privatization of space! The door is now open to commercial and private space travel. I don't know about you but I'm stoked, this is just awesome! Then again, I feel that way almost every day, seriously. Human beings may suck and I hate most of you but, damn, if we don't do a lot of really cool things. We should all step back and realize this more often.

"OMG! WOW!"

Harrison's Mind - Episode 2

2010-11-28T00:39:00.006-05:00

Is coming! I have it all done, just rendering it and uploading, should have it out sometime tomorrow.

EDIT: And here it is, Harrison's Mind - Episode 2

EDIT again: Someone buy this for me for X-mas, http://gizmodo.com/5700605/dont-go-to-war-with-this-aliens-replica-m+41a-pulse-rifle

EDIT (last time, serious): Scratch that! Someone get me this:

Brain Summit

2010-11-11T15:17:00.000-05:00

Hey, Quadstrike (cool guy, Cool's friend) recorded one of the very early games Cyh, Quad, Cool, and I played on Left 4 Dead 2. Forgive the long time getting setup, I think this might have been the first time Cyh played Left 4 Dead 2 and her mic was giving her issues.

I've been trying to write this for about a week now...

2010-11-07T23:43:00.000-05:00

Hah, been so busy watching stuff with my girlfriend this week. I got a bunch of stuff done around the house though, been doing some minor redecoration of my room. It looks pretty cool.

Anyway, we recorded another Mind the Gap episode this weekend, I'll see if I can get that up tomorrow. I haven't gotten any work done on Harrison's Mind, though. It's still stuck at 25% done. I'll see if I can get some work done this week.

Oh, Corky and I got Cyh addicted to Left 4 Dead (1 & 2)...so if you're wondering where Chell's Mind - Episode 6 is, just yell at me and Curtis. ^_^ ...Heh, that's not really true, she's still busy with her MCAT and job hunt and other such things. So, yeah, STOP ASKING HER!

Other stuff; Cyh also got me into drawing so some of that might also appear in my DeviantART. Ummmm, winter appears to be here, and it's dark now.... But, that's okay, I'll just hang out in the 110 degree paper mill and Cyh's trying to convince me to join the dark side.

Oh, gotta go, L4D2 time!

Francis' Mind

2010-10-31T04:29:00.000-04:00

So, I'm going to be in the next Out of Our Minds episode (the little series that Simon does) and we were watching some of the really bad Left 4 Dead mind series. Anyway, after watching I stumbled upon this: Francis' Mind - Episode 1

This has to be the only good Left 4 Dead mind series. I was laughing my ass off when I was watching it with Simon, Cyh, and Jared. It's so smupid that it's funny! It doesn't seem to get any better as the series' goes on, if anything it gets worse. In any case, you guys should watch this, it's fairly funny and, at the very least, will tide you over until Harrison's Mind - Episode 2 (which will probably take another month or something...).

Harrison's Mind

2010-10-29T15:30:00.000-04:00

Okay, finally making time for Harrison's Mind stuff this weekend. I doubt I'll finish all the dialog for Episode 2 in one weekend but you never know, episode 1 took so long because, well, it's the start and it was quite rocky.

I'll make a more meaningful post later when I'm not at work.

P.S. *squishy, squishy* ^_^

Harrison's Mind

2010-10-08T15:25:00.002-04:00

So, I've deciding this is taking too long and, despite that I don't think it will be that good of an episode, I imagine most of you would rather have a 10 minute episode right now rather than the half hour one a month from now. In any case, some people have pointed out that a half hour episode is really long and will probably be too long for the typical youtuber out there.

Thus, I'm going to release a normal length episode sometime this weekend. I already have it all done, I just have to tweak the dialog and render the video and upload it, shouldn't take too long.

That is all.

Back from Na'vi Language Workshop Vacation Thing

2010-10-06T20:33:00.002-04:00

Alrighty, totally back from my little weekend linguistics vacation. I had a blast, learned a lot, stayed in a wonderfully beautiful area of California called Sonoma, and met some really wonderful people.

So, back story, went out to California for the weekend to study and develop the Na'vi language with it's creator, Dr. Paul Frommer, and 15 other linguists and Na'vi enthusiasts from (literally) all over the world. We spent two days studying the language, using it, and finding gaps in it that needed to be filled for it to be more of fully-fleshed out language.

Why might you ask? Well, for one reason it was a lot of fun, only there could I shout "ting makune" (a horrible Na'vi mispronunciation by Sigourney Weaver in the film) and get 16 people all but rolling around on the floor laughing. Other than that I learned a lot, both about California (never been there or even across the Rocky Mountains) and about linguistics in general. I mean, most of these people are PhD level linguists and I could follow along totally when they mentioned things like patientive case markers and mirivity and such (at least until they started talking about really weird or obscure languages, I'm looking at you Lojban). It was wonderful to learn from these people and to share the experience. Plus, we got treated to an amazing camp and host and we all had such a wonderful time

So, yeah, it was a ton of fun, definitely a good experience, I learned a lot, and I met some really great friends. Well, actually, they were already my friends I suppose, I've been talking with them online for almost a year now.. Who says you can't make true friends over the internet these days? Hell, I bet one could even find true love without ever meeting someone in person. Why not? (Gah, totally missed my girlfriend during this whole thing, but it was still awesome)

Anyway, I'll stop boring you with details and just show some of my favorite pictures. I'm the dorky looking one in the LearnNavi.org shirt XD

P.S. Apparently I had a fan girl too, it was so cute, she "squeeed" and hid behind a tree when she found out who I was. XD

P.P.S. Also, yes, I totally got Karyo Pawl's (Teacher Paul's) signature. ^_^ I'm such a nerd.

Stuck in LaGuardia

Got sent down to Atlanta, GA of all places. Heck, one more state and I could have gone to visit Cyh.

The hotel.

The people. The guy on the left came from Scotland.

Driving through Sanoma, CA.

The camp where everything took place.

The gang, getting ready for Na'vi stuff.

More of the gang, that's me 2nd from the right.

Went for lunch outside.

It was so nice we did the 2nd part outside.

After that we went for a hike.

More hike, I have no idea what Taronyu (Richard) is doing here.

A 360+ year old redwood tree.

It's huge. Yes, I know it's ironic we held this meeting around the biggest trees in the world.

At the summit of the hill, not a bad hike.

More hike, about to go back down.

Around the campfire, yes we made smores.

The whole group the next day.

Shenanigans

Does this count as tree hugging?

A really cool mossy wall.

We made a funny word. XD

Yeah, we're totally being serious about this linguistic meeting. >_<

Me and Paul Frommer

Back to San Francisco...and we're passing by Eureka apparently. I'll put that town right up there with Buttzville.

Back in good, ol' Maine.

So, that was my trip, I had fun. Now, back to Harrison's Mind...*goes off to play some video games or watch some TV* ^_^

Big Post Coming

2010-10-05T16:05:00.005-04:00

Just got back from my vacation, big post coming!

EDIT: Hehehe, a preview of some of the shenanigans that happened: Skxawng Makto!

EDIT 2: Ahahahaah, I love you XKCD: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/online_communities_2_large.png

Updates

2010-09-18T21:55:00.003-04:00

Okay, first, Harrison's Mind. It's slowly happening, as predicted a girlfriend has (happily) occupied all my time normally spent on games as well as video making. Fret not though, it will happen and it would have already been released if it was a normal length episode. As it stands I have about 1/3 of it done...doesn't seem like much but if I could just get a few hours to sit down and get it done I could probably have it to 2/3 done and maybe have it done in a week or two. At the very least, I'm going to work on it a bit tonight and I'll see what I can get done.

Let's see....what else?

Got Cyh hooked on Castle as payback for her getting me hooked on Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Series. Both are great shows if you haven't seen them. Though I still have to pay her back for getting me hooked on staying up till 6 AM and sleeping in till 4 PM. It's so fun though so I guess I'll just have to forgive her for that.

What else?

Ummm, not much I guess. Made a parody/tribute of that discovery channel song The World Is Just Awesome in Na'vi and sent it to Dr. Paul Frommer (creator of the language) for his birthday yesterday. He loved it, said it was the best gift he received (wow, either that meant a lot to him or he got some crappy gifts >_<). Check it out if you want, it's short and actually came out pretty good if I may say so (I generally hate my singing voice).

Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5hbwZEeI9k

Anyway, back to exercising!

EDIT: YES! Another epic mind series may have just been born: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AH0Y7Pla_s

It's so well done and, aside from some technical issues (letterbox for the loss), is really good and shows A LOT of promise. Can't wait to see more from this guy. He's got Corky, Cyh, and myself posting this on our blogs so he should get a lot of new viewers. Can't wait to see more of it if he continues.

EDIT AGAIN: Uploaded a video with One Minute of Harrison's Mind - Episode 1, enjoy!

GAH! I'm being crushed by fans!

2010-09-09T17:30:00.002-04:00

Holy, f-ing, crap.

Okay, first off, DO NOT FLAME THIS VIDEO! Seriously, leave the kid alone, I'm not kidding about this. Unless you have something nice to say or something helpful DON'T WRITE IT! Something tells me this kid gets picked on a lot, leave him alone.

Now, watch this horror: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE1DAhhsJdQ

Okay, yeah, wow, I'm scared. I've been getting A LOT more annoying people on steam, skype, and in various games lately. This needs to stop.

First off, I'm glad my fans enjoy talking to me, I enjoy talking to you too. Most of you are really nice, I've played some great games with you guys. HOWEVER, I am not your digital jester! Do not join me in a game and ask me to say lines or dance or do tricks! I will become very annoyed as will everyone else on the server.

Also, on that note, don't message me with nothing important to say. I will block you! I'm so tired of fans messaging me with a conversation something like this (grammar improved for readability):

Log onto steam....5 seconds later:
Kid: "Hey Barney"
....
Kid: "Hey, you there?"
Kid: "Hey, what's up?"
Kid: "Hey..."
Me: "Hi"
Kid: "Hey, so, you want to play opposing force?"
Me: "Not really."
Kid: "Hey? Want to join me in voice chat?"
Starts a voice chat request without waiting for an answer.
Me: "Can't, busy."
Kid: "Hey, say "I hate bees"."
Blocked!

Seriously, if you see me online and want to ask a quick question, go ahead. If you see me in a game that isn't full, feel free to join. If you're playing with me you can ask stuff regarding the series' in the text chat but LEAVE THE VOICE CHAT ALONE! That will just piss off everyone else because they will have no idea what you're talking about, bonus hatred points if you have a really young, high-pitched, annoying voice.

Secondly, don't ask a question that has been asked a million times and is easy to find. The one exception to this is when will an episode be released. I don't mind this if you ask it politely, most of the time though I will ignore it if it's been a while (or hardly at all) since my last episode and the question has probably been answered on my blog or on the last video/trailer.

