This is just until I figure out what fancy new domain name that I am going to move to that no-one will know how to spell when I pronounce it or pronounce when I spell it. It is not as easy as it sounds. You might think it is, but that is probably just because you are pronouncing it wrong.
One more call for alcohol so finish your wiskey or beer…
Or in other words it looks like I managed to sell my domain name for a not entirely unsignificant amount of money. This means that I will have to move my entire online identity someplace else, except, of course, my myspace profile, my linkedIn profile, my flickr gallery and my new and specially-made-for-the-occation blogger-blogspot-blog. You can find me there, until I find a new place to infest.
This message will self-destruct in a couple of days, along with the rest of the website.
Have a nice end.
So I got back to Denmark again a couple of weeks ago and I feel like I should write something about my trip. I am not really going to though, because there is so many other things to do and write about. What I am going to do instead is to take everything that I have written already, elsewhere, and jumble it together into a mash.
I went to California for 3 months. More specifically I went to San Rafael near San Francisco to do my internship at Telltale Games.
San doesn’t mean city by the way. It means Saint. I just learned that.
Preparations to go there were quite annoying, so I will not go in much detail. This is in direct contradiction to the rules of narration where adversity is always most interesting. Well, direct might be saying to much. Anyway.
I got there on a Sunday ready to work, but as it turned out Monday was a holiday so I got an extra day off right there. Good start.
When I did gt to work and had been settled in and all that, I began by animating a walkcycle because there wasn’t anything much else to do. At the time, they were wrapping up episode 1 beta (out now by the way. Get it before that thing at the place with the thing happens. You will like it. It’s Christmassy) and starting the animation list for episode 3, so there wasn’t that much ready to do, animation wise. I also played Sam and Max season 2 which wasn’t out at the time. That was fun. I like being in on the secret 
After that things got started more regularly. I got started out by doing some various gestures and some object animations and from there on it was steady work on gestures for the characters on Sam and Max. Both old and new ones. I also got to do some preliminary work on a new top secret project that they might do, but I am, of course, not allowed to tale about it. Hell, even saying that might be to much.
Lastly I got to do a cutscene for Episode 4. Well, I am doing it right now, as a matter of fact. Also, not allowed to talk. Mums the word and all that.
Say, this is a bloody good excuse for a lazy guy like myself.
I didn’t experience that much of Halloween. I went by the mall on my way home from work and it was packed with kids in costumes all running around. The stores had apparently been giving out candy just before I got there, and since there are so many in such close proximity to each other, and all indoors in the warm, it is no great surprise. This might also be part of the reason why there weren’t many knocks on the door for the rest of the evening.
Then there were Thanksgiving, where Mai and Diane* had invited me along to one of their friends house. It was not as impressive as I had been led to believe, but then again, with the some of stories of excessive eating that I have heard it would be almost impossible to live up to. There was a lot of food and there was a lot of eating of the said food going on, but I still needed to eat the day after which I was a little disappointed about.
That being said, there was good food and it was a good evening all together.
Then I went shopping. Everything is just so effing cheap over here, that I had a very hard time not buying stuff. Last Saturday I went to San Francisco and bought $150 worth of comic books and artbooks.
Add to that the Nintendo Wii that Telltale gave me as a farewell present, Super Mario Galaxy, an extra Wii controller, The Orange box, half a dozen movies and I had to buy another suitcase. The good news however was that I got through customs and all that without a hitch.
Lucky for me I anticipated my buying frenzy by not actually bringing very much with me to the US to begin with, so even with the additional suitcase I was still under my max. Luckii!
And that is what I had to say about that.
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*Mai being the wonderful woman who gave me a ride to work every morning and Diane is her girlfriend.
Soo, I have made a Flickr gallery with pictures I have taken in the US. Then I tried blogging a picture from there, but It turned out a bit weird. But then I fixed it. Yay for me.
And I have to type enough stuff here for the text to reach the bottom of the image, otherwise my site will fuck up. Which is why there is so much fluff here, that is really uninteresting. But go ahead and take a look, if it fancies you.
If you want to find someplace to live for 3 months in San Francisco, the best way is not to go to the first hotel finder site you stumble upon, type in your dates and hit search. Especially not if you find sentences like “Prices from: 38.700,00 USD” somewhat disconcerting.
Or why I haven’t written anything for a month. Actually, I am not going to talk about that. I got my computer back now and will not dwell on the trials I had in it’s absence.
And anyone mentioning the fact that we have computers at school that I use 7-8 hours a day will be promptly ignored.
I will probably write more when I get to a keyboard that doesn’t write “5″ and “6″ everytime I type “g” and “h” and where the arrow keys work.
but in the meantime:
Happy New Year!
And loving it, in my own very subdued way. Played Guildwars for 4 hours and my first reaction is that it is a bit slow. I have no idea about any story yet, as an example.
Also I have missed pandora so much. I never realised how dependent I am on that website for my music needs while working. It stopped working for the last couple of days on the Memoria production and I had to use Radio Blog Club, but it just isn’t the same. It demands to much attention. And normal radio just won’t do anymore.
They do give you the chance to watch TV all day and still get a lot of stuff done.
For instance, I had time to look for my rechargable batteries (still missing), my GBA games (found. Those buggers get lost so easy), put up some books that I hadn’t unpacked yet, do the dishes and brush my teeth.
So after a week of scorching heat in Annecy, we get back to Denmark only to find that it is even warmer here. Bummer.
But the trip was very nice. Beautiful location, good food and free movies. Renaissance and Wallace and Grommit came of as the two most interesting films for me, but the advance screening of Monster House was also surprisingly good.
Also I updated the gallery with some sketches from down there. So many girls, so little paper…
