Grant

I'm a writer and video game designer who has been in the video game industry for two millennia, from The Wheel of Time to Super Hero Squad Online.

With lots of Sieges and Unreals and Commanders in between.

gkrgkr: @gracechien, I'm sorry. (@ Din Tai Fung Dumpling House w/ 4 others) http://t.co/9bpO4gJg
6 days ago
gkrgkr: @John_J_Ryan @shegeekshow I successfully talked my wife into couch co-op. She's never played Diablo before! It's going to go super great!
6 days ago
gkrgkr: @ForrestTheWoods Joshua Jackson ⇔ Fringe, James Van Der Beek ⇔ Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23. I've never seen Dawson's Creek either.
1 week ago
gkrgkr: Two of the most entertaining shows on TV are that entertaining in part because they feature one male lead each from Dawson's Creek. Huh.
1 week ago
gkrgkr: The fact that this artifact had no price tag fills me with sadness. http://t.co/VVFEN2KE
1 week ago
gkrgkr: @loveb_ug @ScienceIsMetal I guess I'd better keep my shoes on. I have foreseen a ride home in your future.
1 week ago
gkrgkr: @MrPope @taswell Of the ~80 developers I have in my contact list, only 2 of them are using AIM. Should I go ahead and pack up my things now?
1 week ago
gkrgkr: @ninjaharlot These should get you started, at least: http://t.co/8OPswsKN http://t.co/WDffynz8
2 weeks ago
gkrgkr: @smgrissom That'd be perfect if I wanted to hate myself more than I already do. I've pretty much got it covered without any apps! High five.
2 weeks ago
gkrgkr: @smgrissom Thanks for the warning. Blocking them now.
2 weeks ago
gkrgkr: Which one of these things is not... like the... I'll be right back. http://t.co/9QvvLamv
2 weeks ago
gkrgkr: I would have used "whilst" in that last tweet, but I want to, you know, go to heaven when I die.
2 weeks ago
gkrgkr: I'm all about workplace dental hygiene, but it just CANNOT be worth brushing your teeth while someone is currently pooping five feet away.
2 weeks ago
gkrgkr: Directly in my eyeline at the restaurant. The night is dark and full of terrors. http://t.co/QprA7ttv
2 weeks ago
gkrgkr: Sometimes I just long to hear those three little words. The most beautiful words in this, or any language: "Out For Delivery"
2 weeks ago
gkrgkr: @shegeekshow Depends on how many times you count 2D vs. 3D. I guess... two and a half times? I don't know how it works.
2 weeks ago
gkrgkr: @Jkooza A few years back, some friends and I took a train to Arashiyama to see MONKEY MOUNTAIN (Iwatayama Monkey Park). Beautiful area, too.
2 weeks ago
gkrgkr: Saw @cheapassjames and @kuraine while walking around Ballard today. Neither spotted me. Cloaking technology seems to be fully operational.
2 weeks ago
gkrgkr: Glasses fell off my face and landed lenses down on the sidewalk. I now have one tiny scratch in the center of each lens. #glassesstigmata
2 weeks ago
gkrgkr: And that was the day I learned that if you haven't been syncing apps through iTunes, you can't transfer them from one iPad to another.
2 weeks ago
gkrgkr: @taswell I'm hurt that you would even use a conditional there.
2 weeks ago
gkrgkr: It's 4:20 on Cinco de Mayo. I am barricading myself in the house.
2 weeks ago
gkrgkr: Holy crap. You can use the Chip Clip itself to grab the Dorito. Well, I know what I'm doing for the rest of the weekend.
2 weeks ago
gkrgkr: Avengers, happy hour, saffron risotto, coffee & banana ice cream, rocket lowncher, Community. I've had worse Fridays.
2 weeks ago
gkrgkr: @WillingBlam Still working on getting your fabulous wife's Avengers Black Widow work in there, too. But no matter what, we're all winners.
2 weeks ago
gkrgkr: Democrats using Quasispace to go after Romney. Ad only viewable from the 17th-20th of each month. http://t.co/7j4UHNt9 http://t.co/HxYdCUVJ
2 weeks ago
gkrgkr: RT @DamonLindelof: Me: "I may not be able to eat this large popcorn by myself, but you can be damn sure I'll avenge it." Concession Dude: "$7.50 please."
2 weeks ago
gkrgkr: @WillingBlam And in case you didn't know, only a few weeks until Avengers Hulk (voiced by you) shows up in @SHSOgame. It's a magical time.
2 weeks ago
gkrgkr: @John_J_Ryan Us too! We should have a rumble. It'll be "East Side Story". Dibs on being the Jets.
2 weeks ago

Aaand more video

Garrett of Aderyn Productions just uploaded our little highlights video — so very cool. The “big” video is being edited as a generous gift from a very generous and very busy friend, so we won’t see that one for quite some time. But we’ll post the rest of the pics once we get them.
For now, enjoy!

Summary post from BreeAnn

Well, BreeAnn of Pink Blossom said it better than we could in her blog post. Thanks to all our awesome vendors for the amazing day!

Sneak peek at wedding photos!

