February 14, 2006
10:31 am
Illness is God’s way of handing you a speeding ticket. Every time I’ve tried to do too much too fast, wham! Instant virus. Never fails. Thus, I shouldn’t be surprised that I’m now sick for what I think is the third time this school year. I don’t believe I got this sick before; I imagine […]
A quick post here to congratulate my friend David Edery on the publication of his first game design article, “Designing an MMORPG Feedback Rating System”, on Gamasutra. Attaboy, DJ — well done!
December 19, 2005
11:05 pm
Audiences are eroding. ‘Must-see TV’ doesn’t exist anymore. The future of entertainment is narrowcasting and providing portable access-anytime, access-anywhere experiences – but how do you produce those properties on a low enough budget to register success further down the long tail? I’ve been blowing my mind on average once a day for the last week-and-some-change, […]
December 17, 2005
3:08 pm
I’ve spent the day doing thesis research, and let me tell you something: the stuff we’re doing here in CMS is HUGE for where the industry’s headed. Oh. My. God. I’m going to go play Dragon Quest VIII for a little while to let my brain digest this tsunami, and then I’ll go hit all […]
True things learned today: The Au Bon Pain on campus sucks on Suday afternoons. For the same reason (campus is dead), the best place and time to do any serious studying on campus is the Stata Center on a Sunday afternoon. Big, huge tables, fascinating architecture, readily-accessible power plugs, and almost zero foot traffic. Legal […]
I was talking to my friend Laura in Japan this morning and had something of a small epiphane. I have ten thousand things to do, but they’re almost all boring. This week I spent a ton of time on the video game project because it was new and interesting and exciting, and I spent ten […]
September 11, 2005
8:56 pm
So due to a miracle of school planning, every weekend this semester is a three-day weekend. They won’t be long enough. This weekend I finished registering for classes, did my laundry, finished unpacking (mostly), ran errands, explored the wonder that is Davis Square, ate pizza and Indian and some pathetic cooking of my own, read […]
September 8, 2005
8:49 am
So there’s an old saying that getting an education from MIT is like trying to drink from a firehose. I’ve been in classes for less than a week and yeah, it’s exactly like that. My cohorts are great, amazing people that I’m honored to join in this endeavor, my professors are incredible folks that apparently […]
OK, so I’m totally going to the right school. This morning I woke up with an idea – figure out a way to use an iSight camera not as a webcam but as a direct video feed, which can then be used as a video desktop. You know, so when you’re horribly frustrated with work […]
