Rob Yeager - The X-Play Intern

When I started this post I spent about 30 minutes writing it and wording everything just right so that I can pontificate why I believe audience applause at a movie is stupid, annoying, and should not take place, all while trying to not make it sound like a complaint. But I found myself tip-toeing around when it’s ok and when it’s not and how I can cleverly tie the nickname for an STD into my post about people clapping at a movie, especially durring the actual movie, just pisses me off. So I’m going to wrap it up with this: Don’t applause during movies. It fucking bugs me. Once the credits role, go nuts. Thank you.

(Today must be an off day. There’s so much potential for humor and inuendo in this post and I’m just drawing blanks.)

Something truly amazing happened today. Yesterday, Amanda pre-ordered the new Taking Back Sunday album from the Best Buy in West Hollywood, which scored her a free ticket to go to their mini-concert for Jimmy Kimmel Live. I wasn’t willing to pre-order the album for financial and “I can copy her’s” reasons. The next day (this morning), Amanda found this thing online where they were pretty much giving away the tickets. I imagine this is because they had to fill the area for Jimmy Kimmel’s show, but the result is that Megan and I got to go, too! Hooray!

Mini-concert definitely describes what we saw. It was a short but very entertaining and simply awesome five song show. Here’s the photographic evidence as to what went on.

So, I gotta say, I’m kind of upset because of E3. You know, the Electronic Entertainment Expo. Almost as nerdy as Comic-con, but more awesome in my book. You see, G4/X-Play is covering much of E3 live, which is pretty freaking cool. The problem is that the interns don’t get to go. In fact, everyone is so busy with E3 that I don’t even have to go in to work Monday-Thursday of this coming week.

So not only do I not get to go the best gaming expo ever next week, I don’t even get to go to the best internship ever. The bottom line: I’m going to be SO BORED this week. Thank God I’ll have Megan and Amanda around, even though they have their own internships to worry about.

While getting ready this morning I saw a story on CNN about whooping cough vaccines. Apparently, children who are given the vaccine have a much lower chance of catching whooping cough compared to those children who were not given the vaccine.

CNN, did you really just air a short story telling us that vaccines do their job? I kinda feel like you’re insulting my intelligence.

I went walking around the other day, just to explore my area a little bit. I went to a cafe, Black Dog Coffee, for coffee and lunch. Unfortunately my sandwich was sub par, and my coffee was not a whole lot better. But that’s alright, it’s my fault for passing Starbucks in the name of trying something more local. I walked past the building where I work, which is about a half mile from where I live. I then found the La Brea Tar Pits, right across from where I work. They weren’t anything exciting, it’s pretty much what you expect. I did some more exploring, but only took a couple pictures. The buliding I where I work is pretty cool. It’s only 6 stories tall but it’s surprisingly big. Here are some outside shots.

Today marks the first day of my internship at X-Play. To describe how the day went, let me first say I was sad when I was told “there’s nothing else to do, so you can go home early today.” Unfortunately, confidentiality requires me to not go into great detail about what I see since a lot of it involves games and equipment that are not released to the public yet, and nothing is considered “released” until the content airs. But here’s what I can share:

G4’s offices are on the 4th floor of the Comcast building. Not only is it easy to remember, you need a magnetic keycard for the elevator to even stop on that floor. I received my own keycard today, which is pretty cool. I also get my own @g4tv.com email address AND my own phone extension. But I won’t get the last two until later on.

I’m in the same building as E!, Style, FearNet, Versus, and the Golf Channel. While not all of the above channels have their celebrities, I was told by Whitney, the super chill HR person (Who knew they existed!?) that it would not be uncommon to run into the host of The Soup, or be in the same elevator as Ryan Seacrest, or, more likely, run into the hosts of Attack of the Show and esepcially X-Play. I was also told that I am not allowed to do that flip out, scream for autographs thing. No problem. In fact, while waiting in the receptionists area this morning, I saw Adam Sessler walk into G4 while I was waiting for the HR person to get me signed up. Pretty cool!

So what did I do today? Well, after my quick briefing and even quicker tour, I was thrown on the Nintendo DS to play Steal Princess, a recently released game featuring a rogue theif recruited by a king to rescue his kidnapped son in return for the considerable debt the theif owes the kingdom for what she’s stolen. The biggest problem I have with the game lies in that it’s a puzzle game. This should have been an action game. Oh well. The rest of my work day involved much cooler games, but unfortunately they are confidential for now.

For lunch I went to this nifty little place called Baja Fresh. It was very much like Taco Bell, but far better and a little pricier. (10 bucks for 1 lb burrito with steak, cheese, quacamole, and pico de gallo, and a medium iced tea). It was a very tasty lunch, indeed.

Unfortunately, I contracted a dandy case of Strep, so my picture taking has been way down and this weekend is pretty much cut down to relaxing and snacking on penicillin. But I do have a few pictures of my apartment and one or two from LA, so I’ll post those for my closing remarks. The first thing you’ll see is a hot pastrami sandwich from a Jewish Deli. Look at how much meat they put on that thing!!!