Edgar of all trades » The Guild

The Sims 3

Edgar — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:21:48 +0000

I went ahead and bought the Sims 3. I created a few characters:

Its soo weird to be able to do this and if I had the time, I’d totally write up a whole story with these guys and see how it went… Please let me know if you own this game and decide to do this too… I will be extra impressed if you make a sim of me

There’s me:

I aspire to be a top police enforcement officer… not much to choose from. My traits are family, hopeless romantic, lucky, and other things that describe me well. I already got him a job in the law enforcement track. Figured someone has to work. I’ll find jobs for the others soon.

There’s Felicia Day (Codex):

I made her a bit like Codex but a bit like Felicia too… she aspires to be a guitarist and master speaker… I did not see an actor option. Her traits include neurotic, charismatic, and others. I already noticed that she HAS to check the stove to see if its off sometimes…

Sandeep Parikh (Zaboo):

I made him way more like Zaboo because its hilarious… he gets scared easily, a hopeless romantic, can be annoying and his Simian (whatever the language is) sounds JUST LIKE HIM! That was eerie. I swear he said Sandeep once too. Anyway, it will be interesting how he turns out in the game.

Finally, saved the best for last, Jeff Lewis (Vork):

He is a mooch, very frugal, and already seems very anal. His casual clothing is suit and tie and sneakers. Funny that when I went to make him, the dude already had the bald hair style. Weird. Anyway, in this Sims, you cant’ choose height, but I set him as lanky, since it will distinguish him as tall then. I figure I will send this guy off to other houses to eat from their food. lol (squab!) When he views thing, the thought bubble shows the golden dollar sign, like he’s thinking of selling it for the simoleans.

Now, I haven’t done anything with them, just had them freely do anything. I noticed that everyone seemed willing to sleep with Felicia (big surprise there) but then two of the guys were sleeping and I found out it was just that they have to consider each other friends is all. I plan on adding more cast to other homes and have them all interact and see what happens… I will also make up significant others specifically for each char and see if I can get them to fall for each other. So if Felicia, Sandeep, or Jeff have specific desires as to their significant other should look like, let me know before I move on to that part of this game lol.

I will leave you with some more screen shots I took:

Let there be Nachos

Edgar — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:57:18 +0000

This is Nacho usual tweetup...

And thus proclaimed the great Amy J Fisher, “Let there be Nachos!” And the Nachos ran abundant for tables and tables, filled with hungry and anticipating people, ready for the bountiful delights of the Nachos.

Yeah so… We had a tweetup where we ate nachos. It was fun. Contrary to @silverbell‘s expression over yonder. A nice-sized crowd showed up and I even met some new friends. Let me just say that we all mingled very well. It probably helped that there was also liquor and it was flowing freely.

I have uploaded my pictures to my flickr so feel free to view and comment on them. If you missed the tweetup, it is but a sampling of what was missed. You can imagine what pictures I chose not to put up is all I am saying.

One of my favorite pictures, and I have many is this one of @Fitz and @LeahJones taking a picture with nachos and beer, which Leah yelled out “Nachos and Beer!” This explains the tweetup very nicely.

Speaking of @Fitz, John decided to take what’s been referred as a “sexy pose”… Being sexy is his business, and business is good!

I can sit here and post every single picture I took, but you can go ahead and view my latest set from the tweetup.

I did want to point out that I was wearing my photoshop’d shirt, which has a back-story. I watch The Guild as well as admin their website. Its a great web series by Felicia Day. She plays a gamer of an online game and finds one of her online gaming friends at her doorstep, Zaboo (played by Sandeep Parikh). Zaboo is basically a stalker and one of the things he does is photoshops a picture of him and of Codex, Felicia’s character. So, I was to meet Felicia and Sandeep last year and thought it would be really funny to make a t-shirt of me and him photoshop’d. It was a hit. Well, Sandeep thought it creepy, which made it even better. So, at the Nacho Tweetup, I had a name tag for myself and I placed it on the t-shirt me, so I gave t-shirt Sandeep his own name tag as well. You can see me wearing two name tags, because mine has my twitter handle and http://yearoftheedgar.com while the other one has Sandeep’s twitter handle and http://effinfunny.com. The great thing was that about half of the people there knew the inside joke of it, which is awesome. Lastly, Sandeep also created Legend of Neil, a hilarious web series about a guy named Neil who finds himself in the Legend of Zelda game and has to find away out.

Awesome People are Awesome

Edgar — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:11:31 +0000

I’ve met some really nice people through my networking efforts. Mostly, I have Felicia Day to thank really since her fans have been amazing.

I’ve asked around for some fun design work and people have responded. I will discuss them all in time but I wanted to point this one out since there was a blog post with it and I can link to it.

