So, while we were all busy congratulating Robert Scoble on the birth of his baby Milan–likely the first ever Twittered birth–another baby was being born. My friends Travis and Mandy had their first child born at 9:45 this morning. I got to see the little guy briefly over my lunch break today. His name is […]
Iowa State Fair
Last Monday, Amanda, myself, and Amanda’s mother all gathered up the boys and several backpacks filled with supplies and trekked out to the Iowa State Fair. It’s a yearly pilgrimage, and a welcome one at that. I feel as though this year we didn’t get to see everything we would have liked. While we got […]
Dungeons and Dragons 4th edition
This is probably for the best, seeing as how I gave away all my 3rd edition D&D materials to Ziggurat Con. A more generous reading would cite all the extracurricular work that Wizards is putting into community building for D&D. Launching alongside the new edition of the rules is what the company is calling D&D […]
Calacanis and Winer: now here’s a reason to hate the internet
Even though this is making all the rounds on the internet, I feel the need to comment. I don’t know why; I guess I must just be bored. So, evidently Jason Calacanis talked at Gnomedex about Mahalo. And Dave Winer didn’t really care for that too much. But instead of intelligently discussing his issues with […]
This town needs an enema!
That’s my favorite line from any Batman movie, ever. Ok, so I’ve gone back to Evil Avatar. I just can’t help it. Every time I think I can break the habit, I get drawn back in via some interesting discussion, or some news I just feel the need to post there. By the way, I’m […]
Thoughts on the new minE3
In a word: disappointing. That pretty accurately sums up how this year’s E3 has played out this week. All of the big three have essentially played it safe this week. Chris Kohler over at Game|Life says it better than anyone else I’ve read so far: Typically, it’s been the “battle of the press conferences” to […]
There’s a disconnect here, and it isn’t Nintendo’s fault
I find myself apologizing a lot for the things Nintendo does that the public reacts badly to. But this is just a bunch of pathetic FUD. Yes, that’s right, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption will not have any online multiplayer. And that’s exactly what I wanted to hear. Others, for some reason, not only want to […]
The glow in the dark stuff was the worst…
This really happened tonight. My wife called me just as I was leaving work and let me know that a huge storm had just passed over our town and was quickly working its way east towards Des Moines. She advised me to stop and get indoors. So, what better stop could there be but a […]
My first ten minutes with Mahalo
Wow. More later.
Well, it’s 10AM in Japan
Where is our Smash Bros. update?