Digging for Bones

A few days ago, I wrote a post about HDR photography.

Well... not really.

I didn't actually write a post about HDR photography.  I started one, but then I checked my email, my messages, surfed Facebook for a few minutes (30 is a few, right?) and when I was finished, I looked up at the screen and yet another post about video games was staring back at me.  I have no idea how it got there.  I mean, it was late at night and things were kind of fuzzy.  As I trudged off to bed, I thought of something that Stephen King wrote:

"I want you to understand that my basic belief about the making of stories is that they pretty much make themselves.  The job of the writer is to give them a place to grow...  Stories are found things, like fossils in the ground."
                  - Stephen King, On Writing

So I started writing about HDR photography and, in my inbox, discovered the fossil of a post about video games.  Then, this morning as I got my daily fix of social networking (sure, I'm addicted to Facebook, and maybe I'm even becoming addicted to Twitter, but there are just so damn many bones in there, waiting to be dug up) I was struck by a tweet from Chuck Wendig, pimping his latest blog post (I'm not stalking you, Chuck. Your stuff is just so damn good).  Go ahead.  Click the link.  I'll wait here.

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Let the Games Begin!

Last night, I got one of the most concise Facebook messages I've ever received.  A friend who lives several states away who is a friend on XBOX Live sent it.  Actually, since he doesn't have a Facebook account, his wife sent it on his behalf.  It reads, simply: "My husband doesn't think you play enough video games."

I was flabbergasted.  I was outraged!  Is there a more damning indictment for a self-described geek?

I was... not playing enough video games.  It's true.  I think I've turned the system on as much for Netflix in the past few months as to play games.  I've played a good bit into Bioshock 2, but that's about it other than some guilty pleasure games (no, not that kind of games), like MLB Front Office Manager (I'm a statistician at heart) and World of Outlaws Sprint Cars (one of my first career choices as a kid was race car driver).  I really haven't played video games much in 2010 at all.

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Making Waves

Some randomness this afternoon:

Chuck Wendig over at Terrible Minds has got my hamster running about game design and the difference in structure between pnp/tabletop games and video games.  I can't wait to see the day when video games can capture a bit of that tabletop feel and give the players more ownership of the story.  Thanks, Chuck, for making me think about this.  I definitely plan on writing more about this when my hamster is resting and I have more time.

I (re)joined the Twittering masses yesterday and opened a new Twitter account.  I have no followers yet, but I've started tweeting away.

Geekcentricity has been alive for two weeks now and I have managed to somehow keep up my 200 hits a week pace.  I've seen some (expected) drop off the last few days, but I expect things to pick back up.  Also, Geekcentricity's Facebook fan page has surpassed 25 fans.  I know it's a tiny number comparatively, but it is a small milestone.  If you like what you see here so far (like I said, Geekcentricity is still an infant), please share it with friends.

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