Finally, don't be such idiots! GAH! I'd lose faith in the world with all you people if I didn't already think it was full of morons. So many stupid people asking obvious questions, doing retarded things, and just being idiots. I mean, come on, if in real life you met a big super star would you ask him to say his favorite catch phrase or do a funny dance or talk to you all night. NO! (Well, you probably would, but you're an idiot if you think that's an acceptable thing to do!) No! If you want to be friends with someone then be their friend, don't be an ass. Also, if you want to just say "hi" then JUST SAY HI! Don't try to bug me with crap that just wastes my time!

Okay, now, about that video. Holy crap! That kid is scary looking, I mean, wow, has he EVER gone outside? What the hell is wrong with his parents? Dude! Get some exercise! Run around! MOVE! Also, FOR FUCKS SAKE! I'm not some crazy superstar! Why do you want to talk with me, I'm just some dude from Maine who decided to parody Ross Scott! This is just creepy. Oh well, I remember him from the game and he wasn't too bad....at first. I'm not sure if he got muted but I'm pretty sure me or another admin warned him for mic spamming. Ugh, this is just wrong on so many levels.

I don't know what else to say.

Oh, in regards to Harrison's Mind, it's coming slowly. VERY, very slowly. I've been busy as usual plus I've just not had that much time for it. Been chatting with CyhAnide a lot on Skype and hanging out with some friends and just kind of getting other things done at the moment. Also, in October I'm going to be going to California for a weekend so that (and the prep for that) are going to cut into it even more. I'll try to finish it as soon as I can though.

P.S. Got a new Logitech G500 mouse this morning, about time I replaced that crappy 5-button, generic M$ mouse I've had for 5 years.

P.P.S. Tacos for the emperor! ^_^

P.P.P.S. My girlfriend is amazing, I love her so much.

There Corky

2010-09-01T22:25:00.003-04:00

The frolicking is complete: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt8B48Qm_AM

MUAHHAHAAHAHAHAH!!!!

....okay, I'm better now.

EDIT:

Caboos15 made this for me (with a minor edit by myself):

Intelligent
Reliable
Advanced
Machine
In
Generating
High
Talent
Projects
In
Rough
And
Terrible
Environments

:D

I think my head is going to explode

2010-08-31T21:56:00.002-04:00

Okay, so another rant/vent, this time in English. Vague, non-descriptive English, but English.

So, yes, as some of you figured out, the last rant was about a girl, someone very, very dear to me. I didn't know if she liked me as much as I did but I was very scared of hurting her so I hid my feelings. I shouldn't have and it was stupid but, I am stupid, so it fits.

Anyway, long story short, she found out and, against all odds, she feels the same way. Seriously can't get over this! I mean, what are the chances that you meet someone who becomes a great friend and then turns into the person of your dreams and THEN you find out shares your feelings.

Now the bad, this relationship will be weird on many levels which I won't get into now. Also, I just started a relationship with another person that I can now not continue because of my feelings. I just couldn't ignore them and lie and pretend they didn't exist for the first person. I hate to end it with this other girl because she is so nice but, unfortunately, I can't love two people equally at once so I must choose, and choose I have.

So, I am now freaking out, wondering if I chose right, wondering if I'm being an idiot (which I'm sure I am), wondering if this will just end up hurting me or someone else (well, I suppose it's a given that someone's going to end up hurt, no matter what), and wondering if I'm just being impulsive.

But, the more I think about it the better it gets. I think I've chosen the right person and, at the very least, my heart agrees. I just need to get my brain to agree, but I think he does too. However, in the meantime, I am going crazy and am going from panic attacks to smiling uncontrollably to anything and everything in-between. So crazy!

Ugh, and I still have to break up with the person tomorrow. I mean, we've only gone on two dates but we clicked fairly well so things moved along pretty quickly. It just wouldn't be fair or right for me to be with her though. I hope she forgives me.

I need to eat food, tummy is complaining. I shall go eat food now and try to sort out my head. Sleep will probably help a lot. And time. Sleep and time, I can do that.

So, yes, this is what has been delaying Harrison's Mind (and I've been my usual busy self in general).

Oh, though in other good news, my frolicking worked, I have now generated a category 4 hurricane for Cyh. Apparently I did it too well, anyone in the cone of uncertainty please, PLEASE be careful. That actually includes me as well, Maine has a good potential to be hit by a REALLY strong hurricane, so weird when that happens but this could actually be really bad for some people. Here's to hoping it misses everybody and goes out to sea.

Alright, food time.

Thanks for listening.

Vent

2010-08-29T00:42:00.009-04:00

So, I need to vent, but this is stuff I don't want anyone to read, but at the same time just talking to myself doesn't seem sufficient. So I'm going to scream it to the world...in Na'vi. I have no idea why...well, that's not true, Cyh did it first (in Japanese) and made me realize how effective it is to do that (and how frustrating it is to try to figure out what someone is talking about, GAH! XD :P).

So, yeah, here's everything that's been eating away at my sanity for the past month or two. If you can figure out what it says then you are worthy of knowing some of my most deepest thoughts. For everyone else, feel free to ask me questions about this, I shall ignore them forthwith.

Kaltxì ulte zola’u nìprrte’ nemfa oeyä keye’ung.

Oeru fì'u lu a tsranten oeyä elturu. Zene oel fì'uti piveng tuteoru fu oe pxayor! Oeyä eltuìl pereng oeru futa zene oe ke 'efu talun fì'u hiyìk sì lehrrap lu nì'aw. Slä, oeru lu tì'efu, ye'rìn ulte fìtì'efu ke hayum. Oel ke omum futa zene oe sivi.

Tse, san peu lu fìtì'efu a nga 'efu? sìk nga pawm. Oel ke omum fya'oti a tsun oel tsa'uti pivlltxe, tafral oe pìylltxe nìftue. Oeru tuteo leiu yawne (kxawm tsalì'u lu txur nìhawng, tuteo oeru prrte' lu nìtxan). Po lu fra'u a oe nivew ta tute (ulte nì'ul). Ngian, pol tsatsengìt terok ulte oel fìtsenget tok. Kop, oe ke new fìkem a oel oengeyä tì’eylanit skivä'ä, tafral tsun pol fì'uti ke omum. Oengeyä tì’eylanit lu letsranten nìtxan, poru tìsraw lu ulte oel ke new futa tìsraw seyki poru.

Set, nga tsolam? Po lu txantsan nìwotx ulte oel new ke'uti slä oe seyki poru lu prrte'. Tsa-hey! Ke muiä, oeru pelun? Ke sìltsan, kehe, ke sìltsan nìwotx.

Oe ultxa seri lahea tuteru slä oe txopu si tafral oel ke omum futa txo oel run tuteti a tsun oeru yawne livu tafral oel rayun tuteti a lu na po. Tìawneri pak, oeru ke prrte' ta tsa'u slä tsun oe rivey luke tsatì'efu. Oe sìlpey tsnì tsun oel rivun tuteti a oeru leyku prrte' tì’i’avay krrä, fì'u ke lu muiä. Slä peu tsun oe sivi? Oe ke omum.

Ha, zene oe si ke'u. Hapxì oeyä lu kerusey fu holum ulte tìreyìl tolìng oeru tuteti a tsun oeru ke lu. Oe sìlpey tsnì txo Sayìl fì'uti tsaye'a a po ke sti oeru. Oel omum futa fì'u ke lu txantslusam.

Tse, oeri po lu sìltsana 'eylan, oeru lu prrte' ta poyä aypamrel ulte poyä lrrtok. Po lu sìltsana tute ulte oel new futa poru lu fpom frakrr. Kxawm tsun oe por livu yawne kop srak? Kxawm ke lu.

Tsa-hey! Oe lu skxawng nìwotx! Pelun?!

Nga oeru lu yawne ulte oel ngati kameie ma oeyä 'eylan. Ngari nawma sa'nok lrrtok siveiyi frakrr.

Well, I feel a little better, I guess it's back to work on Harrison's Mind.

P.S. Yes, I have seen the Avatar re-release already....twice.

EDIT: Well, one person has figured it all out, I half relieved and half afraid. I am such an idiot.

Harrison's Mind Update

2010-08-22T23:23:00.002-04:00

So, I got a bit of work done on Harrison's Mind - Episode 1 and finally established a scope of this thing.

....

FUUUUUUU- There's a lot of work to do. I got about 8 minutes of work done and the episode is going to be about 35 minutes long in 3 parts. Meh. So, I can probably do about 5 minutes every other day at best and I'm sure there will be part of the week I don't get any work done. That means we're looking at around 2 weeks before I release this, maybe less if I have a productive day.

Meh, this is going to take a while. It's TOTALLY worth it though, I'm so excited for this.

Also, this weekend, Cyh, Corky and I were chatting on skype and recorded ~~a crazy hour of us chatting~~ as well as a commentary for Chell's Mind - Episode 00. Expect those sometime soon as well.

EDIT: NOT A HAPPY PIRATE! The recording we made got messed up somehow and it only has my side of the audio. It think it was skype's fault but, still, not happy! That was so funny and I was really looking forward to sharing that. Meh, we'll just have to do it again some time. Sorry folks, the commentary came out fine though.

JUSTICE!!!!

2010-08-13T20:23:00.000-04:00

Hey, guys, remember about this time last year when I moved to my new apartment and I couldn't update Barney's Mind for a while because my internet company kept fucking me over? Well, you probably also missed the many month long saga after that where they kept charging me for services I didn't have and failing to send me my bills to the right address. Seriously, I memorized their customer service number it was so bad. About the only reason I stuck with them was because I had put so much effort into getting their damn service I didn't want to waste it and start all over. (Also, they have the best quality internet around).

It also seems like I'm far from the only one they've screwed over. Apparently tons of people were having the same problems I was or worse. Apparently, the real problem all stem from their crappy billing system that kept screwing up setup orders, billing records, billing addresses, etc.

Anyway, fast forward a bit, I just realized today that I haven't received a bill from them in a while. This happened when I moved last year and caused me to get behind in my bills because I'm too lazy to keep track of them unless they mail them to me. So, anyway, I'm basically cursing them and their crappy computers and I call them up and their fucking office is closed! Bastards! So, I called the automated account thing and after fighting with that for a bit I get to my account balance and, totally expecting it to be like $150 or something annoying, the stupid automated voice tells me it's:

$0.00

Oh that just suc-wait? What?! I owe you nothing? The automated voice than says "your last payment was on June something-or-other". Ummm, so I haven't been billed since then?

SWEET!!! VICTORY IS MINE! JUSTICE IS SWEET AND AWESOME AND GOOD! I NOW HAVE FREE INTERNET THANKS TO MY INTERNET COMPANIES CRAPPY BILLING SYSTEM!!! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Awesome.

Dawwwww

2010-08-13T11:37:00.002-04:00

If this doesn't make you smile then you are a cold, heartless person (or a robot)

Dawwww, it's so cute and shy. I want to pet it!

