Doug Twilleager's Weblog The Wonderful World of 3D

From one vacation into another...

I just finished a 10 day, 9 night whirlwind tour of Walt Disney World. I have three daughters - ages 8, 4, and almost 2. That means the vacation was more work than ... well work. :^) As I have mentioned before, I am a huge fan of Disney theme parks - and theme parks in general. We haven't done a family vacation to WDW for 5 years, so we only had one to coral last time. Three is much harder.

Highlights of the trip include Mickey's PhilharMagic, Spectromagic, Wishes, and The Carousel of Progress (I'm sentimental) at the Magic Kingdom; All of EPCOT (for me); Lucky The Dinosaur, Festival of The Lion King, and TriceraTop Spin at Animal Kingdom; Rock 'n' Roller Coaster, Lights/Motors/Action, The Great Movie Ride, and One Man's Dream at Disney-MGM Studios; All of the water parks and a souvenir mug with unlimited coffee refills.

I can do without the weather. Orlando had the third wettest June ever. That meant lots of thunder storms - which is actually somewhat better that the usual 90 degrees with 80% humidity.

I am slowly recovering from this. When I got back, other work obligtions kept me from JavaOne this year - the first one I ever missed. :^( Although all of my projects (Java 3D, JAI, Looking Glass, Buz, JOGL, JSR-231, JSR-239, and game technologies) were very well represented and well received. Kudos to the team.

Now we have our week off. I am glad to be hanging out around the house. I can start to work on a bunch of hobby projects. The list includes: Re-skinning my blog, catching up on a bunch of technical documents, starting on a Java runtime for Doom 3 files, and cleaning up some work and home computers. If I get to just a couple I will be happy.

Then it is on to the new year for Sun. We have a great year coming up, and the opportunity for innovation is mind boggling - moving forward with the Sun Game Server, Blu-Ray possibilities, new Looking Glass innovations, new major features in Java 3D, Java bindings for OpenGL ES, new innovative uses of JAI, and helping partners and customers better serve their customers. It will be a great year indeed.

Posted at 04:31PM Jul 01, 2005 by dtwilleager in General  |  Comments[3]