Dipity
adamcrei: http://twitpic.com/po1tv - Picking up NEW Super Mario Bros.Wii. *excited shiver*
adamcrei: Realizing God doesn't give you the keys to a given play kingdom. He says, "Here's some sand and the know-how. Make the castle you want."
adamcrei: Thinking some company's paperwork is a baptism of fire to find out how bad you actually want the job. My day has been spent on such work.
adamcrei: Having woken up with "bed face", thinking it may be time to lose the beard.
adamcrei: Watching X-Men Origins: Wolverine. I'm a comic book fan. You need to make changes to adapt IP to another medium, but why _these_ changes?
adamcrei: Leaving Austin and heading to Houston for the weekend.
adamcrei: Thinking there is no good schwag at this year's AGDC. DM me and prove me wrong.
adamcrei: I'm at Denver - http://bkite.com/0bDMH
adamcrei: Checking out the FIEA Sultans of Scratch game. Co-op, team battle, custom turntable peripheral, nice! http://www.sultansofscratch.com #EGT
adamcrei: Getting out of "District 9". Absolutely rough and amazing.
adamcrei: Noticing Kotaku.com has a tendency to list their timezone as "Kotaku Time". Hubris plus ambiguity=no bueno. Will probably get abused by them
adamcrei: Watching "The Watchmen". That answers that question.
adamcrei: Oh, Alcohols -- I thought you were my friend. You're not acting like my friend. Waters. Waters is acting like my friend.
adamcrei: Watching Zero Punctuation's smackdown review of the Ghostbusters video game. http://tinyurl.com/gamesux
adamcrei: Getting out of a disheartening meeting. Too much work is better than too little, but I'm going on a run to clear my mental palate.
adamcrei: Thinking yesterday's Father's Day tweets, while not definitive, painted the broad strokes about me.
adamcrei: Thinking the specs in the new XNA dev kits have at least partially made it into the retail Xbox 360 Arcade units.
adamcrei: Installing a window air conditioner and listening to Bon Iver. These take more work than I thought.
adamcrei: setting up Twitter for my Squidoo account
adamcrei: Celebrating my B-day with sleeping, running, comics, video games, Biz work, and family. I'm blessed: http://tinyurl.com/bidet09
adamcrei: Picking up supplies for some Aranzi Aronzo projects.
adamcrei: @brightgreenpro You bet -- I've previously used RequisitePro and some smaller solutions, and process stuff from Atlantic Systems Guild.
adamcrei: Reading about Panasonic's prototype native 3D capture camera, announced at NAB this week: http://tinyurl.com/PANO3D
adamcrei: Arriving home safely. Exhausted, but safely.
adamcrei: Unpacking my new new 120Gb Xbox 360 hard drive and Resident Evil 5.
adamcrei: played Gears of War 2 and Conan (15 achievements, 320G) http://gamerdna.com/r/sm2
adamcrei: Reading Spolsky's post on Program Management; a bit MS-centric, but covers some the big bits / challenges: http://tinyurl.com/spolsk #pmv
adamcrei: Playing The Watchmen game on the 360.
adamcrei: Finishing up listening to Neil Diamond, Shiny Toy Guns, and Taking Back Sunday. Now? Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence OST.
adamcrei: Responding to requests from high school students about Gamebryo.
adamcrei: Getting a technology preview from a Partner. Slick stuff, nice workflows, pluggable. W00t.
adamcrei: Downloading a ton of free MP3s from Amazon.com.
adamcrei: http://twitpic.com/194e4 - Thinking babies should not have to go through something that requires them to wear a hospital ID tag.
adamcrei: Finishing a town hall meeting. Heading to Lowes to get hardware to mount my projector prior to playing Gears 2 online tonight. Horde mode!
adamcrei: Realizing how much I've lost by wiping my phone.
adamcrei: Thinking re-synching 1500+ contacts probably should have waited until tomorrow a.m.
adamcrei: Eating a Taco Bell Big Box Lunch. It's Tuesday, which means I have calls until 9 p.m., thus just barely justifying my gut-leadening purchase
adamcrei: Finally getting clearance to do a middleware integration for which I've been fighting.
adamcrei: Posting some thoughts on the new Wolverine and the X-Men cartoon: http://tinyurl.com/wolvi
adamcrei: Playing Halo 2 online with the TX and AR crew.
adamcrei: Throwing in the towel and signing up on Facebook.
adamcrei: Posting my thoughts on the Blu-ray version of Prince Caspian: http://tinyurl.com/7hshzp
adamcrei: Posting some polls for one of my Xbox 360 clans.
adamcrei: Thinking a Dragon Man BAF would be cool, too. John Byrne, Captain America #248-style.
