7 posts tagged “me”
Papa Chow dug up an old recording of a baby .tiff trying to sing the ABC's. Given that my brother is not in the picture, this must have been recorded sometime between 1986 and 1987. I think I sound pretty adorable.com, but it's clear I have some work ahead of me on my alphabet reciting skills:
What does a good kid get for a late birthday present? An awesome hooded space monkey towel, gifted by someone who knows me way to well.
Can't talk much as I have plenty of posts to write up for Destructoid, but things are pretty alright so far. This morning I woke up at 6 to be ready in time for the Nintendo press conference at 9, which sadly was pretty disappointing. Their biggest announcement was the introduction of the WiiMotion Plus, which essentially just makes the Wiimote work the way it was supposed to in the first place. The end all announcement was WiiMusic, which as you can tell, I did not have the most riveting impressions of.
Since then, I've been running around to various meetings... rapidly taking notes and trying to maintain a clam sense of sanity. I have yet to make it to the showroom floor to try any games hands-on, but all in due time I'm sure. Oh, and I'm also trying on Bionic arms. Pretty cool right?
p.s. I got a haircut :D
Seems like this Monday was the day for .tiff to make some random appearances around the Internets. While my cameo at the WWDC '08 Keynote pales greatly in comparison to Mr. Sippey's stellar onstage presentation of our TypePad iPhone app, if you look carefully at timestamp 1:22:47 you can catch of glimpse of myself and Chico when we were waiting in line for the iPhone launch in NYC last year:
The Destructoid community wins again.
There are two podcasts that Destructoid records weekly: Retroforce Go! (Retro Gaming News) and Podtoid (Gaming News and Criticisms, the one I am on). Be forewarned that both are as explicit (not necessarily from yours truly, but some pretty crass stuff is said) as they are intelligent, informative, and entertaining should you care to listen.
Retroforce Go! has managed to convince their fans to write game-related haikus, allotting many a chuckle-worthy 17-syllable poetic moments. Half joking, Anthony suggested that podtoid fans write Shakespearian sonnets to one up the Retroforce crew. Not joking, community member Brilliam wrote the following sonnet (along with other poems dedicated to the various members of Podtoid) for me.
Many harts for Mr. Brilliam! You made my evening!
DOT THE TIFFS BUT NEVER CROSS THEM
I found an image file the other day,
Dot-tiff, the file extension that it bore.
I smiled a bit, as I thought of the way
It always seems she really knows the score.
I'm jealous, I am saddened to admit,
Of how she gets to write on gaming's joys.
I'm also quite impressed by all the shit
She seems to put up with the podtoid boys.
And then she wrote that article on chicks
And how they're represented in this scene.
Despite most of the comments made by dicks
She highlighted a trend that's turned obscene.
Soft-spoken, but a font of poignant words,
She's like the El'nor Roosevelt of nerds.
Since I've been a blonde, people have thought I resembled Julia
Stiles, Mandy Moore, Jewel, Kate Hudson and Jessica Alba. Go figure...
* Today I finally went to that myheritage site that everyone was using and did the 'face recognition'
dealie. None of the persons mentioned above turned up in these
results, however according to the particular photo I had chosen I
resembled:
- Cameron Diaz (what?)
- Jamie Lynn Spears (excuse me?)
- Twiggy (okay, I dig. but I still don't get it.)
- Tara Reid (oh, its the blonde thing, isn't it)
- Hilary Duff (*hits forehead*)
- Gwyneth Paltrow (sure sure)
- Emma Watson (right right)
- Hollie Marie Combs (who I actually met in person, and no we didn't look alike)
- Molly Ringwald (not at all, got anything better?)
- AND with the highest correlation of 71%, Monica Lewinski (now I'm downright embarrassed.)
On a second try with a smiling photo (I wasn't showing any teeth in the one before) it turned out again that I look like Cameron Diaz and Jamie Lynn Spears.
If you don't mind, I'm going conduct an exorcism now to get the Monica Lewinski-look cooties out of me.
