Sunday, April 18, 2010

Blueberry Cheesecake and Caramel Ice-cream, here I come! Oh, and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
Nifty! I just found "fring" for my mobile. It'll let me make skype-out calls with my skype subscription. Free calling to the U.S.!

Friday, April 16, 2010

My co-worker brought up the "FizzBuzz" programming test. I countered with "The False Coin". http://ping.fm/LXE85

Thursday, April 15, 2010

woot! canucks up one.
Off to watch the Canucks beat the Kings.
had lunch with my wife. wasn't until she left that she noticed my lack of facial hair : )
Thinking of taking advantage of Starbucks Free Coffee Day. http://ping.fm/W501D

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Testing pingdroid, still playing with the new phone.

Thursday, April 08, 2010

Kicking butt and taking names at work today. Seems there's always one more bug that wants a butt kicking.

Friday, April 02, 2010

Just purchased my 3-Day badge for PAX Prime 2010.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Watching the Independent Game Festival awards show, streaming live. http://ping.fm/kMqJL
Working hard today, finishing a project. Looking forward to Mass Effect 2 tonight (thanks, Jiro)

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

w00t freaking w00t! I just got "Medal of Valor" in Mass Effect 1 for completing the game in Insanity mode. I'm ready for ME2.

Sunday, February 07, 2010

Just watched Journey to the Center of the Earth in 3D. Still not quite perfected, huh? Nothing like watching a green movie in double vision

Sunday, January 31, 2010

I just finished reading Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy for the first time. http://ping.fm/7q8s8
I unlocked the Super Babo achievement on MadBalls in Babo Invasion! http://ping.fm/WomdM
Just completed Madballs in... Babo:Invasion as BDI. http://ping.fm/Chbwu I should really turn that into an app.

Friday, January 29, 2010

It's Friday! Starting my weekend with some Dr. Awkard and F.U.F. @thesixtyone http://ping.fm/9TnuF

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

I unlocked the Big And Green And Dead All Over achievement on Torchlight! http://ping.fm/HOBdr

Thursday, January 07, 2010

I am rocking the Quake Live awards tonight! http://ping.fm/6xRAH

Tuesday, January 05, 2010

Just completed the main story to Borderlands with a Hunter. Took just under 23 hours, while seeking/completing majority of quests.

Friday, December 25, 2009

Aaah. The guilty pleasure of having no children: Waking up at 10:50am Christmas morning. Merry Christmas, everyone.

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Heading out the door to an annual Christmas Eve party.

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Best wife ever. I'm working late (at home, where I work) and she's bringing me Timbits.

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Tonight is going to get crazy! I'll be doing my part for the soldiers. Those demo men need more than a toothpick and plate to put us down.

Sunday, December 13, 2009

wanting to contribute to the soldiers, but laughing my butt off to http://ping.fm/uI3n8 cause I'm a scout. #tf2

Friday, December 11, 2009

Putting on my helmet and doing my part to fight for the side of #Soldier in the Demo-Soldier war #tf2

Sunday, December 06, 2009

http://gamejolt.com/ is looking better and better. I would love to put some time into game dev again, soon.

Saturday, December 05, 2009

Fixed my downed PC. Swapped out the power supply with an older and almost incompatible PSU. Will be buying a new PSU soon.

Wednesday, December 02, 2009

Wrapping my head around "Ant". Also compiling an .exe from a .jar while inside Linux... well, trying to at least. Head, meet desk.

Monday, November 30, 2009

11th hour bug-squashing.
Looking forward to a Chili dinner with some family tonight.

Sunday, November 29, 2009

Was there some sort of Grey foozeball game thing today?

Saturday, November 28, 2009

I just jumped on the Left 4 Dead bus.

Friday, November 27, 2009

Heading out for Grandma's birthday party. It'll be wild.
I woke up just in time. 1 minute until the Steam sales switch over.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

What's this? A home for something I've espoused about quite a bit? http://the-vector.com/ My thumbs go up. Up in more espousiness.
w000000t! I'm feeling good. Just finished one-heck-of-a-task. Might still have a bug or two to squash, but it's functional :)

Monday, November 23, 2009

#DesertBus is still going strong. Almost $47k raised. Proceeds go to Childrens Hospitals. Donate at http://desertbus.org/

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Watching #LRR sing The Darkness' "I believe in a thing called love" for #DesertBus of Hope. http://desertbus.org/

Friday, November 20, 2009

I'm disappointed "Rainslick Precipice" hasn't been on sale in recent memory. Episode Two is already over a year old.
Done lunching. PC is set up and working properly with Ubuntu 9.10 and I've re-configured my Firefox. Next time I shouldn't have to do this.
Everything backed up, I'm removing my Ubuntu 9.04 and 8.10 partitions and installing 9.10 in their place.

Monday, November 16, 2009

When the chess game is over, the king and the pawn go in the same box. Dungeon was a fun experience. http://ping.fm/nWPc4

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Finished the main quest of Torchlight in 12 hours as a level 41 Warrior. That was fun.
I just read a nice article about Indie Games and their potential future. http://ping.fm/fHYrY

Thursday, November 12, 2009

The Overlord Complete Pack (1, 2, & Raising Hell) at 75% off ($8.75)? I'm there! Steam ftw.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Just watched "Orphan". It was predictable, but still a good movie.
Making a run for Tim Hortons. I need a caffeine and timbit fix.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Rocking even more Java SWT programming. This is a nice breather from web development.

Monday, November 09, 2009

Going crazy with Eclipse and SWT. When I click my app tray icon, it displays. Now if I can get it to display only on Double-Click...

Sunday, November 08, 2009

Going on an "I own it" spree at Amazon.ca so they can stop recommending books I own and start recommending awesome books I don't.

