http://www.just-a-lark.com The thoughts, writing, art, and life of a man with nothing to lose and everything to gain. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:47:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've received my first rejection letter, and in only three weeks! Of course, it looks nothing like what's above (though I wouldn't mind getting that either), but all in all I'm actually quite pleased with myself. What I got in the mail wasn't a form letter, but rather a personalized ... http://www.just-a-lark.com/2008/06/23/my-first-rejection-letter/ Friday night was quite the night for me. Along with a bunch of friends and co-workers, I got a bleacher seat at AT&T Park to watch the Oakland Athletics play against the San Francisco Giants. I'd never seen a baseball game live before, and so I was looking forward to ... http://www.just-a-lark.com/2008/06/17/metal-gear-solid-4-world-tour-2008-san-francisco/ I've always thought of myself as a writer of sorts. I remember making Choose Your Own Adventure fiction in the fourth and fifth grade in lieu of reports, which were presumably accepted because they were somehow still tangentially related to the topic assigned. I remember daydreaming ... http://www.just-a-lark.com/2008/06/05/71/ My official job title at work is Associate Producer, but I can't really say that I've ever felt like I've been much of a producer. This is because there's quite a disconnect between my title and what I do. My job is basically one half project manager ... http://www.just-a-lark.com/2008/05/23/im-a-producer/ Standing 3 feet away from the developers of a game that you're writing a preview for and hoping that no one tells them this. You desperately don't want to converse with them, because the urge to tell them that their game makes you physically ill would be too high*. *This is ... http://www.just-a-lark.com/2008/04/20/awkward-moment-of-the-week/ It's about time that I finally wrote something original for this blog--I want to get back into the habit of writing something at least once a week, and cross-posting stuff from my work blog not only doesn't count, but should be like a minus-one penalty. I have some pretty odd taste ... http://www.just-a-lark.com/2008/03/30/my-strange-music-tastes/ Earlier tonight I headed down to the Metreon with Ricardo Torres to check out the launch event for Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, and with the power of the media badge he gave me got up close and personal with my camera to take a bunch of photos. The event, ... http://www.just-a-lark.com/2008/03/26/crisis-core-final-fantasy-vii-launch-event/ And this is something that I am truly ashamed at admitting. I am very familiar with the game, having become highly interested in it and the other works of mastermind Tetsuya Mizuguchi when I discovered them, but unfortunately, by the time that I did, Rez's time was long since past ... http://www.just-a-lark.com/2008/01/22/i-have-never-played-rez-before/ Nearly done with the website! So far I've made my own custom flickr and Twitter apps, moved the search bar, swapped out categories for tags and a tag cloud, added CAPTCHA anti-spam for comments (and allowed anonymous commenting), made a custom contact form, and re-styled the page. Things to do: Redo the ... http://www.just-a-lark.com/2008/01/21/website-mostly-done/ I actually started working on a custom Wordpress theme a while back and it was coming along alright but I lost interest in it.  So until I feel more inspired, I've just found a decent-looking theme and decided to heavily modify it. So until then, I've got a semi-broken looking blog.  ... http://www.just-a-lark.com/2008/01/16/youd-never-guess-it-but-im-lazy/