making some major progress! yeah, it took my almost two days to figure all these little issues out, but I know have a very rudimentary, two-player zirch game (all you can do now is watch a bunch of As dance around the screen and if you click on one, it will disappear for both players). Im sure there will be some more roadblocks and lost more stuff I will have to figure out, but boy we sure are close now…
I had my conference call, and it went well. I will provide you with more details on it when things materialize…
my alliance with http://allgamesfree.com is just about set. It looks like the playwithyourmind.com section of that site will be going up in the second week of May
no news from Yahoo….I e-mailed them again today to be persistent
partnership with The Brain Injury Research Foundation is all set. There are new site will be going up shortly and I will be providing them with some games for the site. This is an important relationship to develop for later on when I am working on sharpenthemind.com
I applied for a couple other Web awards today to try to get a little more traffic and some more good credentials
Last night I made my first multi-user application, a simple chatroom. Today I will learn about “Remote Shared Objects” which will be the cornerstone for multi-player games…. getting close now.
Welcome to my list (or at least the beginning of it) of the Top 25 Movies of my Lifetime (the past 26-27 years). Each week for the next 25 weeks I will release and review another movie from this list until it is complete.
I have put considerable thought into compiling this list. I have reviewed the AFI top 100 movies of all time, the most rented movies on Netflix, employee selections at the local video store, Academy award nominees during this time period, and of course, polled some of my friends. through this process, I have come up with my favorite 25 movies of the past 25 years.
Obviously, this is no definitive list. It is reflective solely of my personal opinion and what I personally look for in a movie. As everyone has different requirements for what makes a movie great, this list is probably unique to me, and you may not agree with many of the choices I have made.
through a discussion with my mother -which began when she gave me her list of her top 25 which had only three in common with mine – I have isolated many of the criteria that I use to judge a movie. While my mother seemed to look mostly for entertainment – she says she goes to the movies to have fun – my selections are chosen more based on how much the movie makes you think. I see media as a vehicle for delivering social messages about the human condition or for challenging our beliefs about something. I want a movie to be provocative and have a level of meaning beyond the surface entertainment. Of course, I also like a movie to be exciting or to include unforeseen plot twists, but these are secondary criteria when determining whether a movie is great or not. The main thing I look for is “does this movie deliver a meaningful message that could impact the lives of its viewers”?
if you follow the unveiling of this list you will find that most of the movies I present will fit this profile. However, some movies are just so well done that they can made it onto the list by virtue of a great combination of acting, directing, story and cinematography.
okay, I look forward to beginning this. The first review will be released tomorrow (Monday April 25).
so I dont have the CMS done yet to manage all this stuff,but I have decided to go ahead and start releasing my reviews/lists of the best movies, websites , games and books. Although they will not all start immediately, over the course of the next week or two I plan on making my first entries into the folloiwng blogs:
Top 25 Movies of my Lifetime (1978-present)
Website of the Day
Book of the Week
Game of the Week
eventually, I am planning two more categories, but I will start with these for now. in all instances except site of the day, new content will be released once a week. (movie on monday, book on wednesday, game on friday)
