Week 21 : Christmas

It has been a nice quiet holiday. I have had the opportunity to send out more resumes, network with local people and visit with family.  Presuming I find work by the time I graduate there is a high chance that I will not be returning to Lexington for a while. So, I have taken this time to tie up any loose ends in my hometown. Additionally the house seems to be coming together, we have half of the house re piped, I may get to see the hot water working before I leave.

During my downtime I have been reading the Game of Thrones series ( just starting the 3rd book today), I'd like to think I am doing prep research in case I get an opportunity to work on Tell Tales' new GoT game.

Talk about a Dream come true.

See you in Twenty weeks.

Week 20 : Midway

Well the Holidays are upon us and I have reached the midway point to this experiment. I suppose it is time for a reflection:

School: I haven't gotten official grade just yet, but having looked at my scores for projects it looks like another 4.0 semester. It feels great to maintain A's for all my graduate courses. When I started school I did not have confidence in my abilities but now I can see that I can whatever anyone needs. Website with shopping card using credit cards? No problem. Need me to process data on a large scale, no worries. How about replace the AI system? Got it covered. It feels good to know the world is your oyster. Worst case scenario I can always do my own work on the side.

House: As you might recall I am renovating my house and there have been complications. My initial inspection had me worried, but now I feel better. It will look nice and it will sell. I just hope it get on the market before February arrives.

In general there has been a lot of growth this year. I am excited for the future wherever it may take me. Yes I am scared s#%tless that I don't have a solid plan for post May but I am putting out resumes, and even checked with my old boss at Spencerian College, I know I will find something. But I really do hope God sees fit to give me a chance at TellTale Games. I feel in my heart I was born to build games, to be a Californian. All I can do now is wait.

Update: Yes I got all A's for the semester, only 3 more to acquire.

See you in Twenty One weeks

Week 19 : 'Game of Thrones' & 'Borderland'

Hello all,

Well we rapidly approach the middle of this experiment to get me a job. This week is finals week and then I get a few weeks off before I start my final semester. With any luck I will have a job by the end of the next one. I saw a few interesting press releases from Tell Tale yesterday, they are going to do some games for 'Game of Thrones' and 'Borderland'.

This is exciting, as a consumer I can't wait to see what TT does with Game of Thrones. I am a big fan of the show, and have just caught up on season three thanks to HBO Go. As a potential employee I hope this means they need to hire many new people and that I can be part of the new team that joins up. All in all I see this as a good thing.

Here's hoping!


See you in Twenty Two weeks

Week 18 : Presentations

This week I start a week of presentations, as I right this I am less than an hour from starting my 'Security for Video Game' presentation for my Cyber Security class. Later in the week I have a presentation on 'Phi and Facial Detectors' for Computer Vision. The final presentation will be next Monday where I present my project 'Pyhop and Unity3d' planner.

If that isn't enough I woke up this morning to this note in my Linked In account

Dear Anthony Rosenbaum,

The purpose of this letter is to invite you to be a speaker at our upcoming International Conference on
Computer Graphics and Media Design (Computer Graphics-2014) on July 8-10, 2014. This conference will be held at Chicago, USA
hosted by OMICS Group Conferences.
For titles and topics please visit: http://www.omicsgroup.com/computer-graphics-media-design-conference-2014/cfa.php

I love seeing stuff like this, it means I am touching the right type of people and those people see that I am a determined hard working programmer who is passionate about games and interactive entertainment. Not to mention being a speaker always looks good on a resume.

See you in Twenty Three weeks

Week 17 : Thanksgiving

Well it wouldn't be right to let a week go by without a post.  However we will keep this post simple. Work doesn't amount to squat without friends of family. So for the holiday I had an old friend come down for Atlanta and we ate:

Beef tournedos with a homemade Horseradish sauce.
Roasted Butternut squash & Chipolet  soup
Bacon Wrapped asparagus.
Hummus with Pita
and a Custard pie with Guava sauce.


All in all it was a great time. Hope you had a great Thanksgiving as well.


See you in Twenty Four weeks