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Recently, some people in my part of the country have been advocating the removal of the four Lower Snake River hydroelectric dams […]

It’s even mini’er than I imagined

After visiting with the Turbine folks on Sunday, we wandered over to the Nintendo booth to check those peeps. We found a […]

I updated the settings so that you don’t have to register to comment now. Hopefully the WP-Hashcash will hold back the tides of neverending comment spam.
PS: Welcome everyone who’s following Andrew’s link RE: PAX05. Most of the posts are still here on the front page so you can just scroll down to read them.

He can smell it

On Sunday afternoon at PAX we stopped by the Turbine booth to take a look at the upcoming LOTR MMORPG.
First, I should […]

Thanks to the wonders of modern technology, this completely pointless post is being made from the middle of the Puget Sound aboard a Washington State Ferry equipped with free WiFi.
Unfortunately, the Mobilisa system seems to hate my one-year-old iBook’s wireless or something, because I get about half of the Mobilisa login page downloaded and then […]

Let me stress that there are some very wonderful things about PAX. There is, for example, a sign in front of a closet that says, “Stoat check, No weasels allowed”. That is genuine endearing cleverness. There are some very talented Dance Dance Revolution players, and a few humorously costumed attendees. Also, […]

We went into this thing with eyes wide open. We had a notion of the density and intensity of the nerdiness we were preparing to immerse ourselves in. We thought we were prepared.
We thought wrong.
The dark and awesome power of Penny Arcade has stirred the breadth and depth of geekdom and drawn the entirety of […]

As Jesse noted, we’re just about to roll-out to my very first video game related expo. Not the venerable E3, but a much younger and more nubile Penny-Arcade Expo.
When I look at the forums at penny-arcade about the expo, I have to keep reminding myself not to criticize a group that I am part […]

Since we were too cheap to get a hotel for two whole nights, we missed the first day of PAX and decided to just drive up to Bellevue this morning and check things out. We’re pretty much set to roll out now, so we should be in the area by 1:30 or 2:00. Mostly, we’re […]