Life without Stress

Life without Stress is good, oh so good. While I do have some stress, it's nothing compared to while the film was being worked on. Now I am busy getting examples of our work ready for Siggraph. Looks like I will get my first paper published and be part of a group giving a talk there. Karin and I are heading out East this weekend, we have a week chock full of stuff to do in Philly and NJ. It will be nice being home. I have heard reports of thunderstorms. I miss thunderstorms out here. I really do. My Mom was never a big fan of them but I could never get enough, I would stand in the garage and look out at the clouds and rain waiting for the lighting. I guess my head was always in the clouds. Now 1/2 the people who sit near me get paid to make clouds that look just like that. Life is cool. By friend Erik posted that he is going to England with his GF. Ass. How the heck to you get to tour the MINI plant before me? Never a jet pack around when you need one. I finally broke down and bought a PS2, yea I am not kidding, I avoided it this long. I mostly got it for two games I played at E3. We (heart) Katamari and Destroy all Humans. I played each one on the show floor for over an hour. Few games hold me for more than a few minutes these days, except CoH, yea still addicted, damn you NCsoft with your fun plot lines and near perfect creativity outlet of a Superhero Creator. Anyway back to the rambling, Katamari is the sequel to Katamari Damacy, This game is too hard to explain, it's simple and fun but VERY visual. You are a 3" creature rolling around a giant sticky ball that can grab anything smaller than it, the ball gets bigger and it can get bigger things, get it over 2m and you can stick people to it. It even shows there names when you roll over them. Karin thinks these are the names of people the game developers didn't like. Imortalized as a person yelling on the side of a giant ball. It's just pure fun. Destroy all Humans on the other side is a deep story driven 3rd person perspective run and gun hybrid with a flying game. You start off as some random minion of an invasion force coming to earth, you have Psy abilities and cool ray guns. You also have a UFO with a death ray and tractor beam. The game is funny, fun, silly, and down right cool, very smooth gameplay. A big plus to any game where you can lift up a cow with your mind and throw it at a farmer. I mean come on, that's awesome. Katamari is PS2 only, Destroy is PS2 and Xbox.

Ok now separate from that whole rant, On Monday night I had the privilege to hear a Shoah survivor speak at our temple. I have to say that if you have never heard someone who personally survived the holocaust speak then you need too, and soon. There generation is dying out. While the Shoah Foundation and recorded over 50,000 survivors, hearing it in person is better. She and her Sister managed to make it through together, They later found there younger brother. She lost both her parents and there youngest sister. So I urge you, if you have not, to go and listen to there story in person.