July 2007 Archives
Yay! I spent most of this Sunday wandering around San Diego Convention Center, dodging dressed up people, staring at game previews on wide screens, admiring artists drawing sketches for fans as fast as I would write my own name on a piece of paper.
I arrived there around 10am. I thought it would be a pain in the ass to find a parking spot since the convention center is downtown (south of Gas Lamp district) so my laziness made me choose the easy way: I parked my car in a mall parking lot. It took me about 30 minutes to actually arrive inside the center (time to walk, wait in the online registration line, get my badge and find my way to the first conference). The place is huge and was heavily crowded. No wonder all the tickets were sold out before the first day.
I attended to a conference by Nicolas and Weston Cage (Nicolas's son). They were presenting their brand new comics, Voodoo Child. More interesting than I would have thought in the first place. I got out of the conference room by 11:30am and went to the gignormous exhibition hall. There were like 4000 different booths, including huge ones (Marvel, DC Comics, LucasArts, Capcom, Square Enix, ...) and a lot smaller ones.
I could not leave without checking out Jeph Jacques's booth (Questionable Content). I managed to find him and bought a "She Blinded Me With Library Science" shirt. I also asked for a quick sketch and he drew me a thinking Hannelore.
I was about to go back home when I spotted Stephan Martiniere in the Design Studio Press booth. For those who don't know him, he is a talented illustrator and animation director (worked on Star Wars: epsiode II and III). I could not resist buying his latest illustrations book, Quantumscapes.
I finally called it a day and took off around 4pm.
I arrived there around 10am. I thought it would be a pain in the ass to find a parking spot since the convention center is downtown (south of Gas Lamp district) so my laziness made me choose the easy way: I parked my car in a mall parking lot. It took me about 30 minutes to actually arrive inside the center (time to walk, wait in the online registration line, get my badge and find my way to the first conference). The place is huge and was heavily crowded. No wonder all the tickets were sold out before the first day.
I attended to a conference by Nicolas and Weston Cage (Nicolas's son). They were presenting their brand new comics, Voodoo Child. More interesting than I would have thought in the first place. I got out of the conference room by 11:30am and went to the gignormous exhibition hall. There were like 4000 different booths, including huge ones (Marvel, DC Comics, LucasArts, Capcom, Square Enix, ...) and a lot smaller ones.
I could not leave without checking out Jeph Jacques's booth (Questionable Content). I managed to find him and bought a "She Blinded Me With Library Science" shirt. I also asked for a quick sketch and he drew me a thinking Hannelore.
I was about to go back home when I spotted Stephan Martiniere in the Design Studio Press booth. For those who don't know him, he is a talented illustrator and animation director (worked on Star Wars: epsiode II and III). I could not resist buying his latest illustrations book, Quantumscapes.
I finally called it a day and took off around 4pm.
Since I moved this blog from http://jeremie.famille-corbier.net/ to http://blogs.famille-corbier.net/jeremie/, I decided to use the previous address as a real personal homepage. The old blog is now history and I replaced it with an Ikiwiki instance (with a GIT backend of course). It is quite empty right now though.
A month ago, I was invited to Dot and Adrien's engagement/housewarming/meet the future bride's parents party. Adrien is Mathieu's supervisor at Aleks. He is a cool French guy from Nice (nobody's perfect :)). He is getting married with Dot, a great outgoing, funny gal. They organized an awesome barbecue party to celebrate this. Here are some pictures taken during the afternoon.
I decided a few months ago that my quick & dirty Python/Kid hack was not enough anymore and considered for a while coding yet another blog engine using Django this time (yes, I like Python). Lack of time made that my few attempts were not worth it and I gave up.
Tonight I was lurking on the internet with no real goal and stumbled upon The Movable Type Open Source Project. I decided to give it a shot. Perl with a PostgreSQL backend is fine (It can use MySQL and SQLite too, as long as the right DBD modules are installed).
Tonight I was lurking on the internet with no real goal and stumbled upon The Movable Type Open Source Project. I decided to give it a shot. Perl with a PostgreSQL backend is fine (It can use MySQL and SQLite too, as long as the right DBD modules are installed).
