its easier for me to microblog lately than it is to sit down and spend time actually blogging. so you can find me on twitter as @imaje or on brightkite as imaje as well.

ive also slowed down on the posting because of the ambivalence of posting about my personal life on something that can be viewed by the world. so, if you’re wondering where a lot of posts have gone, they’re password protected and you should know the password.

It’s been about 2 weeks since we have launched another game.  We call this one Paradigm.

Paradigm is a multiplayer turn based game of numbers and strategy. The player who has the highest score at the end of the game wins. Show some support on facebook and install and play the game http://apps.facebook.com/paradigm

shameless plug no doubt, but i’m allowed to plug my own work!  launch 10 has launched its first interactive multi-player facebook game today.

pirate ships is a game that allows you to battle against friends or with strangers on the high seas as pirates!  place, plot and fire to see who can sink who first.  you can play multiple games simultaneously and choose your pace.

join our pirate ships facebook group to help us spread the word and discuss any topics related to pirate ships the game.

so aside from all the self promoting, the game is quick and fun and we would love your support!

at some point in 2004 i decided to actually make myself a website.  created a template and embraced CSS and used a not so friendly template version of wordpress.  once i got everything working and wordpress all settled.. i never finished.

the other night i made my kitten her very own blog. decided to go ahead and give AdSense a holler, i had never bothered before because about 3 of you actually come to my website (hi guys..). however part of AdSense policy is they don’t give accounts to unfinished websites. I’m going to be putting AdSense on sachi’s website, and figured might as well put one on mine, i figure after 3-4 years of you guys reading my blog i might make enough to finally make a $100.00 check and cash in!

i have now completely updated all the content on my website. updated my theme and made some fixes (but i did this a week or two ago), added a contact form, links (while that’s still unfinished at least i started it), a brief gallery(ill link my crappy gallery some other way), my resume, and a simple home page.

holy shit guys, i finished my website. finally.  now its time to redesign it!! haha.

thats right, colour! i spelled it all proper like, impressed? well you should be, not with me, but with the website for COLOURlovers.

Last year during webby’s i ran across this website that was basically a niche social network that was based around creating colors and color palettes.  i have used sites like wellstyled’s color scheme generator, colors on the web, colorschemer, webcolorschemes, and kuler, just to name a few, but none of them have appealed to me as much as COLOURlovers has.

the usability of the site is not as intuitive as i would like and it takes a bit of getting use to to figure out how to successfully navigate through the site, but i find myself enjoying the experience.  its not only just a tool to help you create colors its an entire network of individuals all passionate about color and all its facets; from linking visual inspirations, or in written form, to naming your palettes and colours alike, its a whole new way of social contribution.

the sheer volume of colors and palettes being created is quite impressive, i myself have joined in the fray in hopes to share my color concepts and to inspire as i am being inspired.

come join me! its my favorite new addiction as i spend hours just thinking of color arrangements and being lost in ones created by others.

a while ago photobucket teamed up with a company/product called meez.  meez are essentially 3d photo avatars you can custom design and animate.  i made one a long time ago but almost forgot about it until got an email notice reminding me and inviting me to “come and use it again” now in beta.

simpsons… meez.. i even have a weemee for skype. maybe i’ll upload that next.

Okay yah so — i suck at this blog thing apparently.  Every time i come up with something i want to blog about i never do it.  I really need to discipline myself to take out a few minutes just to do it.  birthday resolution. anyway..

everyone has been posting simpsonized versions of themselves around lately and i’ve even played with the tool myself, but after my friend Nina made one of herself and Chad and put it on her blog, the likeness was so great to see i decided to copy and do the same so i could share with her.

easiest way to share.. is to post here. this is joel and i as simpsons.

so that’s it, you try it and share

i use to use zempt then i switched to wb editor. i still like wb editor but i decided to try out adobe’s new web/blog tool editor program. whereas wb editor is pretty much a desktop blog tool contribute is a lot more than that.

so far the UI is pretty simple and i like it. there is a lot of WYSIWYG stuff that i dont need/want but it doesnt really get int he way.  not really sure which one ill use or which one i like better just yet.  ive never really liked the native wordpress web based controls.  i always preferred something more sophisticated.

wb editor is up to version 3.  i’m still using 2.  to think there was a time when i thought all you needed was notepad.. pico.. joe.. vi?? i guess thats still all you need but i like technology.  hot dog pro anyone? haha!

thats right. burgled.

pulling into a parking lot and you see *YOUR* spot, out of nowhere some car takes it from you. burgled.

that odd and ravenous craving for the last piece of cheesecake at midnight. open the fridge and.. its gone. burgled.

minding your own business wooping some boar ass for a quest that never seems to end. not paying attention to your health bar, youre dead. burgled.

running along and that rare named elite spawn appears magically before you. you woop his ass and take his fat loots. burgled.

you get the idea. burgled.

i usually get my hair done once a month.  sometimes ill lag and i miss a month.  this time around it took me almost 4 months to get my ass back in the salon.  theres just been a lot going on in my day to day life, finding the time or energy to go in was just a bigger task at the time than i needed. 

its autumn about..soon? presently i have tricolor highlights with my own black hair serving as low lights.  its generally really pretty, with a mix of a blonde, brown and plum. I only highlight/color the hair on the top of my head, the rest of my hair stays untouched and black, by just dying the top, it pretty much gives the illusion that my entire head of hair is done.  My hair has been this way for over a year and i decided i wanted to change it up.  with the seasons changing and with christina gone, i needed and wanted some red in my life, and to darken up the look.  as i was talking to danielle (my amazing stylist of 10 years) we decided to keep the brown we use, its a bit of copper color almost, and to keep the plum purple.  i try to always use permanents because semi perms and vibrants never last and all they do is make more mess than i care to deal with.. i miss my purple hair but i don’t miss the upkeep. we changed the blonde to a red. a beautiful vibrant fiery red.

it looks amazing. my hair looks like autumn and in the sunlight or direct light, it looks like fire.  with a mixture of a fiery red with a darker red, no more blonde, the brownish coppery color now against the red almost makes some of the hair look orange and the bleeding into the plum is just georgeous.. oh yah and the standard lowlights of my black hair.  every time i look in the mirror i think of christina. i miss her big blue eyes and red brown hair keeping me company everyday at lunch.

hair tech? oh yah.. i’m getting there.  so as i’m sitting down, my hair colored and trimmed another stylist walks by and says “that color is amazing. what is it”. Danielle proceeds to speak in a technical language i found fascinating.  I thought to myself “this is what people must feel like all the time when my friends and i are talking”.  They talked about how my hair is a level 2, they talked a lot about numbers 20, 30 and 40 and what you use. and the colors? they don’t have names, just numbers.  “8F with a mix 6E, this is a 5F and a 4E.”  “Wow you used 40? i thought 20″ “I have to, with Level 2 hair think about it, she needs 6 levels of Lift not only that but she has asian hair. i mean feel it.  you put 40 on my hair and my hair will fry off.  touch her hair. it still feels silky.” “Wacka wacka wacka…”  After calling a few more stylists over to discuss the method, levels, weird NumberLetter names for colors… I realized i was the subject of hair tech, and i loved being witness to a new kind of geek, all of its own, and i had no idea what anything meant.

//j