Wednesday, November 04, 2009

Reading a great article at Lost Garden re: Testosterone in gameplay http://ping.fm/0VMiW

Sunday, November 01, 2009

Resisting the urge to start a new project. Or to buy a new game. November is going to be a very busy month.

Saturday, October 31, 2009

4 groups of kids so far, I'm handing out the cavities at record pace. "Take what you like" has been half the bowl so far.

Friday, October 30, 2009

I'm done! The game is done. Information here: http://ping.fm/3YC4a

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Whoop whoop! I just won "dinner and a movie" on the radio. Hello, Rogers movie rental and Little Ceasars Pizza.
Getting a whole lot of grunt work out of the way. 170-something instances of closing a database connection on try-catch-finally exception.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

What a lucky day! I just got an ABS Mechanical Keyboard in the mail. Thanks, @GameXpo and @gdevnet http://ping.fm/9ZZZV
Rocking the java game programming with Beer Bottle Rocket Man: http://ping.fm/gEZVU

Friday, October 23, 2009

More Pomplamoose goodness: http://ping.fm/76lbA (1st half music, 2nd half show info)

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Watching "Night of the Living Dead". It's in the public domain, so you can download it, too. http://ping.fm/NT9y7

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Just as I'm shopping around for a laptop, my old laptop (5 years) decided to repeatedly lose power while plugged into the wall.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

I have a love affair with Steam. It's what I imagine shoe shopping is for women. Steam prints money $5 at a time (when I give it to them).
Let's give this "productive day" thing a go again. Distractions are put away. Let's write this login page.

Monday, October 19, 2009

Just spent half an hour reading section 43 of the Canada Criminal Code. Is spanking a child illegal? No: http://ping.fm/6rh9n
w00t w00t! I've just been informed I'm a lucky winner of a GameX GameDev.net prize. http://ping.fm/ifszK

Sunday, October 18, 2009

Did some work today. Currently playing Neverwinter Nights. I never did finish that, back in the day. Half way through chapter 2 (of 4?).

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Another article: Resources for the Cheap-Ass Game Developer. http://ping.fm/V8f33
New Article: VirtualBox Network with WinXP Guest in Ubuntu Host http://ping.fm/EiCKu Quite the puzzle when it doesn't work.
Just watched Trick 'R Treat. Great movie. I'd watch it every year. Like "The Grinch" but for Hallowe'en.
It's "living room re-arrangement day" in our house, today. That translates to "make room for your stuff in your office day", too :-D

Friday, October 16, 2009

I shut off all distractions this morning and I got so much work done by 3pm. I wonder if it was a fluke... Yeah. A fluke.
Heading out to visit my Dad. Bringing the obligatory pizza (and maybe beer).

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Oooooh. I really want Dragon Age: Origins. Just finished reading the novel tonight. Steam and D2D have the pre-order up starting today.

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Caught in the stumbledupon trap! http://ping.fm/aaYRP Not productive!!!
Kicking butt and chewing bubble gum at work. And I'm all out of bubble gum... lame throwback to the 90s and Duke Nukem.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

The deadline for Beer Bottle Rocket Man is getting closer. So is the finished product. Yeah.
The internet is awesome today. The DragonAge character creator is available: http://ping.fm/RLgYW
Happy Birthday, World of Goo! Fans: Name your price. http://ping.fm/yin7R

Monday, October 12, 2009

Installing WinXP within Ubuntu. Wait, is that not allowed?
Awake early (relatively) on this Canadian Thanksgiving day. Getting some work done because none has been done thus far this weekend.

Thursday, October 01, 2009

The GameX http://gamexpo.us/ and GameX Industry Summit http://ping.fm/6SLdKsummit/ is coming up soon. What fun! I wish I could go...

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Wow. The Left4Dead deal on Steam is uber-tempting. Almost expecting a $5 Left4Dead with pre-order of Left4Dead2 (closer to release date).
I just thought of something that felt important but now I forget what it was. I hate when that happens. Oh. There goes the recycling truck.

Monday, September 28, 2009

Up late last night with my mind that would not shut off. Effectively a zombie today. I LOVE ZOMBES!

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Spending a nice afternoon playing Mario Kart and reading Digg between circuits.

Friday, September 25, 2009

Taking my wife out to dinner. Like a boss. Because it's her birfday!

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Monday, September 21, 2009

Just watched Bored to Death. It gets two of my opposable appendages in upright positions. Will watch it next week.

Saturday, September 19, 2009

When you're on the high seas and your crew throws a fit to head for the shore, whatcha gonna do? http://ping.fm/SMJIK
Me wife got outta tha house 'afore'n I could talk Pirate to her. Blast me luck and grogginess.

Friday, September 18, 2009

Refactoring G2DP in a massive way. Stripped demo code from it. Now exists solely as a library. Learning from mistakes.
Just a reminder, tomorrow is Talk Like A Pirate Day. You still have time to catch up on Pirates Attack! http://ping.fm/4MEjc

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Encouraging you, enthusiastically, to play "Time Fcuk". http://ping.fm/iBLH4

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

I'll be the first to admit, I haven't (yet) put much thought into the levels. http://ping.fm/qdB6C #alpha
w00t! Helicopter Ninja now has level transitions. Still have to create the end-game and menu plus a few more tweaks.
Talk Like a Pirate Day is coming! September 19, everyone. Why not check out "Pirates Attack!" http://ping.fm/8KYVX

Monday, September 14, 2009

I picked "Best. Concert. Ever." at #PAX. Finally getting around to watching it.

Sunday, September 13, 2009

I've been playing Braid throughout the weekend. I'll just say: I enjoy it. I enjoy it for myself. Not because I'm supposed to. Great game.

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