Mike Laurence's Internet Playground

It’s funny how time flies when you’re a hermit cranking out code 10 hours a day, attempting to make something concrete but all the while watching your once rising Internet star (ha!) plummet like the Dow circa September ‘08. And now you’re just starting blog posts with vastly overused metaphors. Ah well.

But hey, I made an iPhone app! It’s called iPose, and it features, amongst other things, scantily-clad ladies.

I’m also nearly done with my next app, Leap Quest! It is seventeen times more complex than iPose (*actual ratio of complexity more complex than 17 : 1), and is quite entertaining, if I may say so myself. It also has cutesy graphics that would be suitable for an 8-year-old (and no, I didn’t have to go door-to-door, Walter).

Based on my developmental progression, you might assume that my grand plan is to have 8-year-olds innocently obtain Leap Quest and then become interested in my brand, Punkbot, and then via the app store or my website accidentally stumble across aforementioned iPose scantily-cladness, thus prematurely exposing them to toxic American adult values earlier than they might have had they depended on discovering a hint of nipple through static on their friend’s satellite TV (wait, that was my generation. Today you can just google image search any two random words and visually feast on fetishes you’ve never even dreamed of!) But I don’t have grand plans. Only grandiose ones.

You know what? I rather like ranting. I wrote some “rants” as a sort of online humor column back in college, before there were “blogs”, which makes me kind of cool and iconoclastic, except it was also before “anyone cared”, so I wasn’t able to capitalize on that coolness. I should really return to my ranting roots. Maybe I will.

Anywho, I just thought you may have been wondering if there was An App For Cute Yellow Jumping Sun-Flower-Germ-Looking Dudes. There will be soon, so stay tuned. And check out this youtube trailer: