...pics from the last couple months

Hey been having a good time since finishing up on RB2. Contained below is the company clambake, my sisters visit including karaoke, rock band outings at bars and movie theatres and my new acoustic guitar.

...today...show...rock band 2?

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/25812685#25930446

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...new phone number

So I have a new phone number. It's local to my new Boston area digs. Shoot me an email if you want to call me :)

...3G

My painful iphone 3g experience:

So I get to the mall where the apple store is in at 7:30 and get in line. There's about 40 people ahead of me so I feel pretty good. About 20 minutes later someone mentions that this is actually the AT&T store line and that the Apple store line is on the other side of the mall...oh great. Well It's 10 minutes until launch so I figure the AT&T has to have like 100 or so....asking the AT&T how many units they have in stock is about as useful as talking to a wall - he's "not sure". At about 8:45, the employees come to the line and announce that they are all sold out...they had 16 total 16 gig iphones and didn't tell everyone in line.

Now I goto the Apple store line which seems to have about 300-400 people waiting. The line is moving at a decent clip until it hits 9 AM Eastern time at which it stops moving. It turns out that every time a new time zone came online the activation and/or itunes servers failed. It took about 20-25 mins to get moving again but this time much more slowly. When 11:00 AM hit, noone moved for an hour+.

The line continued to move really slowly for another hour, then picked up. I ended up getting mine at 1:30 PM after 5 hours in line :(

My quick impression: It's a neat little device, but not worth it if you already have a first gen iphone....and it still doesn't get signal in my bedroom! Also, syncing is a pain in the ass...why can't I sync to firefox bookmarks or my thunderbird address book?

...one of the things I'm proud to be working on

http://rockband2.com/

...Next week

I'll be in the bay area next week for business. I'll probably have some free time so if you wanna hook up, lemme know.

...earth to bowie

I made a song in garageband today in an attempt to learn it. Don't hold you breathe waiting to hear it...it's not too good. Maybe if I do it another 75, 80 times and I'll get a good one...

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...africa hot!

It was really hot out there this weekend. I guess it IS June, but c'mon spring was like a week!

...long time

Perhaps a reward?



Could be torture for some...

...week deux

Cool times here...I'm starting to feel of use to the team. In fact I got myself some more short-term responsibility on something really cool. Bad news is that I'm here at work on Sat but the good news is the crunches here are short...I'll be done on Thursday!

Most jobs have been like this. At 3do I got there 2 or 3 months before Air Attack2 was done and they were like oh don't worry we'll just get you up to speed and maybe you can help out with some multiplayer levels. 2 weeks later I owned a couple levels in the game - including the second. Not that I'm complaining...I love the challenge!

...great first week

So this past week was my first at work. What a great place. It's strange being in such a large place again...there are over 200 people there now! And as stated at the company meeting, my hiring grew the company design department by 20%.

I always feel weird my first month or so at a new job...you want to do your best work but at the same time you are determining all the process at the new company. Also trying to remember people's names is always challenging.

Ok now some pics...oh man I need a better camera...c'mon Iphone 2!




OK, those first 4 are from an all Harmonix band show I saw on saturday in Boston. Good times, but expensive drinks! $10 dirty vodka martini (well it was kettle one, but all they had was top-shelf!).

Friday weely (not spelled wrong) lunch was awesome. Roast beef and lobster sandwiches, chicken wings, clam chowd(a), and pie...that reminds me I have to go work out!

I rented a zipcar and went to trader joes for my first food excursion. I spent near $300!

Mmm best and cheapest Indian food I've had outside of England.


Someone posted on the newgroups that this band Semi Precious Weapons was playing on Wednesday...it turns out they were really fun. Check 'em out when the album comes out this august: http://www.semipreciousweapons.com/

...an amoeba substitute

They had everything I was after and some were cheap...

fyi:
The Death Set - Worldwide
Fugazi -Steady Diet of Nothing (remastered)
Idiot Pilot - Wolves
Suicidal Tenendies - Suicidal Tendencies
Torche - Neanderthal
Elvis Costello - This years model (rhino version)

...I'll get back to unpacking later

...s.a.t.u.r.d.a.y night + pics of my place

Last night I went to a film is the Boston Independent Film Festival. It's called american teen. It is a very good documentary that follows a bunch of teens in a normal sized town in middle america. The director took questions afterward and said it was picked up for release in august so go see it when you get a chance.

Just got back from a really delicious dinner at a nice upscale place called Oleana. I'll definately be going back for special occasions...

So here's some pic of my place taken from what looks like a serial killer at night:











Oh finally check it out...I have a nice TV finally: