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[robbat2]

Just a little update about my life.
Since going sailing last weekend, I've been working during the week.
I left early on Thursday due to excessive construction noise at TechBC.

Friday afternoon I had a business meeting at Electronic Art's new Motion Capture studio. It's inside the Vancouver Film Studios complex, just off Skeena and Grandview.

Really nice hardware in there. State of the art motion capture systems are good. A couple of funny little things with it tho. The systems they use, basically have a large number of high intensity LED lights, with BW cameras. The people wear black velcro suits, with little reflective markers. The reflectiveness of the markers is make with 3M™ reflective tape. Apparentely that stuff is what works best.

Anyway, although my meeting was supposed to be 2pm till 5pm, the guys at EA had got all their work for the day done (setting up for a new motion capture shoot this coming week, for a skating game due out at Christmas). So the meeting got done early, and I was home by 4pm. Got to meet the top boss too, all the guys around there are good people. They also dislike the Development and QA people in EA, which is why they think having their own building away from Saunderson Way is nice. The only thing they miss is the gym.

I've been working on my new server a lot. It is called Cherenkov. Just a few more things to do (DHCPd, PHP and Netfilter) then it will be all ready, and I can put it into service, to finally replace Fermi.