adamcrei: @doctorlinguist I think you'd appreciate this: http://tinyurl.com/7na5or
adamcrei: @ErikJHeels Thanks! Give me a couple days, and I'll DM you via Twitter.
adamcrei: Reading Avengers: The Initiative. Seems a bit out of sync with Secret Invasion.
adamcrei: @LadyMana I think it is. Not totally a switch from electronica to rock, but a good bit of both. Liking Sisely (with no disrespect for Carah)
adamcrei: Sitting in on an engineering brainstorming session for candidate features for future releases.
adamcrei: Watching Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II.
adamcrei: Wondering who buys an Infinity Gauntlet replica.
adamcrei: Turning off John Stewart. I'm a fan of the daily show, but that kind of disrespect for McCain isn't appropriate.
adamcrei: Watching Korgoth of Barbaria. Erm.
adamcrei: Finishing laying a vinyl floor, now that I'm back (delayed), in RTP.
adamcrei: I'm at Carolina Brewery Chapel Hill (460 W Franklin St, Chapel Hill, NC) - http://bkite.com/02fuz
adamcrei: I'm at Top of the Hill Restaurant & Brewery (100 E Franklin St, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA) - http://bkite.com/02fjR
adamcrei: Taking to China. Not all of it; just a few.
adamcrei: Thinking that if you're interested in a project management job on the West Coast, let me know. No, it's not with my company, but a referral.
adamcrei: @vithefiddler Sorry, but understandably I can't say until I've acquired it or find out I can't.
adamcrei: Trying to find out the ownership status of an old IP of which I'm a big fan.
adamcrei: @actwell I'm so stoked for NXE! Say, how long are you in Charlotte? NC or SC?
adamcrei: I'm at 6320 Quadrangle Dr, Chapel Hill, NC 27517, USA - http://bkite.com/01IdV
adamcrei: Prepping the sales team on the next release and roadmap.
adamcrei: Ending one demo sprint, starting another. A bit behind in some areas, a bit ahead in others. Waiting for show-n-tell.
adamcrei: Calling it quits in the office at 11:23 p.m. *expletive*
adamcrei: Tweaking a short-term promotion to accommodate Pan-Asia markets.
adamcrei: Uploading detail studio picts of miniatures. Hmmm ...
adamcrei: I'm at 6320 Quadrangle Dr, Chapel Hill, NC 27517, USA - http://bkite.com/01nox
adamcrei: Reaching out to some recently-made-available game devs and artists.
adamcrei: Attending the weekly staff meeting and show-n-tell. Tools enhancements! Wii goodness! New tools! Tutorial vids! Client first playables!
adamcrei: I'm at Tir Na Nog (218 S Blount St, Raleigh, NC 27601, USA) - http://bkite.com/01lMs
adamcrei: Reading through a bunch of iPhone developer rants.
adamcrei: @doctorlinguist You should sing that to the tune of the Weird Al Yankovic song!
adamcrei: Getting drunk texted by a stranger. Oh, how times have changed.
adamcrei: Playing through some original Xbox titles.
adamcrei: I'm at 6320 Quadrangle Dr, Chapel Hill, NC 27517, USA - http://bkite.com/01g8r
adamcrei: I'm at Durham, NC, USA - http://bkite.com/01bo6
adamcrei: Setting up missile launchers on the PM shark. Disabling the audio alarms on the sensors so people don't know they're about to get shot.
adamcrei: I'm at Mo's Southwest Grill (6807 Fayetteville Rd, Durham, NC 27713, USA) - http://bkite.com/016Q7
adamcrei: Registering for the Austin Game Developers Conference in September.
adamcrei: Thinking brightkite would have been wicked cool to have / more useful to my followers if I'd had it while living in Austin. Bumming.
adamcrei: Attending a Customer Development meeting.
adamcrei: Wondering why Outlook is so flaky today. Serious productivity impacts.
adamcrei: Debating with staffers who have of how we "should" be doing the voice sessions. Ya think? Who knew we had so many experts?
adamcrei: Adding users to the Gamebryo LinkedIn group.
adamcrei: Discovering Pussycat dolls have a reality TV series. Seriously.
adamcrei: Grabbing dinner at Mellow Mushroom in Durham.
adamcrei: Returning more prototype hardware since newer stuff has shown up.
adamcrei: Posting an E3 preview: http://tinyurl.com/5r6jbe
adamcrei: Getting figs from my newly met neighbor. Seriously, figs.I don't know how to eat them without the delicious cookie covering.
adamcrei: Posting about the Xbox 360 price drop & shopping deals: http://tinyurl.com/645crs
adamcrei: Thinking I have not enjoyed a game like Dead Rising since Dead Rising.
