May 2009 Archives

I just went to see Up. Holy crap. Say what you will about Pixar’s elitist attitude toward its competition (not to mention potential employees who have the audacity to try to submit their reels at SIGGRAPH), but they really are the best storytellers in the business. I don’t know how they come up with this stuff. Their latest work is absolutely NEVER predictable. Not once in the entire movie. I was glued the entire time and remain in a stupor over it even at this moment.What I mean by “elitist attitude” is this: I read an article on CNN.com the other day about the movie, and for some reason this article had to make a thinly veiled dig at DreamWorks. ... more

I called DreamWorks. They called back almost immediately. Turns out they’re hiring a couple of lighting TAs in August and I’m officially a backup candidate for an interview. They were interviewing three people for two positions and they’ve already passed on one of them so the recruiter I talked to asked for an updated resume for the review on Monday. Then she’ll get back to me.I know in a situation like this, it’s probably a bad idea to get my hopes up. Those other two people could be exactly what they’re looking for and that’s that. But I found it interesting that the recruiter told me there was a note on my resume from the last time I talked to ... more

I left my last entry with a question: What the hell do I want anyway? And I’m not writing again tonight because I think I suddenly have an answer. Actually, I have a lot more questions.Somewhere along the way I started to give up on this dream again. I don’t know what it was, the trouble of making it come true, the culture shock of giving up a really comfortable lifestyle for the chance to have no money and nowhere to park, the question of what to do with my piano in the meantime... in any case, I’ve been heading for a different life over the past few months than the life I was heading for this time last year. ... more

I’ve been asking myself that question ever since all these animations have been coming out in 3D. Is it additive or multiplicative — 6D or 9D?Saturday night I decided dammit, I’m leaving the house. And I did. I went to see Monsters vs. Aliens. I hadn’t intended to see it in 3D; I was convinced it would be a distraction. And it’s been out long enough that many theaters are showing just the normal flat version now. So I got out the laptop and tracked down a showing. Most of them had already shown around 3pm and I didn’t get up that day until 4. So the only one I found after that time was at 6:40 and it was ... more

Nebraska said no. Or maybe I should say, those nerds at Northrop Grumman in Nebraska said no.You know what really gets me? I checked my application status every day since I applied (April 12 to be exact), and every day it said “Candidate Pool.” That’s the very first stage before a recruiter actually looks at your application. So the day I got my rejection, I checked and it said “Candidate Pool.” Ten minutes after I checked, I got an email that said “Management has thoroughly reviewed your resume and do not believe this position is a good fit with your current skills and experience.”So does that mean that it only takes ten minutes for management to “thoroughly” review my resume, ... more

It’s been a long time since I got in bed with my laptop before going to sleep. The laptop has been sitting on my desk for months keeping track of my email while I write code on the desktop. And it will continue to do that until this project is over, but tonight I needed a little blog-time. I’m getting rather frustrated and impatient and it’s time to vent.I’ve been working on the auction site for a couple of months now. Luckily the go-live date for the site is on the 4th of July weekend (sucks that it’s on a holiday but it’s good that I have that much time). What really sucks is that I need a full time ... more