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The upside to seeing a teaser from starwarsuncut for Empire Uncut is OH MAN, EMPIRE UNCUT TRAILER! The downside is seeing how the creativity and production values have shot up since the first movie. Chances…of making…final cut…dwindling. Send…ego balm. :D
Word are hard
I know people who are bothered by signs reading “12 items or less” or “Slow children.” Most of the time, I chuckle and nod. Yes, those signs are grammatically incorrect or lacking punctuation, but they’re perfectly understandable. No one is going to be confused about the meaning. Except, this morning, I was confused (for a few seconds) by a sign I’d seen hundreds of times:
“How am I driving?”
“Man, I don’t know, using your hands? I’m sure a foot is involved and maybe your eyes. Is this a trick question?”
That which Robert has juggerwrought.
Robert broke a build today by misspelling “juggernaut.” But the more we thought about it, we came to believe it wasn’t a misspelling at all; he just created the word “juggernaught.” Let me throw some definitions at you:
juggerknot (n): a mass of interlaced ropes that frustrate anyone trying to untie them
juggernot (n): a very small force incapable of impacting anything
juggernaught (n): nothing…and a whole lot of it
Brass Tacks is amazing.
Birthday dinner with Miranda + four friends at Brass Tacks, which was both fun and fantastic. Literally every thing we ordered was good…even my egg cream that was vanilla (which is wrong). Tasty eats: lemon thyme olives (not dill, literally brined with lemon), frites with smoked catsup, brisket mac ‘n cheese, pork fries (battered fry-shaped pork with spiced applesauce dip), and on and on. If you’re in Georgetown, go there, even if it’s not Miranda’s birthday.
What if Salvador Dali was a highway engineer… (Must-see images courtesy of Google earth via postcards-from-google-earth.com.)
http://acidforblood.net/2013/04/signs-change/
I’m still quite new to the games industry, which means I take a lot of cues from those with more experience. It also means I run up against shit that the pros just roll with even when it doesn’t feel quite right. Learning to know when that feeling stems from my noobishness and when it is a response to genuinely backwards-yet-ingrained thinking is made significantly easier by those who have more experience fighting the good fight. I’m grateful for people like Regina who both light my way and, through posts like is, reassure me that sanity is always sprouting, conditions are always improving, and we are getting better. Which is good because I want to be in this industry for a long time.
Grant Snyder seems to have it closer to the truth. (Can be bought and framed for a regular reminder.)
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