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Laguna Electric Guitar: LE122
A Laguna electric guitar became my gateway into gamified music learning, from early note-recognition software to Rocksmith’s adaptive practice system. Chasing real musicianship over plastic controllers, I explored punk and new-wave songs while navigating gear, software, and sore wrists. Read More
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Inventory Loss
Inventory Loss One thing that I am getting tired of is inventory loss. I have over 20,000 items in my inventory. Lately though I’ve been noticing that the number keeps decreasing over time. I started setting up shops and I Read More
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Graphing Visitors
Graphing Visitors After a few days, it appears that the graphs are working pretty good. Currently they are limited to keeping track of 500 unique visitors per day. I can bump up that number a bit, but it will come Read More
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Returning to Reporting Tools
Returning to Reporting Tools It’s been a while since I’ve worked these all out. I’m bringing my reporting tools back to life. The tools all work in-world and show graphs and such about visitor metrics and region performance. I’ve reduced Read More
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SLCN.tv Commercial Shoot
SLCN.tv Commercial Shoot I had a ton of SLCN.tv people show up to shoot a commercial at my store. Unfortunately, I had forgotten all about it. Fleche contacted me through skype to get my butt down to the store and Read More
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University of Phoenix Online: Associate of Arts in Information Technology
January 2007 to November 2008. A programmer since the early 80s, I formalized decades of experience with an AA in IT in 2008. Overcoming a cardiac procedure, a grueling commute, and a self-funded tuition “reset” in Chicago, this degree represents a lifetime of technical persistence. Read More
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Here Lies Dedric
Here Lies Dedric My wife asked me to take a look at the Order of Avalon. It is a role playing game of sorts. After visiting the castle, I went into the graveyard to have a look around. I found Read More
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FY08 Q1 Earnings Report
FY08 Q1 Earnings Report There were a total of 311 sales in the Woodbridge Sim totalling 103,302 L$ in revenue. This comes out to an average of 332 L$ per Item. The weekly average is 24 items per week with Read More
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Visitor Counter Upgrades
Visitor Counter Upgrades Ludwig Stapleton stopped by and stated that a visitor counter she had was giving her some problems when listing the visitors. I took a look and sure enough, my own counter that I was using had the Read More
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Achieving Perpetual Motion
Achieving Perpetual Motion I’ve got the scripting worked out for my pong game so that touch events are mapped and move the paddle accordingly but with a 0.2 second delay in movement. The next step is to to get the Read More