Just getting back from dinner with Stephanie Bryant, http://mortaine.com/blog/ Turns out she’s an old friend of Florence’s.
trying to get pidgin to work w…
trying to get pidgin to work work with IRC
Just finished Astro City: Fami…
Just finished Astro City: Family Album (http://tinyurl.com/yryxfg) Review in two words: F’ing brilliant.
off to mondo! http://mondofest…
off to mondo! http://mondofest.org/
stuff…
Basically just a “what I’m doing this weekend” update: here it is Mondo.
I saw nate’s new production of Closer last night, and was not unimpressed! There was a lot of video used, (between almost every scene), and that added to the experience. I think all the actees (how do you say both actresses and actors?) did a great job, and with british accents even! Anyway, everyone should go see it. Support local theater!
I finally got around to putting in a domain forward for Nate’s blog, so his domains should point to his blogspot blog now. I feel bad, because almost everyone I was hosting blogs for back in the day is now blogging elsewhere, but in a way that’s good… I mean, they liked it enough to continue doing it on their own! (Right?) I’m a slacker hosting provider. heh.
Work is coming along on Go Tetris! 1.0… I’m almost done with the two-eyes feature, and I think that’s where I’m going to set the mark. After that, and the high-score list feature, and I’ll be ready to promote it in earnest. I’m excited to feel feature complete… because I’ve been thinking a lot again about the actual Chesstris game, and I can’t wait to get started on it again.
No other interesting news. I’ve been sickly this week, and am at home working today (as I was yesterday).
listening to last.fm artists s…
listening to last.fm artists similar to bt!
closing the computer to go see…
closing the computer to go see a friend’s production of Closer: http://tinyurl.com/2byxew
The Great Games Experiment
Everyone knows I’m a sucker for social networking sites. I just discovered another one, The Great Games Experiment, a site that allows you to sign up as a game player or game developer. I’ve found some of the interface to be awesome and intuitive, but other features of the site are just abysmally hard to understand. There is definitely a lot to do over there, I’ll have to look at it more when I’m less sleepy.
Oh, and after a single day, I’m totally addicted to Travian, a web-based massively multiplayer RTS. Check it out!
I was trolling around looking for cool game developer conferences, and found out I just missed the imgd conference this very month, here in MN. Sounds like it focused more on MMO (an acronym I’m not sure I’ve encountered before, but assume is the relevant parts of MMORPG), but it still would probably have been worth checking out.
I’ve been giving a lot of thought lately to whether I’m really interested in persuing a career in game development, or whether I really just want it to be something I do in my spare time for fun. I can honestly say I really dig my current job, and I know that’s something relatively rare and special. I think for now I’m just along for the ride. We’ll see where this thing takes me.
two movies and work life balance
I saw a couple of good movies this weekend, Eagle Vs. Shark, and Hot Fuzz.
I thought EVS was better, but it had a fairly mixed reaction from the crowd I saw it with. My biggest complaint would be that it was a bit too Napoleon Dynamite, or anyway that the main (male) character was going for the same qualities, and at times seemed to be channeling Napoleon. Otherwise, it was totally brilliant, and at times very much succeeded in achieving heartwarming status. There are some clips up on Youtube of Jemaine Clement (the male lead) singing and playing guitar on a stage with another guy. You should really watch the songs Albi, the Racist Dragon, and Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros if you haven’t already. (Links via Sharyn.)
Hot Fuzz was everything I should have expected from it. I think I did a fairly good job of going into it without expectations, but if I had thought to have them, it would have met them. Basically, it was a rehashing of the same themes apparent in Shaun of the Dead, and starred the same two male characters, (for those of you living under a rock who haven’t heard of it). I’ll try not to give any spoilers here, but basically, I felt like Shaun was a zombie movie within a parody of a zombie movie. It was totally funny and awesome up until about the last fourth of the movie, when it turned into a full-on zombie movie, without reservation. Hot Fuzz was the same way! It was a parody of cop movies (buddy-cop movies, if that’s a genre), again more or less turning into an actual cop movie for the last twenty minutes or so. It was still funny, and still very much fun and original, but lacked the “genre” aspect that made Shaun so appealing for me in particular, so I’d have to say I liked it a bit less overall.
I saw Hot Fuzz last night as a sort of break in the middle of a twelve-hour work bender. (Yes, on a Saturday.) We have a big site launch this week, and everyone’s been pushing really hard to get the last few details working. (To say nothing of actually putting any finishing touches on them.) I thought yesterday may have been my longest work day ever, but when I spent an hour logging all my hours for the last week, I realized I worked about the same number last Thursday also. Whew!
I’m going to try and get a good night’s sleep tonight. I feel like i might be coming down with something, but it could also be allergies. Anyway, I’m sniffly and miserable.
it’s back
livingtech is back.
I’m posting this from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. I’m sitting propped up on a hotel bed, surrounded by fluffy pillows. From here, I have a nice view to my right out the sliding glass door of the beach and ocean stretching to infinity on the horizon. (Check out my flickr stream for some photos from the beach.)
I have tons of actual work to do, (I’m not on vacation, just piggybacking on Florence’s work travel), so I’m going to keep this short. Astute readers will have noticed I’ve switched from MT to WP, and moved the old homepage out of the way. No more hiding the blog behind a /blog/ subdirectory. I’ve still got lots of minor formatting changes I want to make to the stylesheet, and I want to do some pruning of useless old pages too.
So much to write about. So little time!