House!

I took some pictures this morning! I’ll have to arrange them into an album first, but here’s a teaser. Obviously that’s the front. Seen from the street. The blue stuff on top is the sky, the green thing is called a tree. You’ll notice that the car parked in front the garage has a flat tire…

Jeremy

I still haven’t found a way to read out pictures straight from my camera (something about the drivers went horribly wrong), but my shiny new Dell 2405FPW at work has various built-in card readers, including one for my CompactFlash cards. So while I haven’t taken any pictures of the house yet, I did get my backlog of pictures from the last few months. To start things off, here’s a picture of Jeremy, the budgie we bought for Victoria a while ago.

Picture didn’t turn out as clear as they could have (stupid auto focus), but it’ll have to do for now.

Car Trouble

Generally I love my car. It’s fast, fun to drive and perfect for this area. But a cargo giant it is not. You can fit about one suitcase into the trunk and that’s that, when buying some small furniture a few years ago I had to rent a uHaul truck to transport the stuff home.
Case in point: this morning I had a flat tire, and after installing my spare the old tire did did not fit in the trunk. I had to transport it on the passenger’s seat instead. I guess lifestyle has its price or something…

A Postcard from GDC

As mentioned earlier there won’t be any online material from the GDC talk about Lair, but Victoria just got some pictures developed that she took during that time. Here’s one of me setting up before the talk. See, it’s almost like you’re there! No? Not really you say? Ah well…

Page Updates Resuming Soon!

Been busy! In the meantime, if you want to know what I’ve been working on: a screenshot of Lair made it to the web after GDC (click for 720p version).

Video Games Will End It All!

As you all know I am very busy corrupting America’s youth by creating video games. Of course that begs the question what I would have done if I hadn’t been born during this technological age? We all know that Rock’n Roll turned the youth into rabid Satan worshippers, and comic books have been breeding little criminals for several decades. But maybe I could have made my evil contribution to society’s downfall even earlier?
Wired has an article with choice quotes about various forms of entertainment that were introduced during the ages. According to those people, society should have crumbled by now…so excuse if I don’t take all the current video game nay-sayers too seriously. I mean, just look at what the Waltz did to us:

“The indecent foreign dance called the Waltz was introduced … at the English Court on Friday last … It is quite sufficient to cast one’s eyes on the voluptuous inter­twining of the limbs, and close com­pressure of the bodies … to see that it is far indeed removed from the modest reserve which has hitherto been considered distinctive of English females. So long as this obscene display was con­fined to prostitutes and adulteresses, we did not think it deserving of notice; but now that it is … forced on the respectable classes of society by the evil example of their superiors, we feel it a duty to warn every parent against exposing his daughter to so fatal a contagion.”
- The Times of London, 1816