Took some photos of my newly acquired Revoltech Super Galaxy Gurren Lagann. It’s flippin ace. Click above or the following link to check out the rest of the photos I took.
Super Galaxy Gurren Lagann Revoltech Photos
August 4th, 2009Lotsa Photos!
August 4th, 2009Went camping in Kimberley, BC. Took a few photos and posted them on Flickr. Take a look if you are interested.
I want a Team Fortress 2 figure set
May 31st, 2009After seeing the latest Figma announcement of a Golgo 13 figure, it reminded me heavily of the Spy.
http://www.goodsmile.info/detail/eng/2460/figma+Golgo+13.html
Imagine a full set of TF2 characters, now that would be so ace. Valve, make it happen!
SXSW Day 1 Recap
March 14th, 2009SXSW Day 1 recap
So The first actual day of SXSW comes to a close and it’s off to a good start. I’m with my colleague Evan Lask. I went to the following presentations/panels.
Minority Report is Real
This was more of an idea panel than anything on the potential future of multi touch interfaces. Most of the information covered in this one is posted on their blog set up specifically for that purpose, that’s here. http://www.immersiveux.com/
Oooh, That’s Clever! (Unnatural Experiments in Web Design)
Paul Annett from Clearleft had an excellent presentation on some of the craziest places a designer/developer could draw inspiration from. I’ll post a link dump later today with some of the examples he had showed.
Social Engineering: Scam Your Way Into Anything or From Anybody
Not at all relevant to my professional career. It didn’t matter, this was pretty rad in all. I’ve watched a few episodes of Scam School on Revision3 before, so I had an idea of what Brian Brushwood was going to cover. He did a high level rundown of different ways to have influence over people with out them realizing it, as well as a few tips on how to identify and try to circumvent a con. Overall, I I loved this presentation, Brushwood is an excellent presenter.
For day 1,it was 3 for 3 of cool presentations, off to a great start.
I’m doing realtime updates on twitter, under the username flipnode, and recaps as soon as I can get them online.
Green Buttons!
February 13th, 2009
So the buttons and ball top that I ordered from Lizard Lick came in today. I went with them on my readings at SRK. After giving them a shot, I say check them out, my experience was totally ace.
With these buttons pulled out of the glorious USPS shipping box, I replaced the buttons on the arcade stick I just bought last week. A pretty simple process, and I only stripped one bolt in total!
After swapping them out, I jumped into a quick game or two of Street Fighter HD Remix, the difference in the feel of the buttons is insane! I must say that the buttons do feel much more true to an arcade experience. I still suck at the game of course, but come Street Fighter 4 next week, I’ll be playing the hell out of that.
New Arcade stick!
February 8th, 2009
First, it’s pretty awesome that Canada Post makes Saturday deliveries on priority packages. I wake up and I find out that they delivered the arcade stick I ordered on line from the folks at Arcade Shock. From the time the order was submitted to the time I received it it took 5 business days, pretty impressed, and it was shipped USPS to boot! Will definitely order from them again.
Anyway, back to the stick. People who know about the Real Arcade Pro series by Hori know that it’s a solid arcade stick, and built to last. I’m not an expert when it comes to this stuff, but from the reading I’ve done at the SRK forums this was a pretty good stick to get.
Based on the hour or so I played with it, things I liked:
+ The joystick. It’s a Sanwa JLF, not much to say about that, it’s a solid stick.
+ The weight. The whole thing is pretty hefty, which I like. It won’t move around alot when you are playing.
Things I don’t like:
- Button layout. Not sure why they decided to lay it out like this. I’m guessing it’s because it’s the same button layout as the EX2 stick they released.
- The Buttons. They don’t feel quite right, probably because of the Hori-brand buttons in the stick. Not a big deal, since I already have some Sanwa ones coming in the mail.
I’ll have more on this in a few days when I have put some time into it (and the new Sanwa buttons come in!).
Transition Complete!
January 25th, 2009Got everything moved over to my new host MediaTemple. All is good in the world!
A couple mini projects in the pipeline. First, complete redesign of flipnode.com. Second, build a minimal layout for this WordPress blog. Both of these projects I’m hoping to get done in the next week.
Updates to everything.
January 17th, 2009I just moved the blog over to my new host at Media Temple. New blog skin and regular site skin coming shortly.
It’s finally live!
October 1st, 2008Our team made it to the end, the new site is live: http://rolexawards.com/.
More on it in a couple days!
Hypocrite? Me? Wowzers!
August 10th, 2008Well, I complain about it constantly with colleages, I rag on friends who use it. Basically, I never really got it. Yes folks, I’m talking about Twitter.
I was sitting on the bus on Saturday and decided to install a Twinkle on my iPhone, since I’ve been hearing good things about it. As a result of that installation I’ve also set up a twitter account (flipnode) to play around with it.
Before this, I could never understand why Twitter was making so much noise in terms of buzz on the web. After spending a couple days posting to it when I have nothing else to do, I think I can learn to love it. At it’s very core (to me anyways), you’re essentially sending text messages to the Internet at large. At first it seems bizarre, sending messages out into the series of tubes we all know and love, not knowing who will read it, or where it will get quoted; but once you get past that I think it’s a pretty awesome thing. I find it amazing that a random post can spawn a discussion between a whole bunch of potentially random users. Talk about social at it’s finest.
Bottom line, I totally dig it. Huzzah microblogging!