I will do as I like to you. Treat you roughly, listen to my name shudder from your lips. Hold you to me afterward. And I will spend a lifetime searching.
Month: March 2011
I will
I will do as I like to you. Treat you roughly, listen to my name shudder from your lips. Hold you to me afterward. And I will spend a lifetime searching.
blue
A friend was once walking back from the store. He carried a brown paper bag and grinned like he’d just won the damn power ball. I found your girl, he told me. My girl? I asked. Yea, the one you’re always going on about, he said. I didn’t know what the hell he was talking about. I hadn’t been right in the head about females since Rene. I asked him, Who’s this girl? She was pale, man. She was whiter than white. He spit on the ground as we walked to the office. Oh yea? I asked. Yea. Shorts up to here, I’m telling you. She was so pale I could see all her veins. So pale I could see her entirely circulatory system. Damn. Sorry I missed it, I said. He even added, But she was young, dude. Borderline. On the edge, saying it like he knew. I stopped caring and stared ahead as we walked. The geese had left a swath of their shit on the sidewalk. He got me thinking about wolves and fairy tales again. I’d been trying to forget for months. We were crossing the lawn to the building when he said, she wasn’t even white. She was blue. So white she was blue! And he laughed.
blue
A friend was once walking back from the store. He carried a brown paper bag and grinned like he’d just won the damn power ball. I found your girl, he told me. My girl? I asked. Yea, the one you’re always going on about, he said. I didn’t know what the hell he was talking about. I hadn’t been right in the head about females since Rene. I asked him, Who’s this girl? She was pale, man. She was whiter than white. He spit on the ground as we walked to the office. Oh yea? I asked. Yea. Shorts up to here, I’m telling you. She was so pale I could see all her veins. So pale I could see her entirely circulatory system. Damn. Sorry I missed it, I said. He even added, But she was young, dude. Borderline. On the edge, saying it like he knew. I stopped caring and stared ahead as we walked. The geese had left a swath of their shit on the sidewalk. He got me thinking about wolves and fairy tales again. I’d been trying to forget for months. We were crossing the lawn to the building when he said, she wasn’t even white. She was blue. So white she was blue! And he laughed.
simple
Once, when we were children, we were fucking around in one of the bedrooms, and Abe and Cris broke something. The object is not important. When wind of this reached the living room our father promptly entered our room, removed his belt, and asked what happened. We didn’t say a word, of course, because the broken object said it all. It’s interesting that the belt could be so feared after all the times he’d used it, but it wasn’t the belt that frightened us. The object is not important.
He asked me who should receive punishment for the indiscretion. I told him, “Nobody.”
He laughed, and told us, “You have a good brother.”
I never got his meaning.
simple
Once, when we were children, we were fucking around in one of the bedrooms, and Abe and Cris broke something. The object is not important. When wind of this reached the living room our father promptly entered our room, removed his belt, and asked what happened. We didn’t say a word, of course, because the broken object said it all. It’s interesting that the belt could be so feared after all the times he’d used it, but it wasn’t the belt that frightened us. The object is not important.
He asked me who should receive punishment for the indiscretion. I told him, “Nobody.”
He laughed, and told us, “You have a good brother.”
I never got his meaning.
Test Lead – Experis – 2011-2012, 2015
Following the Oregon trail.
Salaries remained stagnant all through the recession and I began to look elsewhere for opportunities in video games. A friend who had just moved to Oregon suggested I apply for a role at a company called Experis, which focuses on game test contracts with first-party publishers.
I applied and was happy to have been hired from a single phone call! I quickly moved to Portland and found myself in a Software Test Engineer role on a project called Kinect Rush. It was my first time working on a game that utilized the Kinect peripheral, and I quickly learned that testing on a game that requires one to move around constantly is a great way to get in shape. This was also an opportunity to learn a different set of game test plan guidelines that were more akin to what test engineers execute on non-game projects. I took on a couple of smaller projects in the STE role and once again learned that it’s best to remain flexible to adapt to widely varying project timelines.
My time as a Test Lead at Experis was short, but it allowed me to delve into such areas as automated testing and data-driven test plans, which have often been luxuries at other companies due to the software engineering resources required to create builds with the proper instrumentation.