Nintendo Acapella

So I've been meaning to post this for a while. I will give credit to my wife Amy for finding this and showing it to me...enjoy!



~C

Back in the Saddle

So after a brief respite to recover from kick-off, here I am again, another Sunday evening and another entry into the good 'ol blog. Not much has really changed since the last entry. I did manage to get my brother a new / first system built. That was kind of cool. Instead of a traditional monitor, we ended up hooking up the system to his big 42" Plasma TV, it looks pretty nice, crappy resolution (I think we maxed it out at 1280 x 1024) but still, looks really pretty.

Aside from that, I haven't been doing much gaming (kind of sad really.) I've been back playing my PSP more recently, got Midnight Club LA remix, which is the newest installment of the Midnight Club games. I was totally addicted to Midnight Club 3 when we had our PS2, and I was really bummed that I wasn't going to be able to play the series when we got rid of the PS2, but with the release of Midnight Club LA, Sony decided to port it to the PSP, I was super stoked!

So yeah, it's probably not as pretty as it is on the PS3, but for me, I get to feed my addiction to high performance rice rockets, and it's a fun game too.

On another note, I did promise in the last blog to talk some about dodge ball during kick-off...it really was awesome. One of the guys from work used to work up in DC so he knew this nice health club that was fairly close to the hotel where we could reserve a gym and they'd let us play dodge ball. In the end I think the staff had way more fun watching us than anything else. Literally it was about 10 engineers, 1 IT guy (me), a handful of sales guys, and two girls who are two of our new NBD hires. This had to look crazy, and pretty dorky at the same time. It was a ton of though, I ended up doing pretty well, I was only the first one out a few games and most of time I was hanging around until the bitter end, for better or worse.

Anyway, that's about it from me tonight, I'll post more later on.

~C

Back Home

After a long week in DC, I'm finally back home. Feels good to come home after long trips like that.

DC was a blast though, I have lots of fun stories to tell, but for right now just a few of the main points:

- Hotel = Awesome
- Paying for Internet = Lame
- Dodge Ball, 30 engineers, what could go wrong?
- SalesForce class, coldest day of the year, I'm walking around in DC, good idea, I think not...good class though.

Like I said, I'll elaborate more on these later, especially the dodge ball game.

~C

Having fun in Herndon

So every year my company has the big meeting, where all of the employees from all over the world come together for 3 - 4 days of learning, fun, and general silliness at times. This year, kick-off, as we call it, is happening right near the beautiful Dullas Airport...yeah, let me tell ya, lots to see here.

It is a good time so far though. Today we had our big group meeting where everyone in the company piles into one room and we talk about the previous year, both the good and the bad, and then we shift focus to the coming year and set the expectations and goals for the year. It's a lot of info to absorb in 8 hours, and frankly my head is still swimming, but I know my roll fairly well in the company, so I feel pretty good.

This evening we got to eat at this restaurant called Red, Hot, and Blue. It was a pretty good BBQ joint (still nothing like Belmot BBQ, but pretty good.) They had pulled chicken, pulled pork, and ribs...so really you just couldn't go wrong.

It was very nice and then a fair number of us came back to the hotel for a few drinks, and here I am back in my room getting ready for bed.

In other, more geek-like, news, the public Beta of windows 7 was released last Friday (it was available to those with MSDN subscriptions on Thursday though.) So I got my hands on both the 64 and 32 bit versions. So far I've only had time to install the 32 bit version on a Virtual Machine, but so far, it really does look just like Vista, with a few different colors, and the UAC is designed differently (thank goodness) but otherwise, it feels about the same.

My plan, once I get back from DC, is to start running some tests to see how Windows 7 handles some of the programs that we know work really well on Vista (ok, so really I'm going to install my companies software, CFdesign, and see how it does.) It should be really interesting to see if Microsoft really has changed anything in the back-end. I'm sure I'll end up posting results here and letting you all know.

Ok, it's now past mid-night so it's time for bed. More soon.

~C

Facebook

So I'm not sure I've mentioned this before, but a few months ago I took the plunge and got my own facebook account (mostly at the urging of Amy.) It's been good so far, not nearly as annoying as I thought it would be.

Anyway, since I just liked this blog on my account, figured I should at least write SOMETHING in here.

More later on.

~C

Happy New Year

Well, here we are again, another year has come and gone and we're into 2009. In case you fell asleep and missed it, here's the ball drop from Times Square in New York:



Just wanted to wish you all a very Happy New year. I've had a ton of fun posting in 2008, hopefully I can keep it going strong in 2009.

~C