Avoiding ambiguity

It's good to be pedantic and "over-describe" when discussing features and problems on a game. We avoided a few problems on the game Horizons because of this (that I knew about; I'm sure we also avoided some I wasn't aware of). This can be a negative though, because people can think you're talking down to them. So it's best to do it in a self-depreciating way, where everyone thinks you're a little bit dumb, because you sent out an extra email to confirm some details of a feature that everyone is (supposedly) already familiar with. This could possibly hurt you during review time, if your boss thinks you're an idiot.

A surprise

I was driving back from a friend's house last night, and I see a small bear standing in the middle of the road. He must've been scared (but not too scared) since he started running at a medium pace across the road and into the tall grass.

Awesome Indian music video

I need to practice these moves!

Japanese Toilet Training Cartoon

Simply...awesome!



(from http://jeff-fukuoka.blogspot.com/)

Shopping in the future

When I'm shopping for candy or whatever and the store doesn't have what I'm looking for, why can't I tell them what candy I would buy at a kiosk sitting right there? This seems like easy pickins...customers would be telling you that they're ready to hand over even more cash, if you only had what they wanted.

Something I didn't understand before California...

is that you should almost always try a new or exotic dish instead of the usual. Since calories are so cheap in American society, if you end up ordering something horrendous like the Seafood Combo I ordered once in Mexico, you can always grab a Snickers or whatever.

Imagine what would happen...

if everyone in the world had to swap houses with someone else, right now. Like a global version of musical chairs.