I've always wanted to create an Asteroids game where you kill everything for as long as you want. Introducing Blasteroids - Ash's Revenge.

Invincibility. Rapid fire weapons. Force Fields. Black Hole Bombs that drag everything into you. (did I mention everything blows up when it hits you) Nuke IT bombs take everything out. RAMPAGE Mode adds additional ships to help you kill everything. Rampage as much as you like! 

I just broke 6,000,000 on the scoreboard... and there had to be 10,000 asteroids on the screen. It was so much fun going as fast as you can, shooting rapid fire cannons, pulling all the objects into you with a Black Hole Bomb and then hitting NUKE 4 times to clear the screen. Then... more appear. Once you get the controls down, you can use them all at once for maximum damage! Yes please.

(You'll need a pretty fast computer for this one... it's just Javascript :)

Play it here

Introducing... Simontaneous. My new retro groove box that can sample and play 4 hooks from a song. Create cool new grooves. And... you can play Simon too! Fun for hours :-)

Play with it here

The Wand. A fun, frustrating puzzle. 

Damn it. I loved George. Never thought I'd see this headline. #ripBigGeorgeForeman

New Music! - Where is Dan? 

Fun jam day recording drum tracks :-) 

So creepy. Here's "The Letter" :-)

When a sweet little melody won't leave you (no matter what you do) - You write a song and try to stick it in someone else's head. lol

Here's "Sunday"  

So sad to hear of John's passing. He was one of my favorite players since his days in Blue Murder. He was one of the reasons I got my first black Les Paul Custom. I remember the first time I played the Thunder and Lightning record... OMG. Cold Sweat. #ripJohnSykes

New Music! Here's "Proof" - ;-)

I thought it might be fun to release some of my remixes of Black Chair. Here's the "Groovix Remix" ;-)

New music! "Black Chair" hit Amazon Music this morning (hooray!) - Should be streaming everywhere else soon! 

This is how I've always wanted to share this. I give you... "New Day" 🎉

You can find it on most streaming services now. It started as my morning alarm but now I have it looping on Spotify most of the day... it provides a nice affirming counterpoint to the chaos. lol

Growing up in the 70s, I was an introverted kid with a huge imagination. My grandmother had an old Western Electric 354 and listening to the local party line in Morgantown West Virginia was an interesting experience.

The video just makes me laugh. It took way longer to create but these tools are mind blowing. 

Without further ado... here's "Electric 354".

Wow. Talk about musical genius.

OMG. House of Cosbys (you see ;-) 

This is pretty good starter info if you know someone on the spectrum and want to better understand what they might be going through.

I'm going to put a christmas tree on my front porch and place a sign under it for amazon to put the packages there. 🌲😘

With the new GPT o1 preview released, I had to see it in action. I came up with a fairly easy challenge that might trip up an old generation. Here's the prompt I gave it...

"The same person resides on two timelines. Each experience the same challenge. Both attempt to solve the problem using different methods but only one action each. Of the actions they chose, one is right, one is wrong and one is correct. Please explain this."

The ChatGPT o1 preview solved it in 28 seconds. Watching it reason through the challenge was nuts. 

Here's what it concluded:

In this scenario, we have two timelines featuring the same person who encounters the same problem. Each version of the person attempts to solve the problem using a single action.

Here's the breakdown:

1. First Timeline: The person uses an action that is wrong.

2. Second Timeline: The person uses an action that is both right and correct.

GPT nailed it. OMG.

And then I got to thinking, why is the "right" answer also "correct"? The simple answer was acceptable but getting GPT a little closer to the rabbit hole might be fun. What if the answer was being defined in a more traditional context e.g. "This is how we've done it for years..."

Which could mean the person with the "wrong" answer might have had an alternate way to solve the puzzle in a non-traditional sense. Allowing for innovation that might even solve it in a more efficient way. Making it an accepted answer. Both wrong and correct.

Meaning both answers could be both correct and incorrect at the same time.

Presenting this to GPT: 

You bring up an important consideration. In my initial explanation, I treated the "wrong" action as ineffective in solving the problem, while the "right and correct" action was the successful solution. However, as you've pointed out, there can be multiple ways to solve a problem, and what is considered "wrong" might not actually be incorrect or ineffective.

But it didn't stop here...

Then GPT's reasoning thread preceded to go down a rabbit hole and watching it over-think everything was hilarious. 

Until it halted. I think there may have been smoke. lol

Learn to find the balance between fear and experience.

Always count on the Human Condition... but always bet on the Spirit.

Words are the new actions.

Sometimes truth is obfuscated in delusion

The Walt's Meats "Dick" Smokehouse Edition. Hell yes.

What a great groove :-)

Action shot... lol

Wasn't hard but fun to pick.

Learn to spot the differences between patience and struggle. 

Today was the day. 👊🤘 

The key bitting was so meh... the security pins couldn't save it.