tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-125647202024-03-13T13:13:28.904-07:00Working as DesignedDespite all evidence to the contraryJoseph B. Hewitt IVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01952817145873886177noreply@blogger.comBlogger460125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12564720.post-16846400786868193402015-06-25T03:06:00.003-07:002015-06-25T03:07:18.948-07:00Hey look! It is one of those, "I am going to try to write more blog posts" posts that people do. I wonder if it will stick or just drip down the wall and puddle on the floor.
I have 4 credits on Audible and was looking through some audiobooks. If I found a few that sounded interesting and I tabbed over to Amazon to read the reviews. I kept seeing 4+ star ratings for these books, but then I wouldJoseph B. Hewitt IVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01952817145873886177noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12564720.post-81494218316807750352014-07-25T14:28:00.002-07:002014-07-25T14:56:04.789-07:00Ask Me Anything on Reddit
I started my AMA on Reddit and you can find in here:
CLICK ME SEYMOUR!
Please note, this "ask me anything" doesn't not mean I will in fact answer everything, always tell the truth, and is in no way open to any ex-girlfriend I may or may not have had.
Thank you for your support.Joseph B. Hewitt IVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01952817145873886177noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12564720.post-15685014541706205562014-07-23T21:50:00.001-07:002014-07-23T21:50:09.432-07:00Another Reddit AMAI replied to a post on Reddit last night about a guy who walked into a pawnshop and came out with an old nemesis, which turned out to be the Lion King game for the Super Nintendo. The replies to my comments blew up, it was made /r/bestof post, I got Reddit Gold and I started telling old Westwood stories and fun was had by all.
people have requested I do another AMA (Ask Me Anything), this time Joseph B. Hewitt IVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01952817145873886177noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12564720.post-45286106733026266102013-10-31T01:21:00.001-07:002013-10-31T01:22:35.870-07:00NaNoWriMo 2013It's just about that time again. If you aren't aware November is National Novel Writer's Month aka NaNoWriMo. The idea is to write 50,000 words in 30 days with no expectation of quality. This is my third official year signing up. The first year I signed up, I think that was the extent of my involvement. I managed to win, as they call it, last year... but only kinda. I got quite a ways into Joseph B. Hewitt IVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01952817145873886177noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12564720.post-18679665887535929832013-10-13T23:44:00.001-07:002013-10-13T23:57:21.983-07:00Café of Broken Dreams
I wrote this short story many years ago. At one point I took a creative writing class at College of Southern Nevada, though I think it was still calling it Clark County Community College even though it had already changed names. I turned this story in for one of the assignments and was told by the professor that it was the best student written short story he had ever read. He was one of the Joseph B. Hewitt IVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01952817145873886177noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12564720.post-76884535572816735182013-10-05T00:35:00.001-07:002013-10-05T00:35:10.316-07:00Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency and Other Things Douglas Adams
I had heard about the BBC’s “Dirk Gently” TV series a while
ago. They aired a pilot which went over pretty good and so BBC Four ordered 3
more 1-hour episodes. A friend of a friend got a hold of an imported DVDs and I've had
them lurking in a corner of my office for about a month. I’d like to say I hadn't watched it
because I was in the middle of a complete run of Scrubs and had just gotten toJoseph B. Hewitt IVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01952817145873886177noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12564720.post-25131422888238548352013-10-03T00:47:00.000-07:002013-10-04T22:03:49.075-07:00Yay Amazon!
A few years ago I was doing a pub quiz with friends at a local Irish pub. One of the questions was related to the song “On the Dark Side” from Eddie and the Cruisers soundtrack. I remember having that soundtrack on cassette back in high school. I didn’t get my first CD player till my birthday during my senior year of high school. None of that is any admission of my age, for all you know I was Joseph B. Hewitt IVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01952817145873886177noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12564720.post-39453469793249789702013-06-26T14:19:00.001-07:002013-06-26T14:19:10.855-07:00Warning! My email was compromised!Looks like this old Yahoo email address is spamming an email with what I am sure is a bad link. I cleared this email a long time ago and it looks like it is mailing a lot of non-valid email address which are bouncing back. I can't do anything about it ATM because my PC is in the middle of getting its hard drive replaced.Very sorry about this. No idea how this can happen as I don't even log into Joseph B. Hewitt IVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01952817145873886177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12564720.post-60352742849913357612013-05-28T08:40:00.002-07:002013-05-28T12:12:17.858-07:00Hello RedditEvery once in awhile I've made a comment on a Westwood related post on Reddit. I usually get a few comments or private messages asking me to do an AMA (Ask Me Anything). I kept saying that I would and kept putting it off. Recently a friend started berating me about it and if nothing more than to get them to shut up, I'm doing it.
