chronoszero

I just finished playing Typing Shark, an excellent little PopCap game, and I came to the startling conclusion that my active vocabulary is extraordinarily small. Although I can admitted recognize more words than your average literate person, I use woefully few of them in any given day.

So. As absolutely dorky as it is... I'm going to start using a new word every day....
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I'm a bad video game industry professional. I've hardly played anything in the past couple of months. My backlog is so large that I don't imagine that I'll be paying a full $50 retail price for a game in quite some time.

Right now I'm playing Painkiller for the PC. It's wonderfully mindless FPS in the spirit of Serious Sam or the original Doom. The...
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Everyone has gone crazy at work. The project is late and over budget. Upper management became directly involved. Nothing is working correctly.

And we've all compensated through sheer insanity. Everytime we discover a piece of software fails to work properly, we just bust up laughing. I've lost track of the sheer number of running gags we have going.

After having worked in the corporate world...
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I'm going to learn some Polish. That's where a good chunk of my family heritage comes from, so why not connect with that by learning the language?

Here's a fun quote from a website I found:
"You have to remember that Polish and English sound systems are different. The vowels are similar but not the same. None of the Polish vowels is present in the...
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My brain has trouble reconciling the fact that I simultaneously enjoy alt.country music (Old 97's) and satanic rock (Danzig).

Yet I do.

I still remember when I was a kid and my mom found my "Danzig II - Lucifuge" CD. She didn't seem very amused that the liner notes folded out into an inverted cross.

I've been reading up on Buddhism lately. The buddhists are really on to something with the concept of the "Origin of Suffering". For those of you who don't know, they say that humans have a very difficult time accepting that nothing is permanent. We suffer because we cannot accept that everything has both a beginning and an end.

Helping my father look for a new job highly entertains me. He's doesn't need a job. He wants a new one that sucks decidedly less than his current one.

I'm trying to convince him to join the video game industry because... now, understand that I love the industry... but... this space direly needs some quality project management experience.

You wanna know why that highly anticipated...
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I get grumpy when things go seriously awry in my little department. Even though it's not my fault, it is my responsibility. One that I take very seriously.

Perhaps I just let my pride get in the way...

grr.

I have returned from the illustrious GDC convention. What an absolutely phenominal experience! I reconnected with some old friends. Some wonderfully generous people adopted me into their social circles. And some influential folks decided to talk to me about future employment.

My biggest thanks go out to Lanha, Silvio, Jane, Ben, and Justin. But I couldn't forget (other) Ben, Matt, Jody, and Sheri either.

I'm off to San Francisco tomorrow for the industry conference for creeps like me. I had to delay my trip a day to babysit a very large file transfer over my slow-ass cable modem connection. I probably should have just fedex'ed the fucker and been done with it.

I'm actually delighted I pushed back a day. I hate rushing around. Now I'm much less likely...
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