Aside from a bag of flour, my spice rack, and some butter in the fridge - I have successfully eaten everything in my apartment! Time for an epic grocery run!
Or you could just make some shortbread.
WarrenM
4763
I finished Bioshock 2 a few weeks back and just finished up Bioshock 1 today (didn’t play it the first time around). Man, what an awesome world. Although with 2 games in a row, I’ve definitely had my fill of Rapture for a bit. Time for something new … maybe Dragon Age? I dunno…
Rimbo
4764
off to China tomorrow… the kiddo and I have a LOT of travel ahead of us before we make his home for the next 3 months, sometime on Wednesday
I prefer a single 30", just fewer things to plug in and easier to fit on a desk and less finicky multimon weirdness (e.g. when doing a 24" + 20" portrait there were always alignment issues).
Just spent 3 days at GDC working the booth showing off the stuff I’m working on. Holy crap, agonizing and painful just standing there progressively getting hoarse as the day goes on repeating the same 3 minute demo over and over for people as they came by.
The positive side was that it generated buzz amongst a lot of developers, but the downside was that “buzz” translates into “repeating the same demo over a serial set of developers from the same company spaced 30 minutes apart”. By Friday night I was so wrecked I got back to my hotel room at 7pm, having not eaten since 9am, and passed out until 11pm. Thank God for Mel’s Diner and french toast at 130AM. Sober.
Fenced in a regional competition this weekend…so sore
Rimbo
4768
I LOVE doing that sort of thing. I adore trade show floors. I am absolutely in my element giving demos in the booth. It has all the advantages of the stage show and ultimate nerdity merged into one thing.
Yeah, it’s exhausting, but I love, love doing this.
Eilonwy
4769
Since the head of the condo association never believed me when I said that two of my windows in the living room were leaking whenever it rained, in the torrential downpours we have had the past couple of days almost all of the paint at the top of the window has come off as water has decided to POUR in and I am going through every towel I own every couple of hours on the window sills to try to mitigate the water damage to the rest of the living room. Thankfully the head guy was here yesterday to deal with the problem of the basement flooding, saw me standing in the window desperately trying to get my (now wrecked) blinds out the way, came in and said “Wow that is really bad.” and promised he’d get someone out here as soon as it stopped raining.
Which I guess is a good thing but doesn’t help me right now with water having been pouring for the last three fucking days.
Brendan
4770
I seem to be fighting everyone because of bad service at the moment. Banks, my old company, the company handling my new retirement fund, our landlady and the electricity department of our municipality and they all seem to need me to sign, deliver or physically be available during office hours.
This “If it can go wrong, it will.” bullshit is past its sell by date.
WarrenM
4771
I prefer a single 30", just fewer things to plug in and easier to fit on a desk and less finicky multimon weirdness (e.g. when doing a 24" + 20" portrait there were always alignment issues).
Sure, have a 30" but then have an extra 24-27" on the side for extraneous windows. You can never have enough, really! My goal is to have dual 30" monitors but IT won’t let me do that yet.
Had my taxes done this weekend. My accountant has 4 monitors. I thought it was awesome.
walTer
4773
Well yeah…BUT I just had to run in for one thing that I forgot previously…I learned my lesson.
During my 3Dfx days it was great, because I could take a break. But the nature of my current work, where I own my product exclusively, means that I’m also the best person to demo it, which means it’s hard for me to take a break. So on all three days I didn’t eat lunch, which mean no food from 9am until about 8pm.
It didn’t help that the booth next to us decided to engage in a battle of speaker volume – we’re the nice guys just using the speakers built into our TVs and they had their powered PA systems going.
Actually I think you can go overboard on this. Even with my 30" I find that my inability to see the entire screen at once (having to turn my head to go from left to right) is somewhat distracting. I don’t think I could do dual 30s just due to desk space issues, you have to have a lot of room to make that work.
Although back when I used a laptop, having the 15" underneath the 30" was kind of nice and didn’t take up much space, and I’d just keep email, IM, etc. running on the 15".
WarrenM
4776
I guess it depends on your usage. I mean, as a level designer, having the asset browser window maximized on my secondary monitor is absolutely the way to go.
WarrenM
4777
Oh, and for something new … I went to renew my drivers license today and at one point the woman doing my paperwork asked, “Are you an American citizen?”
For the first time in any kind of official capacity, I got to say “yes”. :)
nlanza
4778
I do the one 30" monitor, one 24" one thing and love it.
A single monitor would feel too cramped, but I agree that two 30’s would probably be overkill — at that size I like having a clearly-defined main monitor directly in front of me to spread out all of my editor windows and debug sessions on and a secondary one off to the side a bit to keep mail, IM, iTunes, and whatnot on.
A couple of my coworkers stick with a single 30" and reject the secondary monitor, and I just can’t quite understand it.
I ate brunch with a family friend who’s a veteran of the resistance movement here and I realized that soon this will not be possible to anymore. When my girls are old enough to understand how awesome these (well most) guys were, there won’t be any left.
Shadarr
4780
Last night at hockey I picked the puck up at the offensive blueline, put it through a defender’s skates and went around him, poked it past a second guy, picked it back up again in time to put it through the feet of a third guy, then went in alone on the net and put it off the post, off the goalie’s back and in. The ref waved it off because he didn’t see it cross the line before the goalie pulled it back, but I don’t care that much. It was the best goal I’ve ever scored, and it did cross the line.
