I’ll be bringing 3 of the Kwadkades home this week. To make room for these, I’m getting rid of a bunch of computer parts, books, and misc other things that are in my way. I will also be getting rid of the Mark III Kwadkade cabinet as it’s too big & heavy for where I live now.

Here’s a few things I’m getting rid of if some one in interested:

Free:

• Guitar, Guitar stand and small amp (Free)
• Casio Keyboard Synth (Free)
• Misc computer parts: NICs, Motherboards & CPUs, Memory, Sound Cards, etc (Free)
• Misc older computer books (Free)
• more to come

If there’s no one interested in the Free Stuff, I’ll be putting them up on CraigsList and/or FreeCycle.

For Sale:

• Small Midi Keyboard (price not yet determined)
• Mics, Cables & Audio Mixing boards (price not yet determined)

If these aren’t sold before too long, they’re going up on Ebay.

I’ve shutdown several of my websites, mostly due to inactivity and lack of interest from other people.

• Arkansas Geek Central
• Central Arkansas Anime Group
• LazerTagChat.com
• Kwadrix.com
• LAN Party Admins of Arkansas
• ARLUG.org
• Ubuntu Team Arkansas
• Kwadnet
• Q3TCRP
• FlashMobLAN

Pretty much just have this website (Kwadroke.com/AEBates.com) and Kwadkade.com still running. I’m also stepping down from HSALUG & CARLUG. I am not leaving these groups due to a person or a group of people. I just feel I need a break and to remove some of the pressure I have placed on myself. There were some groups that did not have any outside input or involvement.
I have been contemplating this for a while and I doubt anyone will miss these groups or my involvement. In fact, I have a feeling most groups of the continuing groups will prosper from me stepping away.
It is possible I may return to some of these groups in the future. I very seriously doubt I will be taking a direct role in any of these.
I am also stepping away from working at Conway Gaming Center. I may be there occasionally as a gamer, but, not as anything official. Again, this is not due to anyone who owns CGC or works or is a customer there. I just need a break, and, I do not feel like I can contribute anything to help improve the store at this time.

This year’s A-Kon seemed to be a bit slower than normal. I’m not sure if it was because we got in a day early or what. The panels we went to seemed to be a bit lacking due to some of them being pure Q&A sessions. To me, it seems that these can bring a panel to a grinding halt unless there’s a lot of questions being asked.

I did have a good time. I am sad to see that A-Kon is over with, but, now I can concentrate on my other projects. Q3TCRP, Life at North High, & ARKon can now have more attention put to them. I got some inspiration from the Con for my projects, so those should be materializing soon.

I apparently forgot to move over one of my subdomains over to the new server. The website hasn’t been updated in ages, so I loaded my new favorite website software, WordPress on it.

The website is for a project that I’ve been trying to get off the ground called the Quake 3 Total Conversion Revitalization Project, or Q3TCRP for short. You can visit it at http://q3tcrp.kwadrix.com. It’s for bringing back some of the Total Conversions for Quake III Arena. I’ve got QBall (a FPS paintball TC) mostly working. Hopefully after A-Kon I can get back to working on it. I’ve played with compiling it for Linux and got it running, but, there’s a font texture missing. I think it has been missing for a while.

Maybe after getting a release ready I’ll buy a domain name for it.