Life.alanv.org has gotten another update, which brings it up to date to this past weekend.

RPG Get has also gotten its first expansion set. If anyone actually has interest in it, you should playtest it and give me feedback.

Life has been fairly uneventful lately. On Saturday, Charles, Mark, Evan, and I went to the SF MOMA. They were celebrating their 75th anniversary and had free admission.

I will never understand modern art.

At least they had an entire floor of photography (including San Francisco after the earthquake) that was really interesting.

Work this week has been kind of frustrating. A lot of the stuff I’ve been doing hasn’t worked out like I planned. As a result, I had 6 things to deal with today, 4 of which were issues that I thought I’d taken care of but that ended up being an issue anyway. Blah.

Also the bay area is drowning. We’ve gotten so much rain these past few days, and it’s supposed to continue tomorrow. Blah. I walked to work this morning in the worst of it, and it took almost 4 hours for my pants and socks to dry out (despite me not wearing my socks or shoes).

The past couple days have been filled with parties and food and friends and awesome.

Thursday night was the Dev PPL Potluck at Nate’s house. There was a lot of really good food.

Last night was the Salesforce company party which was spectacular as always. Last year’s was a little better, but that’s primarily because it was held at the Academy of Sciences, where there were tons of exhibits to wander around in, whereas this year’s mostly involved live music and a dance floor.





There was, of course, an abundance of excellent food and an open bar. Had 4 drinks in the first 45 minutes, sipped a fifth over about another half hour, then stopped drinking for a couple hours, finishing with two more drinks before closing. Probably more alcohol than I should have had, but I didn’t get drunk, and was actually completely sober afterward. Not bad.

Afterward we went to Sharon’s for “drunken” rock band, except none of us were drunk. Things got interesting though when Brett took a half-dozen shots (which would be fine on its own, as he’s a very mellow drunk… he just starts failing expert vocals on Rock Band) and Matt came home drunk. There are photos of the resulting chaos; which includes such things as Matt spilling water all over Sharon, Charles spilling water all over Matt and a just-changed Sharon, Matt eating chips and spilling most of them all over Sharon, Brett singing “A Whole New World” while Matt joins in singing about bowls of sour cream and fat, Matt getting his head caught in the blinds, and Matt loudly singing along to “Don’t Rain on My Parade” and jumping around the apartment; but I don’t think I’m allowed to post them. :P
Drunk people are funny.

There was a Dreamforce yesterday and today, and it was a lot of fun. There’s something about seeing huge crowds of people (19,000 attendees this year, apparently) that finally makes you realize that, hey, those numbers that you see in your inbox about features are actually people and, holy crap, people are using the code you wrote and, holy crap, they like it.

Also, as confirmed last Christmas party and at the dev party a month or so ago and last night, Salesforce is really good at throwing parties. Plenty of food and festivities and stocked, open bars. Win.

Photos from the past two days will be posted to photos 2 eventually… maybe tonight, if I’m feeling motivated, but likely tomorrow since I’m feeling tired.

But mostly I just wanted to link Colin Powell’s keynote this evening. It was one of the best speeches I’ve ever heard, and certainly the most impressive that I have had the pleasure to see in person. Go and watch it if you have some time. Seriously.

Also… new episode of Glee? Perfection. Quinn’s actress is excellent.

Edit: Posted.
Our mascots are awesome.

It’s definetly been an interesting weekend.

Friday night was the R1 release, which meant lots of tasty free Indian food at work. Afterward, Charles and I took a trip to Safeway to get various things.
After getting home, I discovered that Em had a Gamecube. I borrowed it and hooked it up to her projector (also borrowed) and played Evolution Worlds. No sound (sad) but still amazing and nostalgic. Finished up the first two ruins.

Saturday, I went and got my flu shot and spent most of the rest of the day playing more Evolution Worlds. Managed to get through the final boss of the first game (Evolution Worlds is a combination of the two Evolution games for Dreamcast) and started in the second town.
That evening was a party at Sharon’s/Charles’/Matt’s. Besides tasty food, there was lots of booze. We all had drinks and sang Karaoke and generally had an awesome time. I got to sing songs like “Hot ‘n Cold” and “Girlfriend” and it was rather amusing. (Piccars coming to photos 2 eventually.)

Today was going slowly until I get a call from Forrest. Apparently, we had managed to regress a ton of things in the latest release and generally needed to do lots of fixing.
One of the issues was totally my fault… I had made a bad assumption that users wouldn’t have more than a couple hundred rows in this table, and we had a few users with 400,000+ rows. Spent the afternoon and early evening making the “right” fix for that while the “quick” fix was done by Jong.
Checked back on the status of things around 10:30 PM and found that the other issue we encountered hadn’t actually been caused by what we suspected, and therefore hadn’t been fixed by the release. After some digging around with Esther, Harsimran, and Willy, we realized we had removed support for a feature in the release that was apparently still in use. Oops.
That’s why I’m in the office at 5 AM, having spent the past few hours making the fix and writing tests. It’s awesome… it’s like college again.

Now I should go get some leftover Indian food because I haven’t eaten since 11 AM yesterday morning and that is probably bad. Maybe there will be 5 AM Super Smash Brothers too…