To anticipate and prevent
Yeah, I know, it’s the Fourth of July. Typically one calls today Independence Day (great movie Bee Tea Dub, rumored to have sequels in the works — yes plural). There are a lot of events going on today. Parades, BBQs, crazy summer hijinx… but really the highlight of the day is the Fireworks. When I…
If you live in the SF Bay Area, you should be aware that Maker Faire is happening in San Mateo this weekend. From Saturday morning to Sunday night, traffic in the area (92 & 101) is going to be a disaster; you’ve been warned. Sure, Maker Faire is an entire weekend of AWESOME. Where else…
Since I built my gaming PC, I’ve gotten more serious about following the details of recently released and soon-to-be-released games. Some of the games I’m following include Planetside 2, MechWarrior Online, Guild Wars 2, World of Warplanes and Warface. If you look closely at all these games, you will see that they’ve got one thing…
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Allow me to take a moment and set the stage. It’s a lazy Sunday afternoon and I’ve just discovered that you can get Beta keys for Planetside 2 with the April issue of PC Gamer. Of course I don’t subscribe to PC Gamer, so I’m going to need to go out and buy a copy…
Last week saw the end of one of my favorite shows in recent television memory, Chuck. If you’re into geekry, you probably haven’t missed the fact that Chuck was on and you will, like me, be sad it is over. It almost ended at the end of the second season due to network stupidity, but…
As part of my new high class (living in San Francisco) lifestyle, I went to the San Francisco Opera. I’ve never been to the opera before and really didn’t have any desire to go (it just didn’t seem like my thing), but my girlfriend has season tickets and wanted to take me along for a…