Space Ninja History

Space Ninja Cave Painting

I first got online in the early 90s. While some of my friends were goofing around on BBS‘s, I was using my dad’s Compuserve account to post icons I had designed for Windows 3.1. Later on, in 1995, I had dial-up Internet access at home, and a friend had shown me Joe the Circle, one of the first webcomics. This really kick-started my interest in web design, and I had a website on Geocities that year. The idea for Yellow Number Five was born around this time. I graduated high school in 1996, and my early website (which was already coded by hand) moved to Xoom, and then later to my first ISP, SpiritOne, when I started working at Egghead.

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Rustbucket

Blog v4

I posted a new skin here called Rustbucket. You can find it on the options page. I’m pretty fond of it, so I set it as the new default skin.

And while I’m talking about the site, let me take a moment to ask you all what you think of Rusted. What do you like and what do you dislike? I’m not really looking to change anything, but it would be nice to get some of your opinions.

An Exciting Week for Fojar

“My life is all of a sudden difficult because fojar’s down…”
– Annie

Yes, it’s been an exciting week for Fojar. First, the virus crashes the router, cutting the connection, then Steve finds out that Fojar was hacked, necessitating a reinstall, and then he finds out that the ongoing downtime is the result of USWest deciding to delete that DSL account that Fojar is using.

And it’s been a busy week for me as well. Between trying to load fojar and my email every five minutes, I managed to get quite a bit of stuff done. I scanned some photos of Gavin, the one-year old Annie and I hung out with in Ellensburg all last year and posted them to my homepage. Then I succumbed to peer pressure and created a new hammerspace strip, so you can all stop sending me hate mail.

I also completed two “new” skins for Rusted. I put new in quotes because I actually made these designs two years ago for Hatelife v.1. They got implimented about a week before the crash that led to the creation of Hatelife v.2. One is a nice black-and-white design with lightweight graphics called “distress,” and the other is a colorful text-only design called “blue text.”

And, in case that wasn’t enough, I also have been working on my weekly art project. I’ll be getting it online pretty soon, but I wanted to show off the most recent piece. While looking at a photo of the three agents from the Matrix, I realized that I had head shots of Miles, Steve and myself at the right angles. A little photoshopping later, I managed to produce this lovely image of Agents Havelka, Johnson and Vandehey.

Agents

Rusty Becomes Rusted

As you have no doubt noticed, Rusty has now become Rusted.KMorg. The reason for this is that Rusted Killing Machines sounds like decaying industrial machinery, as opposed to Rusty, which sounds like your hick cousin from down south, who raises pigs.

Yes, we’re aware that everything is still labeled as Rusty… we’ll be fixing all the references, graphics and links over the next few days.