It’s been a while guys. I’m sorry for that. Things have been relatively “busy” lately. That’s kind of a lie, I’ve just been at work, practicing for the season coming up and day to day crap.
I have gotten new internet installed up in my loft. Being hard-wired is pretty sweet, the speed is much faster and my entire network is sharing files much more efficiently. Having my network being all in-house instead of run wirelessly is a lot more stable and fast.
MouseSpaz is in a slump. Something that time and persistence can overcome, still hard to put 4 other guys on your back and keep a positive outlook. I’m trying though.
Haven’t skateboarded in a while, I think after work today I’m gonna go out and bust my ass a few times.
My Macbook’s battery is kaput so I think I’m gonna have to drop the cash to get a new one if I ever want to use it without being plugged into an outlet.
Arbalet Dallas (I just realized I hadn’t posted since I’ve been there?!) was pretty sweet. Andrew, Angel and I had a pretty good time, met a lot of new guys and saw some really good matches. I think by the end of the weekend all three of us were just ready to get home and relax.
I will be attending next year if they have it again, and I’d like to get down there for the ESEA BYOC for season 7. Maybe I can convince my team and someone special to come with me. Maybe.
Also just ordered a 24″ LCD for web development. Sweet.
It’s a sad thing to have to announce that someone I would consider a friend, has passed away. A fellow Counter-Strike player from Germany, Toni Daniloski, was killed in a car accident stemming from a tire blowout.
This comes right after missing a flight to Shanghai to player in the Intel Extreme Masters Global Finals.
I had the honor of meeting Toni while attending the Arbalet Cup, and can in all honesty say that he was one of the most vibrant people I’ve ever met through the game.
Please keep Toni’s friends and family in your heart, and send your condolences. His team website can be found here, I’m linking to the article regarding his passing: http://www.mousesports.com/en/news/9403/
So it’s been a while (about 5 days) since I last posted, and a whole lot of very detailed and specific crap that nobody other than myself will care about has happened. I’ll break it down really quick; Counter-Strike team owns, about a week till I leave for Dallas (ESEA LAN!), watched a lot of Deadwood, I think Forrst is amazing and we’re almost settled into our new office at Lifeboat.
I’ve gotta get back on my grind to make mnir.com the #1 result for “Chris Keefer” on google! I’m slacking.
Expect more posts guys, sorry I started to trail off. That comes to an end now!
Finished! After close to five hours of moving crap I think we successfully got all of Lifeboat’s stuff to the 9th floor of the Garvey Center. Nobody’s office is really setup…
Well I take that back, Katie and Jen seemed to have gotten finished arranging their furniture… yeah.
So Jeremy (my boss) just traded books with me, I gave him the 37signals book, and he gave me “IT’S NOT HOW GOOD YOU ARE, IT’S HOW GOOD YOU WANT TO BE.” by Paul Arden. The tag line for the book is “The world’s best-selling book by Paul Arden”.
Something tells me I’m going to enjoy this.
I’m also highly involved with reading “Do you matter? How great design will make people love your company”; I love how they list the authors here: “by Robert Brunner and Stewart Emery with Russ Hall.”
Both books seem worth the read, I’ll report back when I’ve completed both.
My skateboard came in the mail today! I’m pretty stoked to hop on and start practicing in my spare time. Unfortunately I think the first time I’ll get to spend a good amount of time practicing (aka busting my ass) is gonna be this weekend.
Oh well, happy to have it and assembled. Still think I need to buy some new wheels and bearings, but it’ll do for now.
After a year and a half of working in close proximity to Jason Bailey he’s left us for TimeIPS; a company responsible for developing “electronic time clocks and attendance systems”. He seemed pretty excited to start work there, so I’m happy for him. Can’t say that I’m entirely excited to no longer have him around, but I guess I’ll try not to be selfish.
I’ve learned a lot from Gumby throughout the time I’ve spent working with him. He was the first person to spend any time explaining MySQL queries to me in depth, and whenever I had a question he most certainly had an answer.
His views on how the web should work are always interesting and well informed, and his passion for his work is unparalleled.
I feel bad for Jeremy and Colt, they have the near impossible task of finding a replacement for more than just a skilled programmer, but a good friend to us all..
This is my thank you Jason, it’s heartfelt and real. Good luck with the new position, and I hope you grab every opportunity that life offers you.
PS – I’ve always called you Gumby to all of my friends because of the AIM icon you used when I first started here.. The one where your chat bubble came out of Pokey’s ass.
Well I’ve spent a few minutes trying to search for this guy’s accolades for being a speaker I should want to go see. I’ve found that he’s built a flash game involving moving tiles around, and has owned and operated a failed LAN center (his words not mine).
Now while I still think he may have some interesting things to say in a casual conversation, paying $100 to hear them when I can pay $15 and read his book (yeah, there’s a book too) about the disastrous LAN center sounds much more satisfying. I’m a little torn, apparently he’s spoken at a few independent game developer conferences, so I’m not saying he’s under qualified.