...Anyway, there, you've now had your daily required amount of cuteness, back to your lives citizens.

Avatar (I know...) and Harrison's Mind

2010-08-12T13:55:00.004-04:00

So, I think I've recovered from my vacation. Back into my usual swing of sleep, work, hobbies, rinse and repeat.

Harrison's Mind is finally back on track and the vacation really helped me get my motivation up despite how long this has been taking. I've finally got all the gun audio tweaked the way I want it and I've found out how to remove Harrison's dialog and I think I've even figured out how to remove his little screams every time the pansy steps in some alien acid.

I've also been playing through a bunch of it testing things and working out plot points for later on and figuring out jokes I can setup. I'm really excited about this because this universe is so much more open and I have tons more avenues for jokes. With Barney's Mind, Barney already had a personality, Black Mesa was already set in canon, events were already known after HL1 and Blue Shift. With Harrison, I'm free to make tons of jokes (for example, a joke I thought of recently involving Larry the Cable guy being elected president, don't ask).

The other thing is I forgot how fucking scary this game was. Seriously, I've played this game like 20 times, I know where all the aliens come out of and what to expect. Still though, many times in the game I've been afraid to enter a room because I don't want to have something appear behind me and start trying to rip my face off. Also, this game is hard! Seriously, when a face-hugger starts running around the shit hits the fan! You just start unloading without stopping because if one of those fuckers leaps at you it's an instant kill (and the screen shows the little bastard sucking on your face from Harrison's POV, very creepy). And the aliens are no better, they can be taken out fairly easy but they move quickly and appear suddenly, a few swipes from them and you're an alien sandwich. Once you get some of the more advanced guns it helps but those things chew through ammo like there is no tomorrow so even though some of the pressure is off, when you run out of smartgun ammo, up goes the blood pressure again.

I'm really worried that, since you guys wont be playing the game it will loose some of the tension but I hope to counter that by making Harrison freak out as much as possible and try to up the scary by emphasizing various situations and whatever. Also, the game has great atmosphere, music, and sound effects so it should be good enough. Bonus points to people who watch the episodes at 3 am with the lights off, that should make it truly a mind-fuck.

Oh, and the first episode. I've decided to make it a REALLY long one so that I can get to shit-hits-the-fan part. So, that means, unfortunately, it's going to take a while to get the episode out but, trust me, it will totally be worth it. No idea when it will be done but probably not any time soon. Since I've got a good drive going to get it done I may have it done in a week or two but we'll see.

Okay, next item on the agenda...now, bear with me here. If you are sick and tired of Avatar then please skip this. I know, I know, I have issues. *Ahem*

New Avatar Re-Release Trailer!

If you haven't seen the other one then see that too.

FUCK! YEA! I can't wait, I've been cold turkeying (yes, I totally accept I am addicted to this movie) and not watching Avatar for about 2 months now. I'm saving up all my excitement for when it comes out. From what I know of the original script they added in all the best scenes. I think these scenes will really add a lot to the people who said "it'd be great if it had a little more character/plot development" and, at the very least, should add some of the more visually stunning scenes back in that were cut.

(Possible minor spoilers ahead)

From what I can tell they're going to add a sturmbeast hunt (which I'm worried will be a little too much like the Dances with Wolves buffalo hunt but the little snippet in the trailer have put my fears to rest), a scene at the beginning with Grace's old school (should add a lot to Grace's character), the full love scene between Jake and Neytiri (come on, who doesn't want to see this scene), a counterattack by the Na'vi after the humans destroy the willow glade (utral aymokriyä) (this should really flesh out why Quaritch goes so ballistic against the Na'vi and why Selfridge agrees to let him destroy Hometree), the scene between Hometree getting destroyed and Quaritch launching his full offensive where Selfridge tries to stand up to him but Quraitch basically says "what are you going to do about it little man?" (this should help a lot with Selfridge's character as he really was way too stereotypical in the original), more action scenes in the final battle (who doesn't want that?), and, finally, a cute scene of Neytiri chasing the little spinning lizards (which I love her smile in) that I believe happens near the beginning.

I also hope they add the scene where the other human Avatar drivers rebel and, with the help of the Na'vi, take out Hell's Gate, but that's a long scene and I don't think it would add that much so I wouldn't be surprised if they left that out.

Anyway, totally stoked for this, also, I'm really excited to see if they dump any new Na'vi language in there and see how well I can pick it up since I've all but memorized the Na'vi in the movie right now. Ahhh, I've never been this fanatic about anything, not even Lord of the Rings. I can at least understand why the Twilight fanatics enjoy feeling that way, it's fun to just passionately enjoy something so much that it becomes irrational.

Okay, enough of that, I don't want to lose every single person who reads my blog. So, yeah, Harrison's Mind soon, can't wait. Also, if you don't watch Felix's Mind I'm in the latest episode and will be in some of the episodes after that playing Barney Calhoun (told you I'd reappear as him sooner or later :P). I think some of the dialog came out a little forced since I was unsure of the context and was trying to match the original dialog so that the lip-syncing worked out. Overall though I think the dialog works well, especially the in-joke about douchbag. :) Also, as with Chell's Mind, Corky put in a funny little line of mine at the end. :D

Oh, and finally, I've become so addicted to Cyh's book it's almost as absurd as my Avatar addiction. She's got this crazy cliffhanger going on so I must go read that now. Muahahahahahaha! [Runs off cackling insanely]

P.S. Corky has convinced me that I must make a hilarious video of me chasing butterflies....don't ask, but it will probably happen. :D

P.P.S. No, I don't know where I put my sanity. I think it's still in the car, let me go look.

Back

2010-08-09T00:36:00.005-04:00

I exist again...

Way too tired to touch the email, not even daring to look how many emails I have. 12 hour drives are suck. Outings are awesome. Good times all around. ~~Pictures in the morning.~~ Pictures coming soon.

Click here for some pictures, more will be added soon.

Another good picture:

Vacation

2010-08-04T17:30:00.003-04:00

WIN!

2010-07-31T18:26:00.000-04:00

I'm going to live for forever... :P heheheh, I'm such a typical guy sometimes.

Anyway, in other news, I'm going to try to get episode 1 of Harrison's Mind done before next Thursday. Why next Thursday? Well, I'm going to be on vacation! So, yeah, I better get to work.

WOOHOO!

2010-07-29T13:55:00.006-04:00

http://gizmodo.com/5599619/youtube-increasing-upload-limit-from-10-to-15-minutes

For the illiterate people out there; google is increasing the upload limit from 10 minutes to 15 minutes. YEA!

(I wonder if anyone will catch the joke I just made?)

Suck

2010-07-27T23:51:00.001-04:00

So, first off, I'm slightly intoxicated here...yea, that's a good preface. When I'm this way my internal filter between my brain and my mouth (or in this case, my hands) shuts down. So, this is unfiltered, whatever I'm thinking at the moment, Ian's Mind.

Anyway, for the past few months I've been actively trying to find someone compatible to date. I've been single for over a year now but that was totally by choice. I got out of a long, long relationship with my ex-fiancé and had no interest what-so-ever with the opposite gender. This slowly faded over the past whatever, or so, and a while back I decided that my heart had healed enough and I was ready to find love again. Oh, yeah, the reason it took so long is I still love my ex, I mean, I wouldn't have asked her to marry me if I hadn't been prepared to commit to loving her no matter what. Unfortunately, that wasn't enough and, even though I loved her, she didn't feel the same for me. So, I broke it off. Yeah. Suck.

Anyway, so a little while back I decided to stop passively looking for people to date (a good idea since I think about the only person of the opposite gender that I didn't already know I'd usually meet at a paintball game and it's hard to ask someone out when you're shooting them with little gelatin balls traveling at over 200 miles per hour. My other hobbies (golf, video games, flying, reading, bowling, Na'vi, DnD, etc) and my work (which you've already seen) don't really include any interaction with the opposite gender, or any gender for that matter). So, yeah, I decided to find people rather than let people come to me.

Now, I'm not a shy person, mostly just a quiet person. However, I can be forward and friendly to strangers so I usually do well at bars and parties, and that's where I started. There's a couple of good bars around town and I've been hanging out at a few of them on a regular basis and the times I've been there were a lot of fun. I met lots of really cool people, made a bunch of friends, got tons of numbers, and was having a great success.

Fast-forward 2 months and here I am. Still single. Frankly, all the people I meet there are great friends but I just have little to no interest in dating them. They're either losers, or taken, or boring, or just not someone I could ever be with.

Anyway, the whole reason I'm writing this is I seriously am considering joining a dating site. I cringe just thinking about it, but the more I think about it, the more it makes sense. I mean, bars, clubs, and whatever are mostly going to be full of losers, nobodies, people already with someone, or desperate people. I don't belong there. Now, I'm a engineer, nerd, and generally left-brained person. The logical side of me is telling me that I should do this because it's efficient, simple, and easy. Hell, probably cheaper too. As much as I love a good drink, spending $20 at a bar each week does tend to add up.

So, yeah, I'm basically torn between going back to my passive search of hoping to meet the right someone through normal social interaction (unlikely) or try a dating site (which I'm half expecting to be full of fakers and the other half full of losers) but, hell it's worth a try, right?

Anyway, that's my question. Am I making sense here? Or should I continue the "traditional" dating routine of meeting people at bars, parties, and other social gatherings?

Anyway, reading this over again this seems ridiculous but, frankly, I have nobody else at the moment to really talk to and I know I'm not thinking clearly enough to make sense of all this. I'm half tempted to delete this right now, and probably will in the morning. Hell, this probably makes me sound like some loser, lonely dude which couldn't be farther from the truth. Fuck, I have so many friends in one way I'm glad a few of them moved away recently, gives me a little more free time to myself. But, still, I'm a ladies man (if you pardon the expression). I enjoy loving someone and being loved by them. I miss that connection and, while desperate is the last thing I am, I sure do miss it.

Damn, I think I need a vacation or something. I've become way too emotional over the past few weeks. Blah, usually I can contain these emotions but lately I've been so sappy I make myself sick.

Okay, I'm rambling now. Whatever, I'm just going to click "post" without reading this rant. I'll read it in the morning and decide if I should delete this or not.

Whatever.

Muffins.

Thanks for reading I guess.

I'm gonna go play some video games before bed.

P.S. Firefox spellchecker is my friend. Yay.

P.P.S. I know, I need to post some videos. I've got like 4 coming, 2 paintball, 1 Ian's Mind, and the first episode of Harrison's Mind. They're coming. Despite all this rambling I am actually getting some work done on them. I guess that's one advantage of being single. Now, if only I could get rid of my crappy commute I'd have tons of free time.

P.P.P.S. While I was at the bar I came up with some ideas for my story. Yay.

P.P.P.P.S. Yeah, maybe Cyh's got the right idea. Maybe I should just say "fuck this shit" and work on videos and stories. It sounds like a lot of fun.

