If You’re Not Watching the Jace Hall Show…

You should be. Fun mixture of video games and celebrities from a guy who actually knows a lot about the industry (he ran Monolith for many, many years). Well produced and entertaining.

New Chrono game!

Update: Uhm, looks like it’s just a port of the Playstation version, which was a port of the Super Famicon version with terrible Dragonball Z characters thrown in (sorry, I just can’t stand that style). Boo! Doesn’t make the game any worse, of course, but I don’t need to buy a new DS port just to replay that game again…

Original Post: Be still my heart!

Square needs to add a lot more content and less tease to that page, though

Stupid CA Cellphone Law

Am I the only one who remembers various studies that proved that there’s no difference between hands-on and hands-free cellphone use while driving? Both are equally distracting:

Many studies have shown that using hand-held cellphones while driving can constitute a hazardous distraction. However, the theory that hands-free sets are safer has been challenged by the findings of several studies. A study from researchers at the University of Utah, published in the summer 2006 issue of Human Factors, the quarterly journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, concludes that talking on a cellphone while driving is as dangerous as driving drunk, even if the phone is a hands-free model. An earlier study by researchers at the university found that motorists who talked on hands-free cellphones were 18 percent slower in braking and took 17 percent longer to regain the speed they lost when they braked.

So how is this new California law that banishes hands-on cellphones, but still allows dialing, texting and headsets, more than activism? Yesterday a coworker almost got run into by a woman who was talking on her speaker phone. This morning, I saw a woman driving way under the speed limit on hway 101 while talking exitedly on her headset. But all of the sudden we’re forbidden from normal cellphone use because that is too dangerous?

NASCAR at Infineon Raceway

Of course we went to the Toyota/Savemart 350 at Infineon Raceway last weekend. I’ve just been too busy with the structure of the page to post anything about it. I had backstage access to the event, which was a lot of fun. And I have 5 hours of video footage that I want to edit into another video as soon as I find the time. But in the meantime, here’s a few pictures from the weekend:

jeff gordon kyle busch samantha sarcinella

New Page Online

Here we go! Over the last few weeks I’ve been working on a new webpage, finally powered by WordPress and all the niceties that PHP and dynamic content offer, and I think the page is far enough along to put it online. The front page displays the latest blog posts and latest releases (usually video), making sure that nothing important is getting lost in the shuffle. The portfolio and articles page will receive a similar treatment. Of course those pages are still missing, as are 99% of my old posts. The design isn’t 100% yet either, I think. So don’t be surprised if things keep changing over the next few days, and enjoy what’s already here

Got any feedback? Let me know!

New Laptop

Old laptop:

New laptop:

I like the new one better One of the reasons I disappeared for a while and stopped updating my page was the (somewhat timely) demise of my old Laptop. I’d had the thing for 3 1/2 years, which certainly isn’t a bad run for a laptop. It didn’t completely break down. But apparently the graphics card stopped working, and neither the internal screen nor any externally connected displays received any signal. Rather than replacing the graphics card, which would run me several hundred dollars (since it’s a built-in laptop card) I decided to get a new laptop instead.

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My Ocrana Email Is Currently Down!

If you want to reach me, try mworch at gmail dot com instead.

Update: Ocrana email is permanently down.

AMA Superbike 2008 Video

I have posted my music video from the AMA Superbike event at Infineon Raceway this May. Enjoy your daily dose of Tainted Love!  

Toyota/Savemart 350 Promo

This is a promo video I created for the official Infineon Raceway website. This was fun because I’d never made a fast-paced, high-energy commercial video before. And even though the final result is pretty damn crude and basic I learned a ton.

Umpires who are hurting the game

“Time! No, that’s a balk!” You’ve got to be fucking kidding me.