It's an Exciting World

Dev Meetup and La Bamba

Candice and I went to a Unity Developer meetup and talked to a number of developers. Several of them were very interested in the system we were proposing and game some good feedback on the plans. I hope to see them again so that we can get them to play around with the system and make some games for it. It would also be pretty easy to make their current games into ones that work with the system.

After the meetup we went to La Bamba, the old location. We walked in and it was all deconstructed, but they were nice enough to redirect us to the new location. We got some dinner and talked about company stuff. Things are coming together nicely. Now we just need to polish and complete the alpha product.

December 5, 2013 0

Paragliding

We did 2 days of paragliding. It was tons of fun. I got the fewest flights with around 20, with Steph getting the most around 25. It was all amazing, and I would love to learn more paragliding and get into longer flights. The flights at the training hill lasted about 45 seconds, but were still really fun. We got some red tailed hawks flying with us, and they were only a few tens of feet flying off my wing tips. There was a van picking us up at the bottom and driving us back up to the top. The turn around was very quick and the number of flights we got were impressive. We also had the perfect weather and wind for most of the weekend. Towards the ends of the days on Saturday and Sunday we got cross winds, and that made it harder to launch.

December 4, 2013 2

Solvang and Camping

We went to a little town near Santa Barbara called Solvang. It is made to look like a Danish village. The place was amazingly cute. We wandered around trying to find a place to eat. Many of the places we tried to eat were full, but we found a nice place on the outside of town. It was very tasty, and the seating was surprisingly relaxing. After dinner we went to a nearby campsite. We didn’t get to have a fire since there was a fire advisory. The night ended up being really cold, but we stilled played some games on Brian’s iPad. The night didn’t go well, but we managed to stay warm enough.

December 4, 2013 0

Morning Hiking in Big Sur and Elephant Seals

We did two hikes in the morning and they were both beautiful but arduous. The first hike was down the cliff of Cliff House. The cliff had a beach at the bottom, and it was a really steep hike. The trail was a little loose with the chopped rock. It was a lot of fun, but I chose to not go on the beach since I didn’t want to get sand in my shoes. The hike back up was hard. We then went to a hike down the road and had a little over a mile hike up the mountain. The view from about a third of the way up was really nice. Everyone was ready to head down, even though it wasn’t nearly as far as we had planned on going. We went back down the mountain and got some ice cream. Steph and I shared a chocolate shake.

We then drove down to the Elephant Seals beach. The beach was fun, and there weren’t nearly as many there as there will be at peak. There were a few of them that had gotten there, and the males were massive. We mistook a few of the huge males for large boulders.

December 4, 2013 0

Cliff House Hotel

Steph and I got to Cliff house late, and we walked into a really nice house. The wifi wasn’t good enough to run the games, but we played the board games and card games that we brought.

Adam Amit/Tina, and I played a game of Tzolk’in. Amit didn’t really care for it, but Adam and I had a good time. It was nice to get 3 monuments, even though I would have done better to have done differently. Adam still won with a really high score, and I think the biggest difference was me not getting many skulls. It comes back again and again, that if you don’t go for skulls and gods you will lose. I never have been able to get a full set of things that led to going for the god route.

We played some Cards Against Humanity, and I chose randomly. I ended up winning with the random choosing.

The house was very nice, and I regret not being able to stay there another night.

December 4, 2013 0

The Founder’s Dilemma

This was one of the best books about founding companies I’ve read. It has all the basic high level things that one may need. It covers a lot of the topics that I was unsure about, and I am recommending it to the rest of the team. Steph is ready to start it, and I explained most of it to Candice.

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December 4, 2013 0

Catching Fire

This was a really nice book, and again I liked it more than the movie. It was very nice to hear everything. I was hoping for more information than it gave, but the book was still good. It isn’t until the third book that things get really good, and the information comes out.

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December 4, 2013 0

The Hunger Games

This was really nice to go through the book after seeing the movies. I liked the books better than the movies from the extra information they give. The movies are certainly really good adaptations of the books. I agree with all the changes they made.

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December 4, 2013 0

Small Gods

This was a hilarious book. I really like how they make fun of the organized religion, and how it ends up. The crazy planning for a retaliation before you plan for an attack is also great. I like how the god ends up being a small turtle that is incredibly shallow.

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December 4, 2013 0