Searching
Today’s goal was to reasses the cost of attending Full Sail along with living there. I compiled a nice little excel sheet and turned my room upside down in the proccess.
I purchased these three must read books today during lunch break. I’m going to start with Code and work my way through the series.
Today was terribly painful at work. For those that don’t know I work at an OfficeMax distribution center at the moment (I change jobs quite a bit but this one pays very well 12.50 an hour with benefits and generally much more laid back than other jobs I’ve encountered). Today we had a company wide meeting about the new core values of OfficeMax and how OfficeMax wants enter the Blue Ocean and leave the Red Ocean. Our new core values are Passion, Ingenuity, and Fun. Man was the meeting fun …
Zenkaikon
I had also met a girl named Evirion who is a friend of Melissa’s. Francine (Evirion) had won first place at the cosplay contest. Francine hand made her entire costume, and it was the most authentic and realistic thing I’ve ever seen. I spent some time talking to her about how long it took, the cost and labor of it all and generally what its like to cosplay (now that I think about it, it would be kinda cool to interview a cosplayer if this were an Anime related blog). I got so excited about cosplaying that I decided to try it out in the future. At first I wanted to do Magna Carta and the like. Those costumes seem very intricate and I’ll try to build one for the next big East Coast anime con but I will also try to have my first costume be a little simpler so right now I’m looking into Allen Walker from D.Gray-man wearing a top hat : )
Quite before the comming storm
I’ve been dormant for several weeks, but not uneventful. In fact so much has happened both in the game industry, and in my personal life that I am dedicating several hours of blogging this Saturday to put up rants, reviews, and a little something something.
Expected Blogs:
- Windows Vista Review
- FullSail, yanking the anchor.
- Magazine fananza.
- PS3
And lots more. I don’t want to list everything I have planned due to the possibility that I might not get to everything and its always best to set the expectations low and deliver more (see. Playstation3).
Random Rant
The weekend was a mess and a half for me. I mean generally I got some good sleep over Friday night and Saturday wasn’t too bad, but Sunday night … well I slept in my god damn car.
The good points are is that I did setup Windows Vista (build 5728 x86) on my laptop and I can’t believe how much fun it is to use that operating system. It really is fun navigating, and doing everything that I was originally so used to and took for granted. I’ll definitely get some screenshots and a good review of it in the coming days.
I’m still experimenting with the new Windows Media Player, IE and definatly going to give Office a spin. Good job Microsoft!
Game Testers
When I was younger, I was always under the impression that game testing is the best way to get into the industry. I was also under the impression that it was job filled mostly by fifteen year olds with lots of free time and good writing abilities.
A nice thread grew quite large on IGDA that was originally started by an inspiring fifteen year old. For those of you considering this as your dream job, get the facts, and check out the post by Ramsay on pg 1.