Great list, all you need now is for the Earth's rotation to slow down so that we get 40 hour days, which should be just about enough to give you the time needed to get all of that done within in the next 334 days
Brad, eat more sardines. If you are not hungry enough to eat sardines, you are not hungry. With a nice great huge big salad.
Get the lower level of the Stardock building finished to start hiring second games team. Good! Now see if Microsoft will sell you the IP and existing code and art for Freelancer 2. Then you would have a first person space adventure to go with Galciv 2 and Sins!
Write a fantasy novel for publication. Wowsers, Brad, do I have a plot for you; since you know the gaming industry. See, there's this bunch of highly talented people who leave the North Studio of the famous Buzzard Entertainment Corporation (publishers of World of BoreCraft) to found their own studio, which is to become known as Failship Studios! Their goal is to produce a game called Failgate London, which is all about how hell rifts open up in London and spew out great hordes of demons and evil critters, and ghosties, and ghoulies, and American tourists! Their CEO is the famous gaming industry guru and grandeloquentspeak, Bill Sushi.
But soon things begin to go hellishly wrong! First they have to get financing from an obscure fictional Asian nation known as Corerea. The Corereans will turn out to be Satanists and possessed of demons, who will in the end want to possess Failship Studios as well and devour it. The plot grows even darker as the doomed game developers fall under the fatal allure of the foul, evil, vampiric publisher EArrrrrrrgh! Well, you can take it from there. Just send me a free game from time to time.
I imagine brad has the exact same issue as me. That is that tone carries a lot of weight is some people's style of speech and that without tone, the meaning of the text can be difficult to discern. This leaves you with two options, (1) write boring emails that sound nothing like you, or (2) write emails like you talk and hope people add the correct "tone-age" to them.
Then, sorry Mrs. Wardell... but JillUser wasn't particularly obvious to forum users.
Btw, could you please drop a virtual bomb on him to push my suggestions so that he follows up on these too once 6 & 4 are properly resolved?
I bet that's a popular one this year.
I don't push Brad about anything. He is the most focused, goal oriented person I've ever met. I just do my part at home and work and help in whatever way I can (mostly staying out of the way) so he can get his goals accomplished. It has been a very rewarding partnership thus far!
That was by design since I wanted to see how I did on my own merit as a blogger before people were on to me about my association with the big guy. Happily, I was well received even when people didn't know who I was.
Lol it could only be a Stardock forum when a) The CEO starts threads in OT and b ) the CEO's wife posts on it
I have a resolution not to make any resolutions in 2009. I'm doing really well so far...
Is Brad really "fat" or chunky?? From the pics of him, i don't think so. He has to tell me how to gain weight. I can't because i have such a high metabolic rate.
You can go on the all famous McDonalds only diet.
He wants to gain weight, not die.
Writing a novel could be fun, though I'm sure it will suck up hours and hours of your free time.
That doesn't work for me.
...what?
I'm serious.
I've been a vegetarian for 15 years but reading "The Omnivore's Dilemma" and "In Defense of Food" finally convinced me to act a bit more locally and *process* more of my own food myself. . with fresh ingredients. . in my own kitchen.
Good luck on the job hunt. If I were looking for work I'd think long and hard about what all those other folks are going to need to get work . . and do that. Now is a good time to consult I think.
Well, I have a job. I just want a different one that might have some sort of career path. ;
I think I might take your diet goal as well zubaz.