From the monthly archives:

October 2009

Happy Halloween!

October 31, 2009
halloweencalendar

That’s ハロウィーン on my calendar
Since I’ll be skipping all the parties tonight (I caught  nasty cold a few days ago… maybe swine flu, who knows, it sucks) and I don’t want to spread my disease by handing out candy to children… I gotta plug the Monster Nitrous Energy drink because it tastes exactly [...]

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Budapest, Warsaw, Chicago, Phoenix, Jetlag

October 30, 2009
accumulation

Just made it back to Phoenix last night. After being awake for 25 or hours I’m pretty sick of flying. The pic above is the amount of paper I was able to accumulate in two weeks in Europe. I always like looking back on what can be accomplished within 14 days (like I did here [...]

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Long Walks, Falling Leaves, and Grand Pianos, Budapest Day 5

October 28, 2009
trainstation

Above pic is from the Amsterdam Central train station on the way to Schiphol. It was a nice enough station, aside from this:

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New Arvale Character and Art: Sakyra

October 27, 2009
sakyra_new

I just received some lovely new character art (for the new Arvale) in my email this morning. Her name is Sakyra. Here is some background info on her:
Sakyra works at a local entertainment club in the town of Thimpote. She has a light-hearted sense of humor and seems to get along with people quite well. [...]

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Discussing Language, Business, Life, Games, and Work in Amsterdam

October 26, 2009
two-beers1

As I mentioned earlier, I met up with an old colleague of mine (who was also into Game Design) while I was recently in Amsterdam. I was able to capture a few bits of wisdom (read: humor) during our conversation. I’m not even sure what a podcast is anymore, but I’m pretty sure these count [...]

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Give Me One Day and I’ll Give You Amsterdam, Part 2

October 24, 2009
savemoneylunch

Catch Amsterdam in One Day, Part 1: here.
Welcome back! This is the second half of my day where I head to the Van Gogh Museum, get sidetracked by the Heineken Brewery, and head back to the Red Light District to meet an old friend and see some pretty red lights
We’re coming up a [...]

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Give Me One Day and I’ll Give You Amsterdam, Part 1

October 22, 2009
shower

If you only had one solid day in Amsterdam, could you see everything you wanted? Perhaps not, but that’s pretty subjective to each person, so I’m going to try!
Honestly, most people can’t handle this. It’s exhausting and busy and pretty stressful. But I’m a busy person (or I pretend to be) so I tried to [...]

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Sexy Planes and Wrong Trains, Amsterdam Day 1

October 21, 2009

Spent the day traveling to Amsterdam on planes and trains.
Above pic is from waiting at the Budapest airport for a flight to Zurich, Switzerland.

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4 Random Thoughts for Budapest Day 4

October 19, 2009
koala

You may be wondering what the hell a koala has to do with Budapest. Well, nothing really. Except I was thinking of a random joke involving Koalas while I was in Budapest today, and since I still didn’t have my G1 camera to take any actual pictures, this is what you get.
I spent most of [...]

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Resting, Designing, Watching, Planning, Budapest Day 3

October 18, 2009
change

I woke up with the most incredible feeling after the party last night and spent the next 18 hours enjoying an excellent hangover. Hungarian alcohol, especially Pálinka, is durva (brutal) as we say in the drinking business. I used this as an excuse to rest and plan out the rest of my trip. Which involved:
Ignoring [...]

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