Topic: WOW been a while.

I know it's been done before, but just wondered what you guys are up to now.

Myself married with one son and one on the way next may.

Managed to get some serious web design work, worked on the rolling stones tour advertising when they were in the czech rep and lots of stuff for coca cola etc.

on the 3d side, produced some commercial addons for a few games, currently working as a freelance 3d animator when i am not teaching.

hope you guys are all well.

I believe we all are well.

Also married myself. Got first baby coming March next year. 'nervous'

Didn't do much design work, busy with my job.

Would like to hear how the others are doing..

cell 799

Long time no hear, Tom!

I am remarried, have twins (two boys, now 3 1/2) and I now work in security (doing secret hush-hush stuff for the German Government). Got a U3 clearance.

Nice to see you around, Rick!

WebShaman | The keenest sorrow (and greatest truth) is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
- Sophocles

I still love to wander these colourful halls too. Good to hear you guys are well.
I'm still wondering and wondering

I'm always checking what's going on, even if there's not much of anything

*/me pokes his head in*

Oops, wrong floorboard..

Wandering around to check this place but it's been really quiet. Those pills must be working..

cell 799

I still lurk around here from time to time. Sometimes I think about starting a new js 20 liner or ps pong thread. Used to enjoy these.

Still lurking and posting every now and then.

Moved to one of the Core teams of Opera, working mostly on W3C widgets, device APIs and more recently on extensions for Opera 11. Been at Opera and living in Oslo for over 5 years now. It looks like I'm gonna stay here a bit longer...

I got married in September last year and our daughter is coming at the end of this month

Haven't had much "geeky" time the past months with work, the pregnancy and other personal things. I hope I'll manage to squeeze out a bit of time for some creative projects during my parental leave when our daughter will sleep. We'll see how it goes.


Arthurio: Please do. I'm a lazy bum and need some kick to get productive. Most of the creative stuff I made recently were triggered by some challenge of some sort ( JS1K, seeing some insane 128b prod in x86 assembler, a silly meme, ... )

Congratulations poi!

I love hearing how my fellow asylumites are doing as time passes.
Well done poi.

Congratz...get plenty of sleep while you can.


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*wakes up, eyes shining in the shadows and grins showing a glint of fangs.* I'm still here.


'Hey, take it easy and enjoy life.... or in your case, death.' -- Yoh Asakura, 'Shaman King'

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Grats, poi!

Nice to see you around, Wolfen.

WebShaman | The keenest sorrow (and greatest truth) is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
- Sophocles

thanks your posting, and I really love SPAM
still pay attention to Ozone

(Edited by Jestah on 12-18-2010 22:06)

Haven't left my cell in awhile either... My wife and I celebrated our 2nd anniversary with our 5 day old son in October. No time for playing the last few years, busy at work, mostly fun R&D code though, so I'm not complaining

--

Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.

Congratulations to you too Lord_Fukutoku

Wow, congrats to you both!

Thanks Tao and Arthurio.

quote:

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Haven't had much "geeky" time the past months with work, the pregnancy and other personal things. I hope I'll manage to squeeze out a bit of time for some creative projects during my parental leave when our daughter will sleep. We'll see how it goes.

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Sounds like we're in the same boat poi
Good luck finding time for any projects... I was able to take 2 weeks off and finding time to sleep and just do day to day stuff quickly went to the top of the list of things to try and do each day. I didn't have any time for any extra projects (still don't), but it's completely worth it

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Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.

Thanks!

Lord_Fukutoku: Definitely worth it any ways. I applied for the parental leave of 37 weeks. Yeahhhh Norway! I'm pretty sure that at some point I will manage to get into a daily/weekly routine that allow me a bit of "free" time during my parental leave.

Good to read these updates, as I rarely venture in here...

Between the wife, 2 kids (son=7 & daughter=5), Dog...work, and the book I am working on, I sometimes forget my own name!


.Quotes.

