Jonthan Coulton is a staple of the PAX concerts every year, but I have never been able to see him outside of that context. My live-in-sin-in is closer to obsessed with him than I could vouch for, trying to opt for a show in Chicago and Madison. I passed on the Madison, but Chicago is one of my favorite cities for music, so we jumped on the Tollway and headed for the land of Blues ...
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I've been home from the 2009 Penny Arcade Expo for a few days, digested and decompressed, and am ready to review what was a really different year form normal. Within the next few days, you'll see more interviews than I have ever done for Dignews go up, beyond that my "live-in-sin-in" came along for the ride this year. That was actually one of the best parts, because PAX is really something you need to experience before you ...
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Today was a busy day. The morning was filled with stuff relating to the first day of school. It went off much better than we had expected. While August was in school, Laura had a meeting to attend, so I had care of Ciárán and Déla. We went to the mall to run a few errands and returned home in time to pick up August. Since it was only a half day of school, we ...
Written on August 31, 2009 | Posted in
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I spend thursday at a bagel shop either getting some typing done or, more likely some homework I should have done earlier in the week. I'm working on my little Dell Hackintosh, which is supposed to prevent the kind of procrastination that resulted from bringing my proper Macbook along to the coffee shop.
This of course has not happened, but two hours later I am finally getting some work done. Although I have an appreciation for ...
Written on August 28, 2009 | Posted in
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This was a weekend of birthdays, as on Friday I hit 28, and Monday was my Live-in-sin-in's birthday. There was a little bit of drinking and a little bit of eating and I had a lot of fun. Looking forward to PAX, and not sure what to expect this year. Every time I assume that the conference is going to be predictable, it becomes something else entirely.
I really like the aspect that this is a ...
Written on August 26, 2009 | Posted in
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I spend a lot of time working. Between Dignews, the day job, and school, most of my time is bound up up in deadlines. As Monk can tell you, I sometime watch these deadlines sail by. This is my last year of school, so I am getting antsy to be done with it for awhile. Although I am still likely going to go to grad school, so I am not quite sure what I expect ...
Written on August 22, 2009 | Posted in
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After a really long day, I'm still putting off some Calc homework to try and get in another post here at Dignews. Today was rather uneventful, I spend a lot of time writing as of late, a lot of it surprisingly for my day job. Its actually really fulfilling getting to use what I think is one of my best skills in a job that usually doesn't even bother challenging me. I enjoy language, and ...
Written on August 20, 2009 | Posted in
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Man it was a long weekend. My live-in-sin-in's parents were up as both of our birthdays are next weekend. Spent most of the weekend drinking and eating things that were bad for me. The State Fair really leads to that, although I am a bit bitter that I spent a fair amount of time at work this weekend. I need to get around to getting a smart phone one of these days so I can ...
Written on August 18, 2009 | Posted in
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With celebrities migrating to twitter as their new "common people" communication method, can the Internet be called "New Media." This isn't Luddite, but may be a bit elitist. The problem I have when Oprah tweets about whatever new age drivel she's pimping, of Ashton Kutcher tries to have a publicity contest with a network is that it removes what makes the Internet, "new media." The internet was all about community and participation, and I doubt ...
Written on August 13, 2009 | Posted in
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Despite what the terrible ramblings I call reviews might say about me, I am going to school to be a writer, a technical writer to be precise. To do so I am studying Computer Science and English in equal measures. This has lead to a fun mixture of classes, but now I am in my final year and having to take more math in a row than should be considered legal under the UN declaration. ...
Written on July 25, 2009 | Posted in
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So I wanted to offer something into the "could have been a contender" category of TV Shows. Tru TV was looking to garner a little Mythbusters fandom with a show called Man versus Cartoon. However instead of finding a couple of special effects guys with access to teams and equipment they went to a New Mexico college, and some very uncharismatic engineers.
The premise of Man Versus Cartoon is very simple recreate the wacky machines devised ...
I listen to a lot of Podcasts, but after getting heavily into the various offerings of Leo Laporte over at TWiT.tv, I have taken another look at video podcasting. Not too much has piqued my interest, but I have three shows that I follow. I think all three offer something we wouldn't get on television.
The first is Cranky Geeks. Run by the curmudgeonly John C Dvorak and the merely irritated Sebastian Rupley, these two are ...
Written on July 21, 2009 | Posted in
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