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June 13th, 2007
02:18 pm - view from my new desk
So, I lucked out and moved desks at work... Here's the new view!
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May 24th, 2007
02:06 pm - um yeah
I have the second best job in the whole world. Dave Samuel has the first best.
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April 24th, 2007
07:11 pm - hooray
Today I put in my two weeks here at work...what a great feeling it is. No longer will I be forced to carry an on-call phone, taking calls at all hours of the night from India and Israel. No longer will I work in such a boring office building, colored in only brown and gray. No longer will I feel no real emotional or intellectual connection with the work I do. It's a brand new start, and a somewhat big move from the CRM software industry to the entertainment industry! That's right, the ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY!!! I can't believe I'm actually saying that!
In a couple weeks I will be programming on a game team, developing Xbox 360 games. It's been a dream for some time, and I really cannot believe it's finally realized. Not only that, but I already have many friends at the new job, which should make things all the more comfortable from the start. I'm bubbling over. I really cannot wait for these two weeks to pass.
Come celebrate with me tonight at my place, starting at 9:30. Call or email me if you don't know the way. Peace and love!
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April 17th, 2007
05:04 pm - ahhhhhhhh
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April 13th, 2007
11:06 am - the words running around my head today:
tasting you and rain I walk down to the train
try not to look down
this day could someday be an anniversary
everything is light and sound
facing forwards going slowly wait for you to show me
where this train wants to go
living by the hour I stop for every flower
everything is soft and slow
now all these tastes improve through the view that comes with you
like they handed me my life
for the first time it felt right
thank you for making me see there's a life in me
it was dying to get out
holding you we make two spoons beneath an April moon
everything is soft and sweet
this cigarette it could seduce
a nation with its smoke
crawling down my tired throat
scratches part of me that's purring
softly stirring
I'm a captain of industry smoking famously
feet up on the windowsill
look at all these trees I feel affinity with
everything so soft and still
budding at my fingertips
touching you I start to bloom
alive with trains and passing ships
soft and sweet along your lips now
I go "oh wow"
thank you for taking me from my monastery
I was dying to get out
with tears of gratitude
I like my latitude
cross town train to you
now all these tastes improve
through the view that comes with you
like they handed me my life for the first time it felt worth it
like I deserved it
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Jets To Brazil ~ "Sweet Avenue"
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April 12th, 2007
04:38 pm - stay in the moment, stay in the moment...
Lately I am a tumbling ball of hope and anxiety and cautious optimism. I'm awaiting what could be one of the most joyous days for me in recent years...the suspense is almost unbearable.
I'm trying to keep my expectations low, in order to quell any possible disappointment. This is a somewhat hard thing for me to do. Nonetheless, tomorrow comes soon, at which time the sign and magnitude of my fortune shall be revealed. For now, I am Indiana Jones in the pit of snakes. Sssssssssssssssssssssss...
edit: to my friends who have had to put up with my incessant banter on this subject: PLEASE, SIR. WOW.
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March 26th, 2007
02:55 pm - Wassup, interwebs?
I'm just loving the weather lately...I did so many things outdoors this weekend that I wore myself out. I can only hope that the periodic cold spells aren't too pervasive in the coming weeks.
So, for the last week or two, all I can think about is my upcoming interview with a local game company. I've been eager to get a position at said company for many years now. This is my third application there in about six years, and it's actually progressing nicely (for once!). First, I took their programming test, which they said I did really well on, and subsequently granted me an interview. So that's currently where I stand. I am going to submit to the company a piece of software I wrote about two years ago, called "EvolvingMozart", as a demo to supplement my job application. I'm really proud of this program... It's a genetic-algorithm-driven MIDI music composition sandbox, which uses a genetic crossover mechanism closely modeled after the process that underlies actual human reproduction. Each AI-composer has a wealth of binary chromosomes which determine how it goes about writing music, and these individuals breed based on the user's rating of musical aesthetics. It needs more tweaking to really do what I had designed it for, but the state I left it in two years ago is rather acceptable. I'll probably release it as shareware very soon.
For anyone who wants to hear some of the music generated by EvolvingMozart, as well as a program screenshot, please see: http://psr47.com/em.
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March 8th, 2007
04:01 pm - latest happenin's
Myeah... So, things have been peachy lately. I've been playing pool regularly, working a lot, playing with the six-year old, playing bass with Pulsar47, and playing keys/samples with PSR. PSR has two new albums up at http://psr47.com/albums.html, as well as a long-lost older album from 2004 that has now finally been remastered. I made my first two mortgage payments, and I'm proud to say that I sent in some extra monies! Yay, now I can be done paying off the house in 29.987 years! Hehe...
The most exciting news lately is that my greatestestest ever software creation, SnookerBase, is going to be starting a formal beta-testing phase very soon, at the request of several faceless people on the interwebs. I have several people overseas and a few stateside that are interested in the software, and will be my beta-testers. I even have one guy who says he will send me a free ViewSonic touchscreen if the software ends up being to his liking! Wow! Unreal. What's funny is that while I'm now starting a worldwide beta-test, this software has been running live 24x7 on a PC in Danville since, oh, about July 2005. Not once in 20+ months has it crashed or shown any real bugs, making this project surely one of my biggest accomplishments in software design. I'm going to be making a lot of enhancements to the core product in the next week or so, including some real-time global game tracking, such that SnookerBase shows who else across the world is currently playing snooker on SnookerBase, the current score, players, location, etc. I'm immensely excited by this...not that there's really a ton of demand for it, but the interested ones are certainly bugging me on a weekly basis about the software...nice to see that some silly software I had initially written for friends in Danville may actually have the potential for some commercial value! Check out some more details at http://psr47.com/sbase.
In other news, Emerctson and I are embarking on a super-secret software project, which bears the very real potential to make us millions. I'll just leave it at that for now. I'm pretty sure I would rather enjoy the aforementioned millions...hmm...wait...ahh yeah, I definitely would.
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August 21st, 2006
12:07 am - Pool Videos
Here are some pool videos my friends and I have made:
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May 19th, 2006
06:35 am - HONK
Anyone who feels that motorists in american cities can be rather inconsiderate, dangerous, and just plain asshole-ish... Come live in Tel-Aviv for three months!!! Sheesh.
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