pres.umptuo.us

• You Got Jacked, Bitch. Stewie’s commentary makes this a classic.

  Tuesday February 28, 2006

Alright, quick. If someone were to say, “Who is this guy on a horse?” who would be the first person to come to mind?

Got it? Read on to see where I’m going with this.

Continue reading “Guy On Horse”

• Spider-Man. Could it be the Venom storyline?

  Friday February 24, 2006

I’m so excited. I got my first wedding invitation in the mail today from Amanda and Pierre. I should probably make some French jokes there but I can’t think of any.

The invitations themselves are covered with flower petals and grass, and the petals look like they’re about to fall off. I’d hate to think that Amanda and Pierre spent all their time making these, but at least she didn’t lick the toxic glue on old invitations and die. That would be bad, what with the wedding and the living and all.

Continue reading “Do I Smoke the Grass?”

• Old Sierra Game Titles Re-released. I used to love these games.

  Wednesday February 22, 2006

• Dave Werner’s Portfolio 2006. This has got to be one of the best portfolios I’ve ever seen. I love the videos everywhere.

  Monday February 20, 2006

Sweet, I’ve been tagged by Ken. I think this is the first meme I’ve participated in.

Continue reading “Four Things”

• Daily Show: Dead-Eye Dick. Duckhunt!

  Thursday February 16, 2006

• ZenGarage. I gotta start using this.

  Thursday February 16, 2006

It’s fun writing comments in my CSS code for the IE workarounds:

div.call_to_action {
   clear: left;
   height: 1%;	/* I hate IE with a passion */
   padding: 20px;
   background: #DFF0FD;
   }

• You Complete Me. Best valentine ever.

  Tuesday February 14, 2006

• We Are Sinking.

  Monday February 13, 2006

Ta-Da!

Introductions Are In Order…

It finally set upon me that calling the site “Boredom” and having the web address be valloq.com wasn’t making a whole lot of sense. At first I was gonna grab www.riclim.com and make my site into e.riclim.com, but being able to have the entire url spell out the site name is so much cooler.

You’d be amazed at how many .us domains are taken — www.icio.us (by del.icio.us, of course), www.aculo.us (by script.aculo.us), and practically all the good ones are gone. I lucked upon www.umptuo.us when I tried searching for s.umptuo.us and almost settled for that, but pres.umptuo.us is such a sweeter name.

So here we are, a brand new name, brand new address, but the same ol’ content.

I Can Use Photoshop

I’m hoping everyone finds this new design a lot more pleasing. The old boredom look was just feeling too spaced out and unorganized. Working at a design firm for the past year has really helped me in understanding the basics behind design. Everything is pretty close to final now from what you’re seeing, although I imagine I’ll tweak it here and there, and if anyone sees something that’s off, please let me know.

Yes, They’re Coming Back

I know, everyone wants the babes back. They’ll be back soon. When? I don’t know…the launch of pres.umptuo.us took me about a month, so I’d expect the same amount of time for the babes to be back. And yes, they’ll have a new name as well.

• Mutiny at the Cafe. Former employees at Blenz, you are my hero.

  Wednesday February 8, 2006

• Blurb. What do I need a publisher for?

  Tuesday February 7, 2006

• James Lipton on Conan Reciting PopoZao. I wanna see some PopoZao!

  Wednesday February 1, 2006

• 25 Great Calvin & Hobbes Strips.

  Wednesday February 1, 2006

During college (and I guess now as well) I had the occasional problem of turning off my alarm clock and going right back to sleep. Of course I tried the method of putting my alarm further away from me so I’d have to get up to turn it off, and it would work for a while, but soon enough I’d just saunter right back and go back to sleep.

I came up with the idea of combining an alarm clock with some sort of game, preferably something reflex-based, and you’d have to play the game to turn off the alarm, guaranteeing that you were awake. Just imagine having to play a game of Simon to shut off the irritating alarm. Foolproof! Nobody would still be sleepy after playing a few rounds of that.

So of course, this morning I find this lovely puzzle alarm clock in my inbox from DailyCandy (Yes, I subscribe to DailyCandy. Bite me.) Oh well. I still think my Simon idea has a leg up on this though, seeing as how the puzzle will always be the same while Simon can be a different game every time. Milton Bradley / Hasbro, we should talk.