Jen and I are currently taking turns leapfrogging each other’s progress in Zelda: Twilight Princess. She got to the wolf part first, but I am currently in the lead 🙂

Good things about the wii:

1. quiet and small
2. the controllers are cool
3. gamecube compatibility
4. guitar hero 3 is coming soon
5. it got Jen into games, so it definitely has a broader appeal

Bad things about the wii:

1. It has internet connectivity, but doesn’t seem to do a lot with it
2. guitar hero 3 isn’t out yet
3. You can’t run Linux on it 🙂
4. Won’t run in hires when we get an HDTV

BTW if anyone has any old Gamecube games they wanted to go to a good home… or even advice on which GC or Wii games are supposed to be good. We have Mario party 8 and Zelda so far, that’s it.

I just resigned from Lightfleet. They were not making payroll, and I was not happy with how management was handling the (admittedly difficult) situation. I’ll miss the people and the work, but certainly not the commute…

So, my resume is updated and I’m back on the job hunt! Woooo!

Back at work tomorrow, they say they will even pay us!

I am not going in to work until I get paid. They could not meet the payroll on the 15th, and a week later it was still unclear where the money for payroll is coming from. This is really not so good.

I’m updating my resume — even though  my hope is still that LF will get its act together and pay me. But each day that passes decreases the likelihood of this.

Thankfully my credit is good, so I’m not gonna lose the house, but having no money is not fun.

Happy Birthday!

Bourne Ultimatum: thumbs up
10k run: not done, probably a good thing
Bridge Pedal: too crowded, but always fun
Patti Smith: kicks ass
Meteors: watch out for the ones from the Flamingo Nebula

nope I’m not dead…

Wow, I was just browsing Wikipedia (couldn’t fall asleep) and came across an article citing me as a reference. Woah.

There’s something strange about this — I’m looking at Wikipedia, hoping to gain more knowledge about an area that supposedly I’m already an expert in? Or at least some random person out there *thinks* it’s an area I’m an expert in 🙂

I’ve accepted a position at Lightfleet, and am very excited about it! I will be working on software for their optical server interconnect technology. The campus is in Camus, WA, so the commute will be a little hellish until Jen and I move to East Portland, as we’ve been wanting to do. Then, the commute will be merely tolerable. 🙂 However I think it’s worth it — it really is a great opportunity, and I think my ability to make a substantive impact will be much greater than it was at Intel.

This is pretty cool. It lets you jam along with other people over the internet.

I think their solution to the latency problem is…acceptable. They buffer your audio for a measure, so you’re not actually playing *along* with what you’re hearing, but what everyone’s playing sounds good, which works out pretty well.