My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haulkotukawi goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as something... something scary! Real scary! Like pee-your-pants scary! So scary you won't know what hit you scary!.aeolianrain gives you 1 light blue coconut-flavoured gummy worms.darkfeather gives you 18 white strawberry-flavoured wafers.gildedphoenix gives you 14 ( Read more... )

So for those of you who haven't heard the news yet, yes, I am finally leaving the job that I have complained so much about. I've been offered a position by a company that I could not refuse; it's a videogame company after all, and it's been my dream forever to make games. (It's a dream I thought would never be true!) And thus, here in a few ( Read more... )

If you love Nintendo, then you just have to see this.

As many of you will know, recently I had been to Wisconsin for a period of two weeks on business. There's always something interesting about getting away from home and the normal routine, even when it isn't a "vacation". Something in you gets the chance to gaze deeper into your soul that is apparent at first blush. Every time I manage to leave ( Read more... )

Today I got the privilege of celebrating along with two good friends who have finally graduated with their Master's Degrees in their various fields.  The two were college friends of what is now roughly seven years minus the summer months before we met one another, and one of them I had actually recommended to a job on my team at work, which is ( Read more... )

Stolen from loobywibble.
( Video Game Meme )

• When you've been asked to bear witness to two wonderful friends to stand beside them as they begin their life together
• When you find yourself in the midst of strangers yet treated as if you were family
• When you finally meet someone you've known for years for the first time
• When miraculously two people can instantaneously treat the years they've been ( Read more... )

It's become so infrequent with me writing here that sometimes I ponder giving it up. Yet this is the primary means that several people use to check up with me... as well as my primary means of checking in with many of you. So I figure I should write something while my schedule permits. Never know when this is going to happen again ( Read more... )

"Since the dawn of existence, there have always been moments when the course of history shifted. Such a turning point is upon us now."
~ Professor Xavier, X-Men III: The Last StandThe past few months have been a difficult time for me. I'm sure many of you have noticed it. Sanity has been scarce, and I've tried my best to trim down aspects of my ( Read more... )

Visiting Seattle is like a pilgrimage to me. Every time I have come to this city, I always leave a changed man. This ritual has even happened even before I met any of my online friends in this fair city. Somehow, over the course of a few days, I come to some realisation about my life that was just at the tip of my mind before coming... only to ( Read more... )