My name is Stephen Niedzielski, or publicly, Steve Niedzielski. I presently work as a software engineer at Nintendo Technology Development, Inc., a research and development division of Nintendo. I’m also a senior computer engineer student at the DigiPen Institute of Technology in Redmond, Washington. You may contact me at sn@niedzielski.com.

Miscellaneous facts:
  I was born in 1985 in Erie, Pennsylvania. I attended St. Stephen’s pre-school and then Chestnut Elementary. I was homeschooled from third through tenth grade, but also took commercial art at Erie County Technical School in tenth grade. I biked often, kayaked in Lake Erie, and acted at the Erie Playhouse for several years. My family and I moved to Prattville, Alabama shortly before I turned 17, where I attended Prattville High School.

  I made the February, 2008 DigiPen “student spotlight” and I also made the May, 2007 newsletter as well.

  I am the creator and maintainer of WaterBlogged!, a community weblog some of my friends write on.

  I have a single brother. My parents own a really neat company. I am very interested in music and digital photography. Most of my time is spent studying. I don’t have a favorite color.

  My favorite teenage mutant ninja turtle is Michelangelo.

Some great computer games:

• River City Ransom (NES)
• Qix (Arcade)
• Solar Jetman (NES)
• Nintendo World Cup (NES)
• Discs of Tron (Arcade)
• Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES)
• Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons: Episode One (PC)
• Ico (PS2)
• Total Annihilation w/ Core Contingency Expansion (PC)
• The Guardian Legend (NES)
• The Punisher (Arcade)
• Earthworm Jim 2 (Saturn)
• Diablo II (PC)
• Battle Chess (PC)
• Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (PS2)
• Paratrooper (PC)
• Dig-Dug (Arcade)
• Primal Rage (Arcade)
• Virtua Fighter 2 (Saturn)
• Lords of the Realm 2 (PC)
• Resident Evil 4 Wii Edition (Wii)
• Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles (Wii)

Cool films:

• Terminator 2: Judgment Day
• Modern Times
• Young Frankenstein
• The Princess Bride
• Pulp Fiction
• Golden Boy
• Mushishi
• Ouran High School Host Club
• Dennō Coil

Books worth reading:

• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• Little Nemo Series by Winsor McKay
• Dracula by Bram Stoker

Funny Stuff on the Internet:

• Perry Bible Fellowship
• Dr. Miracles
• Jay Pinkteron
  • Spider-Man
  • Batman Origin
  • Four Science Fellows in… “Fellow Against Fellow!”(Pt. 2)
  • Break-Up
  • Fantastic Four: A Night at the Movies
• Best Scenes from “The Wicker Man”
• Shakma Trailer
• My Year with the Dragon (explicit)
• Tank Man
• Auto-Tune the News #1

  I am the lead singer for The Platelets, a Seattle based band. I’ve also done sets with the Shaven Cat Killers, another Seattle area band.

Other web stuff:
I use a track tracking service called last.fm. I find their song recommendation algorithm to be extremely primitive and ineffective. I use the service principally to give an idea what I listen to. Anyway, they have a fancy website widget will I shall now display:

  You can see I’ve made it so the above widget fits in seamlessly with my website.

  I’m a big fan of Google Mail, Reader, Calendar, Docs, Maps, and Bookmarks. Live Search Maps “bird eye” view is quite nice. Oh, I also have a Facebook account, but I don’t take it too seriously.