no you didnt waste anyones time, you actually inspired me, i have been making custom roms for myself for awhile, ive actually been wanting to release my own, i can add scripts to the updater script, and i know somewhat how to use the kitchen, but i cant seem to find much info regarding sense modding (or themeing) . I would love to work on paranoid android, but with no open cm10 i dont think itll ever happen. it seems all the cm10 devs are fighting as best i can tell. except for jmz, he just said he was dippin today. if anyone knows of a decent cm9 or 10 base that can be used for P.A. lemme know.
(and a silly question, can paranoid be baked into a sense rom? Has anyone tried and failed? because i know it is made for cm9 & 10)