Monthly Archives: May 2009

I love E3. I hate E3.

I loved my first E3. Sort of liked my sec­ond. Hated every one since. And I didn’t shed a sin­gle tear when it was cancelled/downsized. Speak­ing less self­ishly, E3 is prob­a­bly good for the indus­try, if not for devel­op­ers forced to put some­thing together to show, usu­ally with­out ade­quate time or plan­ning. And since I

Squirrels and Nuts

I had hope that the Giants could sal­vage the three-game series with a win today. But the Cards are a bet­ter team, so I wasn’t all that sur­prised when Pujols and com­pany looked poised to win it. Then a ven­er­a­ble blind squir­rel came out to find a nut before the sun would set. This is a

Failing the GTA Sandbox

I resisted GTAIV. It sat on its shelf for a long time. A cou­ple days ago, I dis­cov­ered that sev­eral of my friends had sim­i­lar (lack of) expe­ri­ences, and no one had fin­ished the game. So, off the shelf. A few days later, I have an idea now about why the game and I failed

Self-Interest and the General Manager

Every­one acts in their own self-interest. Brian Sabean wants to make a trade for a bat. Good idea. Noth­ing wrong with try­ing to address a weak­ness, and believe me, the local team has a weak­ness. (Giants : Offense :: Achilles : Heel). The ques­tion becomes what you’re will­ing to give up. Sabean is will­ing to