justin's links tag:links.net,2010-12-01://2 2012-03-31T23:13:20Z Movable Type 5.031 Handling Lessons tag:links.net,2012://2.379 2012-03-31T19:02:56Z 2012-03-31T23:13:20Z I took a painkiller on an empty stomach before wading into a wet city. It's a good thing to have a pleasant numbness growing in my stomach as I wait for a seat at a crowded restauarant's table. Cooking I... Justin I took a painkiller on an empty stomach before wading into a wet city. It's a good thing to have a pleasant numbness growing in my stomach as I wait for a seat at a crowded restauarant's table. Cooking I miss from before I hurt my shoulder but even now sling free I haven't attempted that again. In my memory I handle cooking like I handle many things - moving fast and keeping as much in the air as possible. That my ability to catch falling objects is impaired by injury feels something like a life lesson.

]]> Handling Lessons tag:links.net,2012://2.378 2012-03-31T19:02:56Z 2012-03-31T23:14:32Z I took a painkiller on an empty stomach before wading into a wet city. It's a good thing to have a pleasant numbness growing in my stomach as I wait for a seat at a crowded restauarant's table. Cooking I... Justin I took a painkiller on an empty stomach before wading into a wet city. It's a good thing to have a pleasant numbness growing in my stomach as I wait for a seat at a crowded restauarant's table. Cooking I miss from before I hurt my shoulder but even now sling free I haven't attempted that again. In my memory I handle cooking like I handle many things - moving fast and keeping as much in the air as possible. That my ability to catch falling objects is impaired by injury feels something like a life lesson.

]]> new medical drama! tag:links.net,2012://2.377 2012-02-06T19:32:36Z 2012-02-06T19:34:19Z I have separated my shoulder... Justin I have separated my shoulder

Oops

]]> herchurch visit tag:links.net,2012://2.374 2012-01-29T03:41:08Z 2012-01-29T18:36:03Z Back in December 2011, I had a chance to visit San Francisco's giant purple sanctuary: herchurch, where they challenge the largely testicular character of most Christianity.... Justin Back in December 2011, I had a chance to visit San Francisco's giant purple sanctuary: herchurch, where they challenge the largely testicular character of most Christianity.

herchurch front

]]> Video: Lived Through This tag:links.net,2011://2.362 2011-12-21T18:23:27Z 2011-12-21T19:02:01Z Produced a video in a few days: experimenting with singing acapella soundtrack to footage shot with a mobile phone. Sung bits include portions of "Dreams" by Allman Brothers Band, "Someone to Love" By Jefferson Airplane, "Cocaine Blues" by Luke Jordan"... Justin Produced a video in a few days: experimenting with singing acapella soundtrack to footage shot with a mobile phone. Sung bits include portions of "Dreams" by Allman Brothers Band, "Someone to Love" By Jefferson Airplane, "Cocaine Blues" by Luke Jordan" and an adaptation of Al Dubin & Joe Burke's "Dancing with Tears in my Eyes."

Screened at the December 2011 "Art Luck" hosted by Revel Art Collective / Pickle Jar in San Francisco. Woo hoo!

Shot on iPhone 4 and edited in Final Cut Pro X.

]]> "Game Development & Starting a Company" at Raikes School, University of Nebraska Lincoln tag:links.net,2011://2.347 2011-12-05T06:14:02Z 2011-12-07T04:31:28Z In November I had a chance to visit Lincoln Nebraska and address a class of students the Raikes School at the University of Nebraska there. The Raikes school is a live-in honors program combining computer science and business curriculum for... Justin In November I had a chance to visit Lincoln Nebraska and address a class of students the Raikes School at the University of Nebraska there. The Raikes school is a live-in honors program combining computer science and business curriculum for students who want to learn how to make products and build companies. Raikes is an entrepreneurship program that is seeding new media companies across Nebraska and beyond, so I was honored to have a chance to share some of what I learned from running a company, and a bit about my career before as a freelance writer, and now as Director of Culture at ngmoco:).

"Game Development & Starting a Company" - A 35 minute video lecture on Vimeo.com

Q & A with Justin Hall - 30 minutes more!

More information here from the excellent folks who provided this video NebraskaEntrepreneur.com.

]]> fast and cheap diablada owl tag:links.net,2011://2.331 2011-11-10T04:33:47Z 2011-11-10T04:34:01Z I fashioned a basic horned owl headdress for Halloween!... Justin I fashioned a basic horned owl headdress for Halloween!

burka with owl headdress

]]> back poena tag:links.net,2011://2.325 2011-11-05T04:27:17Z 2011-11-05T04:32:37Z I write poems! I like to jot thoughts, talking to myself, framing a moment to myself. Then later, I harvest some of the most coherent, or least objectionable, and I put them up here. So these are recent postings: November... Justin I write poems! I like to jot thoughts, talking to myself, framing a moment to myself.

Then later, I harvest some of the most coherent, or least objectionable, and I put them up here.

So these are recent postings:

November 2: app alive

October 31: calendar in my eyes

September 28 You're heading to the desert

August 2 lifetime to lose

never enough! of what?

]]> app alive tag:links.net,2011://2.324 2011-11-03T04:26:13Z 2011-11-05T04:26:34Z What app do I wield when I want to feel alive? Plug in to music aha I am a rap-fueled badass! Now I am checking my messages nothing new I am still alive! Should I tell someone? Maybe there's some... Justin What app do I wield when I want to feel alive?
Plug in to music aha I am a rap-fueled badass!
Now I am checking my messages nothing new
I am still alive! Should I tell someone?
Maybe there's some news I haven't seen yet
Let me check that, upscroll to update
Wait what am I doing?
What are my friends doing?

