General

News that has nothing to do with gaming!

Ignore me, I’m over-reacting.

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Business is incredibly slow here at Surya at the end of a year. This year, we’re asked to work only four-day work weeks in December. Now since I’m salaried, I shouldn’t care, as I supposedly get a fixed annual pay regardless of how much or how little I work. That was the meaning of ‘salaried’ … Read more

Assault by Cell Phone

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There’s this commercial… friends tell me it’s from Verizon Wireless advertising their new RAZR phone but really, I can’t watch it all the way through… it’s just… You’ve seen it? This guy is standing around in, perhaps, a party, and this woman comes in and jams earbuds in his ears which blares out five seconds … Read more

I Wanna Be a Guitar Hero

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Note: I just found out that it sucks to be stupid. Guitar Hero II was released today. If I’d known it was coming out so soon, I would never have bought Final Fantasy 12. If you know me, or live near me, you can’t escape my Guitar Hero obsession. Guitar Hero 2 comes out this … Read more

Inking

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Note: My decision to take the pencil sketch and redraw and ink it in Photoshop over the objections of the assistant sales manager for the line who said the sketch’s roughness was “why we liked it,” was vindicated when the sales manager said she liked it, but needed the background to be a blue gradient … Read more

Haven Girl Spring ’07

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Surya/Haven Girl Spring ’07 Just finished a new Haven Girl brochure and put it on the web via Picasa 2. People inside the company are even asking for me to put things up here; it has truly become a useful way of getting high resolution pictures of our lines to people for use in advertising. … Read more