N-Gage Launch Party!

Nice thing to be a part of being in SF office is that we can free ride on N-Gage events on top of our cool SNAP Mobile activities!

You can see SNAP Mobile team members are very happy here. But if you listen carefully to their conversation...

QA: "Free beer, go N-Gage!"
Tech Writer: "Can we do cool thing like this?"
Java Engineer: "Ya, hire vendor for our BBQ! No more Safeway!"
Game launch mgr: "Ya, I don wanna go to Trader Joe's again for our BBQ food and drinks!"
Testing: "Ya, me neither. No sitting alone in the morning at Golden Gate Park to secure BBQ pit!"
R&D/Operations mgr: "Be real, man! No budget. Go surf, it's free!"
All: "Oh, crap!"

We get along well...
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"Where is our party? Where is our luxury suite?"

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R&D/Operations mgr brought complete SF baseball night game set (jacket, hat, globes for chilly SF night game). He did not know we had a box room!

"What? We have a box room? Really? Order Dom Pérignon!"

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Game launch mgr: "Hey man, we should do this more often! I enjoy being served..."

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Night fell and Giants won...

Hey, if you have a chance to vist SF, please contact us. We will take care of you! Surfing, baseball, bring it on!

Let's look around SF!

Hi, sorry for lazy update during April. As you might know, our team published SDK2.0 on May 2nd and all of us were very busy to meet this deadline. Thanks to all the effort from our team members and partners and special thanks to Forum Nokia friends, we could publish our very important SDK on time! Well, not much team activities yet (our special BBQ was canceled due to tight deliverable timeline and budget...) but we never stop cruzing around SF area! Here are some pics.

This is our hanging-out place next to our team's home beach "half moon bay". The name is "Half Moon Bay Brewery" and it is one of popular micro breweries in San Francisco area. You see the harbor out there and 1.6 mile outside, that world-famous "Mervericks" point is fascinating local and world surfers.

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After checking jetty point (unfortunately no good waves and just had bergers and beer at brewery), we headed north to the other side of Golden Gate bridge. This is looking at east side of bay. You can see Alcatras island toward right side and UC Berkeley (Go Bears!) on the other side of bay.

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This is looking at south side. You can see our city (SF!) throuhg the nice read Golden Gate Bridge. Though the bridge is fun to walk across and nice to look at, if you want to know creepy side of this bridge, check out the DVD "The Bridge" in the renal store. It is creepy...

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Looking west side, the pacific ocean. It was such a beautiful day and all of us had good time hanging out.

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Here is our money man. Our game launch manager is handling all the Java game deployment globally so that we have consistent/streamlined process of delivering Java games through Nokia channels. He does not surf but soon all the surfers in the office will drag him out...
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