one of our designers, who is 24 and probably burnt himself out working 3 projects at a time here, has not been in the office for about a month and a half now...

he has a huge samsung monitor that we stole to our side of the office as a monitor for our XBOX dev console (that outputs debug information) that my desk mate has been using, so i've been looking at the back of it for a month or two.

my desk mate, however, never shows up before 11 am, so i decided I would put it to good use the other 3 hours of the day that i'm here... :) see my google+ for my new setup, hehehehe

Stu wrote an interesting article about electronics & sweatshops, and while I've been aware of most of this before, I still haven't figured out what, if anything, we could do about it... anyone?

hoo fucking ray...

and you think them raising the price of a latte is important...

In honor of that... listen to this to make you feel better... or worse...

I've posted three (3) full length movies on my facebook recently and thought, as I was sharing the 3rd, i should really have a tagging/search system for facebook, then i thought, hey! i've got a search page on EA! so, i'm posting the first 3 here, and going to post more here as I see fit... so i can find them later! Enjoy!

It's been more and more popular in our house and among friends and family recently, so I wanted to share what I've been playing lately, and see what you have, if anything...

Steam: Rails to Riches - played this for the first time last night. It's fun, it's quick, and it requires quite a bit of strategy... nothing is left to chance, i kind of like that

Game of Thrones: The Board Game (2nd ed) - this game takes a LOT of strategy and negotiation. You win or you die...

Triopoly - it's Monopoly with 3 levels, and if you're not careful, it will last FOREVER. It's REALLY hard to get a full monopoly, and you start with a LOT of money, so unless you completely fail at gambling, you won't have to worry about mortgages for a long time.

Trivial Pursuit: 20th Anniversary Edition - it's as fun, and hard, as the original Genus edition, with a slick little card holder... but i want a 2nd one, so there's less passing of the deck.

What have you been playing?

Any suggestions on good bug tracking software? I'm using a notebook and a pencil right now for bug tracking and feature thoughts. I do have a bugzilla installation I use for work, however there's no offline solution that I can think of. I'd like something that's offline and can sync when online access is available. I'm using Eclipse as my IDE.

You're welcome!

It's java and I'm making it for the purpose of determining how difficult it is to convert straight to android (should be a cinch) and whether or not I have the capability to be a developer and make games. I'm making good progress but I keep debating as to whether or not I want to host the code on a site and attempt to list either public or private (friend) help, or whether or not I should even host the code and do it all myself?