Showing off to Petroglyph

A bunch of ex-Westwood people that now work at Petroglyph were at the Austin Game Developer's Conference which finished today.

Marty, the CEO of the company I work for, Interzone, had called a car but then didn't need it, so he had Allan, da man, cancel it. Except when he called to do so, they told him that they were still going to charge half price for canceling at the last minute. He asked if any of use were going to the airport, and I said that I was so he told them to come pick me up instead.

I'm waiting on the corner when a few of the Petroglyph people walk up. They asked if I was waiting for a cab and I said, "No, my company had called for a car."

Just as somebody asked how things were going at Interzone, a shiny, brand new, Cadillac pulls up and the uniformed driver jumps out to take care of my bags.

"Yeah, things are going quite well. Thanks for asking."

I did fess up when I saw them at the airport. We were all flying to Vegas on the same plane and it is hard to put on airs when flying Southwest.

Granted, I was only flying Southwest because I was paying for that flight. The other flights I've been on this trip that were actually work related have been a few steps up the ladder including some upgrades to first class. I had an awesome bay view hotel room at the Marriott in San Diego. So yeah, things are going quite well at Interzone. Thanks for asking.

If you have any complaints which you'd like to make, I'd be more than happy to send you the appropriate forms.

Those of you who know me are aware of my long time goal of becoming: Joseph B. Hewitt IV – International Man of Mystery! As it turns out, the “Mystery” thing isn’t as easy as you might think. Anybody who is making a comment that also questions my manliness at this moment can go take a running leap… I mean seriously! You come to my blog and insult my manliness? That’s right you came here; you clicked on your bookmark to come here to MY blog! Yeah, I know you got me bookmarked!

My writing brings all the girls to the blog,
and they're like,
its better than yours,
damn right its better than yours,
I can teach you,
but I have to charge

I really didn’t start this to do a really lame parody of those lyrics. If that were the case I would have probably picked a better song or at least one where I would have to change more than the first line. They just played a clip from Family Guy where Peter sings that song in Prison and it’s now stuck in my head.

So anyway, I think it’s too late to be an International Man of Mystery. But I am well on my way to being...

...wait for it...

...its all in the timing...

Joseph B. Hewitt IV – International Game Developer!

This post sounded like such a good idea, full of potential for fun and hilarity, when I thought of it on my way home today. The point of this whole fiasco was to say that I’m going to Brazil next month to finish up the launch of Interzone Futebol. No idea how long I’ll be there. Looks like it might be awhile.

I really did plan on doing more with this post, play it up more, maybe throw in some Austin Powers jokes, but the problem is that it is already 1 AM! The stupid Brazil movie poster took way longer than I thought. First, I had to take the picture and honestly the ones where I am trying to do the “Brazil” smile like the guy is doing in the real poster were horrible. Can you say, “Psycho Axe Murderer?” I was also going to Photoshop the girl, soccer ball and something else into the picture better. I was also going to play around with the filter options see if I could get my face to look like the guy in real poster, but like I said, it’s already 1 AM.

You can tell how bad this by the fact that I even left in the stupid lyric joke that would have normally got cut on my first edit pass.

Oh, I’ll also being going up to the Austin Game Developer’s Conference September 15-17th. Hopefully, I’ll be swinging by Vegas to visit friends and family before heading back down to Brazil.