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Archive for August, 2002

In the News Today…

Saturday, August 31st, 2002

A couple not-so-exciting tidbits:
I watched the VMAs last night. 4 hours of mind-numbing fun. Highlights included:

  • Michael Jackson coming onstage for his 44th birthday and thinking he had won the “Artist of the Millenium” award, when in fact, there is no such award.
  • Pink’s drunken acceptance speech (“I don’t make videos…. So congratulations to you! Thanks.”)
  • Avril Lavigne saying “aboot” during her acceptance speech.
  • Jimmy Fallon’s impression of Enrique Iglesias’ mole.
  • The we’re-live-but-it-sure-doesn’t-look-like-it feel of the show
  • Eminem’s performance and him later threatening to punch Moby
  • Rahul’s unyielding anger while watching the show

In other news, Mike Metzger visited EA today to sign autographs and pose for pictures. While he was in some sort of press conference thingy, his wife and 15-month-old baby daughter were just sort of hanging out in the KOK area. His daughter kept walking into my cube and banging everything she could get her hands on. She played with my exam frog for a while, then went away, and then when her mom was in another room, she came up to me and put her arms out. So I picked her up and put her on my lap, at which point she began furiously banging on my keyboard. She somehow managed to completely clear the animation file I was working on, which is amazing because I didn’t even know that was possible. Then she picked up my cell phone and kept saying “Hello? Hello? Who is this?” although coming from her, it sounded more like “Haaoo? Haaooo? Hoozssst?” Then she amused herself for a couple minutes by flipping my lamp on and off. Ah, to be a baby again.

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Don’t Make Me Look

Tuesday, August 27th, 2002

The Strokes is an ugly, ugly band. Almost as unpleasant to behold as Nelly, but in a completely different way. It’s quite remarkable, actually.

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Why Charlie Brown, WHY?

Monday, August 26th, 2002

Why must they sully perfectly good chocolate cookies with nuts?

WHY!?!??

Note to Self:

Friday, August 23rd, 2002

There is a reason that flamin’ hot cheetos are not considered a breakfast food.

Perks

Wednesday, August 21st, 2002

I playtested Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers for an hour today. Yippie kai yay.

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Rickety Twisted Shadings

Tuesday, August 20th, 2002

As a follow-up to yesterday’s post, here’s what the critics have to say about me: “While Sha Sha can be broadly described as melodic, somewhat rickety, frequently acoustic, piano-laced pop–think Ben Folds with less irony–there are some twisted shadings.”

That’s me.

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CT-what?

Friday, August 16th, 2002

My first six weeks at EA were spent writing a graphical editor for an animation tool that was developed (and continues to be), by my team’s lead engineer, Adrian. It was originally writen for a now-cancelled EA game, and when Adrian came to the KOK team, he modified it for our use. Early on, I had a meeting with some guy named Brent Iverson about what features he wanted to see in the editor, and afterwards I realized I didn’t know who I was just talking to. So I looked up his name in our e-mail servers, and saw “Brent Iverson, Chief Technology Officer.” Holy poop. A little while into my internship, I discovered that a lot of other teams were expressing interest in using this tool, so it was decided that it would be a studio-wide tool, meaning the potential user base grew by a couple orders of magnitude. Holy caca. I finished the first iteration of the editor last week, and discovered that Brent had been testing my part of the tool this week. He came by my cube late today to talk about it, and said I was doing “great work.” That gave me warm fuzzies.

Oh yeah, and yesterday Cort superglued his pants to his ass. It was awesome.

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I Got You Babe

Thursday, August 15th, 2002

Remember the Indian Cher I saw the other day? Well imagine my delight when last night she was on TV again! And to top it all off, one of her backup dancers was an Indian Sonny. The picture isn’t very good, but you’ll definitely be able to see the resemblence. There is such a wealth of entertainment on Indian TV…

It’s Not Easy Being Green

Wednesday, August 14th, 2002

HOLY CRAP EVERYTHING’S GREEN!!

…ooookaaay… Um, I redesigned the page. Well “redesigned.” It’s pretty much the same page with the same content, but I think it looks better. It’s green. You’ll also notice that none of the links at the top work… This is because it’s 2 am and I want to go to sleep rather than redo those other pages. So you’ll have to be content with my ramblings for now, and the rest will be here in the coming days.

Now for something completely different. Since Cort’s car is in the shop, I drove him and Ken home from work. In exchange for also driving a friend of theirs to the Cal Train Station, Ken offered me chocolate frogs. What are chocolate frogs, you ask? Excellent question. Imagine, if you will, a little frog-shaped milk chocolate embedded with Pop Rocks. Yes, Pop Rocks, those freaky little candies you had as a kid that everyone said would make you explode if you ate with a can of Coke. Intrigued, I placed one of the frogs in my mouth and chewed it, noticing nothing unsual. After a few seconds of chewing, I still was pop-less, and beginning to doubt Cort’s claims of confectionary explosions. It’s about then that the popping began. It started as a few pops here and there, but soon became a virtual symphony of snaps, crackles, and pops, all resonating perfectly within my brain cavity. The interesting thing is that the pop rocks lasted much longer than the chocolate itself, leaving me with a faint crackling noise in my head for several minutes afterward. I’m gonna have to get me some of those chocolate frogs.

Pink

Monday, August 12th, 2002

The word “pink” starts to sound really weird if you say it a lot of times. Even if you think it.

pink pink pink pink pink pink pink pink pink pink pink pink pink pink pink pink pink pink pink pink.

pink1
pink.

pink2
pink.

pink3
pink.

see?

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