It’s pretty dumb. Just click on the dude to make him jump over the bad thing and you win. It was thrown together using jQuery. It’s not nearly as awesome as what the other guys have been working on, but it’s something.

See you tomorrow!

Pasty is doing some coding. Ran and Idan are tossing around some design ideas. Sullivan is drawing lots of pretty pictures. Chuck is setting up some source control for us. I arrived a bit late, so I’m still trying to snag myself a worthwhile role. I figured I might as well document things.

The theme for the Global Game Jam is “Deception” but we’re going with “Escape” because we don’t let anybody tell us how to jam. I’ll post more as progress is made.

I’m not sure if we’re feudin’ with them yet; stay vigilant.

• I got a Google Wave invite and invited 6 of my friendiest friends
• Google launched Building Maker including downtown Columbus, OH

Wow, that shit is good. I’m excited about that shit, personally and professionally.

But that ain’t all!  As if to prove that there is no god, this shit also went down:

• The fat idiot in front of me at Wendy’s got a Diet Coke and a half-vanilla/half-chocolate Frosty
• Adrien Brody will star as Arnold Governator in Robert Rodriguez’s Predator reboot

Holy fucking shit!  2012 and the Mayan Apocalypse can’t come soon enough!

Anyway, if the planet doesn’t ex-/implode, then we’ll be integrating some Waves into the TinyGods site as those features become available.

There were a total of 92 posts published in year three, an increase of 8 over year two.  In this time, we saw the beginning (and end) of the Tiny GodCast and the Tiny Gods WoW Guild.  Our pal Fezzik stepped up and revived the ‘Babe of the Month’, which then prompted the start of the ‘Beefcake of the Month’ (which without these, there would have been entire months with no posts).  What other great moments am I missing? What do you want to see in Year Four?

GeoCities will close later this year.

It’s soul-crushing news.  A small neighborhood in my heart, named Area 51, just got demolished.  Without further bullshit, here is the award for Web Host of the Decade:

TRIPOD!

Look, there’s not a whole lot I need to say.  They gave us web space when we needed it, we uploaded shit, and they never took it down.  We don’t really need this stuff now, but it’s great to see all these unintential time capsules all over the web.  Below are some sites we started back in the dial-up days and into the Napster era – the Golden Age of Web 1.0 (formerly known as the World Wide Web).

Back before Twitter and Blogger and Facebook and WordPress you had to WRITE HTML and upload that shit over and over until it worked.  These weren’t just free places to store stuff, they were our offices and our workshops.  Tripod and competing sites gave us the tools to craft our own childhoods out of hypertext markup.  I can’t thank them enough, but I can memorialize them (and burn AngelFire in effigy).

Enjoy:

http://members.tripod.com/~Pasty69/uan/index.htm

http://dlbclan.tripod.com/

http://ranjuan.tripod.com/

 

Honorable mention (and a fond farewell): GeoCities

http://www.geocities.com/kage_bunshin_no_jutsu/

 

Post your old hosted sites in the comments so we can all enjoy them!  

Ok, so you say that it includes:

• Sullivan’s busy new schedule?
• The career of a Guitar Hero?
• The secret criminal life of the dog-cloner?

It does look like this Godcast belongs to you. They are all very unique, after all. Are you sure you still want it? It’s pretty old. It looks like it has been sitting on Mandrake’s computer gathering dust for a few weeks. I guess that’s what happens when a responsible Tiny God such as Sullivan passes the task of editing to a lesser god, eh?

What’s that you just said? Tiny Godcasts get better with age? You are so right! Here you go, and have a nice day!

Download: tiny-godcast-ep07.mp3

Edit: Pasty asked me why I tagged this post as “Babe of the Week” and, even though I wanted to keep these sexy images off the site, I feel obligated to answer with PICS!

• WordPress has been updated to 2.6.2 (from 2.6.1) so we’re up-to-date codewise. 
• The new theme is very slick (and supports Widgets) so it’s great to have that installed. 
• If anyone has suggestions or criticism for the sidebar/widgets or anything just go ahead and throw it in the comments for this post.
• We’ve discussed a lot of swanky changes for the upcoming author pages, I’m excited for the glorification!
• The new (2.6.*) branch has an improved Admin setup over the old code, so if you haven’t written a post in the last month – go give it a whirl!

I just wanted to throw that out there before Pasty could, since he is likely too busy packing up his apartment to post here.  His daily outrage yesterday was that I had declined an invitation made Friday morning by ol’ Mandrake to hang out that night, since I had already planned on doing a 10 man WoW raid that night with my warrior.

I’ve not the need to defend myself, though I will admit that I probably play too much WoW.  I just had to beat Pasty to the punch.  If I had returned to the old ‘raid five nights a week’ routine, Brucie certainly wouldn’t be level 60 and I would have been raiding yesterday rather than spending 10 hours helping Pasty move his stuff!

For those interested though, I did join up with some folks that are running the two 10 man raids, Karazhan and Zul’Aman.   I’ve done the Karazhan raid three times now, and it’s kinda neat.  It’s far from bleeding edge content, as I’m pretty sure it’s been in the game since the expansion came out, and was the first raid content people would tackle at 70.  As my brother put it, its just like doing a 5 man instance, it just takes a little bit longer (and has EPIC loot).  In any case, it’s new to me, since I’d never seen the place before.

Karazhan was actually what had me most excited about the expansion back when i was in super raider mode.  The idea of having a smaller group of folks to raid with rather than trying to get 40 people together sounded great.  These days the entire place has been figured out and well documented, and the folks I run it with have no problem clearing it, so that takes out part of the fun.  The old school raider in me would have liked to have run the place when it first came out.