Author Archives: Alan V

Logistics

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Starting to take care of logistics related to moving. Plane tickets have been purchased, car rental has been reserved, things are starting to be packed, housing is being pursued. It’s a scary feeling. Still, I keep feeling like it’s the right thing to do, which is probably a good sign.

Current plan is to leave San Francisco on July 23 and fly into Pittsburgh around July 28.

I’ve been working on a redo of RPG Get. I’d been working on the next expansion set (Evolution Worlds) for a while and realizing that some of the abilities were getting really, really hard to express in ways that made sense. As a result, cards were filling up with text and it seemed like everything was going to be too difficult to track. Instead, I’m breaking things down into various different stats and icons and hopefully simplifying the flow.
Sample redo cards:


Changes

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So for the past couple weeks, I’ve been mulling over things in my mind. I think I’m at a good point now where I can make a reasonable decision. So, I can say with near certainty…

I will be moving back to Pittsburgh toward the end of July.

Also it feels all the more real when I actually write it like that. (And scary all over again.)
“Near certainty” because I can still be convinced otherwise. I’m sure there are things I haven’t thought about yet.
Therefore…
If anyone has thoughts on whether or not it’s a good idea, thoughts on moving services/methods, or thoughts on housing in Pittsburgh, input would be greatly appreciated.

Photo Firsts (Ben B., Tyler) and Stats

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Edit: bblum suggested posting photos of each person from each time interval as well. It’s been a while since I’ve done a personal coding project, so I hacked this site together in about an hour. You can view stats for people and such. There aren’t photos for everyone yet (since it is now 4 AM and I should sleep), but the basic site functionality should be working.

Edit edit: Done now. All photos have been uploaded. I accidentally missed a few, but those will be uploaded later this afternoon.

So Photoshop Album tells me that I have now taken 204,885 photos.
It’s also the end of April, so it’s time to post stats for people from the past 4 months.

My first photo of Ben:

September 5, 2007 at the Activities Fair. (It’s the back of his head though.)

My first photo of Tyler:

August 29, 2005 next to Henderson.

I was curious how many different people I know (or at least knew enough to identify visually and assign a tag for), so I went through my tag bin.

    By rough category:

  • 71 people in Arizona (basically middle school plus a few random people from there)
  • 110 people in the Bay Area (including CMU people who have moved here)
  • 436 people at CMU
  • 151 people at PPA
  • 20 people from PSLC (summer internship my sophomore year of college)
  • 95 people at Salesforce (not including Sharon, Charles, Andrew, Matt, and Justin)
  • 23 people at Viz (summer internship my junior year of college)
  • 59 people in other random categories (Pittsburgh, Ohio, Colorado, Thailand)

    • for a total of roughly 965 people.