scenes from work:
a place i like to be

my desktop: large or huge

here's a picture of my desktop
i macintized (bjorn's word) my desktop with icq plus
i ran this system hack on "My Computer" from annoyances.org
my recycle bin is in the lower right corner of my desktop - sign of an old mac user
i use netscape because it handles IMAP mail better, and because Netscape tells you the dimensions of pictures in the title bar:

which i use at least once a day in conjunction with bud.com or a personal mindex or this site heah. if you can the dimensions of an image while you're building your html code, you can design around it and your pages load faster. viva la web building! it appears that microsoft don't include that too; supposedly their web browser products are quite good in many other respects.

i love my job, because the people i work with are lively and knowledgable. i've been here long enough that i know the jokes and the people and it's both familiar and challenging.

three days is such a rush

challenging like we have two chordless phones for this ~500 square foot room, with 14 dudes back to back and side to side packed in between beige boxes and headphones and monitors

and darn near everyone stays until 10 pm and that's when things get loose and people bring in korean bbq and actually play games, which even ying, our guy in charge of marketing ad banners to taiwanese computer manufacturers, turns out he's quite a profient "smash bros" player - everyone here can do something. well, nick says he can't play any games, but he actually finished college with a CS degree so he writes our database, stuff like that.

so most of this week i've been sitting here, and moving around the office in a kind of easy glide, like i'm where i want to be and where it's best to be. it feels like wired must have felt in the early days - where everyone mostly believed in what we were doing, it was a new thing and people who drop by the office share in our consentual hallucination

it's all very puffing. today on the tail end of another gamers.com high i realized that perhaps this all goeth before a fall, meaning that there will be a point when i will not love this whole enterprise this much anymore, when i will realize that we are not still a team of excited youths in it together, but rather that some people become more equal than others, or the company will tank and people will leave.

it's almost like i'm older - i'm handling my hallucination with a dose of dramamine, but still i am happy to see that i can be sucked in and excited working with other people, almost more than i can be sucked in playing with myself.

and it's quite playful around here! most folks don't play games until after 6pm, which is i guess part of why they stay so late most of the time. yesterday we got a dreamcast

here's a statistic from my boss joel that makes me feel like i'm in the right business:

Dreamcast Breaks Record [9-10-99 6:10pm ET]
GameDaily recently reported Sega's sales predictions dealing with its 9/9/99 launch date on August 30. Sega had predicted that it would break Episode I: The Phantom Menace's entertainment industry one-day record of $28 million with a $45 million day. Not only did Dreamcast sales break that record, they smashed it with a record $97.9 million in its first 24 hours. The $97.9 million figure released by Sega accounts for hardware, peripherals and software sales.