I was talking with a friend of mine about the horrors and pitfalls of our current economic crisis. We discussed such relevant topics as, how in God’s name can we afford $4.6 TRILLION worth of bailouts? And also, why are AIG executives taking taxpayer-funded retreats? While we generally agreed on a great many debatable points, […]
Colony of Gamers Child’s Play Charity Drive
The Colony of Gamers has started its first annual Child’s Play Charity Drive. Less then 24 hours hours after it started, it is already up to $2,584 — a little more than halfway to the established goal of $5,000. The Child’s Play charity was started by Mike and Jerry at Penny Arcade as a way […]
Isn’t it beautiful?
It is. It truly, truly is beautiful.
The re-colonization of like-minded gamers
Yeah, I know, blogging moratorium, interrupting my writing flow, yadda yadda — but this is important. I fled the Evil Avatar community a long time ago. Quietly, and under my own terms. There were a few reasons for this, not the least of which was the venom and disgust with which some members regarded any […]
More on TrustyPig
I know, I know – I’m already sick of talking about TrustyPig myself. But today, we received word that the TrustyPig admin (“Costy”?) has responded to our claims that the SmartyPig website design was stolen. Rather than post the response on their own blog (which any transparent company would do), TrustyPig opts instead to work […]
TrustyPig steals SmartyPig website
We don’t have many web 2.0 products coming out of Des Moines these days (you can read my commentary about that here). So when something hideous and wrong happens to one of our few entrepreneurial successes, we take notice, and we do something about it. Des Moines-based SmartyPig is a site where you can start […]
It’s Iowa State Fair time!
It’s that magical, sensational time of year. That’s right, it’s FAIR TIME! Tomorrow morning, at the absolute crack of dawn, the Iowa state fairgrounds will awaken and begin a sensory overload the likes of which haven’t been seen since…well, last year, I suppose. I’ve taken the day off so that we can arrive by 8:00 […]
Steam doesn’t offer a refund even if the software doesn’t work?
Update: apparently, they do! Read here for an update to this story. I finally purchased Puzzle Quest a little while back on the recommendation of pretty much everyone on the internet, including a couple of friends and at least one co-worker. I figured rather than pick it up on the Wii, I would instead get […]
Nerdflood: part of the elite tech blogging empire?
I never take a moment to consider exactly who is going to read my blog when I create a new post for Nerdflood. Oftentimes, I don’t think about the fact that people beyond my close friends and family read this blog; and even my close friends and family don’t read it all that much (Mom? […]
Greetings new visitors! (and there’s a lot of you!)
I captured this shot of my blog stats this evening just as it had reset for the 13th. That first jump on the 4th was my first post about Toluu. Most of the traffic that day came from FriendFeed. The second jump was after my follow-up post on Toluu yesterday. Most of that traffic also […]