A fun photo a friend of mine took yesterday. She played with the colors a bit in photoshop, my eyes aren't really that green, nor is my hair that shade of red anymore. It's nice to know I can clean up well though ( Read more... )

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When you go to the Wedding of two video game programmers, it's going to be a different sort of experience ( Read more... )

So I'm waiting to hear back from the guy I'm doing artwork for. I'm in a particularly good mood today, having finally recovered from what seems like months of being sick. In fact, I've been feeling so good, I've been holding myself back from sending him funny e-mails in reply to his art requests. Humor doesn't always go over well on e-mail, which ( Read more... )

Last night I dreamed that my roommate was moving out. She was a special ops agent, but she didn't look it. She had brown hair, brown skin, brown clothes and slouched. We were helping her move the furniture around so she could vacume the place before turning in the keys. She smiled at us while she vacumed, like she wasn't anyone dangerous at all, ( Read more... )

I got an e-mail out of the blue from someone I barely remember working with at Sony Entertainment, a video game company, over a decade ago. He said we had a conversation that profoundly affected him and helped him out immensely for years. The advice I gave to him doesn't really matter and was something only he could have made use of so I'm not ( Read more... )

So, I've been freelancing as a video game graphic artist, but times have been slow lately. I have been waiting for a contract to start with a previous client, but I'm starting to get low on patience and money ( Read more... )

I had a thought today about using the heat generated in cars by trapped sunlight to generate electricity to charge the batteries of the car, or possibly even run the car itself ( Read more... )

I'm so tired all the time lately. I'm starting to wonder if my thyroid needs to be checked again. Blah. Darn metabolism ( Read more... )

I was pretty excited when I got this in my inbox today. I thought at first it was a series of grants to people making video games to help people with health issues or to exercise. Unfortunately, it's actually a series of $8 million dollar grants to _study_ health games. As I'm not a researcher, nor do I have much research experience, I would have ( Read more... )