Rough Draft

Nintendo Fusion Tour

Fall Out Boy, Motion City Soundtrack, and The Starting Line @ The Warfield Thursday November 3rd. Can't wait! All three bands have just released great sophomore albums and all put on an excellent live show. This could very well rival the first show I ever went to(NFG, Something Corporate, Finch, and Further Seems Forever) as the most fun lineup of bands I've seen at a single show.

Complicated Controls

I completely agree with this article that video game controls are often way too complex. It's always so refreshing to find a game like Katamari Damacy that anyone can just pick up, play, and enjoy without learning 500 controls. And this is also the reason why Tecmo Super Bowl will likely always be the greatest sports game of all time.

Getting Buff

I finally got my ass to the fitness center today! Ever since I moved in here, I've been wanting to take advantage of the fitness center, but haven't been motivated enough to get myself to start going. I've never really done much in terms of consistently working out. For a period of a few months my senior year of college Jeff, Angie, and I went to the fitness center in Veale. But with our class schedules being different everyday, and not always having a mutually suitable time to go to the gym, we didn't last too long.

I had been telling people while I was home this past week that I was definitely going to start going to the gym when I got back to CA. Of course, I was too tired Monday due to being up at 4 AM to catch my flight back here, and then I was tired on Tuesday after having to get up early for an early meeting at work and still being a bit jet lagged. So things weren't looking good.

Fortunately just as I got home today, Andrew said he was heading over to the gym in our apartment complex, so I said I'd join him. This spur of the moment decision was just what I needed to overcome the inertia of just coming home, getting food, and plopping down in front of the TV/computer. Now I just have to get in the habit of going at least every other day, if not every day. But now that I finally got there once, it should be easier to go back.

Then at some point here, I want to start playing racquetball occasionally. Looks like I can play at the Cupertion Sports Center for $7 a day. Not too bad if I only plan to play a couple times a month. Anyone else interested in playing?

5 Mice

Macworld reviewed Soundtrack Pro and gave it 5 out of 5 mice. Score!

One Year Later

One year ago today I began working at Apple. w00t! Oddly enough though right now I'm back home in PA on vacation.

I can't imagine being any happier with my work life. Apple is a great place to work, and the Soundtrack Pro team is an awesome group of people. It's certainly been a lot of hard work over the past year, but when you finally get to go out and show off your product and find out that people love it, all the hard work is worth it.

And stealing from Josh's post on his one year anniversary at IBM a passage from Paul Graham's Hacker's and Painters (highly recommended to everyone, even non geeks):

'Many people feel confused and depressed in their early twenties. Life seemed so much more fun in college. Well, of course it was. Don't be fooled by the surface similarities. You've gone from guest to servant. It's possible to have fun in this new world. Among other things, you now get to go behind the doors that say "authorized personnel only." But the change is a shock at first, and all the worse if you're not consciously aware of it.'

Do I miss college? Sure, though much more-so the people than the classes. And that's not to say that I am not having a great time living in CA. Things are just different.

Job Posting - Soundtrack Pro Team

We have three immediate openings on the Soundtrack Pro team. Two of the positions are for audio engineers (Req 2328477 and Req 2328484), and one is for a Cocoa Engineer (Req 2340516). If you're interested in any of the positions (or know someone who might be), feel free to email me (see Contact page for info), and I'll forward the information on to my manager.