Most of my writing has been for the Usenet newsgroup talk.bizarre . I entered the game industry in 1994, although I'd been programming games since I started to learn to program in 1980. ACID is a neat program that lets you take existing loops and match tempos automatically and overlay the loops against each other. I took my ACID recordings offline to save storage. Online writing I experimented with keeping a web journal for a while.
Entries range from philosophical ramblings to lists of activities performed lately.
When I was 14 or 15, playing Infocom text adventures, I decided I wanted to be a professional game programmer. When Infocom collapsed, games began to be filled with graphics instead of text, and the industry switched from being a single person developing an entire game to large teams, I stopped thinking about pursuing that career. I don't like to sing, so for a long time I just wrote instrumental music. I do know how to structure songs with vocals, though, so I started writing actual songs, with lyrics. Here are the lyrics from a few songs I wrote in 2000.