Author Archives: geoffreylong

Geoffrey Long is a media analyst, scholar, and storyteller exploring transmedia experiences, emerging entertainment platforms and the future of entertainment as the Lead Narrative Producer for the Narrative Design Team at Microsoft Studios. He is an alum of the MIT Comparative Media Studies program, a FoE Fellow with the Futures of Entertainment community, and a co-editor of the Playful Thinking book series from the MIT Press. His personal site can be found at geoffreylong.com.

That is one fast cat.

Wow. I just upgraded to Panther (Mac OS X 10.3) and it’s really swanky. Zippy. Pretty. Elegant. And Nick’s absolutely right: I was unsure as to how well a brushed-metal Finder would work, but it’s not the same brushed-metal as Safari or QuickTime – it’s much softer and more subtle, which in my opinion is […]

Hallmarks.

Faint grids. Ghosted images. Rich, subtle colors, like deep blues and gold and navy. 1-pixel white stripes. Adobe Garamond. Very very subtle drop shadows. Mishmashes of tables and CSS to get the layout just so. These are the flavors that make up my designs. The site I’m furiously, feverishly finishing up (thank you alliteration man) […]

All right, that’s it.

So yesterday afternoon I decided to kick the stupid Vicodin and switch over to Tylenol for my painkilling needs. The verdict? Well, it’s obvious that Tylenol isn’t as strong as Vicodin, which is both good and bad. I still have a dull, consistent ache throughout my head, but I can think. It’s hard to underestimate […]

My girlfriend rocks.

She didn’t have to come down. She really didn’t. She’s busy as all get out, and she has a million things going on in her life, and I’m sure 999,999 of them are more important than me. But she came down this weekend to make sure I was okay anyway. So, just so y’all know, […]

What I did with my Friday night.

Courtesy of the good Tom Bridge, yours truly, Nick and Russ at the Panther Party at MacUpgrades in Bethesda.

The dwindling impressiveness of web design.

Has anybody else noticed how k10k has been really hurting for cool stuff to post lately? What’s up with that? Where has all the neat, experimental web design gone? Where’s the neat stuff?

Drugs suck. (Oh, wait, I said that already.)

In keeping with my previous post, I just wanted to say that drugs really really suck. They make it hard to work, make you have awful fights with people you love, and make it impossible for you to leave the house because you can’t bloody well drive, now can you? I’m currently hammering on a […]

Drugs suck.

OK, so almost everyone who knows me knows that I’m lame. I’m okay with that. My mom’s a pharmacist, so I grew up listening to all kinds of drug-related horror stories, and so when it came time to do all the “Just Say No” stuff in high school, that came easy. In fact, it’s carried […]

My folks rock.

Thanks, guys.

Alive and surly.

Surgery done. Teeth gone. Three of the four sockets stitched shut, and the one that had been giving my so much grief before looks like its stitches have pulled open or something. Jeez. Ow. Ow. Grrrr.