http://www.bonesnap.com/blog This blog is about all kinds of stuff that *I* find interesting. Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:00:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.bonesnap.com/blog/2010/07/15/how-twilight-should-have-ended/ http://www.bonesnap.com/blog/2010/07/15/how-twilight-should-have-ended/#comments Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:00:34 +0000 Ironspike http://www.bonesnap.com/blog/?p=754 If anyone has read my previous post you’ll see my feelings toward the whole ‘twilight’ saga. While reading some posting from a twilight bashing thread I stumbled across this picture. Total Greatness!]]> http://www.bonesnap.com/blog/2010/07/15/how-twilight-should-have-ended/feed/ 0 http://www.bonesnap.com/blog/2010/07/07/take-the-busss/ http://www.bonesnap.com/blog/2010/07/07/take-the-busss/#comments Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:23:15 +0000 Ironspike http://www.bonesnap.com/blog/?p=750 “Take the busss!” That saying will be in my head forever.  A few weeks ago the wife, myself, and some friends went to Cancun for some fun in the sun. I never been and I have to say, I enjoyed myself. So after a few days of soaking up the sun the crew got wind [...]]]> http://www.bonesnap.com/blog/2010/07/07/take-the-busss/feed/ 0 http://www.bonesnap.com/blog/2010/05/30/udk-%e2%80%93-part-3-lightmassimportancevolume/ http://www.bonesnap.com/blog/2010/05/30/udk-%e2%80%93-part-3-lightmassimportancevolume/#comments Mon, 31 May 2010 02:09:45 +0000 Ironspike http://www.bonesnap.com/blog/?p=737 So, you’re new to the UDK and you start building your levels. You’re done adding all the bells and whistles and click on the build button. You get the cryptic “No Importance Volume Found” error below.   If you were like me you where totally lost on what it was referring too.  That error is in [...]]]> http://www.bonesnap.com/blog/2010/05/30/udk-%e2%80%93-part-3-lightmassimportancevolume/feed/ 1 http://www.bonesnap.com/blog/2010/05/10/udk-part-2-playing-around/ http://www.bonesnap.com/blog/2010/05/10/udk-part-2-playing-around/#comments Mon, 10 May 2010 15:35:06 +0000 Ironspike http://www.bonesnap.com/blog/?p=712 Now that a few weeks have went by, I managed to do a little playing around with the UDK. First, I have to say this software is out of this world! I have some good news and bad news. The good news is this tool provides just about everything you need to create some really [...]]]> http://www.bonesnap.com/blog/2010/05/10/udk-part-2-playing-around/feed/ 1 http://www.bonesnap.com/blog/2010/04/23/udk-part-1-intro/ http://www.bonesnap.com/blog/2010/04/23/udk-part-1-intro/#comments Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:04:08 +0000 Ironspike http://www.bonesnap.com/blog/?p=707 For years, professional video game companies have spent huge hours and a lot of money to create truly entertaining games. What a lot of the normal folks don’t understand is that the shelf life and profit margin of a decent game isn’t very long. If it’s a truly exceptional gem like Blizzard’s Diablo II or [...]]]> http://www.bonesnap.com/blog/2010/04/23/udk-part-1-intro/feed/ 0 http://www.bonesnap.com/blog/2010/02/22/the-buffalo-man/ http://www.bonesnap.com/blog/2010/02/22/the-buffalo-man/#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:36:04 +0000 Ironspike http://www.bonesnap.com/blog/?p=660 Years ago when I first got married the wife and I lived in a small trailer in McAlester, Oklahoma. Our house was located on 15 acres that joined land to my in-laws. The in-laws had fenced off 10 acres and ran a few head of cattle on it. One summer an older gentleman from California [...]]]> http://www.bonesnap.com/blog/2010/02/22/the-buffalo-man/feed/ 0 http://www.bonesnap.com/blog/2010/02/16/flying-%e2%80%93-part-2/ http://www.bonesnap.com/blog/2010/02/16/flying-%e2%80%93-part-2/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:49:26 +0000 Ironspike http://www.bonesnap.com/blog/?p=657 Years ago when I first started consulting I had to fly back and forth from Dallas to New York. At the end of the week in New York, I returned to the airport to learn my return flight had been canceled. American Airlines was good to me, they booked me another flight on Delta that [...]]]> http://www.bonesnap.com/blog/2010/02/16/flying-%e2%80%93-part-2/feed/ 0 http://www.bonesnap.com/blog/2010/02/10/flying-part-1/ http://www.bonesnap.com/blog/2010/02/10/flying-part-1/#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:40:33 +0000 Ironspike http://www.bonesnap.com/blog/2010/02/10/flying-part-1/ Seems I forgot to put together a post for this week so if this one seems thrown together then forgive me. In my profession flying from job site to job site was a weekly habit. It was so ‘habitual’ that a lot of the experiences I had during flying I didn’t consider them anything to [...]]]> http://www.bonesnap.com/blog/2010/02/10/flying-part-1/feed/ 0 http://www.bonesnap.com/blog/2010/02/01/turn-down-service/ http://www.bonesnap.com/blog/2010/02/01/turn-down-service/#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:00:23 +0000 Ironspike http://www.bonesnap.com/blog/?p=645 For those of you who might not know – ‘turn down’ service in a hotel chains pretty much consist of some one coming into your room and flipping your sheets down and most the time placing some inedible chocolate or mint on your pillow. To me, it’s one of the most dumbest things in the [...]]]> http://www.bonesnap.com/blog/2010/02/01/turn-down-service/feed/ 0 http://www.bonesnap.com/blog/2010/01/30/as-fol-turns/ http://www.bonesnap.com/blog/2010/01/30/as-fol-turns/#comments Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:29:18 +0000 Ironspike http://www.bonesnap.com/blog/?p=649 I like machinima. I like making machinima. Some folks call it silly and immature but I find it very interesting. Over the past year I’ve been playing around with it so I could create little video shorts to post on my YouTube channel. I was looking for a new idea for a machinima when FOL [...]]]> http://www.bonesnap.com/blog/2010/01/30/as-fol-turns/feed/ 0