I need to clean my house. I really do.
But instead, I’ll clean my blogs house. Har!
This is a note that I’m changing my RSS feed URL, because I have plans, man. Big plans. And I don’t want to be hampered.
Anyway, if you’ve never subscribed to this frequently-updated, contentful blog’s RSS feed, you can now and [...]

I noticed today that my blog was down–a database error that was quickly fixed once I actually noticed it wasn’t available. However, this probably isn’t much of an issue, as I didn’t actually hear about it, which leads me to believe nobody else was actually looking, and the people who would be looking are probably [...]

And I really didn’t even care about it.
I stopped by Border’s this evening after eating dinner nearby, and decided to pick up a new soft cover Moleskine notebook, with a few of the smaller, pocket-sized notebooks for on-the-go note taking.
It occurred to me, while driving home, that the cost of the notebooks was higher than [...]

I’m a big fan of Bruce Sterling, not only as a sf writer but also as a design thinker. He’s good at distilling a lot of seemingly-disparate information into consumable bits and then mixing those up into some very interesting ideas.

Bruce Sterling from Innovationsforum on Vimeo.

The embargo on the EIEIO writeups was lifted tonight, and the first pieces are generally positive (save for some mention of framerate issues, which are to be expected in a pre-pre-alpha version of a game).
Work continues, we’re hammering on feature iteration and level iteration, there are some great ideas being suggested and overall I have [...]

I visited Monica for the weekend out in Venice, LA, and had a great time. I got off the plane and we headed straight to Chaya Venice for some wine and appetizers, a good way to relax after a flight.
Saturday we hopped around Santa Monica, Monica got a new pair of glasses (they look great), [...]

FedEx has delivered more than a few packages to me at my new apartment. Except not all of them are for me. Many are, in fact, addressed to somebody else, though the address is the same.
So each time these packages are delivered, I call FedEx and I tell them, “You delivered packages to my address, [...]

It is inspiring being around talented people all day, but I don’t believe that talent is innate, which I realize may sound contradictory–”Gee, Ryan, why call it talent at all, then?”
Never in my life have I felt more sure about being able to acquire and consciously develop a skill than being around these people I [...]

Writing this post from TextMate, a brilliant app for OS X which can do, well, just about everything. Seems to be likened to Emacs but, you know, with a bit of aesthetic flair and an ease of use which is unrivaled by its FSF-born cousin.
I never thought I’d download something and so quickly pay for [...]

Last week was full of travel to Dallas, and instead of driving this time, we experimented with flying. One of the mornings in the airport, sitting in a nearly empty terminal with only a few other business travelers, the loudspeaker clicked on (as it does so often in airports). But the message wasn’t about increased [...]