Matt Brackney has been doing some work for The Guild and I asked if he would cartoonify me as a Guild character and he did! He’s awesome at this stuff, though I do kinda wish my character had glasses like me and maybe the braided beard was just my goatee since they tend to identify me the most (though I am not one to complain about this), its a wonderful drawing for sure! Check it out here on Squareternal.

I’ve had others work on some items for me and I hope to create a separate page to showcase some of these things. Particularly, Katie Durham‘s wonderful idea for a change in my blog.

If anyone else has anything Edgar-related they want to show me or want me to showcase please let me know… I get a kick out of all of this creativity I have been shown… especially when its about me.

Edgar

PAX08 Seattle Vacation

Edgar — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:07:31 +0000

I had an interesting several days in Seattle this past weekend. Not that my days are ever not interesting.

Yes, Felicia Day and I finally met in person. I also met several really great people within her inner circle, one in particular that was both really cool and nice to me and knows who they are. It was exciting. She really looked star-struck. I have that effect on people. Cause I’m awesome. Modesty aside, let me begin from the beginning because if I start at the end, then Quentin Tarantino will totally sue me, or at least destroy me…

Before PAX

My adventure basically began two months before Comic-Con. I wanted to attend it, but by that time, it was way too expensive for me to attend. Felicia Day pointed me to PAX and suggested I look into it. I’ve been working my day job for about two years without a real vacation and I needed something to detox. Then, out of the blue, Felicia’s website was mentioned on the Penny Arcade comic. Havoc ensued. We had just been hit by Dr. Horrible flood of hits and PAX pushed it over the top. I found myself spending a week transferring over her websites to a new host. That did it, I HAD to go to PAX.

Seattle or Bust!

I Arrived Thursday morning so I would have at least one day in Seattle. I upgraded my flight but ended up with “SSSS” on my ticket… means extra security and my stuff had to be checked. I didn’t care, first class rocks! I got a bit drunk on screwdrivers (several) and watched Young at Heart and was an emotional mess real quick. I’ve been wanting to watch that movie since before it was released. Off the plane, I rode a town car taxi downtown to try my luck at the Hotel. No luck! Check-in was at 3 pm and it was like 10:30 am. So I ended up taking the double deckered tour bus around town. I jumped off at the marina and hopped on the Argosy. I had their “famous” Bloody Mary… it was delish! Its my vacation, I never drink, so I was due. I had a late lunch/early dinner, seafood, and a beer. Jumped back on the bus when it passed by again and went back to check in. This day of excellence would not end there, for I went out to see a movie. I didn’t want to do anything else so I saw the X-Files (find it yourself too lazy to link). The best part was I had decided to walk around the block by my hotel and found someone was showing Hot Fuzz in the open on the side of a building. Score! I ended my evening with that. The weather was nice and cool too.

This is so PAX-inating!

As I mentioned before, I finally got to meet Felicia Day. I’ve been working for her for almost a year now… or with her… with her. I am her webmaster. Yes, I actually have two “Day” jobs… one’s at night… I couldn’t trust anyone else to do her justice so I volunteered. Its My Side Job. Felicia is the nicest person I have ever met. She is also totally humble and down to earth. In actuality, since I started this with her, I’ve had a constant stream of conversations with her daily and so I wasn’t surprised since I had the same idea about her for a long time. I am sure she had the same of me, I don’t know, I hope she talks about me so I don’t have to ask… An awesome dude in his own right, meeting Sandeep Parikh was just as cool, if not cooler (sorry Felicia). He owns Effin Funny and created Legend of Neil. Both projects are very funny and shows Sandeep’s creativity.
Sandeep seems pretty laid back, but he will surprise you. He IS laid back, but he is always working. His writing on LoN shows this too. Sandeep’s breaking out and will become very big real soon. Mark my words. He already has a project with Comedy Central. I hope to keep in communications with this man and hopefully interact with him further in the future. Definitely wouldn’t mind working with him if possible. I met his brother there too, he’s the one that filmed The Guild Panel on my YouTube stream on my camcorder. The Parikhs seem to be all laid back because I got him laying on a comfty Sumo bean bag, check it out in my PAX set on my flickr! He says that since Sandeep looks much like him, he could always take over should something happen… Watch out Sandeep! Aside the Parikhs, I also got to meet Kim Evey and Greg Benson. Two of the hardest working internet web show gods. They’re also married to each other, which I can’t seem to think a better couple out there.Kim is the one on the left in case you didn’t know. Kim produces The Guild with Felicia. Kim is also Kiko of Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show, where she plays a Japanese host to a Japanese-like show similar to Pee Wee’s Playhouse. It was recently picked up by Sony, under the CSpot on YouTube. Greg directs and produces Gorgeous Tiny under Mediocre Films but Greg is a giant in his own right. Check out his website and his YouTube channel mediocrefilms for everything he’s put up. Retarded Policeman is a great short starring an amazing actor/comedian, Josh Perry or Ponceman to his friends, with Down syndrome. I spent a considerable amount of time with Greg and Kim and I am so happy I did. It makes me want to just sit down with them and pick their brains. Again, mark my words, mark them! These two are going places.