P.P.P.P.P.S. Wow, this is fucking long....my bad.

Paper Mill Platform

2010-07-27T11:02:00.001-04:00

If anyone's interested, here is my current design for the platform at the paper mill that I showed in my video:

Platform 3D Model

Platform 3D Model - Structural steel only.

Okay, back to work.

Writing Stuff

2010-07-25T20:52:00.004-04:00

Curse you Cyhanide, last night I stayed up till 5:30 AM writing and only went to bed because the slowly lightening sky told me that if I didn't then I never would.

Actually, scratch that. You're awesome. That was so much fun I can't wait to write some more. Normally on something this big I'd pace myself because there's so much to do but, as with Na'vi, I just have this insane drive and no matter how tedious it is to build a whole world from scratch or edit something 10 times until you perfect it I just want to do more.

Here is the sample chapter I wrote if you guys and gals want to read it, I tried to pick an interesting part of the story that wouldn't give away anything: The Tale of Narian and Lucas

Some things about the story; I apologize for any typos, grammar, or spelling errors. Much of this was written when I was tired and if stuff doesn't seem well written blame my tired brain. Some other things, I still haven't fleshed out the world hardly at all, I have enough names and places for my current outline and that's all so some of the names might change. Still not quite happy with the names of the two characters in the title so I may change them. Oh, and the title I am not happy with, I wanted it to be The Tale of Kìlvarin but DeviantArt objects to non-English characters in the title. Meh.

So, yeah, I have another hobbie now and I totally didn't need any more. Oh well, at least with this one I can do it on weekends when I'm visiting my parents or I can brainstorm when I'm driving to work on my long ass commute.

Oh well, I doubt this will interfere with Harrison's Mind. Speaking of that, I've gotten the first episode all laid out finally. Took me forever to figure out what exactly I wanted to do with the first bit and I still haven't decided if I want to make this a two part episode or not. The reason for this is the first 15 minutes of the game are great but there's no action, which is awesome because it sets up the suspense and the action parts great but I'm not sure if people will get bored with the first few episodes.

Well, actually, I think I just decided. One part, 6 minutes or so. I guess I'll just have a boring episode 1 but whatever, it sets up episode 2 to be exciting and then episode 3 and 4 are all awesome. Man, I forgot how much I loved this game. I've played it about 10 times and the bastard STILL gets my heart going when the aliens show up. It's just...GAH! they just jump out at you when you least expect them.

Blast, now I want to go play some AvP2....bah, I've been working hard this weekend, I could use a video game break.

Edit: Just discovered how to mod AvP2. Yay! Now I can remove the main characters dialog, fix some weapon sounds, and make the game more friendly to a mind series. Crap! Now I have more work to do and need to reshoot the footage for episodes 1 and 2.

BP Photoshop

2010-07-22T23:29:00.005-04:00

Hey, anyone hear about BP's horrible photoshop(s) of some PR images? No? Yes? Well, whatever, I find it stupid that people are making such a big deal out of it, I think the only fail here is how bad they photoshoped the images.

Article on the photoshopping.

However, with my awesome computer skillz, I unearthed the true images and found that they actually did a good job. The image appears to have 4 different versions and they finally settled on the one in the article.

The original image.

Version 1

Version 2

Version 3

Final Version

Heheh, so you can see that clearly they know what they are doing.

(Wow, I totally should have been using the time the I took to make these more productively. Like Harrison's Mind-Ep. 1, which I have about halfway done.)

P.S. And actually, shouldn't we be glad that they're not spending time, effort, and money on some stupid PR images when they have one of the worst natural disasters to deal with?

Stuff

2010-07-19T19:21:00.004-04:00

So, I've been a little lazy...but that's nothing new, right?

Yeah, working on Harrison's Mind in a second, haven't even got the footage filmed for this one. It's not like I haven't been doing any work on it, I've just been taking my time with starting this mind series. Trying to figure out what works and what doesn't. Anyway, no idea when I'll have episode 1 done but when I do I'll let you guys and gals know.

Also, as you guys may have noticed I disabled the anonymous commenting last week because some asshat decided that posting a bunch of useless spam messages would be funny. NO IT WASN'T DICKCHEESE! BLARG! So, it was a choice between no comments at all, only registered user comments, or me approving all comments. I picked door number 2. Apparently though, this pissed a lot of people off so I've now put things back to normal with one change, when the blog post is older than 7 days comments have to be approved by me.

Maybe this will even get rid of the pron bot? Anyway, hopefully this is a happy medium. However, if someone decides to be an idiot again I'll either suffer having to approve every comment (bleh) or go back to no anon comments (double bleh).

Let's see, what else? Well, I've been reading Cyh's story that she posts on DeviantArt and loving every chapter. It's a great story, doubly so since she wrote most of it when she was 14. I've loved reading it so much that I think I'm going to start writing my own story.

I've never written fiction before but have always wanted to try it and have had a story idea kicking around in my head for years now. I know, I need another hobbie like I need a hole in the head but this shouldn't take up that much time, unlike my other hobbies.

Speaking of other hobbies, I played some paintball the other day and hooked up my camera again. So sometime soon I'll post those videos. I'm gonna edit in some maps and things showing the layout of the field and where people are so you guys can follow along with the action better. Should be interesting to watch I think.

Oh, and yes, I haven't forgotten, still have to make that "Making of Barney's Mind" video. Don't worry, that will happen sooner or later. It's just my plans for that thing are so complex it will take a long time to do it and it must be done all at once so I need a whole day for it. (A whole day?! For a single project?! Ahahaha, you must be joking.)

Lastly, if you guys remember, I speak Na'vi (from the Avatar movie). I'm one of a bunch of people online learning it (lately directly from the guy who made it!) and I think it's a wonderfully beautiful language. I'd really like to make a video using it but have no idea what that could be that wouldn't be either boring or stupid. Any one have a good idea? The best I've come up is a song (ack, I think my singing was banned by the Geneva Convention) or a poem, but something tells me those too wouldn't be that interesting.

Okay, that's enough rambling for now, until next time.

Harrison's Mind Trailer

2010-07-01T00:05:00.001-04:00

Trailer for Harrison's Mind can be found here, hope you like it.

Portal 2 Stole My Joke!

2010-06-29T16:18:00.000-04:00

RAWR! This is so hilarious. First, watch the Portal 2 Intro Demo assuming you haven't already. Now, watch it again because it was awesome.

Anyway, that little eyeball stole my brute force hacking joke! HAH! I mean, I probably heard it somewhere before I made that joke but I still say it's mine (or Krimsin's and mine I suppose, since it was a collaborative effort coming up with those jokes). That's just so amusing, though. Also, on the mind note, can't wait to see Chell's Mind in Portal 2. HURRY CYH! You only have a year (or two given Valve Delays (c)) to finish Chell's Mind.

Damn, I really want to play that game now though, looks amazing.

Now, go watch this Portal 2 Intro Demo because you know you want to again. Or watch this Harry Potter trailer: Harry Potter and the Deathly Something or Others. Done? Okay, now go watch The Last Airbender this week with me. Okay! Now go watch...um, Avatar....for the 42nd time.....or something.

Anyway, I'm off to go try to see if this chick who gave me her number last week wants to go out for drinks.

EDIT: Hey check this out! Xesum made me a hilarious poster. Check it out. If Barney's Mind ever becomes a motion picture I want this to be the movie poster. :P Thanks dude.

Barney's Mind - Episode 2 - Special Edition

2010-06-26T00:41:00.000-04:00

Barney's Mind - Episode 2 - Special Edition - Part 1
Barney's Mind - Episode 2 - Special Edition - Part 2

Yay, it's done. There's a great bit at the end for you people who posted a "tamale" comment on the Meeting of the Minds video. Sorry if I missed anyone though, it took long enough as is (like 4 hours to make that stupid thing, mostly because windows movie maker sucks).

Also, here's all the spellings that people came up with for "tamale": Tamale Pie Chart

Enjoy!

Episode 2 - Remake is done

2010-06-23T23:55:00.000-04:00

Well, almost. All the video editing is done and the audio is all recorded and added to the video, I just need to run through it and make some final adjustments and then I have to add my "tamale" surprise at the end for everyone. But, it's late so I'm gonna go to bed, gotta get up early tomorrow and register my new car (and pay the $400 excise tax on it, grumble).

So, expect that in a day or two at the most. YAY!

I figured it out

2010-06-21T13:00:00.000-04:00

Cyh gave me the idea of what to do with all these "tamale" (YES! That's how you spell it) comments and it's genius. MUAHAHAAH.

Also, finally getting the episode 2 remake done.

P.S. I've decided that grammatical articles are useless. For example here is the 2nd sentence of the post without articles and you can still understand it perfectly if you think about it.

Also, finally getting episode 2 remake done.

Sir Ian McKellen is amazing

2010-06-11T12:27:00.001-04:00

Ahahah, just stumbled upon this little gem from a while back, no description just play the video and skip to 1:58 (or watch the whole thing), you will not be disappointed.

Anyway, back to your lives citizens.

New car!

2010-06-09T20:42:00.000-04:00

So, in a sudden semi-impulse, but one that by all accounts will only improve my finances, I have sold my old Cougar, which I barely knew as far as cars go, and purchased a 2010 Ford Focus SE.

The story (feel free to skip): Because I drive so much I've put so many miles on my Cougar that it was getting to be a real pain to keep it running, and I still had about 2 years left to pay it all off. The past 6 months have been good but recently I just replaced the rear brakes, rear sway bar end links, and a front tie rod end and just found out it needs even more work (two struts and front rotors). "Bah, no biggy, I'll get it all fixed" I said. Well, just the other day, there's now a fun little grinding coming from the engine that comes and goes when starting, I think it's the starter clutch not disengaging properly. Also the front suspension is squeaking like crazy (been doing that for a while now though but it's getting worse), the paint clear coat is coming off (on top of the previous owners horrible maintenance of the body, want to beat him/her senseless for what they did to it), and recently both the transmission and/or the engine doesn't sound and feel 100%. Also it needs new tires. So, after being bored sitting at the local Ford dealership waiting for a ride I got to talking. Before I knew it, and after spending 6 hours running numbers, checking budgets, test driving cars, and reviewing my options, I came to the conclusion that I would spend only slightly more per month, on average, if I bought a brand new, low-end car. I figured as long as I can replace my ATX Cougar with a MTX with similar features it's sporty and practical enough for my tastes and I ending up settling on the Focus.

2010 Ford Focus SE, MTX, fully loaded including Ford's sync system. Drives great, has decent low-end torque for an I4 and get's 35 MPG highway. Since 95% of my driving is at 70 MPH on the freeway it should make a great commuting car, really spacious in the front, a pleasure to drive, really happy with it.

