damurxac

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 04:42:30 GMT

When I can feel my eyeballs vibrating, your music is too loud.

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:05:18 GMT

I declare myself to be mostly not dying anymore! Huzzah!

(Was sick for about three weeks.)

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:20:14 GMT

The network is dead! Long live the network!

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:01:55 GMT

Still need to make two more phone calls... but everything I needed to do to just make my existence here legal is done. Woo, CA license plates?

In other news, I've volunteered to run a demo 4th ed game at the local gaming store this Saturday. Should hopefully help me find a group to play with in the area. And, if not, should be interesting anyway.

Fri, 30 May 2008 02:48:59 GMT

Power? Check, though I still need to hunt down the electric company and make sure they send the bill to me instead of my landlord, so as to make sure it actually gets paid.

Internet? Well, there's an unsecured network I can access. No eta on my own service; I'll be talking to someone about that tomorrow, and we shall see what happens.

Thu, 29 May 2008 04:07:13 GMT

Second day of work. More forms, more traffic, more reading of soporific documentation. And also one tiny little starting bit of (gasp!) useful stuff.

The apartment I checked on this morning was, of course, sold by the time I got there. So I tried another place at random, and lo and behold, they not only have apartments, but they have one I can move into tomorrow. Er, today, if you happen to still be on east coast time.

Not the world's best apartment, or cheapest, or etc., but it's not bad on any count (at least for the area), and it's month to month rental, so I can move out if I happen onto something better.

Of course, it is the law of new apartments that it won't have power for a couple days, and won't have internet for a couple days after that. At least, that's what I'll be betting on, since I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than annoyed. We shall see. Worst comes to worst, I can just spend most of my time at my workplace where there is both power and internet.

Wed, 28 May 2008 03:37:06 GMT

First day of work. Full of forms, and documentation, and more forms, and traffic.

Over an hour commute (one way) is really horrid; I'll by swinging by a possible more local apartment before I show up to work tomorrow. Hope it's actually good; I'd love to cut my commute down to 15 minutes within the next week or two.

Mon, 19 May 2008 03:09:16 GMT

And arrived in California. Huzzah for local relatives!

Not that I'll be here for long, this time - off again on Tuesday to go to Becky's graduation - but the drive has been completed with no special excitement.

Wed, 14 May 2008 15:25:34 GMT

Hm. So, I've found LJ again. Driving off to CA tomorrow. Woo?

Today's lesson:

Sat, 11 Aug 2007 00:25:21 GMT

My game (http://www.silverinsanity.com/~wyvern/forum) clearly needs more unicorns with ninja smoke bombs. (reference: http://www.purnicellin.com/lint/d/20070810.html)

Stuff & Nonsense

Sat, 28 Jul 2007 01:44:23 GMT

So, it occurs to me, that I haven't posted anything here in... a very long time.

Life is going fairly well, all things considered. I have a job (of uncertain duration), doing programming; there is an NDA, so I won't talk that much about it.

Video games are amazingly good at eating time, as always, though I'm starting to get a little bit bored with WoW. This won't last past the next content patch, though, I'm sure.

The most interesting thing, though, is a I-swear-it's-not-D&D game I'm running on a webforum Benabik set up for me. You can go take a look at it here. The game isn't closed, either; I'm willing to consider new players - and I know there are a few people out there who might end up reading this who'd planned on playing, but haven't. You're welcome back, too - or not, as you choose.

Anyhow, it's a very different dynamic running that game versus running one that meets face to face; usually fairly slow paced, but with occasional flurries of action when multiple people are online at once and co-ordinating posts over AIM. I do like the post format much better than running it over AIM directly, though - a chat transcript is much more annoying to read, and this doesn't require people to neccessarily be online at the same time.

Wed, 16 Nov 2005 06:31:50 GMT

So, I've started working on my CRPG engine again. Still not yet game usable, but at least I finally implemented maps not being required to be 20x15 tiles...

Next up: I need dialog boxes.

More ow.

Sat, 23 Apr 2005 18:59:49 GMT

Well, I talked with some people, and figured out where I probably want to go to get this looked at. And it's closed on weekends, and I'm feeling mostly ok-ish right now, so I'll run game if people can show up here, instead of RIT.

Ow.

Sat, 23 Apr 2005 15:32:52 GMT

Game tommorrow (for those who are in it) is cancelled, as I've been in constant (albeit generally pretty low-grade) pain since I woke up and discovered I had an ingrown toenail.

I know some of you check this, but I don't know if Jen&Mike do - someone should call them, and I don't have their number.

Stuff...

Wed, 17 Nov 2004 16:10:19 GMT

... is here: http://damurxac.deviantart.com/journal/

Seems my co-op in LA actually netted me a few hundred dollars profit - though if my parents hadn't helped pay for the transportation...

Fri, 15 Oct 2004 02:26:52 GMT

Still in LA. Working on making Unreal Tournament teach Arabic. What else is there to say?

Mon, 06 Sep 2004 00:05:22 GMT

Hmm... I should probably post something here now. I'm in California (arrived on friday), and thus have internet access again. Work starts tuesday.

Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:28:27 GMT

Change of plans. Heading out today. I'll be pretty much completely out of contact with the world until I get there (friday/saturday?), but then I should have internet again.

Fri, 27 Aug 2004 03:28:53 GMT

Housing appears to be acquired. I'll be heading out probably Wednesday next week, and hopefully arriving sometime on Sunday.

Thu, 26 Aug 2004 23:26:46 GMT

Job confirmed! Now I just need a place to live...

A co-op!

Thu, 19 Aug 2004 19:06:45 GMT

And it looks like it's for real this time. And it's even in the fall - some of the other things I was looking at wouldn't have been until winter or maybe later.

So, off to California... soonish, maybe.

Mon, 02 Aug 2004 19:09:34 GMT

Back from Otakon. Twas interesting, and I got some nifty pictures from artist's alley. Um. Not actually much else to say here.

Wed, 28 Jul 2004 22:54:00 GMT

Going to Otakon confirmed. Yay! This'll be the first such anime/gaming convention I've been to aside from that small thing at RIT whenever it was. Should be grand fun.

Still no sign of a fall co-op. At this rate I may have to drop my requirement that it be in the computer game industry, in which case I'd look for ones in Rochester, and around my home - I know a place around here (DC/northern VA) that probably still has a standing offer to hire me... In either case, I'll be back up at RIT this winter. After that... I'm not really paying attention to after that. I probably should be...

However, I've started work on my own old school CRPG engine. Nothing too impressive yet - my biggest accomplishment so far is loading an image file and using it as a tileset. But I've only been seriously even considering working on it since last thursday, and what with (many) breaks to play games and otherwise goof off (not to mention planning...), I think it's decent progress.

Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:39:48 GMT

Well, there is no possible chance of me getting a coop this summer and having it done before fall classes. So I have to get a coop in the fall; this means that I won't be at RIT then.
On the plus side, I'm probably going to Otakon.

Bleh.

Thu, 15 Jul 2004 20:25:05 GMT

The thing in Montreal fell through - apparently Canada's immigration department is not as lenient towards coop jobs as their website would lead one to believe. I am currently pursuing some local options, but if any of you out there have any good ideas...