Interestingly, I've never seen the movie referenced by the post title. Anyways, here's a little piece of advice, never ever try to prepare to attend a weddng while finaling a game. In little pieces of half-hours at a time, I've managed to buy a suit, take it for alterations, and pick it up. In similar chunks of time, I've managed to buy shoelaces, a wedding card, and wedding gift. I even managed to speak to the groom on the phone while on break on the 19th floor patio.
So my suit hangs on a coat rack near the physics programmers area. My shoes, belt and dress shirt are coming with me from home when I go to work tomorrow morning (today if you're reading this late). The card and gift are at my desk.
Sometime around 4pm tomorrow, I'm planning on putting all that together, then heading off to a friend's place in Yaletown where we'll make the 1.5 hr drive out to Chilliwack.
I know I'll look haggard to everyone when I get to the wedding. Oh well.
I know many people find spiders icky but this video was too interesting to pass up. It shows a male jumping spider participating in an elaborate mating ritual. He is attempting to impress the female so that she will allow him to mate with her. Apparently, the audio has been enhanced to allow us to hear the sounds he makes during his "song and dance".
I got my suit back from the tailor's today after dropping it off for alterations. I tried it on and it fit perfect, like they had made it to measure. I've never owned a suit that fit that well and like I said before, it's night and day compared to the frumpy thing I bought in 1997. It's actually quite ridiculous how bad that old suit is. Maybe one day, I'll take pictures of myself in it.
I've stopped eating milk chocolate. Not that I really ate a lot of chocolate anyways. Guys don't really eat chocolate in the quantities that women do, at least that's what Cosmo (the magazine, not the seemingly racist neighbour) would have you believe.
No, I've switched to dark chocolate because people keep telling me it's healthier for you. I used to think dark chocolate was too bitter but my aging body has developed a taste for it.
IGN named the game I'm working on as the best sports title shown at E3 this month. While it's nice, it's only one website's opinion, albeit it's a pretty well-read one. If you looked at Gametrailer's "best of" lists, they named Madden 08 the sports game of the show. According to IGN though, we beat out not only Madden 08 but another game called Tony Hawk's Proving Ground. It's nice to get recognition but the real big prize is how the finished game does in the reviews. No one remembers E3 awards, it's the game that we put on the shelves that counts. To put into perspective again, one game I worked on was given the title of best mobile RPG at E3. Shadow-Born never saw the light of day.
One final note, the Xbox 360 demo for skate went out the door this week. It'll be a few weeks of certification, then if all goes well, it should be available for download in mid-August.