It occurred to me today that my bookmark for OzoneAsylum has had nary a friendly click in quite some time. I have no idea why I have not checked in for so long.

Life has a way of interfering with other pursuits, I guess.

Best wishes to all.

(Edited by White Hawk on 01-19-2011 16:47)

♪ Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans ♫

;-)

I've been focusing my creative energies on plastic bricks:

http://www.youtube.com/user/mahj
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28134808@N02/sets/

Some highlights: Bridge Launcher, Sportscar tank and Arctic vehicle.

May you stay focused forever. Great stuff. Have you been hired yet by a defence department somewhere? -_Q

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Some of us who rarely ever posted still lurk and read updates from time to time. Over the last decade, this is still the best place to learn new techniques. It's crunchier, anyway.

nicely styled youtube page, mahjqa.
Unfortunately I can't view any of the videos from Germany? (Not available in your country).
What's up with that?

That's an issue between Youtube and GEMA, a german institution that collects royalties. They demand ?0.13 ($0.17 / £0.11) for each five-minute song, and Youtube's not going to pay that. As a result, ANY video containing music (even rights-free and Creative Commons licensed songs) are not broadcast in Germany.

I've put up mirror files of the videos. You can find them here: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=youtubemirror&w=28134808%40N02

As always, mahjqa, you rock! Now I want an animated sig of those tractors! NOW!

WebShaman | The keenest sorrow (and greatest truth) is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
- Sophocles

Wow, everyone is procreating but me it seems! Congrats to everyone who're participating int he next generation. (Malin and I mainly concentrate on neurotic cats, and even they are fixed; evolutionary dead-ends, I'm afraid.) We're still focusing on reinventing retail, and it seems as if I don't really do anything fun, sadly enough. Business is good, that is cool, but coding seems like just a chore at times, that does bite.

I wonder if we shouldn't take over the5k.org maybe? I know that'd seem like tons of bytes to poi! It really is great to hear from so many of you guys doing well - this place was one of my best creations ever, and I owe a ton of thanks to all the inmates who've kept it running during my frequent absences.

I'm watching the Super Bowl, believe it or not! Only for the commercials, heh. =) Say, anyone have any ideas on what to do with evercookies? Hyper-neat, but I can't think of a point to it yet, other than nosy snoopiness.

Your pal, -doc-

Doc: Well, we owe you for this place and your inspiring work.

Yes, 5k is a tons of bytes. Although I'm uber busy, I'll probably chime in the next JS1K and might give in on the webGL band wagon although my 3yo laptop with integrated GPU won't let me go very far with pixel shaders.

In other news, Vida Sofia is doing great, she's over 4kg now and more and more awake. Oh and good news, my parental leave is actually 47 weeks

Evercookie sounds like the 'windows has 53 ways to autostart programs' debacle all over again...


Doc: Glad your cats are fixed. Wouldn't want to imagine the hell their offspring would raise
I've watched Sparkfun for a while now, and they also appear to do retail quite differently - care
to share your thoughts - those that ain't trade secrets of course .

Poi: 47 weeks... well, I hope I start writing my PhD thesis before you're done with that.
Or before Sofia is starting school, at least!

The Doc's in!

Dammit, where is the nurse

Anyone see or hear from Shi lately?

WebShaman | The keenest sorrow (and greatest truth) is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
- Sophocles

I tried checking her website, up until today I would have sworn that I was hosting http://www.shiiizzzam.com/ but when I went to check the link I found a bunch of japanese writing instead. (Quite pretty in a way, the kanji all runs together into big blocks of color, very pleasing.) Unfortunately, that did not look like Shiii's site at all!

I'll have to ask if Malin has heard from her, I know she was way involved in running 2 different boutiques, one in Florida and the other in [somewhere else].

Your pal, -doc-

I had noticed that Shiii's D.A. account had been deactivated a while back too. No further contact to report but I'm delighted that Amerasu is still there, as are a few other inmates. In other news....
I had a good time listening to your Xmas tracks on Spotify Doc


[doh] UBB forgettage[/doh]

(Edited by Tao on 02-10-2011 00:21)

I wonder if I still remember my password...

