lookee, another post!

so today was my first day working at another Sony company — Sony Online Entertainment — the makers of Everquest, the upcoming Star Wars Galaxies game, and Planetside, which is the game i will be working on. my gig at SCEA was put on hiatus last week. they shipped the game i was testing, and there was nothing else coming in for testing, so i moved on to bigger and better things. the timing couldn’t have been more perfect. i interviewed when things started to get crazy busy (in the QA world that means the product’s test cycle is coming to an end), and got the offer to work at SOE the day before the game at SCEA shipped, so i didn’t have too much time off. which is good. things seem to be much more professional at SOE compared to SCEA. i equated SCEA to being like high school with all the jocks because it got pretty rowdy at times, and SOE is like college where people are more serious about school (or in this case, work). at SOE, i don’t have that newbie/freshman feeling i got when i first started at SCEA. the other Planetside testers at SOE actually introduced themselves to me. shocking, i know! and i finally have my own cube that i can call home for the next 6+ months. at SCEA, i moved around depending on the game i was working on, so i never really had my own work area. didn’t help much that somebody once swapped out my PS2 for a broken one. anyways, enough about work. you’ll notice that i added a “now reading” bio thing to the left. i’ve been doing a lot more reading than i used to, mostly due to the fact that i don’t get any TV here at Jeff’s. they don’t have any cable, and i tried bringing in a pair of rabbit ears and that didn’t help at all. i guess nothing comes in here in Escondido. so i’ve just been reading to kill some time and relax. right now, i’m reading a book about Richard Stallman and his story about his crusade for free software. this book is also under the GNU license which means you can read it for free here. it’s exactly the same as the hardcover book i’m reading, except that it has less typos and grammatical errors. so what are you waiting for? read it!!!