Anyway, so that's delay number 10,001 on why I haven't finished Episode 2 of the Barney's Mind remakes. Forgive me, I'll get them done soon, I promise! (If anything, sooner! Now I don't have to spend weekends fixing my car.)

300 Bees

2010-05-29T00:48:00.000-04:00

Muhahaha!

Click here for the latest episode of Barney's Mind

Ramblings

2010-05-27T17:10:00.000-04:00

Grape NOS is pretty good. You should try it.

Oh, and AASHTO, your manual over-designs all your concrete structures to the extreme yet when it comes to surcharge live loads on a vertical surface from vehicles you just add 2-4 ft of soil loading? What? That doesn't make any sense! I somehow doubt 2 more feet of soil is the equivalent to a 26 kip wheel load.

Mental note, I totally need to stop using this cap-less red pen as a book mark, my hand looks really funny now from running into it.

I can't tell if I want to do laundry tonight or go out drinking...maybe both?

Anyway, back to work. Here's something to laugh at, bonus points if you can turn it into a funny de-motivational poster:

EDIT: Actually, no, I shall suspend my social life and try to finish the Special Edition of Barney's Mind - Episode 2. The Q&A pushed that back but now that it's done I should get back to it.

See, this is why I'm single, every time I want to go out and mingle with people who aren't close friends I usually just end up working on my various hobbies. You better be entertained dammit! :P

EDIT: We have a winner (unless you can do better):

Meeting of the Minds Q&A/FAQ

2010-05-23T01:12:00.001-04:00

Alrighty! It's here: Clicky! Clicky! Clicky! Clicky!

It's over two hours (after editing out about 10 minutes of blarg) so it's going to take me a minute to cut it down and post it in YouTube videos (if I even do that). I was planning to edit out more but decided it was all just too funny and I had to leave it all in, so this is mostly un-cut.

Seriously, I'm really not wanting to do that. That's easily 20 videos...but then again I know it won't get seen as much if it's just on our blogs. Bah, I guess I'll do it.

Anyway, enjoy 2 hours of us ranting and trying (mostly without success) to stay on-topic.

P.S. While our videos do try to avoid swearing somewhat, this Q&A thing does not. So if you or your parents have strong opinions regarding certain 4 letter words then you have been warned. Though I did take one section where we all started swearing and added bleeps just cause it's so funny to hear it that way.

Q&A Update

2010-05-19T10:17:00.000-04:00

Yeah, Q&A update. We recorded over 2 hours of audio which is obviously wayyyy to much. I'm editing it down but it's taking a while. Plus, I had a few things take over my time the last two days so I haven't done much work on it. Tonight's totally free though so I should get a bunch done. Don't worry, it will be up very soon.

EDIT: Here's a preview of the Q&A for you guys: http://www.box.net/shared/pjmuex6gap

Yep, still here

2010-05-12T13:12:00.000-04:00

So, yeah, long delay since my last blog post. My bad, was chewing through my backlog of stuff for my million and won hobbies.

Anyway, finally getting caught back up which means I should finally have some time for Barney's Mind! I've gotten the video done for the remake of Episode 2 and should have the audio done and have that up soon-ish. Episode 3 shouldn't be too far behind that one.

Then, once I have that done, it's on to Harrison's Mind (Alien vs Predator 2), which I'm really excited to start! Also, yes, I will continue to do the Ian's Mind series as well (since they take all of an hour to make, lol) though I'm going to do less of the single take, ad-lib format and do a little more scripted stuff (though, I hope to do everything in one take so that it still keeps that ad-libbed feel). Also, yes, I'm going to do other games besides Counter Strike.

Finally, the Q&A is on, will probably happen sometime this weekend. I shall edit it and post it onto YouTube (it will probably appear on each one of our channels so you won't miss it) for your viewing pleasure.

Hey! Um, what?

2010-04-04T22:43:00.000-04:00

So, if you haven't noticed the rest of the mind people except (Cpt.) Ross Scott did interviews with Caboos15 who does an little YouTube show. You can check my interview out here:

Interview - Part 1
Interview - Part 2
Interview - Part 3

Happy random eat-eggs-because-religions-like-to-steal-festivals-from-other-religions-day.
(AKA Happy Easter everyone, enjoy the long weekend if you have one.)

April not fools

2010-04-01T00:36:00.000-04:00

So, I was going to do an April Fools prank to you guys but decided that it would be a lot more awesome if I did something like this:

YouTube - Ian's Mind

So, this is me playing Counter Strike: Source on the modded Gun Game clan server for the clan, that I'm an admin of, called cDS or Cyber Death Squad. I then cut out some of the more boring sections and added dialog. I did this quickly with only 1 take so it's not polished or anything but I wanted to see if I could make it funny doing nothing but improve. So, anyway, happy April 1st. Hope your pranks go well.

EDIT: Looks like Freeman's Mind went with a hilarious April 1st episode as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LuFtIUEUTQ

ARRGH, now that thy so called Cap'n Scott has let sail with a style of tomfoolery in thee manner o' the seafar'ing buccaneer I fear that likewise sailing such a similar vessel wouldst garner much ridicule. ARGG, shiver me timbers.

Barney's Mind - Episode 1 - Special Edition

2010-03-28T23:39:00.000-04:00

There we go! I'm back with a special edition of Episode 1.

Barney's Mind - Episode 1 - Special Edition:
YouTube - Part 1
YouTube - Part 2

So, there's my Star Wars style extended edition directors cut or whatever you want to call it. Some things you might notice, first I changed it a lot. I did this on purpose so that it was fresh, I didn't want this to be just a boring re-voicing of Episode 1. Also, you'll notice I made it longer and added some things, most notably the bit with the surveillance room. Because of this I had to split it into two parts. Finally, you notice I changed the logo. This logo was done by GritYT for me and I liked it a lot so I'm going to use it for all the special edition videos.

Anyway, gonna take a "little" break but I'll get Episode 2 remade and I'll get that "making of" video I've been planing on doing. Finally, still planning on doing that Q&A so keep asking questions for us mind makers (and yes, I'm going to post the Q&A on YouTube).

That's all from me, later!

Getting there...

2010-03-26T12:17:00.000-04:00

Got some more work done on the remade Episode 1. Going to have a bunch of free time this weekend so I should get it done then.

In the meantime check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysCwGzwXs8g

Damn, now I really, really want to go flying. Guess it's time to renew the ol' license, haven't been flying in 2 years and I totally miss it.

Happy Birthday to Me!

2010-03-24T10:59:00.000-04:00

Anyway, today is my birthday which makes item 1,001 of things that have kept me from putting the finishing bit on the remade Episode 1. Seriously, that things like 70% complete and it would take me only an evening to finish but stuff just keeps getting in the way. GRAAHHH! I'll get it done soon though, at the very least I know I'll have some free time this weekend.

In other news, going to (possibly) be doing a non-live Q&A with Corky, Robin, Simon, and Cyh. So, if you have any questions you would like answered please post them in the comments. We'll pull out the best ones and answer them.

New Barney's Mind Soon!

2010-03-15T10:08:00.000-04:00

New Barney's Mind episode coming soon. Finally got around to getting back to doing these, I know it's been way too long. I've gotten about half of the remake of Episode 1 done and will hopefully have that out in a day or two.

Not much else to say. See ya soon.

EDIT: Evil work overtime has conspired against me. Worked something like 13 hours yesterday and 9 hours today and like 55 hours last week. So, I'm beat and I STILL have more work to do. So, I'm not sure when I'll get it done but it will be soon(ish).

Just got back from New York City...

2010-02-25T22:23:00.000-05:00

...where I was interviewed for Good Morning America!

So, long story short, I went down there and was interviewed because I'm learning Na'vi. Crazy awesome. The segment will air on the March 5th showing of Good Morning America on ABC.

Seriously, this will probably be the last update I make regarding Avatar or Na'vi since I'm sure you guys are sick of it but I figured this would be interesting enough to post it. After this craziness dies down I'll finish working on re-doing Barney's Mind - Episode 1, I hope to have that up soon.

Anyway, so Good Morning America contacted us at learnnavi.org and asked us if some of us would be interested in doing an interview with them of which we replied yes (duh). So, they had two meet-ups, one on the west coast (Southern Cal) and one on the east coast (NYC). Unfortunately nobody could get the time off for the east coast interview. So, I participated over webcam with the west coast one a bit and also got to chat over the phone with Dr. Paul Frommer, the guy who worked with James Cameron to invent the Na'vi language. So, after that excitement I was pretty stoked.

Then, GMA contacted us and asked if they moved the east coast time around and if they gave us a location to interview in if we could do it, which we could. So, my friend Bryce from the website and I got a few people together and we made plans to head down. GMA wasn't going to provide us with anything so we had to find our own hotel, transportation, etc. However, at the last minute Bryce asked them politely that since we were going through all this trouble if they could provide us with a hotel since we were going through all this trouble for them. They came back with getting us a room in the 5 star Millennium hotel near Times Square and giving us a private driver to take us to and from the interview! So, all stoked, the 3 of them car pooled up from the Baltimore area and I drove down from Maine.

8 hours of driving later, I was in Darien, CT. Commuter train from there over to NYC and around midnight I arrived in Grand Central Station in New York City. Not the first time I've been there but it's still a bit of a culture shock for me. So, I took a cab over to the hotel to meet with the other guys. We had some shenanigans with the room schedule (they booked us for the wrong day) but overall everything was going quite smoothly.

So, after getting settled in a the room a bit we all busted out the Na'vi. It was quite exciting and lots of fun. We mostly went over stuff for the interview but I could already tell this was going to be an awesome time. After about an hour of that, against everyone's better judgment, we went to the bar across the street that the bellman recommended. Awesome idea it was!

The bar was a tiny place, barely 10 ft wide, called Jimmy's Corner. However, it was amazingly awesome. The drinks were so cheap, $4 for a glass of Sam Adams and $8 for a shot of Petrone! The bartender was awesome and we chatted with her for a good hour. We also had fun busting out Na'vi and generally having a great time. Anyway, around 3 AM we decided to get back to the hotel seeing as we had to get up in 4 hours.

So, we all wake up, a few of us a little hungover and all of us tired. We go downstairs and wait for the car. It doesn't show up and we call our GMA contact to find out the not only was the room mis-scheduled but the car as well. Fun! So, we waited while she had a car promptly sent over. We made up for it by making great time over to the Bronx though. The driver was awesome and told us a bunch of interesting stories about the city, and some stories of past passengers he's driven for (including Cameron!)

We got to the place we were shooting, which was the Bronx Botanic Gardens, and it was more awesome then we could imagine! So amazing there, I had no idea such a place existing in NYC. So many exotic plants. I could spend hours just walking around there. Anyway, so after introductions we wait for them to get setup and we talk about how this going to work. We get mics put on and do a bunch of sound checks and then the interview starts.

