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Month: June 2006

My Other Home

2006-06-20 John Winkelman

A little over a week ago I signed up for the yearly GameDev.net Four Elements contest. Over the next five-and-a-half months, in my free time, I will attempt to build a trading simulation game based in the Ukraine in the year 1000AD. Updates here have been sparse because I have been posting in my developer’s journal.

If anything significant happens over there, I will provide a link to it here. Otherwise, if you like deeply technical stuff, are interested in Flash and/or game programming or the medieval Black Sea region, feel free to stop in from time to time.

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The Long, Slow Days of Summer

2006-06-19 John Winkelman

hail
The day of our Festival performance, June 3, started out on a less-than-promising note. Waves of hail and rain alternated with beautiful sunshine and 75-degree weather.

pre-festival
While we warmed up for the show we hoped we would get lucky. There was a decent-sized crowd, all told, considering what the weather had been doing all day.

underground-tai-chi
But, our luck did not hold out. we ended up underground in the entrance to the county building, along with a captive audience. So we decided to perform anyway. Unfortunately, after the first tai chi form security closed us down, saying another storm, this one including golfball-sized hail, was on its way in. So we called it a day.

lil-reaper
The next morning I wandered down to festival again, and listened to some music, and took some photos. Tom Otterness has sculptures up all over town, all of which are quite nifty.

kenny-neal
Blues on the Mall kicked off its 2006 season on Wednesday, with Kenny Neal providing the tunes.

cottonwoods
Thursday morning, while I was working from home, the local cottonwoods did their thing.

Summer is no time to spend in front of a computer.

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I Am Prime!

2006-06-05 John Winkelman

Today is my birthday. I am 37 years old. To celebrate, I am working from home today.

The martial arts demo on Saturday was rained out. Very disappointing. I guess I can’t complain too loudly, though; I think this is the first time this has happened. We managed to sneak in a single tai chi form down in the underground entrance to the city center, then security shut us down before the golfball-sized hail hit the city.

Well…Whattayagonnado?

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