It’s been a crazy month, and now it’s time to race to the finish line trying to get the bava.studio’s Halloween Haunted Arcade up and running by Friday the 31st, just in time for Halloween. The diorama has come in … Continue reading →| bavatuesdays
I gave myself a few things to do during the bye week and I’m happy to report I got more than half of them done. The most pressing issue to address was getting the emulated version of Madden 2001 running … Continue reading →| bavatuesdays
A strange thing happened on the way to trying to open a Haunted Arcade at bavastudio, someone gave me an original Commodore 64C.* I’ve never seen the re-design of the classic breadbox version of the C64, so it was definitely … Continue reading →| bavatuesdays
This post started as a comment on Martin Weller’s post “Meet me by the Blogroll,” but it felt like something I might want to also have on the bava proper, so here we are. Martin’s post draws a parallel between … Continue reading →| bavatuesdays
It’s hard to believe I just passed the 10 year mark in Italy.* At this point all my kids have spent more of their lives as residents of Italy than the US. When we take our family trips back to … Continue reading →| bavatuesdays
It’s literally gonna be a Halloween (1978) diorama, in particular the scene when Michael Meyers briefly appears from behind the hedge. The bav-o-rama has had the Grady sisters of The Shining fame gracing its presence for the last 4 months, … Continue reading →| bavatuesdays
It’s week five in the world of AI Maddeness, and the Jets are a franchise history-making 4-0 to start the season. As it just so happens, in that other universe 25 years ago the NY Jets also opened 4-0 only to go 9-7 on the season and miss the playoffs. The real 2000-01 season was a heart breaker, but AI Maddeness is where dreams come true.| bavatuesdays
Since finishing up The Shining diorama I’ve thrown myself into a new project, this one involving AI. It’s a stupid project—which is why I love it—promising neither revolutions nor solutions, just grist for the insatiable tech mill fueled by capital. I’ll post more about the project shortly, but for now I just wanted to document some of my early experiences with ChatGPT.| bavatuesdays
I gave myself a few things to do during the bye week and I’m happy to report I got more than half of them done.| bavatuesdays.com
Yesterday I started playing certain games from the last week of the 2000 season in Madden 2001. After spending hours figuring out the playoff picture, it was time to have a little fun. I played the Arizona Cardinals in hopes of spoiling the Washington Redskins hopes of getting into the playoffs (I was never a Dan Snyder fan). Turns out I’m not as good as I thought I was, and the Hall of Fame secondary consisting of Deion Sanders, Champ Bailey, and Darrell Green pretty much shut Jake Plummer...| bavatuesdays
Many lifetimes ago, when I played Pee Wee football for the Baldwin Bombers, our head coach (Mr. Lamonde) would always talk about the “intangibles” of the game.* A kind of otherworldly sense a player has that you couldn’t really quantify … Continue reading →| bavatuesdays
While I would like to take the credit for this post title, it came as a response to an AI-generated image I created celebrating the Jets going 3-0 in an alternative universe set 25 years ago, which lives on AI … Continue reading →| bavatuesdays
I’m not sure how I’m gonna get my hands entirely around this post, but damn it all I’m going to try. It’s been a while since I came at the blog with a long one, but if I don’t start documenting some of the AI Maddeness work I’ll be too far in to find my way out 🙂| bavatuesdays
As part of this year’s Reclaim Open Conference we were hoping to highlight student work coming out of any assorted Reclaim Hosting projects. So, if you’re working with students in a Domain of One’s Own, Shared Hosting or a WordPress … Continue reading →| bavatuesdays
Time to promote the best conference this side of the … well it’s fully online and distributed so that geographical metaphor would crash and burn in the Mississippi. In fact, this is a region-free conference, just like all media should … Continue reading →| bavatuesdays
Between vacation, travel, and AI Maddeness I’ve fallen into a bit of a hole. Sometimes disappearing down a hole is good for the soul, but it’s time to work my way back onto the blog with an old school tech update.| bavatuesdays
I already hinted at the AI Maddeness project that will build out a sports media universe around the NY Jets 2000 season as created by Madden 2001 on the PS1 (emulated). The idea is to try and understand the various AI tools out there by focusing them on an imaginary season of football using 25 year old rosters, schedules, and rules. I’m not sure it makes a lot of sense, but that’s kinda what I like about it. At a more basic level I chose Madden 2001 because it was one of the first video g...| bavatuesdays
As I finally catch-up on blogging, it’s time to turn to the Family Pictures Podcast which is now available on Apple’s Podcasts and Spotify as we get into the double-digits of episodes. “We’re mass communicatin’!”| bavatuesdays
I think it was the great Scottlo that underscored the “Always Be Commenting” mantra while teaching ds106 in Japan, and it’s something I’ve returned to constantly over the last 10+ years—even when not living up to it’s eternal truth. So this blog is not only an ode to blogging, but a peaen to those folks who take the time and energy to share some love in the comments. Back in the fall of 2010 I was teaching my second ds106 course and trying to figure out what made an online cours...| bavatuesdays