Null Parameter

Yep!  I’m back, risen from the ashes, and better than ever.  Okay, I’m probably not all that much better; that’s something that I’ll just have to work on in the future, get off my case. Sheesh!  I’m sure that you all (and by, ‘you all’, I mean the two people who will probably look at this in the near future) have a lot of questions for me.

“What have you been doing?”
“Where have you been?”
“Why did you disappear?”
“How have you been?”
“Who the hell are you?”

I hope to answer all of those questions, from the bottom up.

If you don’t know who I am, my name is Chris Parker, and if you couldn’t tell by my pseudonym, Null Parameter, I’m a bit of a geek.  I partake in just about everything from video games to card games to web development to game development.  Yeah, I do just about anything and everything.  Wait a second… why are you reading this if you have no clue who I am?!  Oh well, I guess it doesn’t matter now.

I’ve been pretty good, thanks for asking!

My main reason for disappearing: Life.  It’s the usual excuse on the internet.  Things get in the way, other things take precedence, stuff like this falls on the back burner.  This answer coincides pretty well with the next couple as well, so I’ll just crush them all together into one ginormous response.  I’ve been at home, at work and when I’m not working or playing with my family, I’m usually trying to catch up on my backlog of games (stupid Pile of Shame).

Now I’m trying to balance everything a little bit better, especially my free time, so that I can more easily focus on awesome stuff like this and my upcoming projects that you may or may not know anything about.  So you will hopefully be seeing a lot more of me here.  I’m going to definitely try to post on a more regular basis, about all kinds of random things, and probably lots of details on those projects I mentioned.  I’ve also been trying to mess around in Gimp a fair amount, so that I can get used to it to help aid in designing the artwork for all of those projects (Yes, I made that amazing Phoenix at the top of the post).

That’s all I’m going to say for now, but I hope to be feeding you a lot more details very soon!

I’m going to be frank with you, right from the start.  I never know how to go about doing this whole blogging thing.  Especially when I have no real objective or direction for exactly where this is all headed.  I guess I have to start somewhere though, so this is it.  First of all, I would like to take this moment to say that if this whole thing tanks, I blame Paul; he convinced me to do this, so you can blame him too.  As already stated, I have no purpose for this site at this time.  I intend to kind of use it as a hub for all of my little side projects, as well as a venting station for everyday life.

Due to the fact that, on top of having no goal, I also have no audience in mind, I also have no clue as to where to focus my ramblings.  It’ll probably be a lot of little updates on my current projects, possibly with a smattering of programming lingo.  Don’t worry though, if you don’t care about the nitty gritty details of coding, I won’t punish you for not reading them.  On the other hand, if you’re curious to learn, I always found the most effective method is to learn by example and by doing.  There might also be a random foray into gaming from time to time, because that’s a small past-time of mine.

If you’re actually reading this first post, you probably personally know who I am.  In case you don’t, or just want a more in depth view of who I am, feel free to visit the About page.  Sadly though, that’s about all I have to say at the moment.  Sometime in the very near future I’ll be posting some details on one of the projects I’m working on (it’s something that hits pretty close to home in the videogame realm).  Until then, I know you’ll miss me, because I’ll definitely miss you mysterious blog reader person.