Archive for the ‘where i live’ Category

I support the BART workers

I support their looming strike.
If I see any strikers on my commute over the Golden Gate Bridge through Marin county, I’ll honk for ‘em. I really will.
By the by, when is Marin county going to shape up and allow a BART train to come up here? Sure, there’s infrastructural issues, but that hasn’t stopped San [...]

Ten months on

Isn’t it about time for one of these posts? You know the kind. And if you don’t, you will know it by the end, here. If you manage to stay for so long. Let’s see what’s happened in the past ten months.
Big things:

Monica and I moved to San Francisco. Fun trip, came close to killing [...]

CityEngine

A great video of a procedural city generator. Seen at serial consign, via DesignNotes.
The cities in the video above, with a bit more art direction, look like they could be right out of a Spiderman game, or Mirror’s Edge. Procedural content, especially in terms of environment design, is an iffy area, but those topographies [...]

I got my $1.08 back

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 [...]

Resisting arrest

This is just sad.
A federal jury this afternoon found that an Austin police officer and two former officers did not use excessive force against Ramon Hernandez, whom they were videotaped beating in September 2005.
There’s a video linked from the article of the event in question. There’s no disputing that Ramon Hernandez should have been arrested, [...]

Video game violence

I was interviewed earlier today for an industry perspective regarding an incredibly tragic incident which happened here in Central Texas. My short snippet said something to the effect of, “If parents object to a game their kids are playing, they should feel like they can step in and stop it. It’s a parent’s responsibility to [...]

What’s going on now?

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 [...]

EIEIO 2008

One week from today we’ll be presenting our game to the press. Real-time for the first time. And that is exciting.
EIEIO, starting at 6pm, will be open to the public. You won’t be able to see Mushroom Men, yet, but you can enjoy a Gamecock party.

Misdelivered

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, [...]

YouTube interview with Charlies Mudede

Although it’s more than six months old, I ran across this video today.

I had the good fortune to know Charles Mudede when I lived in Seattle. I met him through mutual friends, and we even read a couple books in the same reading group. He’s an incredibly smart man, and I look forward to seeing [...]