Things I remember doing at the ball last night in no particular order:
- Getting made very stiff drinks
- Rocking the green sunglasses
- Drunken conversation with the president of St. Francis Xavier
- Playing the absolutely ridiculously amazing game of pool of my life at the house
- Awesome awkwardness at the ball and house with hilarious results
- Rocking out to awesome tunes in my car
- President of St. FX student union crashing on my couch upon first arrival home after a night out
- Girl from St. FX insisting that her school is not a drinking school despite above experiences
- More to come as the memories return…
I need a better
Way to fall asleep than shit
Haiku writing…please.
I took this book out
All the time. It was so cool.
I don’t read much.
When I was little,
I loved castles and armour,
I miss loving that.
Home is where the heart
is. Mine is in Toronto. I
am in Halifax.
My green sunglasses.
They are amazing, oh God.
Others are just good
Winter brings change now,
Room changes, cleaned, found money
Spring brings luck now
I guess seeing as how I quit work at HB Studios last August (funnily one week to the day of my first day of work), I guess I’m going to stop writing about my experience in the game industry and shift this back to a bit of a personal blog. I am going to try and write every day or two about what has occurred since my last post. Hopefully I can keep them very concise posts so I look at this as less of a chore. Let’s try haiku, limmerick, and sonnet postings for the next while and where we go with that.
I think I’ve finally pinpointed the reason for my lack of blogging. While the rest of the world has gone about specializing and finding a niche within the world, I’ve spent my time trying to learn a little about everything. While this has opened my world up to being able to interact with people from many walks of life and communicate very effectively, it’s also proved to be a double edged sword in my attempt to obtain any form of expertise or specialization.
Given this, I’ve never felt like I could offer the Internet anything better than what already exists. The original intent of this blog was to migrate away from my putting my random musings and personal events up for the world to see, and actually talk about something meaningful and interesting. In this case, I was hoping to talk about my passion for the sport of baseball and my career in video games. Unfortunately, my passion for the sport of baseball statistics is not enough to overcome my shortcomings in my inability to actually perform the calculations necessary to create my own statistical analysis. Sites such as The Hardball Times do a better job of statistical analysis than I ever could and there are enough quality baseball blogs to keep the world happy for a long time. Even my small market Blue Jays have a near-saturated blogosphere.
While I love playing games, problem solving, finding creative solutions to mundane problems, and all the things that are required in a Game Designer, I still feel too green to comfortably critique and share my experience with the masses. Perhaps several released titles down the road, I can always return to share what I’ve learned…but until then, it’s probably better for all if I keep quiet on the matters. That said, I’m sure people can learn from inexperience just as well as experience… 
There is also the possibility that I am not lacking a niche at all, but that I have just not correctly identified it. Instead of sharing expertise in a few areas, maybe my competitive advantage is being able to share my random thoughts with the world. I’ll try that direction for a while. May God have mercy on your soul.
