My wife Alleson and have embarked on an epic adventure! I’ve been accepted to Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center, a world-class interactive media Masters program that pulls students from all around the globe. They bring the arts together with technology and develop amazing media experiences for companies like Microsoft, Oracle, and Electronic Arts, to name…
Read moreI just read a great article by Scott Berkun: How to write 1000 words. He has a lot to say about creativity, about allowing ideas to flow and multiply. He also spends about a paragraph to tell us that “writer’s block” is where real writing begins. My favorite part comes at the very end, where…
Read moreFor some reason, there was tons of good content posted online in the last few days. Link roundup! Post-Secret Game Design by Drew Davidson (ETC at Carnegie Mellon!) discusses ways that our hyper-public internet lives will impact game design. Mountains out of Molehills by David McCandless (Information is Beautiful) is an interactive visualization comparing our…
Read more[googlemaps http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=217662224576327858051.000498d2dce7a049e86e2&ll=45.554309,-122.668591&spn=0.009484,0.014011&output=embed&w=425&h=350] I don’t usually make much of New Year’s resolutions, but for some reason I’ve got a whole battery of them this year. Getting in Shape My wife and I have been walking every day, starting with a couple miles. We’ve done the diet thing before and taken advantage of treadmills in the nearest…
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