Well, if you're reading this then I guess so!

Man it's been a while. Feels like a decade has passed. Congrats to everyone who's gotten hitched, been knocked up or done some knocking.

I've have an interesting decade since I last frequented these halls. I went to the dark side for a while making online casino games. After a few years I eventually saw the light and defected to Sega and the Creative Assembly to do some PS3/360/PC console games - not as much money but it's like like seeing vogonpoet argue with himself - endlessly entertaining. Nowadays I teach game development to the younglings at Queensland University of Technology while working on my research masters. Never married or spawned, probably never will. I never really grew up, I don't intend to either. =D

Hope ya'll doing well.

Cheers!

- Drac.

(Edited by Dracusis on 02-19-2011 09:18)

WB Dracusis Sounds like a great career and life you have there. Well done.

Wow! Everyone is doing really good, and good ol' Doc is still kicking it.

cell 799

Yo!
Just making sure my account is still alive... :-)

Greetings to all.

Hello there viol

Wooo yeah this forum is more than 10 years old! I'm glad it's still here though.



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I just logged in for the first time since 2007 or 2008 Sadly almost nothing has changed since than other than my toddlers / babies growing into 5 year old monsters. How time flies!

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PHP Development Company, Scenic British Columbia, Dr MadCow's Web Portal

Hello! Thought I'd join in... I miss this place. Brings back good memories.

Hello, fellow inmates!

This seems to be the thread where people are popping in to say hi, so... hi!

It's been a really long time since I've dropped by, and it's nice to see the familiar design and even nicer to see a lot of familiar faces!

Wow... it has been a while, hasn't it. Anyway, what's new for me? Well, for one thing, I think I'm going to have to change my title--it is Master Suho no more. Yes, that's right--after many long years, I have finally finished my doctoral dissertation. Got it printed up last week and then submitted the requisite copies and paperwork on Friday, so I am officially done! I'm not officially Doctor Suho yet, though, as the graduation ceremony and the handing out of small pieces of paper does not take place until the 29th of August.

I kind of liked "Master Suho," though, and we all know there's only one real Doc around here... So, all things being equal, I think I may just stick with good ol' Master Suho.

So that's what's been happening with me. More changes are likely to take place now that I have this new piece of paper under my belt, but what those changes will be I cannot say at the moment. I'm sure they will be exciting, though. I definitely feel it's time for a change.

(Now let's see if I actually remembered my password... Huh, it looks like I did!)


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(Edited by Suho1004 on 08-10-2011 05:21)

quote:

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Suho1004 said:

Yes, that's right--after many long years, I have finally finished my doctoral dissertation.

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Ye basterd!
I weep for the day I'll be doing that

Congrats, Master-but-soon-to-be-Doc Suhu!

WebShaman | The keenest sorrow (and greatest truth) is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
- Sophocles

Congratulations!! The "marathon of pain" is over. For now. -_Q

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Hey guys! Good to see some of you are still hanging about here.

@TP: I would not wish it in my worst enemy, but if you're going into it willingly... good luck!


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@Suho1004: Thanks, three years down that particular rabbit hole already... love/hating every day of it

*peek*

"New Doctor? New Pills?"

*Returns to Lurker Corner*

GD

Gosh .. you're all still alive ... heh ... Me too - Stuck in the European space Agency building the next generation client-server web system for the Rrsearch Science division and still up to my ears in PHP, Dojo and Roxer ... Loing every minute of it, but haven't done any photoshop for absolutely ages ... I miss the occasional little game of Pong ..

Hmmm ... thinking on that I wonder whatever happened to Frax ... that 100 serve game game was a marathon


Bug-free software only exists in two places
In a programmer's mind and on a salesman's lips

(Edited by trib on 08-17-2011 17:15)

Greetings, Earthlings.
I'm still alive and kicking. punching, braiding and knotting.

