Perfect start to the day.
Taken at The Beach
Brad // Just a guy who loves his family, technology, talking marketing strategy, new & old school music, and all things Penn State.
Today was a relatively calm day - in the terms of relativity anyway. The main achievements for the day included:
Today should be a big day with the completion of the electrical work, and the building of the small walls we need to house the plumbing and HVAC. Once the walls are built, the preparation for the cabinets can begin. I'm also hoping that we can get the appliances installed so that they are out of the way and we can actually maneuver around our living room. But I'm not setting my expectations too high just yet...
We're into Day 4 of Project Kitchen Remodel and we've made some significant progress. You can see most of the photos of the first three days by visiting my kitchen remodel album. So, after ripping down the walls, ripping out the cabinets, ripping up the floor and sub-floor during days 1 and 2, day 3 was devoted to building the floor back and beginning the framing process for a few of the small walls we need. They also had to reroute the ventilation from the removed wall to the back wall of our house to reach E's room.
Day 4 should be focused on tiling the floor, delivering the new appliances, as well as starting the electrical rough-ins. We'll see what we find when I get home.
My wife has been on a kick lately of Netflixing movies that may have been big on the independent circuit but lesser known to the mainstream American moviegoer. Last night, after three previous tries of watching this movie (all ending with one of us falling asleep- though no fault of the movie) we finally finished Looking for Eric. If you haven't watched it or even heard of it, it's basically about a twice heartbroken Dad of three (2 boys from one woman, and a daughter from his first love) who through the help of his imaginary football hero gets his life back in order. It was surprisingly humorous and actually an upbeat movie despite some of the tough situations our protagonist finds himself in. It's also fun to get a glimpse of how passionate the blokes across the pond really are about their favorite football squad.
If you are looking for something off the beaten track, I definitely recommend it.
Three weeks into his job, Facebook Director of Gaming Partnerships Sean Ryan made bold advances to developers during the M&A panel at Inside Social Apps. When discussing what games should be built on what platforms, Ryan said, referring to Facebook, “Well if you’re building social I can’t image you not building on the world’s best social network” a statement which made some noise in the crowd.
Ryan went on to say that single player games like the immensely popular Angry Birds “wouldn’t make a lot of sense” on the social network, as building on the almost 600M strong Facebook platform isn’t just about an endless supply of users but about games that highlight interactions.
When asked to explain further about ‘Angry Birds’ versus a game like ‘CityVille,’ Ryan said,
“We don’t bring anything to the table but it’s still a great game. If you have a social game, we believe you should build it for us, that’s what we do. If you have a single player game, it’s not clear why you should build it for us, you should probably build it for other people. Folks like PopCap have been able to brilliantly take a downloadable game, which was Bejeweled and after a lot of work turned it into a social game. So you can do it, but there’s not much point.”
When asked if there was a game that wasn’t on Facebook that he should be Ryan said “‘Civilization’ … it’s one of the best multiplayer games ever, and it’s not yet on Facebook. Whenever there’s a true multiplayer game that involves a lot of social interaction it arguably should be on our platform, because that’s what we do.”
When asked if Facebook would ever acquire a gaming company or go into the content business themselves Ryan said no, “That’s not our gig.”
Agree, though I still have a hard time thinking of Facebook as the place I would go to play games. Then again, I've never been the guy who is asking his friends to water his corn or feed his pig.
I WOULD love to see Age of Empires though on Facebook, but a Microsoft/Facebook gaming partnership is probably too much to hope for.
Tonight... We are having sour cream and dill baked haddock, a potato hash, paired with a caeser salad.
[UPDATE: Post meal, I may or may not have the fish again. The consistency was a tad slimey for my taste and it was lacking a certain crunch. If I DO try it again, I'll probably need to top it with some cracker crumbs.]