]]> calendar in my eyes tag:links.net,2011://2.323 2011-10-31T18:16:03Z 2011-11-05T04:31:30Z I see something I can almost run down Chase into the wind Make my future! It's a set of eyes A smile Above a naked form Rolling happy between the sheets A fast connection Puts a calendar in my eyes... Justin I see something I can almost run down
Chase into the wind
Make my future!

It's a set of eyes
A smile
Above a naked form
Rolling happy between the sheets

A fast connection
Puts a calendar in my eyes
When will we be?
together again

like now!

]]> Posted a Story of GameLayers tag:links.net,2011://2.289 2011-09-29T19:55:53Z 2011-09-29T19:58:14Z From 2007-2009, I was able to start an internet games company, run it as CEO, and then wind it down - with great collaborators and support from a broad range of folks. I wrote up the experience: A Story of... Justin From 2007-2009, I was able to start an internet games company, run it as CEO, and then wind it down - with great collaborators and support from a broad range of folks. I wrote up the experience: A Story of GameLayers over the last eighteen months; adding tangible numbers and business documents. Hopefully this can be useful to other entrepreneurs!

Also I used it as an excuse to learn how to make an ebook: you can get A Story of GameLayers for the Kindle.

]]> You're heading to the desert tag:links.net,2011://2.320 2011-09-29T04:10:22Z 2011-11-05T04:10:39Z I can point you to the desert It's a natural part of this path you're on I don't plan on joining you there; I have been recently and I am happy to be past it for now I can tell... Justin I can point you to the desert
It's a natural part of this path you're on

I don't plan on joining you there;
I have been recently and I am happy to be past it for now

I can tell you that inside the desert is some amazing springs
you won't find them until you wish you were dead
And you've lost all your precious things

What is your clothing now
Will become a blanket
And then it will all blow away

maybe you'll come out,
shaking sand from your hair
I hope you do.

]]> Lifetime to lose tag:links.net,2011://2.322 2011-08-03T04:12:49Z 2011-11-05T15:35:10Z My first marriage ended months ago email threads gone cold empty chat windows maybe one phonetext last month: clearing a shared storage space This morning I woke up after hours of fighting with her Whilst on stilts climbing over a... Justin My first marriage ended months ago
email threads gone cold
empty chat windows
maybe one phonetext last month:
clearing a shared storage space

This morning I woke up after hours of fighting with her
Whilst on stilts climbing over a fast decaying house
A friend suggested
These nocturnal struggles should remind me
how much happier I am now

Four of the last five nights
In different beds in different countries
I wake from dreams full of fresh fighting
alone but estranged

I hitched my veins to her heart
She cut them quicker than I could reel them back
bleeding behind me
I trudge into a future where sure
I feel judged
inadequate for the long haul

At night a bachelor
I slumber and cry out to her;
I have something to prove
I should not have been thusly ditched!

by daylight I remember This is
not a warm battle This is
not a compelling cause
I have been happily abandoned -
she's in a better place

my father Wesley first taught me deep loss
a living being leaving
another behind
though by gun
not lawyer

He and my first wife knew
there's a better choice for them:
to exist without me.
Why wasn't I allowed to help them stay?
How should I orient my life without these kin?
Why would people I love prefer to be
or not be, without me?

We enter life full of faith
We are taught suffering
Maybe it's easier to leave
Shoot yourself
But I remember love

These night dreams won't let me move on
As fast as I would
Find a new person with whom to tie up this bleeding
And prepare for another lifetime to lose!

]]> backposting and reading aloud tag:links.net,2011://2.234 2011-07-27T05:21:09Z 2011-07-27T04:03:50Z Backdated poems posted here! Divorce, alienation, death, and good times with one's self :-) February 22: Hard Thing June 12: Pneuma June 12: Virtuous Attractions July 12: nameless love July 12: Visualizing myself on the front grill of a broad... Justin Backdated poems posted here! Divorce, alienation, death, and good times with one's self :-)

February 22: Hard Thing
June 12: Pneuma
June 12: Virtuous Attractions
July 12: nameless love
July 12: Visualizing myself on the front grill of a broad bus
July 16: trying on something worn
July 25: messy leaking - this one I read aloud, you can listen to it or read it! Yow.

]]> messy leaking tag:links.net,2011://2.241 2011-07-26T03:43:56Z 2011-07-27T04:02:41Z (listen to this read aloud) I feel reasonably confident in my orgasm control During sex as I remember it I held my own Until she clenched and released To fill me first Today I feel more at risk For premature... Justin (listen to this read aloud)

I feel reasonably confident in my orgasm control
During sex as I remember it
I held my own
Until she clenched and released
To fill me first

Today I feel more at risk
For premature emotional ejaculation
into any ready smart female ear

First I listen and then when she's opened some
I feel connected I feel
I have so much in me
I begin to uncork and overshare

Maybe I catch myself before I spill out of turn
divorce death hunger, eager semen
So we keep the conversation going
Maybe I can crawl into her arms with my teeth and tongue

I haven't had enough time with these women to build to mutual orgasm:
don't I like them enough to arrange a second date?
Or I don't enjoy what I have to say before intercourse
I am messy leaking boy cum and man tears.

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