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November 19, 2003
Small Personal Milestone
I reached a small personal milestone this month: I was quoted in <a href="http://www.wired.com/">Wired magazine</a>. Some stupid bit about <a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.12/view.html?pg=2">why games based on movies usually suck</a> (and somehow, I don't recall saying anything about JLo). It is kinda silly, as I do quite a bit of interviews and such, and get quoted in lots of places. Let me explain.
A little over eight years ago, I made a personal decision to leave the staid world of database programming and IT consulting and move into the emerging world of "multimedia". The ultimate goal was to get into games, but at the time there wasn't much game stuff going on in Montreal. So, I figured that web and 3D stuff, and other such digital and wired things was the next best answer.
It was the summer of '96 and I picked up the <a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.07/">July issue of Wired</a> as a means to get me up to speed on all things "wired". I've been reading it ever since. Back then, I said something to the effect of "one day, my name will be in this mag".
Anyway, seeing my name there while flipping the pages in LAX waiting for my <a href="http://www.igda.org/blogs/realitypanic/archives/000060.html">flight to Oz</a> put a smile on my face :)
As an aside, it is kind of ironic that in this same issue, <a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.12/start.html?pg=10">Montreal is declared</a> as an up-and-coming game development hot spot. Ah, another smile :)
Posted by della at November 19, 2003 01:42 AM
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Congratulations! :D And please enjoy your stay in this beautiful country of mine. :)
Posted by: BuG at November 19, 2003 03:27 AM
W00t!
Congrats, you deserve it!
Posted by: Thad at November 19, 2003 07:07 PM
Are you sure you mean "ironic" and not "coincidental"? Maybe you meant ironic because Montreal is already a game development hot spot. But then, I'm in Toronto.
Posted by: Brent Gulanowski at December 3, 2003 09:18 PM
Ironic because when I decided to move away from databases/consulting there was no game industry in Monteral to speak off...
Jason
Posted by: Jason Della Rocca at December 4, 2003 09:50 AM
Wired is a great magazine and to get quoted in it is a personal milestone.
Posted by: dave at December 16, 2003 02:09 PM