Day 2 at Havok. First things first: I’m supposed to become familiar with the Havok SDK, which means exploring some demos and reading documentation. The demos involve things like driving a big-rig through a field of ragdolls, which is hella fun. People (still?) use “hella”, apparently.
I’m (temporarily) living in Berkeley and commuting […]

Havok offered me a job as Developer Support Engineer in their San Francisco office last week. I start next Monday.
Havok makes physics simulation middleware, mostly for video game developers, although Havok was also used in the attack of the Smiths sequence in The Matrix Reloaded. Support engineers are kind of like tech support for […]

Alex has informed us that the SciFi Channel will be showcasing orang pendek during a September episode of Destination Truth, a show that investigates “tales of the unexplained”.
The best part? The film crew is in Kerinci right now and just interviewed Alex as a representative of our project. Cool! I’ll post details […]

As of Thursday, June 6th, I’ve left Indonesia and returned to the United States. I was replaced by Alex, so he’ll be carrying on the project.
Alex just got back from his first trip to the field, where he collected photographs from the cameras I set up in April. We had long heard that […]

One of my web design clients got a mention in this Sunday’s NY Times, with a link to their website…which I designed. I also took all photographs appearing on the site. They usually average about 50-100 hits per day. The article, which has been online since Friday, has caused a spike […]

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Orang Pendek - More about our quest for photographic evidence of a bipedal primate

Indonesia - Wikipedia page about Indonesia

Short Man of the Forest - Very good documentary about Orang Pendek featuring my good friend Murray Collins

Mekin Photography - My photography website.

Flickr - Direct link to my photo stream.