While Glenn and Michele were visiting this past weekend, we decided to go check out the USS Hornet, on permanent display in Alameda. Click through for the gallery of pictures:
Year: 2004
Halloween at FileMaker
Click through for a gallery of images from the Halloween festivities at FileMaker this year:
Double Halloween Birthday Celebration
Lots of costumes on another double birthday Halloween celebration for Kathie and Patty – with Dave, Clay, Buck, Gina, Keith, Troy and the Grinch. (Most of the pictures are from Dave.)
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Yay, Fan Mail!
— On 9/15/04 11:31 AM, space aliens may have forced Gordon to write:
Hi Chris!
Just wanted to thank you for the great game and the memories that went along with it…my friends and I loved this game.
Just out of curiosity…why did you never make any other games? Your game albeit looking somewhat like Ultima very original in many ways (animated characters and other touches). Have you made any shareware or hobby games since then?
Thanks in advance!
Gordon
Hi Gordon,
Thanks for writing and I’m glad to hear you enjoyed it.
I never wrote another game because I’ve been doing other software engineering full time since college (on FileMaker Pro 1.0-7.0) and I’m just not motivated to spend that much more time on the computer than I already do outside of work! (As you can see, I can’t even keep up on my personal email!)
The only shareware I did was a module for Now Software’s “Now Fun!” title, but what I did was just a utility to customize the colors on the old Macintosh System 8 — I think, or was it 7?! Anyway, that’s all. FileMaker keeps me pretty busy!
Thanks again,
Chris
Burning Man
Pictures from my first Burning Man experience!
So what is Burning Man? Oh geez. Well… it’s this massive yearly gathering in the high desert north of Reno, Nevada. It’s a festival of art and creativity, of community and self-expression. It’s a temporary city where commerce is not permitted, giving is widespread and people meet each other through their participation in the event. It’s definitely an experience.
The event runs a full week but FileMaker’s Developer Conference always seems to coincide with it. So this year I decided to at least taste a few days of it. Bonnie and the rest of her burning clan were kind enough to let me join them at their camp, “Heaven a la Cart”.
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Exploring Southcentral Alaska
This is a collection of images from a three week trip to the southcentral portion of Alaska. The first six days were booked with Alaska Wildland Adventures to explore the Kenai Pennisula and involved a series of separate guided day excursions while staying at a couple of lodges. (This flexibility was helpful since a different outfitter cancelled a week-long group trip at the last minute.) The middle ten days were arranged through REI Adventures and handled by Alaska Alpine Adventures. This guided group trip passed through Prince William Sound, visited McCarthy/Kennicott, traveled the Denali Highway, and included three days visiting Denali National Park. The final three days (and a couple of intermediate days) were on my own.
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FileMaker DevCon 2004
Rafting/Camping on South Fork American River
Click through for a gallery of pictures from a weekend of rafting and camping on the South Fork of the American River with my brother Glenn and his wife Michele, her brother Matt and his son Tyler:
