Laura and I were married on August 19th, 2006, in a beautiful ceremony at the Paine Art Center and Gardens in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The bride was gorgeous, the weather perfect for an outdoor wedding, and the day could not have…
John's Random Review
A totally random collection of stuff. Though now that facebook exists, its mostly guns and video games…
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Usability Week 06
This week I had the opportunity to go to Neilson Norman Group’s (NN/g) Usability Week 2006 conference in San Francisco, and attend a 3 day usability training seminar by Bruce “Tog”Tognazzini, of “Ask Tog “ fame. The Tog seminar was…
Office 2007 Beta?
I’m trying out the “Blogging” feature from Word 2007 Beta 2. Setting it up with wordpress seems to have been trivial so far, but what happens when I actually try to post is another thing entirely. So far, I have…
Kickball!
Yes, you read that correctly! Kickball! Some friends from work started up a kickball team in the local “Underdog” Seattle coed kickball league! Who knew that a game we hated in 4th grade (at least those of us who weren’t…
Game Nerds.
A status page for us to see what everyone is up to from one place.
Paper mache Bobblehead halloween costume
Our paper mache Bobblehead halloween costums were the best halloween costumes EVER! About 40 hours of work, several weeks worth of newspapers, 2 giant balloons, 20 little bottles of paint, 5 lbs of flour and some hot glue make a pretty good costume! More details and pics inside!
xfire?
Since the STEAM friends stuff hasn’t been working lately, my friends and i are trying out this cross game browser (didn’t gamespy used to do this? are they just a website now?) that we can use to find eachother when…
AI Class Done (Game Development Class 2)
Just finished up the second ‘mester of the Game Development certificate program offered by the University of Washington Extension system. The AI class, taught by Steve Rabin of the AI Game Programming Wisdom series of books, was pretty awesome! We…
Game Development Class
I just finished the first ‘mester of Game Development certificate program offered by the University of Washington Extension system. System? Whatever. Anyway, the first quarter is over and i learned more than I can type here! If you want to…
Mt. St. Helens!
Went to mount st. helens this weekend. Took a buncha pics. Too bad it was cloudy (the norm!), so there were no “spectacular” pics. There were quite a few good ones with sun rays, though. Here’s a panorama, though. this…
