Front Page (January 2017)

The Ascendancy LP is back! Check out chapter 3 of the Dubtaks run, the roadtrip episode! UnAligned, my third Doom WAD, is out! Play it right now! I also won a Cacoward for my previous WAD, Absolutely Killed. Holy shit! My mother is very proud, I’m sure. And, as always, I hope you check out my older stuff, either through the tabs at the top of the page or by date over to the right. Thanks for stopping by!

Front Page (December 2016)

  A new theme! Again! We’re back from a seven-month hiatus (oops?), and it felt like about time to make things look a little sleeker around here. Pictured above: the new and old themes, Tortuga and Aplos, respectively. As you can also tell, I’ve replaced the page of recent posts with this what’s-new-in-town type page. Partially because Tortuga is a little shitty and breaks literally all formatting when previewing posts, but mostly because I think this will be clearer to people stumbling on the site for the first time. UnAligned, my third Doom WAD, is out! Play it right now! I

The Blog’s New Clothes

As you may have noticed, digitaleidoscope has a new coat of paint. I tried and fail to tweak the old TRVL theme to my needs, but I just don’t know enough about CSS to really do much. Aplos, on the other hand, by default has better placement of widgets, allows me to display my pages right at the top, and even has an orange (yay!) and grey palette. So it was a no-brainer. Since I try to keep a record of what the blog has looked like over the years (really just for my own future curiosity), here’s a comparison…

The Photography Page Is Live!

To celebrate digitaleidoscope’s independence from WordPress, I’ve added a collection of my photography. All the pictures from the photography posts I’ve done over the years can now be found in one place, along with some additional images I discovered on my hard drive and figured I’d throw in. There’s also a bunch of photos from a photography course I took back in 2012, which I’ve never posted before. If you’ve enjoyed my photography before, check out the new page! I think you’ll like it.

On a Whim

…Hello! It’s been — well, it’s been a while, huh? It’s funny… how easy it is to get into a habit. I started this blog on a whim, really, and a few months into the gig, it felt like the way things had always been. (Tuesday post, Thursday post. Tuesday. Thursday. Tuesday, Thursday…) But it’s just as easy to get out of one, I guess. I stopped posting on a whim, too. I didn’t really mean for that anniversary post to be the last post for seven months. It just sort of happened that way. I missed a post and

One Year Later

A year ago, I started a little experiment. A challenge for myself. It was a writing exercise: to keep a journal of sorts. Twice a week, I’d write about something — anything, really — that was on my mind. Like a normal journal, except this would be on the internet — you know, because if I kept it to myself I’m sure I wouldn’t have stuck with it for long. A year ago, I called that little experiment digitaleidoscope. And a year later, I still don’t know how to pronounce it. A year ago, I got my first follower. Weirdly,

So, What Do English Majors Do?

If you’ve ever wondered that question aloud to yourself, you’re not alone. Every time I hear the question, “So what’s your major?” it’s usually followed by something like “Oh. Um… what do you do with that?” Well, mostly I talk about nerdy English things. Oh, you mean what I can do — like, for a career? After school is over? I dunno; I try not to think about that too much. For now, it’s all 100% theory and 0% practicality. English majors love to theorize and ponder and read way too deeply into everything. We love to wonder about fictional stuff

Superfab Adventures in Programming!: I C What You Did There

WordPress — like, I imagine, most blog-writing software — uses categories for grouping posts. On day one, before I’d even written anything yet, I set up a whole list of categories for all the things I thought I’d write about. Some never got used and ended up in the trash bin, or lumped together with others when I realized I’d hardly ever use them on their own. Only one, though, has sat there intact but unused, just waiting for its day in the sun: “Dev Diary.” Today, I checked the Dev Diary category off for the first time — for

Let’s Level Up Our Farming Skill!

So we’ve started a garden. Yeah, I know this is a blog about the Digital Age, but occasionally it’s nice to get back to basics, even for us nerds. To get down to earth. To get our hands dirty. And actually, maintaining a garden is a little videogame-y, if you think about it. I just recently got back into Lord of the Rings Online, and it’s interesting how similar they feel. (I’m not crazy, I swear.) There’s that same slow crawl, the work-at-it-a-little-every-day mentality. Except in an MMO you’re fighting monsters and crafting items (I have a character who farms,