Thursday, September 4, 2008, 09:08 AM -
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I'm back home. That was an extreme summer!
For those who read the blog post about my dad a few months back and may happen to still be curious, he called me on my birthday, and we're working to restore years of not talking. So that's very rad.
Last week was spent in Seattle with some very fantastic people including, but not limited to Alison Huffman, Matthew Luther, and natives Josh Frommer, and David Lamb. I can say with incredible confidence that I have never been happier or enjoyed myself more than I did during that extended weekend of good times, and it made an extremely suitable end to an extraordinary summer.
I'm back home now. In a new house, with a cool office basement. I've learned already that it's hard to tell what time of day it is from down here in the windowless underworld, and having jetlag from the west coast does not make that experience any less disorienting.
...I should backtrack and talk more about Seattle! I was up there for Penny Arcade Expo 2008, which was hugetastic and wonderful. Of course, we ended up spending more time outside of the con exploring Seattle, but thats just because all those core gamers scare us web game folks. I think they're upset with us for trying to undermine their wonderfully geeky past time.
A few great things in no particular order:
Pacific Northwest has delicious microbrews, some of which are localized to the street that you're on. Pike Pale Ale (brewed most likely somewhere on Pike Street) had never been tried by my beer drinking friend Josh who lives a few miles away in another part of town. I find that to be really cool.
Felicia Day, nerd hottie of Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-Long Blog and
The Guild fame, came out on stage and performed
Still Alive with Jonathan Coulton during his amazing Friday night set.
Buckley's. I have nothing else to say about Buckley's other than that it's great.
Here's where you can find it. You should go there and hang out with Josh Frommer.
The Warhammer Online trailer was sweet, and Aion played very smoothly. I have high hopes for it, but I know the stigma of Korean games will relegate it to a modest success at best. Probably won't do bad in Europe though.
Unrelated to Seattle, but related to Warhammer, Mr. Mark Jacobs, co-founder of Mythic and reigning VP of EA-Mythic, started a blog and seems to have put
a whole lot of energy into his first night of blogging.. At that rate, I'm sure he'll burn himself out and stop blogging soon, but the post about Warhammer's success was interesting to me. As I posted in the comments, I've heard many great things about WAR, so I'm sure it will at least meet the benchmarks that Mythic is searching for.
Now I'm going to go work, because a 6 day long weekend leaves things a little crazy.
Oh, final sidenote: I'm writing this blog post from Ubuntu Linux running on a CD. Why? Vista crashed on me again. Having Davison come over later so we can make an image of my Hard Drive just to see if data recovery is even possible. I will officially be upgrading from Vista back to XP after this ordeal. Two driver failures causing complete loss of data is enough for me.
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