So after the couple of movies left in the contract, Pixar will part ways with The Mouse. I guess I was as surprised as anyone, even taking into account that this will have zero effect on my job.
It’s ironic how the last blog entry was me being all chirpy about work, because this last week has been pretty stressful. The reward for a good review is even more work piled on your plate. The current project is subdivs again, from a new angle this time around. (Sorry, can’t get that specific.) Lots of math, not many easy papers to read (and typos to contend with), different coordinate systems to get confused about, fiddly indexing of arrays of data, all for a deadline which looks more and more overly optimistic. As a result I’ve been mean at work and I know it. Argh.
Lame as it sounds, adding to the stress this week has been the current video game addiction: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004. Manh suggested I get the game for online competition, and I must admit it’s pretty cool – taking into account that I haven’t played a real game of golf ever since high school and the infamous backswing incident where I bloodied someone’s nose. I spent half an hour fiddling with the Game Face feature trying to make the game avatar look like me, which was a novel feature for a console game – even though I don’t think they spent much time tweaking it for Asians:
The stress part comes from being a sore loser, especially when it comes to virtual CPU opponents. By extension I’d think I’d be a terror on a real golf course field. I can easily see myself taking a putter and attacking people with it after missing a hole by a few inches. Manh, Leon and Gary have told me to pick up the sport and get clubs this year to join them for a few rounds. I think given they call me a spaz on a regular basis, they may not want to press the issue.
