ASCII pr0n and ActiveWorlds

June 7, 2001 D. H. McKee

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Updated the Missing Links! page with some new and interesting articles. If I were you, I’d want to check them out. Also re-did the ASCII pR0n page, but you should find it on your own. Now you can actually see the characters, making it more of an item.
Tried to get some sleep in earlier this evening, but with the windows open and the breeze coming in, me knees kept getting cold. That’s got to be one of the worst feelings: to be continuously yanked out of sleep with some kind of disturbance or irritation.
I received a newsletter from ActiveWorlds.com, this online "virtual community", which seems like just a complete joke. The interface is crappy, the movement choppy at best, and the world mostly empty, with the occasional shoddy structure. I have the weird feeling that someday you’ll be able to completely immerse yourself in a world like this, and I’ll be this crotchety old man, saying: "Back in my day, Virtual Worlds were totally crappy, unless you were playing some kinda third-person shooter, like Unreal Tournament III, or Quake 6."

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About This Site

As a guy who occasionally curates art shows and wrangles artists together, I often have to edit and post artist bios, profile pictures, and artwork images. This can be a problem, since many artists and writers aren’t used to selling themselves. Artists rarely know how to present their art for display in a brochure, and writers aren’t used to writing about themselves.

Writers often treat the bio like it’s an interview or something. Maybe like they’re having a conversation with you, the reader. While it may work sometimes, the most common way to write a bio is to write in the 3rd person.

I’m like those writers, and I’m talking to you directly, unlike the common way to do a bio. You should see my About page. It makes sense to me, since this is a bit which describes my blog’s website. When I get famous enough that I don’t have time to talk to you, I’ll have an intern write everything in 3rd person. Until then, you get to talk to me.

Like blogs of old, this one is a personal document of the comings and goings of me. Articles I’ve written, links I’ve posted, videos I liked, etc. Here, a first-person perspective is the way to go, at least for now. So, this is my site. I’m D. H. McKee, a sometimes artist, sometimes writer. Mostly just a guy on the internet.