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Saturday, December 31, 2005 11:59 PM

Hogmanay!

A guid New Year to ane an` a` and mony may ye see!
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Saturday, December 31, 2005 5:40 PM

What the world needs now...

...is another flight simulator! [:)] Joining the ranks of Austin Meyer , creator of X-plane , and Matthieu Laban (who's on the blog roll on the right) is Andreas Jung , who posted a quite thoughtful comment on my last post.
Posted by pixelpoke | 1 Comments
Friday, December 30, 2005 5:26 PM

Google post

I can't remember the most recent time I've seen this posted (or where), but I've seen it crop up a bit in the major Flight Sim forums: Microsoft should use Google Earth for Flight Simulator. Leave aside for the moment the fact that Microsoft has a rival
Posted by pixelpoke | 64 Comments
Thursday, December 29, 2005 6:00 PM

Drum roll? No! Blog Roll!

Two new additions to the ACES alumni blog roll. Kate Bigel was the Art Director who led the studio way back when I first came on, and the person responsible for hiring more than a few of us old timers here in the Art department. (now you know who to blame).
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Thursday, December 29, 2005 4:48 PM

Testing, testing, 1.. 2... 3...

There's a sentiment I've seen echoed on various forums regarding Flight Simulator, with regards to testing-- especially beta testing. This sentiment is captured over at Avsim by a poster who claims "...nobody outside the MS building is a beta tester.
Posted by pixelpoke | 12 Comments
Monday, December 26, 2005 12:01 AM

Umoja!

http://www.officialkwanzaawebsite.org/index.html
Posted by pixelpoke | 3 Comments
Sunday, December 25, 2005 8:46 PM

Such a mitzvah

Happy Hanukkah.
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Sunday, December 25, 2005 12:01 AM

X marks the spot

Merry Christmas!
Posted by pixelpoke | 2 Comments
Saturday, December 24, 2005 12:39 PM

whuzza?

Burning Man in Flight Sim?!!!!!!!!!!!! see here
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Friday, December 23, 2005 3:23 PM

Here's looking at you, kid.

I love to cruise the screenshot forums of various community sites, and occaisionally I like to share what I've found... First off, one of my perennial favorites, Avsim's Steve "Bearracing" Cartwright. Steve has consistently been innovative in *what* he
Posted by pixelpoke | 2 Comments
Friday, December 23, 2005 2:31 PM

Zut Alors!

If you haven't done so lately, why not take a quick trip over to virtual France and catch up with Matthieu: http://www.white-clouds.org/ If'n he's on your blogroll, don't forget to change your links...
Posted by pixelpoke | 1 Comments
Friday, December 23, 2005 11:37 AM

Happy Festivus!

for the rest of us
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Friday, December 23, 2005 9:07 AM

He who shall not be named

It looks like he has a name now. Here's mine: My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Shuriken of Warm Humanitarianism . Get yours .
Posted by pixelpoke | 1 Comments
Thursday, December 22, 2005 8:35 PM

A bridge too far...

Anybody remember the brouhaha over “missing” bridges in Flight Simulator 2004? (There’s a beautiful rant here: http://www.flightsim.com/cgi/kds?$=main/op-ed/ed343.htm ) What was up with that anyway? Well… lots of things really. A real cluster if you will.
Posted by pixelpoke | 1 Comments
Thursday, December 22, 2005 5:06 PM

Auld Lang Syne

The Wing Fell Off shows off a few new screens of Over Flanders Fields for CFS3. Looks pretty good! I've always been partial to WWI aerial stuff. From Rob's blog I worked over to SimHQ, looked for the so called "CFS 4 screens" And THEN read that they'd
Posted by pixelpoke | 0 Comments
Wednesday, December 21, 2005 8:00 PM

It's always darkest before dawn...

And very dark it is...
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Wednesday, December 21, 2005 3:49 AM

Nifty Art Seen Around...

Found this over at Bruce's website... Great Images in NASA
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Tuesday, December 20, 2005 8:23 PM

Feedback loop

There’s a thread over at Avsim : “ THE most needed improvement to the next version?” (talking about Flight Simulator) asking for people’s input on what they’d like to see in a future version. They’re not alone, of course. There are threads just like that
Posted by pixelpoke | 1 Comments
Tuesday, December 06, 2005 7:10 PM

X-factor

New version of X-plane is out, along with some screens . Congrats! Additional screens (lots of 'em) from global-scenery.org
Posted by pixelpoke | 6 Comments
Monday, December 05, 2005 9:09 PM

Where. Have.You. Been?

I am currently on a secret mission. Secret, 'cause if I told you about it, I'd probably get fired, or at least in a lot of trouble. Mission, 'cause it sounds cool ... So, y'know how I already pretty much work 7 days a week? (not last Saturday though,
Posted by pixelpoke | 6 Comments
 
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