Photo courtesy of Paul Debevec On Thursday, September 27th, 2012, I received the Visual Effects Society's Founders Award. The award was presented at the Annual Membership Meeting, and included a great video produced by Van Ling, and a wonderful introduction from my buddy and VES Chair, Jeff Okun. I then had the floor for [...]
Photo courtesy of Paul Debevec Writing is a very painful thing for me. I fret over words and structure, over ways to express my ideas clearly. The speech I gave accepting the Visual Effects Society’s Founders Award was particularly challenging, it was important, deeply personal, and directed towards potentially 3,000 of the most [...]
There's a meme on Facebook where you post 25 random things about you, and then tag others to do the same. I was tagged today and this is what I posted. 25 Random Things About Me
We went to Fosters Freeze today to satisfy my craving for a chocolate dipped soft serve, only to find out THEY WERE CLOSED TODAY! On a Sunday! We then headed over to 31 Flavors, which I normally like. The guy behind the counter warned me not to get dipped ice cream on a cone, but [...]
My Comcast connection is evidently screaming fast today. I checked my speed because my gmail account was incredibly slow, and of course it must be Comcast and not Google, right? Turns out I'm getting this from Google: Gmail by Google Temporary Error (502) We're sorry, but your Gmail account is currently experiencing errors. You won't [...]
Let me summarize the plot in terms of the bad guy's plan: "So guys, I was up all night working on this. Here's the deal: we'll blow up a train so we can steal a secret hardware device that will allow us to melt down all of the nuclear reactors in the US. And at [...]
My sons and I started watching "24" last season, but after about 8 episodes we got behind and never caught up. This week I was cleaning up the TIVO and was going to delete the remaining episodes when Eric came up with the right way to watch the show: "Why don't we just watch the [...]