Now, as you will remember, I've done a lot of work with time Joseph B. Hewitt IVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01952817145873886177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12564720.post-75374867076784295212012-11-26T00:44:00.000-08:002013-04-09T22:29:00.856-07:00Shredded Apple PieI've had a few things to say recently, but couldn't get away from what I was doing to write a post. I've been participating in National Novel Writer's Month or NaNoWriMo as it is called. Basically, a novel of 50 thousand words in 30 days, no expectation of quality. It is a writing exercise to get you to write. Every time I feel like writing, I write my novel.
I'm doing okay. You have to write Joseph B. Hewitt IVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01952817145873886177noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12564720.post-27294263837723429542012-10-13T13:38:00.000-07:002013-04-09T22:28:29.429-07:00Walking Dead on eBay
When I sold my comic collection (documented a couple of posts ago) I said I was keeping my Walking Dead issues so that I could sell them on eBay.
Season 3 of the AMC Walking Dead TV show starts tomorrow. Season three has them arriving at the prison and introduces fan favorite characters Michonne and the Governor. This is the point in the story where the comic series really took off and Joseph B. Hewitt IVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01952817145873886177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12564720.post-56549641983283645542012-09-24T18:32:00.002-07:002013-04-09T22:27:56.377-07:00Refreshing and Streak-FreeI putting this picture together the other day, but without the funnel and poor choice of liquid levels it could have be viewed that I was putting Windex in the Powerade bottle. But that was because it was actually still Windex in the Windex bottle. But this time I emptied and cleaned the Windex out and actually filled the bottle with Powerade.
Anyway, I re-shot it with the funnel. Though, if Joseph B. Hewitt IVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01952817145873886177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12564720.post-46552580882904584632012-09-12T13:29:00.000-07:002013-04-09T22:27:28.661-07:00Aftermath - The comics are gone :-(Here they are stacking my comic boxes up in the Maximum Van and empty dining room where they had been. There were a total of 17 long boxes and 13 short. All the Neil Gaimen titles (keeping) and The Walking Dead (which I'll be selling separably on Ebay) left me with 1 long box worth of comics.
I also kept the issues whose art work you can see left in the living room. Spash page from theJoseph B. Hewitt IVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01952817145873886177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12564720.post-45850690811937496552012-09-11T21:29:00.000-07:002013-04-09T22:27:09.582-07:00Oh, I still have my Comic Trade collectionI've had it mentioned to me that I wasn't being completely honest about not collecting comics anymore. I actually stopped collecting single-issues, or "floppies" as they are sometimes called when I got back from Australia in 2009. I already had a large collection of trades editions, but that is when I officially became one of those 'wait for the trade' guys.
I mostly collectJoseph B. Hewitt IVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01952817145873886177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12564720.post-60712603352125832862012-09-11T21:07:00.000-07:002013-04-09T22:26:26.837-07:00Comic Book Collecting Post MortemWell, it looks like the time has finally come. I am selling my comic collection. It isn't a good time financially to be doing so, but being out of work and selling my house means I could use the money and the extra space they would take up in storage. I am also completely sick and tired of lugging these boxes around the world Please note, as someone who has move to Australia Joseph B. Hewitt IVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01952817145873886177noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12564720.post-42094759767618202552012-08-27T19:49:00.000-07:002013-04-09T22:25:09.961-07:00This isn’t really about Minecraft
I've been out of work for a little while. I’m doing a little
freelance thing, but it isn’t really game related. Recently I found myself playing Minecraft again. I haven’t
played in ages and ages, but my friend Eric’s son was playing, then I got to reading about all the new stuff that was added since the last time I played. I wound up starting a LAN
server for the three of us.
