EYEHEARTZOMBIES

So yesterday I got a call and my Sproutit.com contract has been terminated. The project just wasn’t moving as fast as they wanted. I understand and I’m OK with it. I knew I was going kind of slow (having to search for information, learn someone else’s code, and my anal-retentive triple-checking for the best method), and I kind of had a feeling it wasn’t going to go well. But, things will move on.

Last week John (who needs to start blogging again) and I went to see a lawyer about getting Gigantuan Studios legally up and running. For a reasonable price we can have articles drafted and filed in the state of Arkansas and get our logo trademarked. We both know that we don’t have to have the logo trademarked — it was copyrighted to John the moment he finished drawing it — but it’s a lot faster in court if it is. Not that we ever expect to have to go to court for our logo! Those of you who have seen it know that it’s not very likely to be copied.

So, yeah. I’m a little sad and down on myself for losing the job, but I learned a lot of good development and Rails knowledge for the month I worked on it. It’s going to be a very interesting product when it gets released and I hope everything works out well for Sproutit.

But, in better news, John and I are throwing an Xbox LAN game today! About five people are coming over and we’ll have two projectors for the screens. Do you know what that means? That means two 90″+ screens! Yes, it’s “Haloween”. If you want to see the t-shirt or poster, I’ll upload them to Flickr later on. I’ll also post pictures of the gaming, so you can see how awesome of a set up it is. If you’re near us (northwest Arkansas) and you want to play, let me know and I’ll send you an invite next time we throw one. We’re trying to do one a month or so.

Anyway, game starts in a few hours and I haven’t finished cleaning up the house, so I’m out of here for awhile.