We finally got a link to just a few of our lovely wedding images — SO CUTE! More are to come soon, but for now, enjoy:

Red Fish Blue Fish Sneak Peek

Also, friend Sorin Gabu shot an informal iPhone video but turned it into a really nice little YouTube:

Brief video of Virginia and Grant’s wedding

Thanks to all, and we’ll keep you updated with more photo and video as soon as everything comes to us!

<3 Mr. & Mrs. Roberts

Discounts near the Pan Pacific!

Yesterday marked the arrival of our first wave of family and friends visiting for our wedding — yay! We also just received some cool news from local vendors that we’ like to pass along to our wedding guests.

Clover House, located in the courtyard across from the Pan Pacific Hotel, will give a 10% discount if you mention our wedding. (I urge you to use our first names instead of our last here.) This is an adorable shop with cards, gifts and cool souvenirs, many of which are from local artists.

Vida Spa, also located in the courtyard across from the Pan Pacific, is extending a 15% group discount to all guests of our wedding. Just be sure to mention the Culler/Roberts wedding when you book.

Can’t wait to start celebrating with everyone soon!

<3 Virginia

Respondez S'il Vous Plaît

We got our invitations out, but there were the expected number of foibles. Yikes! Sorry for a couple of them getting out later than intended.

If any of you would like to just call or email us your RSVP info, we would be more than happy to take it! You can also just touch base with our families if that’s easiest.

We can’t wait to celebrate with everyone!

Awwwwww

As we draw nearer to Valentine’s Day, red hearts get a bit old. Not this one, though: Grant snuck this image on to my laptop after I went to bed, so when I inevitably woke up before him and opened up my computer, this is all I saw:

<3

Nice to be reminded that I’m marrying the right guy.

Oh God, the dreams.

I just dreamt that our wedding crept up on us so suddenly that we still hadn’t finalized the flowers yet. So there were just no flowers. (Even though this time, we actually HAVE booked a florist!) For some reason we also seemed to be missing chairs and tables. My hair wasn’t done and… yeah, you get the idea.

Now that we’re finally back from all the wonderful travels of 2009, it’s time to get cracking! First things first: no more hydrangeas. Brides-to-be, I can’t urge you to do this enough — go to a nice grocery store or florist, buy a few of the different varietals of flowers you were considering having for your wedding, and throw them in vases around your apartment. If, by the end of a week, you HATE any given flower, that’s one you shouldn’t use in your wedding floral arrangements.

Bye bye, blue hydrangeas — my love of a matchy-matchy color scheme has officially been surpassed by my dislike of boring, bushy, country-looking flowers (that wilt and bruise easily) for our sleek, minimalist indoor vaguely Asian venue. Green orchids and deep purple calla lilies are the new golden child right now.

Dress is being made… check. Shoes have been in my closet for months… check. Oh, yeah, in my dream Grant hadn’t gotten my actual wedding ring resized yet (from a 3 to a 7, so not like I could just stick it on another finger!). I better see to it that that gets done next, too. Maybe wedding stress nightmares are a good thing!

–V

The crazy dreams have started.

The past two nights in a row, I started to have weird zonky wedding dreams, including a completely recast set of parents and in-laws (whom I don’t recognize), and a venue I’ve never laid eyes on in real life that looked like it was straight out of some fictional Hamptons party from Gossip Girl.  With fugly carpeting.

The last dream I had (on Thursday night/early morning) involved everyone being like “The wedding’s this weekend, come on guys!” and me being confused since we have yet to pick a photographer or flowers.

Huh.

Guess it’s time to start interviewing photographers and florists.  And going to bed earlier.

I just can't hide it...

Ever since reading it in some dumb magazine-suggested wedding playlist, I have had Ce Ce Peniston’s “Finally” stuck in my head.  The next man I meet with brown cocoa skin and curly black hair may end up tragically dead.

Wedding Magazines are for sissies

At least, at full price — I got a giant pile of them from Sarah when we first got engaged, and those have been helpful. But paying for your own ones? Screw that noise.

Case in point: I finally caved and purchased what was maybe my second or third brand-new wedding magazine before our flight home from the engagement party. (Might as well, right? That’s the one thing those airport news stands don’t mark up extra, and we had a long dull flight ahead of us.)  This one was InStyle Weddings, I think.

Bleh.  Not only are most wedding magazines just ads for engagement rings (which fundamentally DOES NOT MAKE SENSE, as that step should already be taken care of by the time you start wedding planning! Right?  Is their target market really the WISHFUL THINKING crowd?  God save us!), but they’re also just not realistic — most photo shoots are for inaccessible couture gowns, or NYC-only patisseries, etc.  Not exactly your “everyday bride” material.  (And don’t even get me started on what a waste those local city-specific wedding mags are — sorry, friends, but so far I’ve found them a) worthless, and b) unnecessary to pay for, since swanky venues try to bribe you by giving you copies for free at their open houses.)

The one notable exception to this is Martha Stewart Weddings.  But in contrast, that magazine is so robust with great ideas and affordable cute crafts, etc. (not to mention that they put the full content of all the useful stuff online for free) that a girl can get completely overwhelmed just peeking at a few pages.  So it’s kind of a tough trade-off.

I think my strategy for the time being is to go back to playing Final Fantasy VIII with my husband-to-be. :)