It’s said that once something has been made it cannot be unmade, whether that’s an idea, a philosophy, an idiom, or a piece of technology (like Whedon’s “Dollhouse” proposed – RIP). So I suppose it only makes sense that this concept would also apply to something like the internet: a vast sea of the aforementioned potentials that have become buried or weathered over time, but if one looks hard enough and in the right places one might be able to track down some of the most incriminating photos from one’s own childhood that one’s “supposed friend” uploaded to the first version of MySpace wayyyyy back in the day…….
….. not me, really. I wasn’t on MySpace at that point – man I held out on making that profile for as long as I could possibly conceive.
It was really ironic to say the least, when on Monday morning I sat down at my desk after hauling my body from it’s cocoon-like fortress of blankets in order to shut off terminate my 4 alarm clocks with extreme prejudice (yes 4…… I’m clearly NOT a morning person). As I scratched that itch on my lower back that just didn’t seem to want to leave (that bastard), peered at the half-visible reflection of my bed-head in my monitor and projected a loud wildcat-like noise that could be mistaken for a yawn, I proceeded onto my daily check of SFP 4.0 to see if it would be accessible so I could procure all of my old content.
Surprising enough; it was.
Exactly one month, to the day, since it dropped of the face of the internet.
Needless to say I quickly scrambled to gather all of my content and dump it into hastily organized Word documents that began to accumulate across my desktop screen. As such, there is now a semi-completed blog here at SFP 5.0 that dates back to December 2008 –> If I ever find those files from SFPv1-3 I might be able to take that back even farther; fingers crossed I find them in my spring computer cleaning. However, through the missing blog posts, almost inaccessible back-end structure and a missing site-header it had become completely clear to me. SFP 4.0 might have been reanimated from death, but it didn’t return the same as one would remember it….. something wasn’t right….. and something had to be done about it…….
*cocks shotgun*
*proceeds to put SFP v4.0 out of its misery*
I’ll hopefully be able to re-post all of the content in the next little while, but some of it isn’t exactly WordPress friendly code, so it’ll take a little finagling to get it all working properly again.
The new Heads Up! design is coming along REALLY well – this time around we’re doing it right from the start; in this case making the website look like an actual heads up display, as well as playing up the “heads up” motif by using 8-bit character head sprites all over the site for branding purposes.
If you’ve got the time, you should definitely go check it out and hit me back with your thoughts – anything you think it could use…. or just something to make it look even more AWESOME??
I suppose that’s it for now, but keep checking in for more updates!
<3 Stephenson
PS – Apparently I can still actually draw….. who knew?
