The Question:

• What does death smell like?
• From where does misery originate?
• Where do good people go to die (I'm not talking about myself)

Who's the leader of the club that's made for you and me?

EA: ’Portable Games Hardware Now Outnumbers Consoles By 2-to-1’
Electronic Arts officer Rich Hilleman has told a conference in the UK that portable gaming hardware now outnumbers consoles by 2 to 1.
Noting the success of the DS, PSP and iPhone, Hilleman slammed the price of producing console games has rocketed, with marketing costing up to three ( Read more... )

"We don't have to have a rule for everybody to do the right thing. We ought to do the right thing because it's the right thing to do."     
 If that were true, we wouldn’t need laws.

Herbert said. "Where do you stop? That's the problem going down that slippery road. Pretty soon we're going to have a special law for blue-eyed blondes."
“Slippery road ( Read more... )

Can I still be counted among the geeks of the world if I say that I didn’t care for the movie District 9?

To be fair, I probably don’t qualify for that title anyway despite what my family may believe.  Yes I love tech industry news and yes I work on a computer nearly every day, but the reality is that I’m a simple blue-collar dude (dud?) whose ( Read more... )

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I don’t hate children…I hate their parents.

Stopped by Sweet Tomatoes yesterday with wife and grandmother…I can think of no better form of birth control.

A couple in their 30’s somewhere…clearly outmatched by their brood …spanning two tables across the isle from each other.
  *  OMG the mess they made  (not contained to table)
  *  OMG the noise ( Read more... )

I’ve been trying to write (python) a program that would parse a proprietary XML document used for our game scenes, and create a comparable Maya (3D rendered) file.
(Ideally, they should be indistinguishable from each other)

It’s been a struggle.
But the program successfully identifies all the objects (thousands and thousands), pulls them into the Maya ( Read more... )

Utah Congressman Jason Chaffetz is lying on TV right now.
He's on local channel KUTV right now....saying that the proposed energy Cap 'n Trade is a tax

He's misleading us....intentionally misleading us...that is lying.
It's NOT a tax.  There is the possibility costs may go up....but that is NOT tax.

Correction:
I will agree we can call this a tax, as ( Read more... )

...the above quote comes from an article that ran in today’s PARADE magazine indicating that some (so-called) grassroots organizations are nothing more than political gaming by big money enthusiasts, organizations, and businesses.

This colors the issue.

Should you be able to buy more influence with money?

If you call yourself “grassroots” ( Read more... )