Apparently, there's some weird, underground demand for the return of the deinosaurian subsite here. Which is fine: it's something I'm good at, I suppose. I just hadn't given it much thought recently.
Now, I'm thinking about it again.
Partly because it's something I can do without waiting on anyone else. Which means that it might get done, or something.
Everything else I'm working on here relies on other people. Swyndle's computer is pretty well broken, which causes problems with a number of things; Greenback is going into the damned Navy [he turned out to be a bigger Village People fan that we'd suspected], which causes additional problems. And doing a lot of this stuff on my own is tricky: I can logistically do all of it; but doing all of it at once doesn't accomplish much right away. And, of course, if I do something on my own and it succeeds, then everyone who had abandoned the project before things started working decides that I stole the stuff I created from them.
That doesn't make much sense to me, either; it's just what people tell me.
The HGD, however, doesn't really rely on anyone else. Necessarily. There are those, like Jurassosaurus, who are qualified to help out here; but, in the event that six billion people all find something better to do, I can actually get the whole thing done myself.
This is why I write books. I don't have to wait for anyone else to do anything before I can finish one. That I have to wait for people to do things before the books can be distributed is another issue.
So I'm starting to plot out the HGD subsite. Layout, format, and so on. I know what it's not going to look like; the original version was a bit of a mess: in 1997, I didn't realise that I was the only guy online with a 1280*1024 resolution, so there was a bit of horizontal scrolling for everyone else. I may well do the thing in Flash6. People complain about that a lot, but if Flash ever had a purpose, it may have been this. Because I can write this thing out as a sort of online CDRom that way. Which is kinda what I wanted to do in the first place, but the only way to do it six years ago was on an Amiga for an Amiga.
If you've ever used an Amiga Supercomputer, you'll probably know what I'm talking about. If not: let's just say that Commodore changed the future of technology when they went bankrupt. That was in 1994. In 2002, Windoze machines are finally catching up. And Flash6 is in the lead.
So that's an option.
Anyway: I'm still working on the layout for this. I've got a few rough ideas for it, but nothing really solid yet. Once I get that much done, then I can start uploading content. I'm going to try to have enough done to link to it by the end of the month.
Regarding everything else I'm trying to do here: I'm not sure what's happening right now. Radio Free Grempire relies on other people, of course; on the bright side, it relies on people who are still interested in doing it. It also relies on location, which doesn't help us much. One idea at the moment is to forget about background noise and record the show at restaurants and wherever else we go. Which could be interesting, if only because we'd get the inevitable gregarions hopping on the air and proving a few points for us. People are morons; and RFG is largely about exposing morons; it could work out well.
As for the rest...I'm not sure yet. I guess I'm holding out for the end of the month on most of it. It's just a sort of deadline. Anyone who's supposed to be involved in all this stuff who hasn't made some sort of effort to advance it by June is off the project. Otherwise, nothing is ever going to get done.
Sadly enough, things get done faster when I'm the only one doing anything than when a huge number of people are doing nothing.
More later....
--Gremlin