So what happened at PAX?

I spent most of my time at The Guild booth helping out. I am a gamer, but secretly, I used PAX as an excuse to meet my new friends. I seriously support their indie work and I represented with my famous Photoshop’d shirt, the back has several show/website logos that the above four are involved in. I will avoid adding more pics since they are neatly in a set on flickr There you will find me and Wil Wheaton, me and Jonathan Coulton, JoCo and Felicia right after their duet/collaboration on stage. My twitter shirt featuring Dudley from Diff’rent Strokes, Shavar Ross. you can also view the few videos I took at PAX on my YouTube channel. I got to meet so many PAX volunteers, they made that convention. They were on top of everything. Made my first con experience that much better. I made sure to take a picture with most of the Enforcers that made it so for me at least. I did miss a few of them though, but not forgotten. Being in Felicia’s posse gave me backstage access to the concert and privy to the Felicia secret. I also acted as her on-site agent as the media started coming to me when everyone else was busy. That was cool. Also, I was “promised” a dinner and Felicia delivered. We discussed her websites of course (and much more that I’m keeping to myself). Saw Tycho of Penny Arcade groom Felicia, a pic and a video by me exists. Aside that, I got to meet some interesting people, fans of The Guild, and some new to it but they’ve heard good things. oh and I got to sign one lucky individual’s The Guild DVD. He asked.

Aftermath

I flew back early Monday morning. Woke up at 4am for a 6am flight. Got back to Chicago at noon Central time. It took me this long to post this because I’ve been busy with the PAX influx hitting Felicia’s websites again. This time, I think we may have figured out a more permanent solution. We will see though. I am left with the desire to fly to L.A. and visit my new friends, particularly, when they are shooting so I can experience it. I offered to do craft services, maybe Felicia will take me up on it. The remainder of this week was so I could lounge around at home and see what I could do. Mostly, figuring out how to grab my video from my new Sony camcorder, and playing Grand Theft Auto 4… and my Day job too. Those four days I spent in Seattle has helped me feel better. I had fun. Met lots of people, and hopefully some will convert to real/good friends.

My side job

Edgar — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:18:49 +0000

Yep, I save the world from the evils of spam and php bugs… or at least Felicia Day‘s world.

In her recent blog, This Place Looks Better! she writes about my part in updating her website once again, and if you haven’t noticed, she’s moved on up to a dot com. Not that there’s anything wrong with dot net (Ruby on Rails all the way!).

Funny thing’s that she really does it all. Heck, what little I do for her is mainly because I slowly usurped it from her. Poor woman need an assistant, she does it all. Then again, that’s her job, isn’t it? Me? I have a day job.

So how did I end up in this situation? Well, it was a crazy random happenstance.

It started off with a very strange random youtube search where I found The Guild – Episode 1: Wake-Up Call. It lead me to her website where my nerdyness found some misspellings… I emailed her, also suggested should she have “website questions” she could ask… she did.

Question answered, I conceded to being a Flog reader.Â She had just started blogging. I kept commenting about getting her to install forums. She seems very approachable… since she acquiesced.Â I think its partly why she is and will be a huge success.

I shortly became the moderator of the forums, then quickly admin to help her completely moderate her forums, since I asked for the forums.

From there, she needed help updating her other website, http://www.watchtheguild.com. This is how it all began. I wanted to help her however I could so that she had more time to devote to her guild project (which I loved) and to whatever other projects she had.

I like that she’s made it a fan-centric web series, and I think that helped her garner three distinct internet awards. SXSW: On Networks Greenlight Awards, Yahoo! Video Awards: Best Series, and 2007 Youtube Awards: Best Series. Not too shabby.

So, here I am, working for “the man”, “the man” being a beautiful red-head, with a genius mind, from social networking/self-promoting, to writing, producing, and starring in a hit web series. This star is rising, and rising fast. That’s a good thing, because we will be privy to some wonderful performances like her recent one in Joss Whedon’s entry into the internet web series domain that is Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog as Penny, co-starring with Neil Patrick Harris and Nathan Fillion.

In case anyone wondered, there’s my story. I got lucky, and I know that this luck can always run out. My main goal is friendships. Hers, and/or the people I have been meeting on her forums. I need to expand my friend network.