i host a podcast where i interview people about their experiences making freeware, shareware, and homebrew software, called the fringe game history podcast. episodes come irregularly but i believe it is important work.

my most ambitious and unexpectedly successful project is my attempt to bring back the anarchic spirit of mid-90s shareware with my website, glorioustrainwrecks.com. the site has been hosting a regular two-hour game jam every month called the "klik of the month klub", in which people who make their living independently making videogames create alongside people who have never written a program before, and everyone has a great time. i have also been responsible for organizing a couple of events called "pirate karts", in which i get as many people as i can to make games continuously for 48 hours, and collect the result. during the first event, 17 people made 105 games; during the second, 102 people made 529 games.

i have a couple of mostly dormant blogs; i used livejournal for many years to catalogue personal / amusing things, and had a blog called geekstorming intended me to spew out my half-formed opinions and ideas about software. mostly these days i just yammer at people on mastodon, though.

i like to write software; much of it is ridiculous is some manner or another.

• i am in the process of building a real-time multi-user game creation environment which i call marmots; so far, though, i've only managed to build the part where you can collaboratively make ansi art with your friends. uses telnet for simplicity and authenticity; requires a glorioustrainwrecks account to use.
• i have done a fair amount of reverse-engineering work of the file formats for the game creation tool "klik & play". this has allowed me to build tools that extract resources from klik & play games, randomly generate screenshots of hypothetical games that use klik & play's built-in graphical resources, and programmatically remix games using the resources from other games.
• speaking of reverse-engineering, i figured out the infrared protocol spoken by the "v.smile baby" videogame console for very young children.
• the ludum dare 48-hour game programming competition is a lot of fun. my proudest weekend creation was a nice little faux-japanese shooter i call magnificent gunbright. before that i tried to make a game about sneezing but i didn't finish.
• i ported kenta cho's noiz to the nintendo ds.
• i wrote a reimplementation of the world's second videogame, tennis for two, that you can play with a friend over the internet.
• i enjoy constantly re-implementing robotfindskitten for all known platforms.
• would you like to read my undergraduate thesis? it's about writing hard realtime interrupt handlers in sml. i'm fond of ludicrous ideas like this.
• would you like to read the last paper of my undergraduate career? it is technically about just-in-time compilation, but at the time that i wrote it i was so burned out on my thesis that i just couldn't do it straight. watch out for page 3.
• looking for some wacky toast-modern (as opposed to that postmodern crap) gameplay? look no further than scong! be the ball! note: does not contain naked people.
• in university, i created a programming language to annoy a professor. it is called intbigot and it is very silly.
• i ported linux agi studio to macos x. you might like to play with it. i'm not really supporting it, though.
• once upon a time i decided i wanted to put qnx on a sega dreamcast, so i did.

i am a band. its name is livestock at large. you probably shouldn't bother to listen.

i had a great deal of old computers. i have less now, and they're much more organized.

i wrote some articles about how big of a geek i am. they're many years old now (ah, first year university!), but hopefully they're not too embarassing to continue to exist.

lucky charms in the united states are magically disturbing.