Now I am Joseph B. Hewitt IVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01952817145873886177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12564720.post-82079046970354881492012-08-27T15:50:00.000-07:002013-04-09T22:24:46.550-07:00The Greater Fool
"The Greater Fool is actually an economic term. It’s a patsy. For the rest of us to profit, we need a greater fool, someone who will buy long and sell short. Most people spend their lives trying not to be the greater fool. We toss him the hot potato, we dive for his seat when the music stops. The greater fool is someone with the perfect blend of self-delusion and ego to think that he can Joseph B. Hewitt IVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01952817145873886177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12564720.post-82026690162040206022012-08-01T19:26:00.000-07:002013-04-09T22:24:24.467-07:00What's Next for MMO Games
I played in the Star Wars: The Old Republic beta. I had some
thoughts which I started to type out here, but let’s just cut the good and bad
down to, “Meh. It was okay.” When it
launched I tried making bets with people that it would be free-to-play in a year.
I got a whole lecture from more than one person about how EA wouldn’t allow
that because they invested so much money yadda yadda.&Joseph B. Hewitt IVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01952817145873886177noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12564720.post-68964131051196000322012-01-20T12:00:00.000-08:002013-04-09T22:29:59.812-07:00Crowdsourced TranslationsJust a link to a good post by Adam Saltsman on Gamasutra about the experience of using crowd-sourcing to localize the popular iPhone game "Canabalt" into other languages.
Say what?
The only comment that I have is regarding Adam's post is that he mentions that "the introduction of new language options has had no measurable effect on sales." It should be noted that the game has very Joseph B. Hewitt IVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01952817145873886177noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12564720.post-18083613082463451312012-01-17T23:53:00.000-08:002013-04-09T22:21:03.915-07:00SOPA Blackout DayToday is the day a lot of major internet sites such as Wikipedia, Reddit, Mozilla, Google and many others are blacking themselves out to raise awareness of the Software Online Protection act. If your are just learning about this whole thing now, here is a link to a CNN article that explains what it is and why you should be concerned about it.
I found some code that is supposed to black Joseph B. Hewitt IVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01952817145873886177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12564720.post-34984146452019148692012-01-15T17:20:00.000-08:002013-04-09T22:19:44.589-07:00iPhone Audio Controls RantI've been meaning to complain about this for awhile. Dreaming, nay fantasizing, about complaining about this. Really. I had this fantasy where I would be at one of those diners where you pay lots of money to sit next to somebody famous. I'd be sitting next to Steve Jobs and I would spend the entire time not just complaining, but ranting to the point where Mr. Gates wouldn't care one way or Joseph B. Hewitt IVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01952817145873886177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12564720.post-47933936414950282952011-12-15T12:03:00.000-08:002013-04-09T22:17:07.256-07:00Cherry On TopI put a reference to Cherry On Top frozen yogurt in Highborn and now Cherry On Top has announced on their blog that if you take a screen shot of that bit and send it in, you could win stuff.
I do think they have the best frozen yogurt. Yum.
Go read about the contest here.Joseph B. Hewitt IVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01952817145873886177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12564720.post-48119192239148962902011-12-15T11:28:00.000-08:002013-04-09T22:16:37.500-07:00Merry Christmas from Jet Set and Floyd
I did another quick Jet Set Games Christmas picture. I didn't get a chance to spend as much time on this one as I would have liked. I imagined a scene with Floyd as Santa, carrying a bag of presents, and filling a lot of 'odd' shaped stocking hanging above a fireplace. Each stocking would have a picture of one of the Worgon kids with a large picture of Enzo and Jessica on the mantle.
...Joseph B. Hewitt IVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01952817145873886177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12564720.post-45471122229253230062011-12-14T17:19:00.000-08:002013-04-09T22:15:51.645-07:00The Birth of the First Real-Time Strategy GameI happened to look at the trivia section for Dune II on Moby Games. I found the following entry:
This game is commonly called "the first real-time strategy game", but that designation is incorrect. Dune 2 borrowed many elements from a previous Westwood release, Battletech: The Crescent Hawk's Revenge. And thatgame borrowed elements from what is probably the first true game in the typical "Joseph B. Hewitt IVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01952817145873886177noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12564720.post-32924120663537893862011-12-09T14:47:00.001-08:002011-12-09T18:08:26.391-08:00Blade Runner, the Cool Twitter Kids and I
One of the cool things about twitter is getting to listen in on people (I was gonna say famous people, but that sounds lame, especially when the people I am talking about aren't mega-famous, just authors or artist I like) talking to each other. There is the somewhat neat factor when you find out the people you like and follow also follow and talk to each other. You get the feeling that you are Joseph B. Hewitt IVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01952817145873886177noreply@blogger.com1