Alex's Alliterative Adventures

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Archive for October, 2006

Mr. C

Some of you have already heard about or watched Clinton’s recent interview with Fox News, but if you haven’t, you should really check it out.

edit: for great justice, take off every typo.

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Cloudy

Sweden’s weather is just plain weird. A perfect cloudless day will change to a torrential downpour with the occasional airborne cat and back in the span of ten minutes. It might be because it’s a small country that’s surrounded by sea, I don’t know, but for one reason or another the clouds here fly much lower and faster than I’m used to, which explains the schizophrenic weather patterns.Living under a perpetually turmoiled sky makes for some great, if not risky, cloud watching. Shapes are fleeting and impermanent, and yet their closeness makes them more tangible, as if you could take them home in a jar or leap up and glide among them. Watching the heavens makes a part of you think that you’re stuck in one of those time-lapse scenes in a documentary, except the people around you have conveniently forgotten that they are supposed to be fast-forwarding.

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By popular demand

Sorry for the absence, all, but I’ve been in crazy-death-mode for the past little while.  The past 4 days have been filled with 13 hours of choir practices, classes, assignments, and 5 interviews.  I also have a giant-ass project that I’m sorely behind on due on the 10th, and I have 5 more interviews up to that point. So yeah, posting will continue to be sparse until then.

I will bitch a bit, though.  Last night, I had an interview with Digital Extremes in London. They helped Epic Games make Unreal, UT, UT2k4, and Epic Pinball, which I grew up playing.  I’ve essentially turned down job offers just so I could have the chance to talk to these guys.  I think that Sweden was just conspiring against my returning to Canada, because the call quality was abysmal.  There was about a second of lag, our voices kept breaking up, and after about 20 minutes we just stopped being able to hear each other entirely.  They’re going to consider me nonetheless, but it’s a kick in the pants.  And the worst part is that I was able to secure the use of my own private office with a private wired phone line in my department, but I don’t get the key until next week sometime.  This is the sort of thing that could drive someone into a life of high-prescription glasses, low-voiced near assertive mumbling, and an obsession with red staplers.

I’ll throw up a post I wrote a little while ago to appease you guys.  Go gnaw on it, and try not to chew up the couch when I’m gone.

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Inspiration

Today’s choir practice was 5 hours long.  With 500 singers present, it was so crowded that I couldn’t hold my music in front of me without overlapping torsos with two people and resting my sheets on the head of a third. My knee started complaining pretty early on, we couldn’t hear or sing in time with the other half of the choir, and I generally didn’t want to be there.

Then the orchestra joined the practice.  As we sang O Fortuna to the quick bowing of the strings and the thunderous booming of the timpani, I couldn’t help but shiver.  This is what makes it all worthwhile.

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