Thanksgiving in San Jose

Went to my aunt's house for Thanksgiving.
















Persimmon are in season.
















































































































My cousin Michael who I haven't seen in over 20 years.
















Dinner grab
















The lineup of relatives, me, my aunt, my cousin Sabrina, uncle, and Michael's family.

Office shenanigans

When your coworker gets promoted to lead and goes on vacation for like 6 weeks, things happen.





















Here the lead animator's desk get's some special treatment. I had no part in this other than documentation. Individual items on the desk were also individually wrapped such as the receiver to the phone and then the phone itself, tape dispenser, pencil sharpener, keyboard, mouse, etc.

Gears of Awesome.

A funny screen shot we took playing Horde mode in Gears of War 2. A Bloodmount rider is glitching and floating in the air so Romy got under him to make it look like he was riding it.

Precooking shenanigans: part 2

Here I am clarifying my stock with eggs to make a consomme which I guess is like clarified and concentrated soup.
















Made a soup of sorts with all the remaining ingredients that you don't keep for the consomme.

Precooking shenanigans

Flower made from the peel of a tomato.
















Preparing a fish stock. Here are some extracted goodies to knosh on. Man, when the tomato puree hit the base, did that ever smell good.

Uncle Nat!

The first words of the child of two programmers should be "hello world"
This is my new niece, Violet Loh. Hey Gabe, be a good dad and register her email addresses, blogs, and web domains before they are taken! Actually a semi Violet blog would be cool. I kinda wish I knew or remembered what happened when I was young. Or time lapse photos; once a day? Once a week? Remember this dude?



Here is the Simpson version. I like the sudden Spanish voice over. Very poignant.



I'm behind on my vacation blogs. They take so long to do. I also have some old pictures from Kevin's birthday that I haven't had a chance to post yet so look out for those in the future. Since I blog chronologically, I guess you'll see this post up for awhile but look below, new stuff all the time. And while I'm posting youtubes, I suppose I will post this corn-baller because I just watched the Superman 1 & 2 on the TV. I regret this in a few days but here it is while it's fresh.

more IGDA

attended an IGDA chapter meeting about starting studios.