{"id":3990,"date":"2010-03-04T22:58:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T05:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=3990"},"modified":"2015-05-29T17:53:23","modified_gmt":"2015-05-30T00:53:23","slug":"projects-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/04\/projects-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Projects 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

On New Year’s day of 2009 I opted to skip the resolutions and instead simply vow to do a dozen “projects” over the coming twelve months. That decision, and some of the projects that resulted from it, are documented here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I did so again for 2010. But this time I actually listed a number of projects that I intended to tackle. Most of these, I’ll be honest, were ideas I had intended to do in 2009 and never got around to, or ideas from time immemorial that are on the verge of being forgotten rather than executed.<\/p>\n

Before I get into The Litany, a quick primer on what I consider to be a “project”. First, it has to be creative. I hope to cycle a century this year, and watch all three of the unabridged Lord of the Rings<\/em> films, but neither of those endeavors counts. Second, it has to take a substantial chunk of time to complete–at least a week of effort is my admittedly loose criterion. And third, success of a project should not depend on third parties. Writing a short story is a project; having a magazine buy it is out of scope.<\/p>\n

In collating these, I realized that they largely fell into three categories: Writing, Game Design, and Internet. Some belong to multiple classifications, and are listed as such.<\/p>\n

And so, the Projects 2010 list. “Log Lines” are intentionally vague–I have been told (and believe) that revealing too much about a creative project lessens one’s motivation to actually do it, as you get credit for the “great idea” and call it good. The Binary Options Strategies<\/a>. I will revise these entries with more information over the year as projects are actually undertaken (or scrapped).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Project<\/p>\n<\/th>\n

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Category<\/p>\n<\/th>\n

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Log Line<\/p>\n<\/th>\n

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Status<\/p>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Vending Spree<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Writing, Internet<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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This gimmicky writing challenge may be the next project I tackle. Just need to figure out how to host it: here on dy, in conjunction with The Morning News, or on its own dedicated website.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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In progress: vendingspree.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Twitter project<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Writing, Internet<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Idea for a website that leverages Twitter to maximize my blah blah blah please paypal me venture capital ASAP.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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This one involves a fair about of programming. Investigating how much of the code I’ve written for similar projects is the first logical step.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Google Maps project<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Internet<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Doesn’t have the potential of the Twitter project, but would be fun to launch<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Infinite Summer 2010<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Internet<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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I’m not entirely sure if I.S. is going to return this year, but it’s something I ought to that pondering.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Thinking about thinking about.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Twelve Articles for The Morning News<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Writing, Internet<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Technically I am a contributing writer for those guys, although lately I have been neither contributing nor writering …<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Waaay behind on this one, as my editors well know (Sorry Andrew.) <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Girl of His Dream<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Writing<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Short story I started last year and then unaccountably abandoned.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Have written the first third, know the ending. Just got to pound out that pesky “middle part”.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Sear<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Writing<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Short crime story I have been carrying around in my head for about a year.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Not started.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Book proposal<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Writing<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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I got the idea, now I just need the time …<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Not started. I may begin in August.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Screenplay<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Writing<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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I cut my screenwriting teeth on that script for The Office<\/a> last year, now I’d like to do a full-length screenplay.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Have a few candidates, need to decide which idea to take on.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Karaoke<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Game Design<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Set collection card game with what I believe to be some pretty cool and original mechanisms.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Created some files for the prototype, need to print those out and start solo playtesting.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Birthday Treasure Hunt 2010<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Game Design<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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This is something that I did more-or-less annually, until parenthood caught up with me. You can see summaries of previous hunts here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Given that my birthday is less than a week away, I’m a little behind schedule to say the least. But holding these things well after my birthday was as much a part of the tradition as anything else.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Lobby or Crash Course<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Game design<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Two different games; I ought to do one or the other (if not both)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Crash Course has a prototype in need of tweaking; Lobby is nothing more than a concept at this point.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Computer game<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Game design, Internet<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Create a browser-based game using Flash or somesuch<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Have an idea for the game, haven’t started learning the language.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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