First they had us all say "Good Morning America" in Na'vi (Trr Lefpom ma America) and then they did some Q&A one on one with each of us. That part went really well and they asked a lot of good questions and I think I answered them pretty well. After that, the main guy we were there to be with showed up, Mr. Sam Champion. So, we chatted a bit and talked about how this part would go and then dove right into it. Most of it was us teaching Sam how to speak Na'vi (he actually picked it up right away) and then we some group Q&A. We finished up with us talking to each other in Na'vi.

We then got driven back to the hotel and then over to the IMAX theater on 34th and Broadway. You get one guess as to which movie we saw. :P Actually, we got food first since we were starving but after that we saw the movie. We had lots of fun chatting about the movie (which, strangely, we hadn't really done yet) and had an awesome time there.

So after seeing Avatar in a full IMAX theater (which was AMAZING) we went back to the hotel, picked up our bags, said kiyevame (goodbye) and went our separate ways. I reversed my trip down, almost passed out driving around with only 4 hours of sleep at 2 in the morning, had to pull over and power nap twice because of it, but made it back home in one piece. Woke up the next morning and went to work (for some reason my hour commute doesn't seem so long of a drive anymore).

So, that's what I've been up to. I've been told we're going to have a 3 minute segment on the March 5th show (Friday) of Good Morning America on ABC, so check it out if you feel like being scared by the sight of 4 nerds on National TV (still bummed we didn't get any of the hot chicks there from the website).

P.S. Srane, oe lu "nerd" ulte tsa lu txantsan. Tsun nga fpivìl a fì'u lu hiyìk slä, oeru txoa livu, oe ke eltu si. Oe lu tsapo a oe lu ulte fì'u lamu txantsan.

(Yes, I am a nerd and it's awesome. You may think that this is silly but, forgive me, I don't care. I am who I am and this was excellent.)

Singles Awareness Day

2010-02-13T22:02:00.000-05:00

Hmmm, I just realized that this is the first valentines day I've been single in about 8 or so years. Wow, weird. Anyway, made this for a contest on the learnnavi.org forum, a Na'vi love poem. If your significant other is an Avatar fan they might get a kick out of this.

Oeyä txe'lan

Oeyä txe'lan nerekx fa txan atan
Pxel oeru ngal tìran

Oeyä tìyawn lu pxel txep
Ulte oeyä eltu lu pxel vrrtep

Mefo tsam serängi
Slä tsakrr ngal 'ampi oeyä meseyriti

Fa fìkem ftxavanga keye’ung
’Ekong ta oeyä txe'lan lu nì’aw toleiung

Translation:

My heart

My heart burns bright
As you walk to me

My love is like a fire
And my mind is like a demon

Unfortunately, they are at war
But when you kiss my lips

With such passionate insanity
Only is my heart allowed to beat

Some stuff I've been working on

2010-02-10T12:19:00.001-05:00

If anyone's interested, some stuff I've been doing for learnnavi.org:

YouTube - Avatar Trailer with Na'vi Subtitles
Na'vi Pronunciation Guide

and a ton of other things.

So, yeah, stuff. Not really interesting I'm sure but I figured if I'm going to not be posting anything Barney's Mind related I can at least show you what I've been doing with my time.

I'm still here...(someone let me out, please)

2010-02-09T12:46:00.000-05:00

So, I exist... somewhere...

I've been so busy with paintball, friends, work, photoshop stuff, and biggest of all, Na'vi, that I've had no time for Barney's Mind. GAH! That's going to change though, I should have finally finished most of the little projects I've been working on so I can get back to this.

I've got so much planned for finishing the last bits of Barney's Mind I can hardly wait, boy do I wish I could have 36 hour days to get this stuff done. I'm seriously considering taking some time off from work so that I can get all these things done.

Also, after re-doing the first three episodes I'm going to do a "making of" video that's going to be HILARIOUS! The idea I have is I'm going to film it as if I was being interviewed but, with some selective editing, I'm going to make it like I'm the one interviewing myself. It's going to be great.

So, in other news, I'm now one of 3500+ (and growing fast) people learning Na'vi (from Avatar). I've become one of the mods on the site (learnnavi.org) and am quickly becoming fluent in the language! It's surprisingly easy to learn and I've had full conversations in people using nothing but Na'vi. It's so much fun. It's like having one giant puzzle and putting it all together is so rewarding as is teaching other people how to put together this puzzle. I definitely plan that, once I've mastered Na'vi, to go onto other languages since I've had so much fun with this one.

Kiyevame ma oeyä eylan. Oe ngahu pängkxo a fì'u oeru prrte' lamu.
(See you soon my friends. It was a pleasure to chat with you.)

Barney's Mind - Bloopers

2010-01-25T22:53:00.000-05:00

Here you go guys, figured it was about time I got something to you guys:

Barney's Mind - Episode Blooper Reel

This is all the bloopers I've recorded in order. Watch as my voice acting and recording quality magically improve!

Chell's Mind = AWESOME!

2010-01-15T10:11:00.000-05:00

Finally!!!! Someone did a good Chell's Mind, in fact it's not only good, it's GREAT!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xgncUYbzMA

Watch it! WATCH IT NOW!

In other news, my week from hell (working 11 hour days) is almost over. I hope to get back to Barney's Mind and other YouTube stuff soon, I'll keep you guys updated.

Kìyevame

Well Wishes to the Victims of the Haiti Earthquakes

2010-01-13T16:42:00.000-05:00

I just wanted to take the time to express my sympathy and support for the victims of the recent Haiti earthquakes. As you may know Haiti suffered a 7.0 magnitude quake yesterday (Tuesday, the 12th) and it has devastated the region. Estimates are around 100,000 dead with some saying up to 500,000 . This is the most powerful quake to hit the region in over 200 years. Millions of people have been left without food or homeless. Hundreds of people are still trapped under rubble. This is a tragedy that has hurt a country already struck with poverty and other troubles.

So, please join me in wishing them the best and hoping that this will be not a tragedy but rather an opportunity for the Human race to show it's true colors and come out and help those who have lost their hometrees.

More details: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/13/haiti-earthquake-disaster-hundreds-dead

Ways you can help out: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1629607/20100113/jean_wyclef.jhtml

Some statistics from the quake: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2010rja6.php#summary

Link to Barney's Mind - Episode 15

2010-01-04T16:18:00.000-05:00

People asked for links to the parts here on the blog, not sure why but here they are:

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igqjoJ8xgIA
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0uePlbCouY
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFJknFO2YRc
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP7CjKa6aTs

Back

2010-01-04T12:16:00.000-05:00

So, I took a little break, and haven't been answered many comments like I usually do. But since I'm back to my normal work schedule I figure I'll get back to comments as well.

First off, yes, I'm going to do more series' after I finish re-doing Episode 1-3. Some other questions, no I'm not going to be doing another Q&A, at least not any time soon. I may do a making of video but we'll see. I am however going to do a blooper video sometime soon, kind-of like KrimsinYT's video he just put out (it was my idea first :P). Also, no I'm not considering doing anything with HL2 or any future Barney as of yet. That doesn't mean it won't happen but I have no plans for it right now.

Some people have also asked me about the jet fighter at the end of Episode 15. It got teleported to a storm off the coast of California. He ejects safely and is rescued by local coast guard.

What else....well for Christmas (I'm not religious but it's a good enough name for a holiday as any) I spent time with my family. This years take included a nice beginner digital camera and tripod, some work clothes, Dragon Age: Origins (awesome game), L4D2 (also awesome), some snow tires for my car (thanks Mom), some engineering rulers and some really nice dial calipers (thanks Dad), and a few other goodies.

Was gonna have a party going on this new years but that fell through on account of the snow storm so me and my brother hung out and played guitar hero, had some beers, and watched the ball drop, good times.

In other news I've been enjoying the vacation and, to continue my fanatic worshiping of Avatar XD I've been learning the Na'vi language. It's actually not as hard as I thought it would be and it's a ton of fun. If you want to learn as well check out learnnavi.org (my name on there is Ftiafpi).

Not much else to report. I'm probably not going to post anything new for about a month except perhaps the blooper video. I'll then post the re-makes of Episode 1-3 and then I'll move onto the two new series' of AvP2 and the funny series of which I still don't have a name for.

Tsun oe ngahu pivängkxo a fì’u oeru prrte’ lìmeiu, kìyevame

1057!!

2009-12-27T15:37:00.000-05:00

1057 is the number of emails I have in my email inbox today after having gone away for a little over 3 days. About 90% of them are from YouTube.

So, as always, I will read them all but forgive me if I don't reply to all (or even many) of your comments since I have almost 1000 to go through.

Anyway, had a good holiday, I'll make a more interesting post later.

Edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuZCnfmzwCA&feature=response_watch

ROFL-FREAKING-COPTER-ON-A-STICK! I have my own Hitler parody. Well done my friend, well done.

Episode 15 ETA

2009-12-24T00:06:00.001-05:00

Hey guys, had a minor hickup, some of my airplane footage ran away so I had to re-record it.

Anyway, should have the episode done in an hour or two.

Episode 15 update

2009-12-22T22:37:00.000-05:00

Hey, wouldn't it be hilarious if I didn't release Episode 15? Yeah, I thought you'd agree with me. Ok, sounds like a plan.

....heh, alright, Episode 15 it is. Just wanted to let you guys know that all the dialog has been recorded, only thing left to do is edit everything together. Should have it done sometime late tomorrow (or very, very early x-mas eve). I'll make a post here with a more precise time once I know more.

P.S. Episode 1 is about 2,000 views from hitting 100,000!! Holy fudge muffins that's awesome!

Avatar movie = AWESOME

2009-12-19T22:40:00.000-05:00

Okay, so I just got out of the movie Avatar and, without giving this out lightly, it is the best movie I've ever seen. Seriously, I think it's impossible to not like this movie. I'm sure some people won't like it as much as I do but, damn, this movie is awesome in the literal meaning of that word.

After I got out I would have turned right around and went back in for the next show if it wasn't sold out and if I had brought my car and wasn't riding with my family. Totally going to see it again tomorrow.

Seriously, see it, preferably in 3D. This is one movie I don't think anyone will want to miss, I doubt anyone will like it as much as I do but seeing as the theater I was in had a standing ovation at the end, you'll probably like it.

Audition Winners and Episode 15 ETA

2009-12-19T13:23:00.000-05:00

Alright! Awesome auditions guys, I had TONS of people submit auditions and they were all great, I'm totally serious in saying that it was very hard to narrow it down to three people. Yes, three people. You see, I had someone lined up to do douchbag but he dropped out at the last minute. So without further adieu, the winners;

Douchbag will be played by: corky064
the Fighter Pilot will be played by: danielcdawson
and the military ATC will be played by: emperorpsymon

Congratulations everyone! This has been so much fun. Don't worry if you didn't get in, I have plans for something shortly after new years in which everyone can have part in the video that wants one.

