3/19/2004 01:08:13 PM|||Travis|||

GDC and mechanical keyboards

I recently upgraded my keyboard and am still impressed with mechanical key technology from way back when. Aparently, keys used to be mechanical with a spring and stuff rather than the stanard bubble-type technology that we use today. For some reason or another, quiteness was an issue, and so bubble keys came to dominate the market. But nothing beats the satifying mechanical click that happens when you try out one of these old keyboards. Now when I type on something else, it feels flat and dead.

Where was my post about Vegas? Did I even make one? I wonder... probalby not. Well, I hitup that place with Yono and his fam, was a swingin' time. His mom of all people bought us tickets to the tittie show, after the bell hop gave her correct advice about what 20-something males would like to do in Vegas. He was of course, being conservative and probably would have been more correct to say "give them $200 and send them over to the Crazy Horse" which would have involved more nudity then we could even imagine. But as it was, we settled for eight showgirls that took off their tops in just about every way you could imagine- as cowboys, private investigators, egyptians, and many more not so memorable acts. Oddly enough, the person who got the most applause was a man who had some really good tapdancing moves. Figures tho, as just being hot and topless isn't really anything to get excited about.

So now people are getting done with finals and drowning themselves in toxicicated stupor, saying how damn glad they are for the crunch to be over. Meanwhile, I am in my own unrelated crunch mode as we prepare for GDC next week and try to do all the things that fledgling game companies do- print business cards, prepare important documents, clean clothes and make sure that the demo actually runs rather than bluescreening the computer. I am going to have to leave for the conference early as I will be a duitiful employee of CMP, checking badges and wearing a shinny blue security shirt. Its always nice being authority at these things. I can do cool things like stand by people to listen into conversations, pretending that it is my "post". I could also give people bunk directions to the bathroom so that they might pee themselves, but I haven't exercised my urinating powers just yet. Perhaps the biggest part is the emotional trama of trying to be big and tough and businesslike with industry veterans in the hope that one of them will take some pitty on us and kick us a deal so we can push out our first game.

Entrepreunership is being able to play it cool while in reality, everything is in a wonderful flux of choas.

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