So my biggest news... I'm buying a house! Okay, correction, I am trying to buy a house. I am preapproved and now just need to FIND one LOL.
It's been quite a while since I've blogged about my life. I guess not all that much has changed. I still live in the same apt (or as dryu calls it "phat pad"), work the same job, etc. Hero, better known to y'all as "The Incredibles", is full steam ahead. We keep coming across wicked memory bugs in shaders, in dso's, everywhere. We are patiently keeping our fingers crossed while waiting for the peak before the fall (by the last month of rendering, pretty much any major error has already been discovered). I must say that this movie will rock. I liked Nemo. Monsters was a little cheesy for me... But the Incredibles will knock your socks off! And I just mean the story! Don't get me wrong, it looks awesome too, but I sincerely believe it is the best movie Pixar has ever done.
Our Disney deal talks ended. It's mixture of sadness and happiness - losing Disney will be hard, but our future may be much brighter because of it. I think the hardest part will be watching some other studio do our sequels, sob. If they do it 2D, maybe it'll all work out. Time will tell.
My group is getting intern, whose arrival I anxiously await. I'm flying up to Seattle twice in the upcoming weeks, once for work, once for J's b-day and v-day.
Rant of the day.... 'The Apprentice' is totally demeaning to women! None of the women so far have show an ounce of what makes a good BUSINESS person, unless you are talking about that kind of professional working girl.
At the same time, the division of the teams by sex I believe is responsible for this phenomenon. I have no problem with a woman using her looks to her advantage, as long as her entire 'worth' to the company isn't based on it.
You don't run a business by wearing a midriff top, looking like a hooker, or forcing alcohol down peoples' throats.
Wow... while I am writing this, the girls just got chastized for it. It'll be interesting to see how they survive next week.... seeing as that is the only skill they have demonstrated thus far!
Hmmm. It's been a while. I recently spent a few days at a diabetes clinic. I met this man who had been diagnosed 44 years ago. It reminded me to be grateful for the tools we have today. Even 20 years ago, when I was diagnosed, I was spent home with no blood glucose meter.
Times have changed.
With power comes great responsibility. In a sense, it was easier when we didn't have the tools. Sure we all died from comlications sooner, but life wasn't so complicated, so numerical, so analytical. 1 unit for 4g. Unless it's evening. 1 per 10. Unless it's that week of the month, then it's 1 per 8. 1 unit for 75 mg/dl. Numbers surround me. Some come easily, others are like vague entities, who can appear, disappear, morph and dissolve before your eyes. 2 + 2 equals 17.
The human body is a wealth of mysteries. No matter how hard we try to analyze it, decompose it into a series of formulas and equations, the system is so complex that our attempts to simplify it into an understandable language are never enough.