I also haven't used Photoshop seriously in a long time. Maybe we should start a support group.

I graduated college. That's about it.

I don't even have photoshop installed on a box these days.



(Edited by Raptor on 08-20-2011 02:36)

Damn, it's been 10 years since I was here.

Simply put, everything has happened to me and then most it was undone because it turned out crap.

eg: marriage.

I am still using PS - I do modding for NWN!

WebShaman | The keenest sorrow (and greatest truth) is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
- Sophocles

Hey all
I'm still alive & kicking...
Not as coder though, I'm managing a user experience team at the worlds largest publicly noted online poker company.
Quite a step from where I was when I started hanging here as a wannabe designer/coder dude, I guess I picked up some stuff over the years.

Cool to see the old walls still up
/Dan

*/ I'm a ginio.....genios......genu......smart person! /*

{cell 260} I have no site due to no free time.
-{ Sleep: A common physical disorder that manifests itself as the level of blood in the caffeine circulation exeeds 20% }-

Wow since Dracusis and DmS mentioned online casino and poker I think I have to mention that I'm also in the same industry. Lead developer of a small information systems team. Lots of cool and interesting projects. My specialty is Atlassian Jira so if you ever have a problem with that you can come to me. I can help. Been doing that for the past 5 years now. Never had any formal education and never will if I can manage it.

(Edited by Arthurio on 08-24-2011 18:16)

Me still here.
Photoshop still the first software I install.
Years flying by too quickly
Still raging at the machine, hurts too much.
Nature soothes, spending more time there.
Visit here often.

I'm still around.

Let's see...

I went and got certifications as a professional (medical) coder and medical administrative assistant. Got laid off due to the economy and have been spending my time searching for a job or playing World of Warcraft. I've let Photoshop slide a little but am getting back into it.

(Edited by Moth on 09-04-2011 02:13)

Ok, I admit, I haven't been around these parts much.

It looks like there's more cob webs about instead of actual people now. I'm starting to smell that old musty smell as well.

I just started my first full time job in "the industry." Been there for 2 months now and it's looking like I may be there quite a while. I'm loving every day of it. I work in a cardiologist office as one half of their IT department. When there isn't any IT work to do the keep me busy in billing. The band I started about the same time I began lurking these halls is actually gigging on a regular basis and writing original music. If you'd like to check us out, we have facebook and youtube. I'm still looking for someone to take over singing so I can focus on guitar, so try to disregard the vocals lol. My music is the closest thing I've got to offspring for now, but I'm truly glad to hear that everyone is doing so well.


Life is too short, so love the one you got (Bradley Nowell)

Hello Guys,

It's good to see everyone is doing well. In the old day this place was bustling with he noises from the inmates. But now silence is king. It's good to see everyone drops every now and then.

I have been a sound engineer for a while. When my daughter got born i did not wanted to work at night anymore. Thus i am following an evening school in Library Sciences / Information management. Changing carreers did mean a new job and starting on a lower ladder possition. I just worked a year in a social services muncipality archive. Next weeks i will need to find another job once again.
For now i am happy this place is still ere and still as no adds on it.

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yeah, i know why i'm here.

I always remember this place with great fondness. I learned so much here and made so many lifelong friends.

It's great to see so many of you doing well. As for me I've been busy with many of the normal things I suppose. I am married to Lady Bugimus and we have a beautiful little Bugimus girl who is our joy. A few years back I went through a difficult time with my employment and personal issues but thankfully came out of that darkness to a bright and wonderful world.

I spend most of my time these days dedicated to my family and my church family. I don't really do much on my website but I always think that one of these days I will. It's more of a shrine actually. I have a stable day job for which I'm extremely grateful, doing "computer stuff" I suppose. Wella and I are exploring ways to build a home based business so in the next few years we could get more income but all in all we are fine as is.

I drop back here from time to time to wander the halls and remember. Who knows, perhaps one day we'll all finally have the reunion and meet face to face like we always talked about. For now let it suffice to know we are all still quiet inmates in this forever special place.

