Last night I made the drive to Klamath Falls from Salem. It was quite boring until the snow picked up and caused me to pay more attention to the road. Luckily I made it to Klamath Falls without a scratch and was able to see my wonderful girlfriend.

A couple weeks ago my CSET department faculty asked me to come down to K-falls to talk to the new upcoming students. I have been extremely busy, but decided I’d come anyways. They also offered to take me and Christina (my gf) to dinner.

I came down to K-falls and met a number of students considering OIT and sold a number of them on the CSET department at OIT doing software or computer engineering. Also a number of students decided to take a gander at our new embedded systems degree. It’s quite exciting to see what is happening next at OIT. We had around fifty students and their parents show up to see what the CSET department at OIT is all about, so I earned my free dinner along with getting my gas paid.

I’m quite glad I was able to make it down for this event and look forward to November when I’ll be making it down to the career fair to tell students about Garmin AT and try to get some qualified students some resumes.

So, if that’s you, let me know and I’ll pass the word on!

J!

This last week I had another awesome opportunity to attend a game developer’s conference.  The conference I attended was IndieGamesCon 2007, put on by GarageGames geared towards the indie game developer community.

There were a number of discussions at the event about the latest and greatest engines being developed by GarageGames along with a few roundtables on how to get your game idea listened to and how to get funded. 

When the main discussion weren’t going on there were a number of computers available to play some of the projects being showcased by the developers.  The games were then voted upon and the top picks were announced on the second and last day.

Unfortunately I was only able to stay the first day, however I had an awesome time while I was there and met some great people.  I also had my ass handed to me during a Wii-Tennis tournament by a couple GarageGames employees!

 For a ton of info on what exactly went on, go here.

I decided that I finally need to make a new computer.  I got some hookups to create it for cheap, so I did.  If you wanna see what’s inside, click for more.

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Who’s all going to PAX?!  I am! 

 It’s going to be a great time with my girlfriend and a few others.  C and me are getting a hotel with a couple friends for Friday night, and then Saturday night we’re staying at C’s friend’s place.  It’s going to be a great time to get away and see some new games.  I’m really looking forward to meeting some developers at the expo as well. 

 I’ll write an update on how it all goes after I’m back!

I picked up BioShock today, and was greatly dissapointed.  Not in the game at all, but in the fact that I couldn’t even play the game.  I bought the PC version, cause I currently don’t own a 360, and my hardware is too old to play the game effectively.  The one problem I’m having is my video card is no longer worth while.  I’d buy a new one, but I’m planning building a new computer, with 2 GeForce PCI Express cards.  My motherboard is AGP, with PCI, so it’s not going to help me to buy one of the video cards early  :(.

The game is amazing though and this will just make me get my new computer sooner or just go buy a 360…we’ll see which comes first.