My son mentioned to me he wants a website. Iām all about that! I would love to offer him a place to call his own. But I donāt want to half-ass it. Growing up we had sites like GeoCities, Tripod, and others that allowed us complete freedom over the sites we made. And we had great tools to get us there. Where did all these tools go?
Aļ»æs I said, I didnāt want to skimp on him and get him something that extremely formulaic. Sure, I could fire up a WordPress bucket and give him the capability to build with that, but WordPress has become so bloated and so full of fluff itās not that easy anymore to get things looking like you want them to. There are great HTML templates out there to start from to give him something amazing to work with, but heās just starting out and understanding HTML, CSS, JS syntax in order to get the design he wants is a large uphill battle.
Horizon Forbidden West is Guerrilla Games latest action role-playing game following the protagonist, Aloy, through a post-apocalyptic North America. If you havenāt played Horizon Zero Dawn, then you should really go out and play it. As one of my all-time favorite modern games, and is a must have game for the PlayStation 4 and 5. I have just completed Horizon Forbidden West (HFW) and achieved the Platinum Trophy. Hereās my thoughts on the game.
Itās the COVID isolation themeā¦ A bit more svelte and easier to handle, but still in the vein of what Iāve established as my style. Right about now, is when I start talking about how I wish I would write more and that I will probably do it from now onā¦then the site sits still for months and months. So I wonāt be saying that.
I would like to write more, but time is not on my side. So thatās why things stay stale. I have some ideas, but seems like I always do. Trying to work through the logistics of my plans and then go from there. But drink in the new look and love all the new fun stuff on the homepage.
The lack of standardized rating systems sucks. Thereās so many ways to rate something that you begin to lose all understanding what what something means. Even systems designed to simplify things muddy the waters, because they often lack the granularity that allows for meaning to be derived. Iāll offer a guideā¦
Thereās a ton of rating systems out there but, in most cases, they follow a simple numerical ranking to the need. Ten point scales, 5 star rating, two thumbs up/down, or something similar. Looking at my homepage youāll find that I like tracking and rating the things in my life. It is a little bit of data collection that I may use for later.
Iāve really be into home automation lately. āHey Alexa, turn on my living room lights!ā Itās been interesting diving into the world of home automation. But the one thing I could not fine (at least reasonably priced), was something that would open and close my blinds. Since Iām currently on parental leave from work and needed something to exercise my mind, I decided to tackle it myself.
Two Step Process
The whole approach was going to be two fold, find out if it is possibleā¦then automate it. The first step was to see if I could get it done with a push of a button. What parts would I need? Do I have things on hand? Etcā¦. From there, I did some digging and came up with this result.
Iām quite proud of my homepage. As I said before, I used to use services like Flavors.me and About.me for my main page because they did something particularā¦that gathered my info in one place. From social sites to image sites, these tools did that easily. But I started to realize I wasnāt showing what I really wantedā¦additionally I was having a hard time keeping those connections up as well. So it was time to make my own.
So if you look at my old site youāll see I made one post in 2015. One solitary post in January of that year, then nothing. There was a reason for that. If you read that post, youāll see it was about simplifying my life. One of those things I did, was remove myself from blogging for a time. I donāt know if it helped or hurt, but it was one of the things I did.
I did it! I once again threw off the shackles of the old skin and slapped a new one on. This one is bigger, bolder, better, beautifuler, boomier, ballsier, boisterous, blistering, boilermaking, and bombastic. At least I like to think so. What do you think?
Notebook
The notebook is my new blog. I have cover images, large titles, and embeds. The āhamburgerā icon [ ], yesā¦thatās really what it is called and Iām not a fan either but itās a convention, will get you to all my personal links.
