Around that same time, I was contacted by NVidia about my
website, HD4PC. They recognized the
level of technical depth in my posts, and wanted to send me one of their cards
to evaluate and review, as part of the launch of a new line of products they
were releasing. I was all for it, always
interested in new technology, and more that happy to receive one of their
highest end products to play with.
Once I received the card and the software they wanted me to
test with it, the resulting dialog quickly went over the head of the marketing
representative who was the primary point of contact for us journalists. They eventually connected me directly with
the engineers, which led to some very informative discussions. I discovered a few bugs with their software,
which they were eventually able to fix after a few months. In the meantime, I did an exhaustive test and
review of every feature of the card and the programs it was designed to
accelerate. The resulting article was
thorough and balanced, with a high level of precision. NVidia ended up using it as the featured review
on their own website for nearly a year, which increased the reach and
popularity of my own site. They were
quite pleased, and sent me the very next card they were developing to review a
few months later. And the contacts I had
made in their engineering department were helpful in tracking down solutions in
the future. Unfortunately my
relationship with that division of the company has tapered off, but I still do
a lot with them through my position at work.
Around then, I also got invited to Rockstar and Sunshine’s
wedding. I had known about it for a
while, but didn’t receive the invitation until a week or two before the event. I would have liked to work my monthly trip to
NorCal around it, but the catch was that it was on a Sunday afternoon, and I
had a flight out of LAX at 5am Monday morning, to head to the first combat
shoot for the movie. I eventually
decided it was unwise to try to fit it all in, which turned out to be for the
best, since I would not have been very happy on that overnight drive back down south
when they called off the wedding at the last minute. So early Monday morning, I was flying out to Mississippi , to meet up with the crew coming back from
shooting in Puerto Rico . And then the real fun would begin.
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