The other thing I wanted to announce is that Barney's Mind - Episode 15 is mere days away. I have the script done, the filming is being finished today (took me forever to get the FSX stuff all setup) and 1/3 of the dialog is done. So, all that remains is some of my dialog and the guest actor's dialogs and the editing and it'll be done!

Latest it will be out is the 24th but I hope to have it out a few days before that. This video is more or less my decemberween present to everyone as well as my present for you guys getting episode 1 up to 100,000 views! (zomg)

Anyway, thanks for all your support guys, I hope you enjoy this episode a lot.

Want to be on Barney's Mind?

2009-12-14T23:57:00.000-05:00

SO! Here's your big chance to help me out.

I have a pretty big part and a pretty small part that I need some voice acting done for. I have a few people locally who could help me do it but I figure it will be a lot more fun for two of you guys (or gals) to do it.

So, here's the deal. I need a person for a fighter pilot and a person to play an air force air traffic control person. You don't need a good mic for this since you're supposedly talking over a radio and I'm going to make your voice a little crackly anyway.

To apply, message me here, on YouTube, or on steam with links to a sound file with your audition. I'll pick the best one and we'll go from there.

Audition details:

First off, you're supposed to be a mature adult person so if you're 15 and under and sound like you're 15 and under don't bother applying.

Anyway, the audition for the fighter pilot is going to be three lines, the audition for the ATC person is one line.

Fighter pilot: Air Force Wing ATC, this is Echo Victor Niner One, the target is rapidly loosing altitude and changing course, I think they’re running, request permission to engage.

Fighter pilot: [sternly] Unidentified aircraft, we are currently 3 miles from your position and have locked weapons, this is your final warning, comply or you will be destroyed!

Fighter Pilot: [yelling] MAYDAY! E-V-NINER ONE GOING DOWN! MAYDAY!

ATC: Echo Victor Niner One, you are authorized to engage at your discretion.

The winner will be picked whenever I feel I have someone good enough (and I will post on here when I have someone) and will win a preview of the episode, their name in the credits, and a chance to read the full script (if they want too, or I can cut it down so the dialog stays a surprise). If I can't find someone good enough I'll just go with my local friends.

Good luck!

P.S. Holy crap, I just finished putting the final touches on the script and it's 13 pages long. Gah, writing what is essentially 4 episodes is a lot of work! But, that's the hard part and it's all done. Now comes the easy recording part. YAR!

P.P.S. Don't worry if you have an accent or don't sound American or something silly like that. Oh and feel free to apply for both parts.

ring ring ring ring

2009-12-03T18:02:00.000-05:00

banana phone!

...nevermind, I'm pretending I'm not working late and I don't have to finish this design so I can leave.

In other news, script will be done tonight, footage probably fairly soon, dialog fairly soon after that. So I'd say about 2 weeks at most till episode 15 (which is now looking like it might have grown to be 40 minutes long).

P.S. Strangely I've been getting a lot more negative comments on Barney's Mind than usual. Meh, whatever, it doesn't really bother me, more just weird. Yes, I know that my original episodes are crap. Yes, I know that I'm not as good as Ross Scott. Yes, I know that there's plenty of things I could have done better.

Whatever, I'm still learning and I'm spending so much time on Episode 15 as kind of a proof of concept that I can be as good as Ross Scott. Or at least I'm going to try to be.

P.P.S. Blarg, I guess I have to get back to work.

lolcat

2009-12-02T14:35:00.000-05:00

lolcat attack!

Still here

2009-11-30T14:03:00.000-05:00

Just want to let people know that Barney's Mind - Episode 15 is going along nicely. I almost have the script done and have 1/3 of the dialog recorded. Since I'm doing a full script the dialog will go a lot faster than usual and the video will probably not take too much time.

So, I still don't know exactly how close I am to finishing but I can guarantee it will be out before Christmas (probably well before). Aside from that, can't get much more accurate, I'll post here when I know more.

Anyway, I had a good Thanksgiving, visited my folks and helped them out, watched some movies, and did some other stuff. Finished DM'ing a Dungeon's and Dragons Campaign (I'm a nerd, shud'up :P). My car is finally fixed and inspected (like 5 months overdue, stupid car). I've been playing a lot of paintball and have been having a blast. We're going to try making a semi-scripted paintball movie for you YouTube guys so look for that in the near future.

Aside from that, not much else to report, things are going along fairly well without too much drama (but plenty of action).

So, how was your guys' holidays? Any ideas what you'll be getting for Christmas?

Felix's Mind and Stuff

2009-11-04T10:35:00.000-05:00

First off, KrimsinYT and I both saw this new mind series called Felix's Mind using Half Life 2: Episode 1. I think it came out really well, check it out and see if you like it:

YouTube - Felix's Mind - Episode 1
YouTube - Felix's Mind - Episode 2

Great voice acting and good dialog. I hope he does more (and lets me do Barney's lines, heh).

Anyway, in other news, a new (awesome) Shepherd's Mind was released. Wow, all three series releasing episodes within a day. Totally awesome and totally not planned.

Now, the finale episode is coming up next and I'm stoked, I'm going to start working on it right away. No idea how long it will take but I hope to have it up in 2-3 weeks. This ones going to be all out as funny as I can make it. I'm going to go nuts with this one spending lots of time getting the voice acting perfect and I'm even going to be writing a full script. Also, because of some of the stuff I'm going to do I'm going to have two other people in the finale as well playing various rolls. Oh, and of course the bit with Shepherd's Mind will be in there, don't worry.

So, I think you guys will really like it. Oh, and to hold you guys over during the wait I have a few other videos I'm going to post such as another paintball video (with music this time) and some other funny stuff such as another crazy episode like episode 14? (the fake one).

Lot's of stuff to look forward too. Also, yes, after Barney's Mind I plan on making some special editions of episode 1-3 then I'm going to start two new series, one will be another mind series using Alien vs. Predator 2 (as the Marine) and the other will be a series using various video games similar to the crazy fake episode 14.

YAR.

SURPRISE!

2009-11-03T00:27:00.001-05:00

Barney's Mind - Episode 14 (parts 1 and 2) have been released:

YouTube: Barney's Mind - Episode 14 - Part 1
YouTube: Barney's Mind - Episode 14 - Part 2

I didn't think I would get part 2 done so soon but I managed to do it all tonight! Woohoo! I had anti writers block. In fact, about 2 minutes of that whole thing were recorded in one long take, it was almost too easy.

Anyway, I think this really shows how far I've come. I think this episode is great and I really hope you guys agree. NOW! Time for the final episode. It's a half hour or more episode but I don't think it will take quite as long as episode 14 since I have 1/3 already done and I (hopefully) won't be so busy.

However, I do think it will take at least 3 weeks so don't expect anything Barney's Mind related for a while ( though I'll probably have a few more paintball videos and maybe another crazy video like Episode 14?)

Anyway, enjoy.

P.S. Another awesome Freeman's Mind - Episode 18

100th post and stuff!

2009-11-02T13:24:00.000-05:00

Just noticed this is my 100th post. Go me!

Another thing I just noticed is that the capital of Uganda is Kampala.

Another thing I noticed is that people seem to really want Episode 14 to be done. This is quite understandable since episode 13 was released well over a month ago. I must apologize for this, episode 14 has taken a lot longer than I thought it would.

I documented my weekly time usage a while back so I'm not going to bother repeating it but, suffice it to say that I've been pretty busy over the past month. However, I would have probably had episode 14 done a week ago if it wasn't for me being ass raped by work (in a good way). Don't get me wrong, I love my job, but spending 11 hours a day in a paper mill angle grinding a steel fuel oil tank so I can perform thickness tests is not exactly something that's easy. I enjoyed it I suppose but it drained my energy and I'm just now recovering.

That said, I now have some free time back and will be devoting every hour I'm not working to Barney's Mind until it's done, I promise. I feel bad that I've kept you waiting so long and again I must apologize. Oh, and about the trailers. I know that I have too many what with the fake episode, the preview, and the trailer out but honestly the fake episode was more for fun and wasn't meant to be a trailer. The preview was put up to be a trailer because I expected to have the episode done a week ago (before work killed me) and then KingBaulin made me the trailer for episode 14 and I felt it would be rude to not put it up. Anyway, yes I know that the over-trailering has made it more of a tease than anything but, whatever, it's done.

Just hang in there a little longer, almost done (though, I suppose I should say get used to it, cause after this is the finale and that's going to take quite a long time to make).

HOLY BATMAN!

2009-10-23T11:11:00.000-04:00

A observant fan just pointed out that I just got subscribed to by non other than the official machinima channel! Holy Batman and Robin on a iceberg this is crazy! What does this mean? Is it actually Ross Scott or is it just the machnima website people or what? So many questions.

Anyway, in other less exciting but I'm sure plenty interesting news I released the first minute of Barney's Mind - Episode 14 for you guys. I felt I wasn't getting enough e-mail from YouTube so I figured this would fix that until I release the real episode which should be fairly soon as I stayed up late last night and got over 50% of episode 14 done.

Might have some paintball videos this Sunday as I've rigged my cheap-o camera to my hopper on the gun so I can get in-game footage and such.

ummm...not much else to say. RAWR!

Waffle copter

2009-10-22T11:25:00.000-04:00

So, things slowly calming back down. Both the paintball and the Left 4 Dead tournaments went well. I came in 2nd place in the paintball tournament and our team made it to the 2nd round in the l4d tournament (and then got curb stomped by a semi-pro l4d team).

Good times though, had lots of fun. Anyway, so I've gotten a little more work done on Episode 14 but not as much as I wanted to do by this point. I'm definitely going to get a bunch of work done tonight so I hope to have the episode at least half done by the end of the week. If I really push I may have this done early next week but no promises. Like I said earlier, this is a long episode.

Anyway, I'm probably going to release another funny episode sometime this weekend and I'll also release a section of the real episode 14 for you guys tonight.

CraZy with a capital Z!

2009-10-12T23:58:00.000-04:00

So, episode 14...yeah...stuff.

Episode 14 (the real one) is gonna be a long one (20 minutes) as I mentioned in my last update. Consequently it's going to take me twice as long to make. However, I've recently run into some crazy.

I've suddenly gone from somewhat busy to monster muffins on a rampage busy. It still have enough time to get everything I want/need to do done, but I'm really pushing it. I've started playing regular weekend paintball so there goes almost all of Saturday and Sunday. On top of that I'm now in a semi-pro L4D tournament for the next two weeks so now I have to practice for that as much as I can (you really have to twist my arm to get me to play video games I'll tell you what :P). Our first game is Wednesday. Then there's TV, football season plus new episodes of House and Castle are eating my Mondays. So that leaves Tuesday, Thursday and Friday for my household chores and Barney's Mind.

