A ski trip to Whistler/Blackcomb in British Columbia with Ralph, Thomas, Stephanie, Mike and Nanci turned into a hiking/touring trip in the absence of any significant snow. Sadly, California was getting loads of snow while we were away! And now we will *never* let Ralph live down all his talking up of Whistler that he subjected us to prior to this trip! ;-)
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Click through for a gallery from a weekend of Tahoe skiing at Diamond Peak and Mt. Rose:
Just some miscellaneous photos from the year – click through for the gallery:
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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:
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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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— 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
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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