adamcrei: Noticing Google's Lively, with older Gamebryo in it, finally launched. Several hundred Mb of engine in a 10Mb DL! http://tinyurl.com/674kr2
adamcrei: @StewartRogers For me, it's leveraging all products and releases to make the parts and the whole do more than they can individually.
adamcrei: Fighting with one of our IHV partners, who is not so middleware-centric. It's pleasant fighting, so no big.
adamcrei: Discovering more opportunities for Product Management involvement in Engineering product requirements efforts.
adamcrei: Previewing Neil Diamond Home Before Dark. Quandry. Quandry.
adamcrei: Wondering why toy giant Hasbro struggles so much with its Web and community presences. Examples: G.I.Joe movie? Marvel? Heroscape?
adamcrei: Checking with some new creative IP holders. I'd like to see their stuff see the digital interactive light of day.
adamcrei: Reading The Astounding Wolfman.
adamcrei: http://twitpic.com/36uy - Continuing to celebrate the Fourth. Due to 'an incident', switched to another Captain America T-shirt.
adamcrei: Getting a lot of late meeting notices from the Prez during tomorrow's national and company holiday. Gotta honor the urgency, though.
adamcrei: Talking with a creative IP holder.
adamcrei: Uploading demo gameplay footage to the EGT's YouTube: http://tinyurl.com/62yn7r
adamcrei: Looking for acting resources in North Carolina.
adamcrei: Getting queased by a poor-taste joke. Bad form, very bad form.
adamcrei: Kicking off the next two releases and demos with EGT Engineering.
adamcrei: Receiving a sudden epiphany I've got a long way to go before I get past this perfection / planning bugaboo.
adamcrei: Breaking 4,000 with my Xbox 360 Gamerscore. Yes, sad. http://tinyurl.com/6y8jn3
adamcrei: Playing Dragonball Z: Burst Limit.
adamcrei: Wanting Marvel to let David Jaffe make a game for them: http://tinyurl.com/6qn2lu
adamcrei: Reading Madman Atomic Comics #9. Still cool, but this ish's layout detracts from the art for me.
adamcrei: Wondering if i should have gone to HeroesCon this year. http://www.heroesonline.com/heroescon.html
adamcrei: Getting ready for an all-day lock-in; because I evidently need locking in.
adamcrei: Attending the Triangle IGDA meeting.
adamcrei: Getting familiar with NC's film Website: http://www.ncfilm.com
adamcrei: Giving feedback on a custom licensing agreement for our game engine.
adamcrei: Digging the "Spider-Man:Web Of Shadows" screenshots: http://www.marvel.com/news/vgstories.3980
adamcrei: Finding one of my satellite speakers dead, and the manufacturer out of business. So much for the 10-year warranty.
adamcrei: @actwell Thanks for the Songza pointer!
adamcrei: Reading through tech reviews and suggestions for a licensee demo. This stuff is seriously gold!
adamcrei: Putting hopefully helpful parameters around well-meaning ra-ra technical passion.
adamcrei: Heading to Chapel Hill Comics.
adamcrei: Wondering if the Soul Calibur IV game is an S.C. game or a Star Wars game.
adamcrei: Dealing with the slowest connection I've had since my days in mainland China over dial-up connection. Experiencing Tourette's-like symptoms.
adamcrei: Wondering if there's a wireless point-to-point solution for existing wired surround sound systems.
adamcrei: Looking at a series about upcoming Gamebryo-powered title Warhammer Online: http://tinyurl.com/6hkbjr
adamcrei: Having a celebratory get-together for the release.
adamcrei: Pinging a big publisher about some specific IP.
adamcrei: Wanting the Ninja Gaiden II demo. Not getting, but wanting.
adamcrei: Watching the Stanley Cup game 6. Will there be a 7?
adamcrei: Watching Scrubs ("My Lunch"; one of McGinley's many amazing moments).
adamcrei: Thinking it's nice Mark Rein kind of cops to Epic "probably" stealing Gear's "innovative" duck-and-cover mechanic. Rogue Trooper, anyone?
adamcrei: Pointing people to a few of the Gamebryo online videos: http://www.emergent.net/Multimedia/Videos/
adamcrei: Finding out "You should see the other shooting victim" while holding a ketchup-covered 2-year-old is not funny to some people.
adamcrei: Updating status on an endian bug.
adamcrei: Recording a commercial voice over audition.
adamcrei: Struggling with crappy connectivity issues.
adamcrei: Just now finding http://www.amigamusic.com. @doctorlinguist did you know about amigamusic.com ? Why did you keep it from me? ;-)
adamcrei: Approving and denying LinkedIn.com Gamebryo Developer group membership requests.
adamcrei: Hoping Hasbro does a Dragon Man Marvel Legends build-a-figure. Dragon Man BAF! Dragon Man BAF!
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