JANUARY - Afternoon coffee walk sighting of Lamborghini Aventador SVJ at Motortrend #CarsAndCoffee

Afternoon coffee walk sighting of Lamborghini Aventador SVJ at Motortrend #CarsAndCoffee

Afternoon coffee walk sighting of Lamborghini Aventador SVJ at Motortrend #CarsAndCoffee

Afternoon coffee walk sighting of Lamborghini Aventador SVJ at Motortrend #CarsAndCoffee

I normally wouldn't take photos of our office complex bathrroms, but there's a bit of game dev humor in this. Unity devs, especially tech artists like myself, should know what I'm talking about... #MainTex

Afternoon coffee walk sighting of the Hot Wheels Darth Vader Car at Motortrend #CarsAndCoffee #HotWheels #DarthCar

Afternoon coffee walk sighting of the Hot Wheels Darth Vader Car at Motortrend #CarsAndCoffee #HotWheels #DarthCar

Afternoon coffee walk sighting of the Hot Wheels Darth Vader Car at Motortrend #CarsAndCoffee #HotWheels #DarthCar

Afternoon coffee walk sighting of the Hot Wheels Darth Vader Car at Motortrend #CarsAndCoffee #HotWheels #DarthCar

FEBRUARY - I find your lack of PEZ disturbing

Continental Development is continuing to refurbish our office building this year

I wish our studio's big red doorbell looked more legit

MARCH - BRB implemented a work from home policy at the beginning of this week...and with yesterday's "Safer at Home" announcement by Mayor Garcetti (followed by Governor Newsom's statewide order), it appears our team will be continuing to do so for the forseeable future. During a conversation over Slack, I mention to a relatively new team member that I worked on SEGA X-Men for the Genesis...and share this photo of the box (with our active chat session in the background).

APRIL - Before WFH, another coworker mentioned coming across a familiar looking wi-fi router while playing Insomniac's excellent Spider-Man game...and he sent my a photo of his. I still have mine too!

Wayback there was a time I was against having a cellphone... Slowly but surely I'm making my home workspace a bit more usable (I finally moved my dad's old PC from a spare room into my climate controlled home office on Monday anticipating this week's rise in temperatures). As I cleared the clutter from the top of my aging desk, old technology has resurfaced. Yes, my Walkman phone still works (though a full charge now only lasts 10 minutes). #WBW #WalkmanWednesday #WW #EverythingSony #SaferAtHome #WFH

As I mentioned when I posted the pic of my old cellphone yesterday, I'm uncovering and rediscovering old tech that has been stored in under-utilized and unfinsihed home office. This is my original Sony PSP, a portable gaming system that perfectly targeted my interests when it first came out. Thankfully this specific model still works, because this is my "Homebrew" PSP...firmware locked to a version that supported running unauthorized software. Even better, the PSP could run games made for the original PlayStation....a portable portfolio of my early years at Naughty Dog. The PS emulator also works with save files transfered from memory cards using a reader Sony offiicially offered for PS2. #WFH #SaferAtHome #TBT #EverythingSony

People who know how much Gran Turismo I've played over the years are shocked when I told them I skipped over playing GT2. I actually lent my disc to my dad while I continued to play the simulation mode of the original on the first PlayStation...and then went straight to GT3 on PS2. I just felt it graphically was subpar to the other versions.

Well, I did start playing GT2 on my homebrew PSP, certainly long enough to have a few NSXs in my garage...

...but I pretty much stopped playing once PSP got a version of its very own.

I've moved the PC I inherited from my dad into my home office earlier this week (it's a few years newer than my 11 year old desktop PC and the only one I can run current versions of most of the software I use for both work and my hobbies). The big advantages of doing this, aside from the aforementioned climate control in this room, is that my desk, despite being very old and on its last legs, is a bit more ergonomic (it has a keyboard tray). I'm also able to use larger monitors (the now vertical panel to the right was my dad's primary monitor, whereas the larger Sony HDTV was my PC's main screen). Since my PCs second screen was a CRT and this one is flat and vertical, I reclaimed quite a bit of usable desktop area while also increasing screen real estate and pixel resolution. These changes have made my workspace significantly more livable. I've even been able to place items on my desk that had been collecting dust in various corners of my home office, some recent acquisitions joining ones that are a throwback to my childhood... some of which have never been on my desk at home or work before. #WFH #SaferAtHome #TBT #EverythingSony

Items of interest...yes, that's one of the original side-mirrors from my NSX next to my "homebrew" PSP (which features a wallpaper photo I took during NSXPO 2005). The yellow and blue car in front of that PSP are Hot Wheels Crack Ups...a line my dad provided engineering for. The bus behind the cars is from E3 1999, when Crash Team Racing debuted. My main screen features wallpaper of our previous kitties Meeko and Mushu...and my the vertical panel features our current pair Moka and Mochi. That's a DualShock 2 controller hooked up to my PC...but I rarely play games on either of my PCs, especially now due to their underpowered GPUs. My mouse pad dates back to when Valerie worked for The Ritz-Carlton, Marina del Rey...its round shape allowed it to fit alongside a much larger clicky keyboard I used to use (but can't use with modern PCs because it wasn't USB). And I used that Casio scientific calculator back in high school...it is solar powered and, with enough light, still works.