It was bound to happen… now I’m sick. I’m getting hot and cold from one moment to the next and generally just feel like a turd sandwich. No puke though, just feeling run down. Which is crazy because I’ve been home with the sick kid for one day… my wife has been home with her all week and is doing fine.
Suck…
I’m going to finish watching Survivor and then go to bed…
Being sick sucks.
My daughter is sick. A bit of a stomach bug and a fever too. Poor kid. She’s been throwing up a number of times during the day since Wednesday. Although, I have to say… she’s a puker. Any little cold or slight fever she gets, she guaranteed to throw up at least once. She’s been like this way since she was really little. My son on the other hand isn’t like this at all for some reason. I hope it’s something she grows out of as she gets older. That would be a suck thing to bring with you as you grow up. Also when ever she gets a fever, it usually a high grade fever. It’s not uncommon for her to be 104/105 F. It used to be scary but now we know it’s normal for her, although we still have to watch and be careful it doesn’t get too high.
It got me thinking about how often I get sick. Well, I do get sick now more then I ever did thanks to my kids. But I used to hardly ever get sick. Maybe once a year…. maybe. I think it’s been about ten years since I’ve even thrown up. Seriously.
I actually knew a guy that had a phobia of throwing up. Now that’s something I’ve never heard of before. I also knew someone that used to be given medicine in a drop of caramel as a kid. Now he can’t have caramel with out the urge to toss his cookies.
How about you? Are you prone to getting sick often? Are you a puker?
My daughter is sick. A bit of a stomach bug and a fever too. Poor kid. She’s been throwing up a number of times during the day since Wednesday. Although, I have to say… she’s a puker. Any little cold or slight fever she gets, she guaranteed to throw up at least once. She’s been like this way since she was really little. My son on the other hand isn’t like this at all for some reason. I hope it’s something she grows out of as she gets older. That would be a suck thing to bring with you as you grow up. Also when ever she gets a fever, it usually a high grade fever. It’s not uncommon for her to be 104/105 F. It used to be scary but now we know it’s normal for her, although we still have to watch and be careful it doesn’t get too high.
It got me thinking about how often I get sick. Well, I do get sick now more then I ever did thanks to my kids. But I used to hardly ever get sick. Maybe once a year…. maybe. I think it’s been about ten years since I’ve even thrown up. Seriously.
I actually knew a guy that had a phobia of throwing up. Now that’s something I’ve never heard of before. I also knew someone that used to be given medicine in a drop of caramel as a kid. Now he can’t have caramel with out the urge to toss his cookies.
How about you? Are you prone to getting sick often? Are you a puker?
Recently scientists in Japan have successfully cloned a mouse from a lab mouse carcass that was frozen in permafrost (-40 C) for 16 years. The new technique was demonstrated to show that cloning is now possible on severely damaged cells due to deep freezes from dead animal specimens. Several mice where cloned in this fashion and they even mated and had healthy babies.
So what animal is at the top of the list for scientists to clone using this new method? Yup, the great dead woolly mammoth. Woolly mammoths have already been found in well preserved in the ice and experts believe that there are as many as 10,000 more trapped in the frozen wastes. Why, there is even plans to make a “Pleistocene Park†in northern Siberia. It would be twice the size of Japan and be the new home of woolly mammoths, woolly rhinos, Siberian tigers, steppe lions, giant deer, ancient foxes, and ancestors of the Siberian horse.
Crazy eh?
So what’s your take on all this? We have the opportunity to bring back long lost animals and really see and study what they where like. To be able to touch a real woolly mammoth would be awesome. But is it something we should be fooling with? Is it our place to do such a thing? I’m not sure where I stand. On one side I think it’s amazing and on the other I think it’s down right scary. I don’t think it’s right but I’d love to see a real woolly mammoth… I just don’t know…
Discuss!
I received a note asking for some advice in working in the games industry. I though about it and wrote down all I could think of that I’ve discovered in my career. I liked it so much that I though I would share it with the rest of the world… ^_^
I’ll tell you this about the game industry, it can be a tough job so make sure that you want to do it, and be prepared to work on games that you might not want to be a part of, it’s all a part of the industry. You have to cut your teeth on the crappy stuff before you can be a part of the larger projects. Be patient and don’t let issues with your current project eat at you. Talk to your producer, talk to your studio director about what’s on your mind. That’s what they are there for. Push forward. Never settle for being a grunt worker. Learn all you can with in your studio and listen to what people say and keep that info in the back of your head, it will come in handy later. Ask questions, ask all the questions you can. If something doesn’t make sense, bring it up to your producer or at a meeting and then try to be proactive in solving it. Have fun… your making games. Play games, good ones and bad ones. Especially bad ones. You’ll learn so much from others mistakes. Be your biggest critic but never trash your work. Always know you can do better and then push to be better. Don’t be afraid to walk away from your current studio to go to a better one. Being too dedicated to your studio can kill you and your career. Learn 3D. Being 2D we have an advantage to learn 3D and then play for both teams because not all dedicated 3D people can draw. Study design and layout, not only in games but in photography. It will help you balance out your interface design. Be comfortable with interface design. Don’t be afraid to start over if it isn’t working. Learn to paint. Learn good colour theory. Learn how light and colour effects moods and direction. Push your ideas/animations/designs further then you normally would because you can always bring your ideas back if they go too far, but you’ll never know far they can go if you don’t take them there. Finally, a good resume should only have 10 pieces of art. 5 pages or good life drawing, 3 design or work related pieces and 2 pieces of your fun work. No anthro or goth/skull pieces should be in your portfolio.
I think that’s about it. If any one has any other questions feel free to ask.
^_^
Little Big Planet seems to be a hot thing right now. Honestly, if I had a PS3 I’d go buy it. A new take on a old school platforming sounds so sweet, but in all honesty this more a packaged level editor then game. Now I haven’t played it. I’ve only seen clips and such online, but it’s so refreshing to such a product come out. Why? Because it’s literally a game teaching tool. Media Molecule are helping the game industry build more game designers with this release. Players get to build levels and share them with everyone. They’ll make first crap levels and then learn though mistakes and trial and error what makes good game design. Challenge and reward, choke points, difficulty curves, they’ll learn it all. All just for the price of a game and a little of their time.
It’s games like this that make me proud to be in this industry. It’s games like this that help promote, thinking, planning and creativity in it’s players. Now I just need to get involved in such a project.
Play Asia