I’ve made it a point to get in this pose with Bayonetta every time I see her at a convention. I went for the hat trick this year.       As always, I get a smirk from the cosplayer and laughs from the crowd. Typically I also end up staying a few extra seconds because […]

Booths at PAX range from a mere table to an arena larger than some NYC studios, and typically the bigger booths have the bigger lines. While walking around the convention, I spotted that the booth for Assassin’s Creed 3, a big budget game whose line was normally very long, had experienced a momentary lull in […]

I planned to take three days off works so that I could attend PAX Prime, the granddaddy of gaming conventions available to the public. Fly in Thursday, enjoy the three-day con, hop on a Sunday night red-eye and spend Monday recovering. But it’s Wednesday, and I’m still here in Seattle. In fact I’m going to […]

This story is also an entry into Sally’s contest for the upcoming Halo game. If you’ve got one of your own, hop over to her video and leave a comment to enter! I got a call yesterday from an unknown number. I pick it up, and am immediately greeted with the strangest voice I’ve ever […]

Continuing the trend of my quirky eBay listings comes yet another. Knock knock. Who’s there? Bananas. Bananas who? Knock knock. Who’s there? Bananas. Bananas who? Knock knock. Who’s there? Orange. Orange who? Orange you glad I didn’t say bananas? No, actually, because you were probably hoping I would say bananas and present you with the […]

My penchant for unnecessarily long product descriptions started when I hawked my wares in WoW, but recently I’ve found that the tendency carries over to my eBay listings as well. Fantasy games are supposed to be fantastical. World of Warcraft lets you ride around on huge bats, mechanical striders and more, but you never get […]

Yoli told me a while ago about a plugin called Brian’s Threaded/Nested Comments that modifies WordPress’s comment system to give it the nested feature found in places like Livejournal and Deadjournal. As people sometimes actively engage in actual conversations with me through comments, I jury-rigged a solution that looks awfully cool and impressive. However, for […]

All is quiet on the eastern front (or is it the western front?). My job is going smoothly, and there’s just enough going on to stave away ennui. July 22nd and 23rd (along with an hour of the 24th) were spent at the Rochester Institute of Technology for their College and Careers program. It was […]

Last night’s dream was one of my craziest. Crazier than the lucid dream where I was too afraid that I was sleepwalking to be curious and try to jump out the window and see what happens. I was one of those Left Behind. It was probably my simple agnosticism that kept me from going through […]