Monthly Archives: September 2008

It’s Been A While

Sorry all, I was in Pittsburgh for a week for a wedding and I came back with the plague.
Neat stuff over the past week:

I downloaded Duke Nukem’ 3D for XBLA while I was couchbound yesterday. It’s as good as (maybe better than?) I remembered.
The system works after all.
Despite feeling the oncoming of the Black Death, […]

How to Get a Job in the Games Industry

I had two separate strangers cold-email me this week looking for ways into the game industry. I was updating my About page to answer this frequently asked question, but I liked what I came up with, so it can get its own post as well:
Q: How do I get a job in the games industry?
A: […]

I Think Amazon.com’s Search Engine is Malfunctioning

Not photoshopped. I did a search for a particular subject and nothing came up. So I did a search for something a little more general:

Congratulations, Your Brain Just Got a Little Bigger

Sometimes I think that Joystiq/Kotaku share some back-end engine that just creates the stupidest damn comments ever and they use it to populate their comment threads.
It’s like there was some law of conservation of intelligence where every profound thing said in the world has to be balanced by a hundred idiotic things. And I don’t […]

I’d Never Survive in India

I sold my car to a dealer on Saturday. It’s great that we call those who sell us cars the same thing as those who chemically poison the young and susceptible in society. The actual salesman was a pretty cool guy in his mid-twenties. The “sales manager” was a dick sans box. I’m not entirely […]

Changing Star Rating on iPhone

I’m a Star Rating junkie. My entire library is star-rated and I actively tweak the ratings. I can only fit three-star and higher songs on my iPhone, so it is necessary. When I used to listen to new songs on my iPod, I’d actively change the star rating while I listened. It was a simple […]

What?

Those are nice and all, but whose ears could those possibly fit in?

On Hygiene

If I were running for president, a plank of my platform would be that anyone who is found guilty of having pissed or dripped on a public toilet seat should have to be tied down while fifty strangers piss on them. Unless they get off on that, in which case they will have to clean […]

Zack’s Fantasies are Deflating

I don’t do Fantasy Football because the folks here at the studio are MEGA HARDCORE (insert death metal growling) about it and it’s expensive. Plus I didn’t want to ruin the football watching season for myself rooting for some WR on the Cardinals instead of enjoying the games. (Fantasy Hoops is another animal. An animal […]

More Polarity Love

Looks like MTV Multiplayer agrees with me on Polarity.

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