New Design

Hey guys. I've switched my blog layout once again because my previous, three-column one was causing problems in some browsers. 

Sooo, over to the left is the sidebar, it's just got my picture and a bunch of boring stuff. I took out the super Comment Person Award because I realized it was a pretty cheap way of getting comments :P That's over and done with, and gone.

That's all for the sidebar. Up above are my links, I have one to GNNHQ.com, my Web site. If you haven't been there, check it out. I'll have an interview up there soon, hopefully, that will boost the viewership quite a bit. 

Next link is to my Sky Photography page, where I have 100+ of my Sky Pix. I have some to add soon from the trip, and they are some of my favorites so check it out soon.

Services is coming soon, so far I only have Custom Desktops up, but I plan on adding a Blogger Search-bar page and maybe an HTML help post.

Now, the comment link is quite a bit smaller now, but still at the bottom of each post. Click on it, leave a comment, and I'll be trying to do a better job of commenting on your entries too. =)

Right under that is Reactions. Just check the box that matches your reaction to my post. 

That's all ^_^

The Latest Trip

I barely ever had my camera with me except in the car, so most of my shots were sky pictures. Check the page! They're awesome.

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Alex and I spent a few days with Granpa Leonard and went to the fair where I won three stuffed animals :D It was fun, and I painted their deck.

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Survival Log | Day 3

Yesterday was pretty fun. Mom left after lunch with Gma, and for Dinner we went out to Red Robin. After that Gpa took us to the fair, and the lines were way too long to try and go on a ride. So we spent some tickets at games, and we won three stuffed animals.

Without a laptop, I have been reading some Heaven's Wager and playing a lot of Rhythm Heaven. Today I finished staining their deck and am using his dial-up right now. (x_x @ dial-up)

Oh, and my blog looks totally messed up on this browser. I see what some of you were saying. soooooo, tune in next episode for Extreme Makeover: .blogscott edition!

Survival Log | Day 2

Finished working at that lady's house the second day. Man - I was so sore. I added up the pundage that I lefted that day, it was over 7,000 @_@ I got paid well though :P

I'm here with Grandpa Leanard for three more days, using Mom's laptop for now. She's leaving for some time with Katie and Grandma, and will be taking the computer. I have limited browsing abilities on my DSi (which I forgot to post about w/ pictures - should do that when I get home) and I might be able to use their Dial-Up (x_x) so chances are I won't be blogging/emailing. But text me! Keep me company.

So far I've started on staining their deck but I'm sure he has more projects for me. 

Do I have any updates for you guys? ... .. . ... .. . Not really. I've been able to do a little bit of work on my video game while I was here. Just so you know how far the progress is - we are getting into sprites for our characters and objects, and I've started on sketching the menu structure. I'll take the sketches and finalize them on the computer, then put together the presentation which we might take to Seatle. I should post a video here after we copyright the concept (Dad's idea, - 'don't know the first thing about copyrights).

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So yeah - text me. If you don't have my number, get it from somebody :P 

Hello out there

My life's pretty interesting right abouts now.

I've been getting into the classics of gaming. I'm working on beating the original Super Mario Bros. in 5-10 minutes, and also going through the legend of Zelda. My friend also taught me the ways of the fighters, which I hadn't been interested in previously. Now I'm like bring it on :P

Getting into some complicated stuff in programming class. I learned how to save my programs as Executables (.exe extension) so if anyone wants to see the stuff I'm working on, I can email you a zip file with my projects.

I went to the park in CDA after Co-Op yesterday with some friends and played some hard-core tag :D It was actually really fun.

Sent Reba a B-Day present & called her on her "Birthday"..... .... .. Not her Birthday >_<

I worked with my youth-pastor at his relatives house. And it was real work -- we were hauling around 40 pound blocks and making a retaining wall. I'm dead and will be going back tomorrow.

Development on my video game is going smashingly. Should have the presentation ready in a month +/-

Listing way too many books online for sale but I'm getting paid so that's okay.

With all the moneys I'm making, I plan on getting some nice vivid blue scary contacts. Will post pix for ya

Got an interview with one of twelve pro gamers who are competing in a gaming competition on cable now - WCG Ultimate Gamer. Nice Christian guy who does videos on Youtube a lot. Him linking to the interview on my site will make readership go up hugely.

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I got beat by someone who built a tower.

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• Ahhhh. Today is the day that I find out if I am going to be rich and famous or not. 
  
• I got an interview with Swoozie, a professional gamer starring on WCG Ultimate Gamer, a Cable TV show on right now. He's a really great gamer, nice person, in the top 7 right now and does video blogs on youtube all the time. here's one about the Existence of God (really cool video). The interview will go up on GNN
• And progress on my video game is going well. I'm getting my hands dirty in the visuals department @_@
• Um... that's all. Happy Easter.

Notice

I'm going to be pretty busy from now on for a while. I will still try to blog, but I won't have as much time. The reason being is I am making a video game :)

Today is the deadline

Yeah this is about the contest. It's the only thing I write about because it's the only thing I think about mmkay??? :D

The deadline is today. IMHO, I am in the top three, but the other too are really good as well. 

Gooburt has

• Over 6,800 views
• Average rating of 7.7
• 192 comments

Some pro stop-motion-man just entered >_<

Gooburt update

24 hours later

• 4,640 views
• Average rating of 7.8/10
• 148 comments

Gooburt

This was my entry for the World of Goo Contest on Game Trailers, sponsored by Nintendo. It took Sim and I all day to make, and we took over 300 original stops (frames).  Winners will be contacted in about two weeks.

The grand prize is a ton of cool stuff, like a trip to LA to go to E3, a 52" flat screen TV, DSi, $100 worth of Nintendo download points, etc. As of now, my video is getting pretty good ratings, and I really think that Gooburt has a good chance of 1st place. Watching the other 15 or so vids, I'd bet that one of the five prizes is mine. And I'm not trying to brag, there's just not much competition. 

The Trip

So I was gone for nine days. You can see pictures of almost everything we did on these posts: 

• New Sky Pictures from the whole trip. Also added them to the Sky page.
• Stuff we did on the way
• Disneyland
• The Missionary Team
• The Ministry in Mexico

Sky Pictures from the trip

On the way

We got to visit Reba in Dillon, Darren in Pocatello, and Grant and Liz in Provo on the way :D

Disneyland

Mom and Dad surprised us with Disneyland on the way

Alex was fool'd, and so was Tom but he won't admit it.

Pirates of the Carribean

Indiana Jones

The Haunted Mansion

Buz Lightyear's Astro Blasters

Star Tours

Bunch of Adventureland rides