Now, before you all panic, don't worry. I've got episode 14 about 1/4 of the way done and since I've taken a little break from it (haven't touched it in about a week) I'm brimming with Barney's Mind ideas and enthusiasm. So, I thoroughly "plan" on having it out sometime next week (even if it's Saturday night at 11:59 pm). It may take longer(or shorter) but that's when I hope/think it will come out.

This is probably good practice because after this is the finale and that's going to be a half hour long or more! Thankfully I already have about 1/4 of that done but, still, that's going to take a lot of time.

In the mean time, I've got another crazy episode saved up that I'll release soon to help out the wait (they're so fun and easy to make, totally doing a ton more when I'm done with Barney's Mind). Also, I'll release a trailer for episode 14 when I get within a few days of finishing it so that you guys don't have to keep wondering when it's going to come out.

Anyway, got a paintball tournament this Sunday and our first Left 4 Dead match tomorrow, wish me luck!

Update

2009-10-01T20:05:00.000-04:00

So, I finished recording the footage for Episode 14 (the final one before the finale) and the total time came to 20 minutes. Blarg. So instead of doing two episodes I've decided to do one long two part episode for no good reason.

So, to help you guys wait here's something completely different: Barney's Mind - Not Episode 14

P.S. This was inspired by this video.
P.P.S. Yes, I know that was un-original of me and mine sucked in comparison but I don't give a crap. I was just dicking around and made this in one take and after making it thought you guys might find it funny.
P.P.P. I'm now going to go eat 20 throat lozenges...oww.

Barney's Mind - Episode 13

2009-09-21T21:52:00.000-04:00

Yar! Here it is:

YouTube - Barney's Mind - Episode 13

Yeah, this one was a lot easier to make than Episode 12. Ummm, not much else to say. Enjoy!

Edit: Holy crap, Shephard's Mind released a few days ago and now Barney's Mind AND Freeman's Mind released almost at the same time! Crazy! Happy Mind's day I guess.

Episode 13 release date

2009-09-20T21:30:00.000-04:00

I know I said I wouldn't do release dates but this is different. Anyway, I've gotten SOOOO much done on Barney's Mind today. I've gotten about 90% complete so I can totally guarantee* that I will finish Barney's Mind - Episode 13 tomorrow.

It's going to be a good one too.

*The MightyPirate guarantee (tm) does not protect against working late, car breakdowns, computer failures, or World War III.

Barney's Mind - Episode 13 stuff

2009-09-17T23:32:00.001-04:00

A double feature! Barney's Mind - Episode 13 trailer and the raw footage for dialog comments. Have at it!

Barney's Mind - Episode 13 Trailer
Barney's Mind - Episode 13 Raw Footage

Now, anyone who knows the game Blue Shift will know that I'm quickly running out of game. So, I'm announcing that this will be the second to last episode before the finale (2 episodes + the finale till the end!) It's been a crazy and awesome 5 months since I started this and I've had so much fun doing it, you fans are awesome!

Anyway, Episode 13 coming in a few days. Stay tuned!

P.S. Note that at the end of this you see a section that's in the teaser, this will actually not be in the finale episode.

Holy crap batman!

2009-09-17T10:28:00.000-04:00

So, wow, been busy that's for sure. Not to worry though, I still have plenty of time for Barney's Mind and am currently working on Episode 13 (and thankfully this one is going a LOT smoother than Episode 12).

Anyway, what have I been up too... Well, I played paintball last weekend, that was AWESOME, tons of fun. Have some good pictures if anyone wants to see it. Umm, also starting up a Dungeons and Dragons game (shut up, I'm a nerd and proud of it). Works been busy too but that's always good.

Alrighty, here's the big thing. Barney's Mind is almost over! OMG! I didn't really realize how close I was until last night when I played ahead and I'm guessing that there is about 3 episodes left until the half hour finale. Holy crap, that's crazy!

You might also notice that I'm taking longer on each episode, this is more for myself so I don't get burned out when the finale comes along and it's definitely helping on Episode 13. I only just started working on it but I'm coming on to this with a much greater desire to spend lots of time on it. Episode 12 I really wanted to do it but every time I did some work on it I would stop after only a couple hours cause I would get stuck on something and then just get burnt out.

Ok, so I'm thinking that I'll do Episode 13 and 14 and then I'll see if I have enough material left to do Episode 15 or not. I'll let you guys know when I start working hardcore on the finale with a trailer/preview of the episode (this will be different from the trailer that I have already as I already have about 1/3 of the dialog recorded for the finale so I should be able to post some bits of dialog and such from the actual finale).

Speaking of the finale, I'm so excited for this! I've saved a good part of my better ideas for the finale and I can't wait to have you guys watch it. Oh, and yes, the finale will have my side of Shephard's Mind - Episode 12 (where him and I talk through a locker).

I guess while I'm addressing frequently asked questions, after Barney's Mind I am going to do another Mind series. This one is going to be a bit different than Barney's Mind though. I'm going to be doing the Marine campaign from Alien vs. Predator 2 and, to anyone who have played that game, it's scary and gruesome. This is awesome because I personally feel that my personality will be a lot better suited for a more serious character and setting. Don't worry, it's going to be full of humor and such but it's also going to have a fair amount of serious points and scary points. I wont spoil anything but let me just say that since this is the only game to ever actually startle me and possibly even scare me I'm going to play that up as much as I can. I'm not really sure if the scary parts of the game will carry over well to someone who's just watching and not actually playing but we'll see.

Oh, and I was going to try different accents and use a voice changer to mess with my voice so it didn't sound just like Barney but, after watching the intro I've discovered that the few times the main character Harrison (aka "Frosty") talks I sound almost just like him! Don't worry, I'm going to be voicing over his lines so that people don't get confused when watching but, I guess I wont actually be doing much to his voice. Oh well, that's cool and makes things a lot easier on me (I'm not very good at other accents anyway, though I can do a pretty good southern drawl).

Anyway, sorry, didn't mean to write so much. If you've managed to read it all the way through then give yourself a gold star (or at least a doughnut, that's what I'm having right now). I'm going to get back to work right now, caio.

P.S. Whoever is the thundercats in the fantasy football league you better manage your team man, it doesn't even have an active kicker on it.

P.P.S. Not that it matters, I'm going to crush you anyway :P

P.P.P.S. Anyone else going to try out Monopoly: City Streets (free monopoly game using google maps)? I am, looks awesome.

Hey! Episode 12, woot!

2009-09-07T23:20:00.000-04:00

YouTube - Barney's Mind - Episode 12

Phew! Finally. That took forever. Partly because I was lazy and party because I kept getting stuck.

Yeah, this episode just wasn't as good as some of my others and not for lack of trying. Just couldn't seem to get it on this one. Oh well, it's still pretty good but I just seemed to not be able to get that spark of inspiration on this one. Eh, next one will be better, and hopefully done sooner.

Not much else happening. Oh, those people who did the fantasy football thing, could you guys list who you are in the comments, we're just trying to figure out who's who. (so we can't taunt people later :P)

Fantasy football and update

2009-09-02T10:55:00.000-04:00

So sorry it's been taking so long, I've been so busy and so lazy. I need to fix my car, about every dish I own is sitting in the sink to be washed... you get the idea. I dunno, I guess I've just needed a break from my usual really busy self.

Anyway, I'm pulling out of it and have gotten about 40% of Episode 12 done. Not sure yet when I'll have it done but soon, I promise.

Another thing, anyone who wanted (or wants) to play fantasy football (American football) with my and my counter-strike clan feel free to join us. We're doing it on yahoo.com, you can go to this link for it: Yahoo Fantasy Football

Once there, click on "join a team" at the top. You will need a yahoo account for this but that's easy to setup. Once logged in click "join custom" and enter the following league ID and password:

League ID: 843121
Password: cds

From there you can create a team, do stuff, and wait for the draft which will be a live draft on Sunday, September 6th at 6 PM EDT.

Now, if you have NO idea what fantasy football is it's pretty simple. Basically you pick your favorite football stars in the draft (unless someone else picks them first) then as the season progresses you score points whenever your players do good (almost as if they were all on one team). You have to manage your team throughout the year, substituting players that are doing good for players that are doing bad, substituting uninjured players for injured ones, etc. Think of it as kind of a RPG for football. The best part about it in my mind is that you can now watch football games and not only cheer on your favorite teams but also your own team and players.

If you want to do it but have no idea what you're doing (like me) then I suggest you browse over to this site: http://www.footballguys.com/06beginnersguideindex.htm and that should get you started.

P.S. A thousand curses on anyone who steals my favorite players from me.

Oops

2009-08-31T21:19:00.000-04:00

So, I've had a ton of peoples steam and Wii names that people sent to me and I've been so lazy about adding them. Anyway, long story short, I accidentally deleted them all... whoops, my bad.

MightyPirate's Mind

Magic the Gathering

Podcast!

Harrison's Mind - Episode 3

Animated Barney's Mind

Interview with GLaDOS (Ellen McLain)

Meeting of the Minds 2 - Ross Scott Edition

Cool's update, because I'm lazy...

Everyone remember that platform?

New Computer - Part 2

New Computer - Part 1

A pirate, a Cool, and a CyhAnide all walk into a bar...

Mind Over Matter

Why Harrison's Mind 3 is late

We're now on Facetube!

*giggle*

THIS!!!!

Awesome!

Hey, Jared, I got a present for you!!

A Left 4 Dead Story

Product of waking up at 5 PM

Thanks Cool...or something

A late Happy Holidays

Stupid Drivers

So, did you know?

Harrison's Mind - Episode 2

Brain Summit

I've been trying to write this for about a week now...

Francis' Mind

Harrison's Mind

Harrison's Mind

Back from Na'vi Language Workshop Vacation Thing

Big Post Coming

Updates

GAH! I'm being crushed by fans!

There Corky

I think my head is going to explode

Vent

Harrison's Mind Update

JUSTICE!!!!

Dawwwww

Avatar (I know...) and Harrison's Mind

Back

Vacation

WIN!

WOOHOO!

Suck

Paper Mill Platform

Writing Stuff

BP Photoshop

Stuff

Harrison's Mind Trailer

Portal 2 Stole My Joke!

Barney's Mind - Episode 2 - Special Edition

Episode 2 - Remake is done

I figured it out

Sir Ian McKellen is amazing

New car!

300 Bees

Ramblings

Meeting of the Minds Q&A/FAQ

Q&A Update

Yep, still here

Hey! Um, what?

April not fools

Barney's Mind - Episode 1 - Special Edition

Getting there...

Happy Birthday to Me!

New Barney's Mind Soon!

Just got back from New York City...

Singles Awareness Day

Some stuff I've been working on

I'm still here...(someone let me out, please)

Barney's Mind - Bloopers

Chell's Mind = AWESOME!

Well Wishes to the Victims of the Haiti Earthquakes

Link to Barney's Mind - Episode 15

Back

1057!!

Episode 15 ETA

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