If you’re a console gamer, you know the drill. You go out and buy a new AAA release for your console, come home, start the game… and download all the patches and bug fixes before you can play it. (If you’re a console gamer of a certain age you remember when there was no internet and … Continue reading “Planning for the edge cases”

I just passed through the fifth anniversary of a career low spot: The day I was essentially pushed out of my design job for letting myself burn out. The Great Burnout, I’ve come to call it. After five years, I can look back and see where the trouble began. When the project started, I thought … Continue reading “Burnout and Shooting Zombies”

When I was nine years old, I got my eyes checked as part of the routine pre-school-year physical, and they were normal vision.  Three months later I got my first set of glasses.  I’ve always been one of those folks whose eyesight is fine until it suddenly falls off a cliff… one day I can … Continue reading “Upgraded eyeballs”