My life and times
We had our FIEA christmas party tonight, and fun was had by all. The 20 or so of us went to Buca di Beppo, and got a smattering of menu items - definitely the best way to do Buca. Got to try lots of different things, and even got some dessert. Way [...]
I gave a presentation this morning in Tommy’s 1st period Journalism class, in addition to the students in 2nd period Journalism as well. The school paper was published today, so it was a pretty good day for it. It went much better than my first experience at Lake Mary High, last [...]
I told my boy Todd about my Dwight Howard sighting, and he said “Oh my God was he frickin’ huge?” (yes he said frickin’). Short answer: Yes.
My tire was low today, which I realized as I was out the door to join my buddy Jason at the RDV. We like to hookup [...]
While out last night at the Cheesecake Factory at Mall of Millenia, I saw Dwight Howard, which was pretty awesome. Dude is huge, and was dressed up in a pinstripe suit. That’s a great restaurant, he’s got good taste.
The first semester of FIEA went out with a bang, and we will [...]
Tina told me I needed to catch up last night on Lost, so I did. So anybody who wants to chat about it (which seemed like just about everyone up until last night), I’m now ready to talk. If you don’t watch Lost, I recommend getting the DVDs once this season is over [...]
Hard to believe it’s been a month since I’ve written in my blog. I’m getting to be as bad as Chris and Lindsay, so we can’t have that now, can we? And if you two were waiting for me to write to finally update yours, here’s your chance.
Part of my lack of updates, I [...]
I headed up to Gainesville yesterday to talk to Computer Science students that might want to get into the game industry or come to FIEA. I had a lot of fun, and the more I go there, the more I like Gainesville. This was the first time I’d been there while school was [...]
Well, I was sure glad to have Tina back from her big Holland trip. I’m glad she got to go and all, but with the kid’s activity schedule, FIEA starting up and my EA part time gig, it was very difficult indeed on the homefront. She had a great time and by now, [...]
Every morning in my UCF mailbox, I get a mail with the with the subject line “Good Morning UCF!”. While I think that’s weird, one of those emails led to me looking at something called the DMAC (Downtown Media Arts Center, basically an artsy-fartsy movie house). When I went to their site, I [...]
I would say the whole - hey, here’s a great idea, I’ll go to work at the school during the day, and then at night and on the weekends, I’ll work at Tiburon - is a pretty bad idea. I don’t want to overreact, because I don’t know how much of this is just [...]
I got a Mac today. It rules. Sign me up, it makes me want to go work for a Mac software company. Tiger is so great, I can’t believe it. My Dad really needs to get a new Mac - maybe he could hand down his current one to a grandchild [...]
Well - I had fun at Siggraph. Our FIEA booth looked great, much better arrangement than we had at GDC. We also had a lot more promising students stop by for a gander and sometimes more. One of the best things we did was bring a student laptop and widescreen monitor and [...]
Well, it’s good to return somewhat to normal with the family home and such. I was glad to hear that they had a great time visiting family and friends in Utah - I only wish I could’ve been with them. I’m not sure I would’ve lasted 3 weeks, but it would’ve been good [...]
Well, it’s been a whirlwind few days I tell ya.
I’ve been very busy helping the Salisbury’s get acclimated to Central Florida living. The good news is they found a house, and the even better news is that it’s pretty close to us. They’re about 2 miles away, right near the High School, in [...]
Well - I was sure looking forward to the launch today. Too bad it got scrubbed. The buffet lunch with the astronaut was great.
My friend Brian and his family arrived into town tonight from Utah. He is our new art director at FIEA and I’m really looking forward to working with Brian [...]
Well, I rode out hurricane Dennis and survived. It didn’t rain at all today, and the wind was calm all day. Whew! Based on all the local coverage, it looked like the entire state could be engulfed. Watching the coverage, I caught two things to support my Dad’s and Angus’ assertion [...]
Had a good time over the weekend. Worked all night Friday, until early Saturday morning, on some animation stuff for the big review this week, so I could have the weekend off. The irony is you kill yourself so you can have your Saturday, but then your Saturday is kind of shot because [...]
Had another tour of FIEA, and before heading home, Tommy and I went down to the OWC to checkout Simon and his new sport.
Needless to say, he looked awesome, and was having a blast. This place basically tries to mimic what it’s like to wakeboard behind a boat with a machine not [...]
Before heading to work yesterday, I headed to Circuit City to try to rectify the screams I’ve been hearing from the kitchen the last few days when anyone tries to use the computer. As usual, the best way to diagnose the problems is to try using the computer yourself. No sooner had I [...]
Well, as you no doubt have heard, I hurt my back Wednesday night - so that sucks. I used my time laid up wisely and put together new sites for Tina and Tommy. I’m pretty proud of both of them, although I’ll be making Tommy’s better in the future with some finishing [...]