The fact that it's nearing the birthday of my last post doesn't mean I haven't been busy. Quite the opposite. Ian Xavier Weier (my second & final child) was born August 25, 2007. He's a happy little guy but has yet to discover the lost art of sleeping through the night. Kira & I survive day-to-day by sleeping whenever we can.

Logan is still doing well - he's turned 2 and is taking his opportunity to be "willful" but not excessively. My favorite Logan quote to date happened when we told him "No, Logan - take that fork away from your eye" and he replied, "NO! More Fork in the EYE!".

His hobbies currently include watching Beatles' Yellow Submarine, playing with his trains & Little People, and looking out for his little brother.

In other news, the smaller of the two Arcade cabinets I am building, MetaCab Jr., is basically done. only things remaining are to customize the bezel (frame around the monitor). It's totally functional which makes it hard to get too motivated to put any more work into it perfecting things.

I've been sporadically blogging about the arcade endeavor here at my Metacab Blog.

As long as I'm finally updating the News, I figured I'd take a few secs to update all of my nonexistent fans of the other updates in my life.... Logan is already 16 months old, walking, talking, and generally having a good time. Kira is still doing well as a Midwife at Park Nicollet. And Logan's new little brother is en route by stork, scheduled to plummet from the sky some time in late August.

I'm still working at Pixel Farm Interactive on a variety of interactive work ranging from websites to multi-player business games to CDROM's. During my free time, Kira & I are currently re-reading the entire Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan in order to have been through it all one more time before he releases the next and final book.

I'm also building 2 upright retro arcade cabinets in my basement. I'm nearly completed with the first of two I plan to make. The first, Metacab Jr., features an old P3 700Mhz with 19" vertical monitor, joystick, 3 buttons, and a rotary spinner. Feel free to check out my Metacab arcade blog for further details on my progress as I finish that up and move on to the full-sized Metacab which will have controls for two players, trackballs, etc etc. I'll also be helping provide all the technical services to my brother-in-law on a cabinet he'll begin soon, since he'll be giving me a hand with the carpentry on Metacab Sr.

A mere year after switching the site to a lightweight RapidWeaver-developed approach, and I still haven't redesigned it? Well, I've been busy. So, today I am taking the time to reorganize everything (you'll want to update your links if you have any to a specific page). I also threw away the old lame template header in favor of a basic orange. Hopefully I'll get time & inspiration to actually create my own rapidweaver theme soon. I also totally wiped out every scrap of data on my entire web host account (Transmit seemed to delete the entire site when all I (thought I) told it to was delete one sub-subdirectory.). And so, here's the new, lean mean site, free from 6 years of digital detritus that have piled up since realitytheory.com first launched back in 1998.

As such, please let me know if you find anything broken or missing and I'll do my best to fix it right quick.

I found a sweet little app called RapidWeaver that I've decided to use to maintain my website. It's a standards-based CSS-skinnable lightweight app capable of very quickly updating a variety of useful site content areas. Hopefully I'll use it to update the site more than I have over the past 7+ years of using Dreamweaver. I will be able to simply & easily reskin the entire site whenever I find some time.

it's true - I can do almost nothing but take care of my son, it seems. It's great to be a parent but I had no idea how much everything in my life would be turned on its head. Simple things like brushing my teeth now seem to be a privilege enjoyed only when the grace of Logan is favorable.

Logan Alexander Weier is born! Healthy baby boy weighing 8lbs 14oz at 21". He will undoubtedly limit how much free time I have to work on art, animation, and fun stuff.

We just moved in to our first house. We love it! I've taken a week off from work to paint and refinish the cabinets, and have generally improved things. Here's an ongoing house photo gallery.

I finished a 3D flash arcade interface to uniquely navigate some of my older digital art, photography and animation. You can try out the joysticks & buttons to simulate the effect of interacting with 80's arcade cabinets. I'm hoping to some day extend it by adding a music jukebox and/or a means of randomly visiting websites (pachinko?).

I just got a sweet new job at Pixel Farm Interactive, where I will serve as the Senior Multimedia Artist. My duties will include Flash design & programming for CD and web, animation, and web design. I will also serve as internal team lead on most projects. I'm sure I'm going to enjoy my time there.