. . . : : . . Innervating Your Eyes & Mind : . . .

Would be nice to see you drop in more often, Bugs. Getting kind of empty in the Phil forum without you...

WebShaman | The keenest sorrow (and greatest truth) is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
- Sophocles

I just might

. . . : : . . Innervating Your Eyes & Mind : . . .

Graduated college.
Worked my way through the graphic design ranks.
Currently Art Director at a magazine. Incredibly lucky to have the job. I stop by now and then to look up web questions!

interdepth

Been a while since I've checked in as well, though I read this thread from time to time.

Since we're doing life update stuff, the quick version:
Working for the same company I was back then. I am on the operations side, but in a unique position of working on data analysis and metrics reporting, all of which I do in my own web-based environment...putting all of our data out there for easy visibility and reporting for our users.

All of the web work I do these days is internal, but it's been great stuff. Real time multi-user SPC for our QC auditors in the mix as well.
Lot's of ajax/php/mysql. Thank god for jQuery

Daughter is about to graduate high school.

Hey, cool, I'm still alive.

Frankly, I'm amazed.

It's great to see that portions of the old gang are still here, sort of, sometimes, and that people's lives are hopping and doing stuff.

I've moved jobs a few times since I last posted here. I'm one of those dreaded public servants now, doing all kinds of secret and no-so-secret stuff for the Australian Government. I have allowed my skills to become sullied with VB.NET development (the horror!) and I've moved away from systems administration, which frankly does bother me sometimes. I miss it, just like I miss this place. Hell, I miss all of you, including the few who would royally annoy me on a daily basis (you know who you are. If you don't, too bad).

Oh, and I finally took up photography like I always wanted to. Once I get my butt into gear and build a gallery I'll put stuff up. Mostly nature and landscape photography, and sweet, sweet macro shots.

It has been a long time for me too . Looking back - this place and the Gurus Network were my salvation after my husband passed away back then - it kept me busy with the pong and learning how to code, translating some of the tuts at the GN and just simply motoring along at both sites.

Life goes on even at 56 my daughter moved back, met a great irish fellow scorpion - going hiking and shooting pics, stopping at the local pub for a guiness on the way home and taking in some blues. Life is good !!

I am happy to read you are all doing great !!!

Wondering what happened to the Emporer - hmmmm - are ya out there Emps ?

(Edited by sib on 03-09-2012 02:21)

yes

(Edited by Arthemis on 03-09-2012 08:18)

Holy crap, lot of familiar old faces!

Great to see guys like DL-44, Bugimus, WebShaman, and Skaarjj still around

The long and short .. mostly short

Moved from Florida to Texas in 2005, Married 2008 and bought my first house, Had a baby 2010 and now my life is over ... haha j/k. Currently working as a Applications Director for Autodesk Inventor CAD software at a major Railcar manufacturer. Much more focused on Mechanical Design and Engineering than programming these days and I love it. Up until last year I still did PHP/MYSQL, but all freelance/personal projects - I miss it. Pretty much the only coding I still do professionally is VBA / VB.NET for the API of Inventor. Recently resurrected my DeviantART gallery and started doing digital art again - yay! =)

Recently entered a game design competition and won grand prize:

http://unity3d.com/contest/flash-in-a-flash/ (Needs latest version of Flash)

Look for an iPhone/Android version towards the end of the year. Really excited to be doing my first solo game, tech has progressed so fast so quickly.

I should really list most of the old Asylum crew in the credits, ya'll helped me a lot with my design/art/programming skills back in the day.

(Edited by Dracusis on 04-22-2012 09:50)

That game is awesome! Congrats and well done!

^Ditto^

hi

Seems we all stumble back now and than.... had a domain expire so had to update all my Sigs Hopefully no site admins on the forums notice how bare my new site is :|

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PHP Development Company, LinkBuilding101, Dr MadCow's Web Portal

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