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HOW conference

This time tomorrow I'll be gathering my things and heading off to the 2009 HOW Design Conference in Austin, TX. Since it was so close this year I'll be driving up with a colleague. I'm pretty excited. HOW is the largest design conference in the country. It's like...

Predictable RAGE

It would seem to be redundant to say that GameStop sucks, but it does. They are, without a doubt, the single worst online retailer I've ever had the displeasure of dealing with. In terms of actual brick and mortar stores, I still have a special place of disdain for...

Now I’m Sad

I checked my GameStop order today and it still said "pending" instead of "shipped", so I decided to call them. Apparently, they sold so many, they're now on back order. Good news is that they sold out of the "weathered" and beat up boxes, so I'm getting a brand new...

Rock your face off

I'm not really sure when it happened, but apparently I've gone bat-shit insane. I've made multiple rather crazy purchases recently, for no reason other than they would give me personal satisfaction. The largest of these being Rock Band 2. I couldn't resist the price...

E3 Impressions: Microsoft

No. I'm not at E3. I wish I was. Nope, just a guy watching all the press conferences and reading as much news as possible. I'm now post-live-blogging the Microsoft press conference. Post-live meaning that I'm watching it on my DVR after it's happened. Here we go. Of...

Movie Review: Up

Last night we revived a long held tradition in our house: seeing Pixar movies at midnight on opening day. We started the tradition on college with Toy Story 2 and continued it all the way until Cars, which we saw opening day instead. We've always been big Pixar fans...