August 25, 2008 – 10:14 pm

I’ve been a little silent on here… but not for lack of things to rant about. I’ve been traveling to Lake Placid, watching the Olympics, and playing the game Mass Effect. I’ll be posting pictures from Lake Placid soon… and I’ll also be weighing in on the Mass Effect game (because there’s a [...]

A recent article in Wired Magazine (Geekonomics, April 06) asks “What if everything in the world were free?” At first the brief mental dream of this utopia may be alluring, but the inevitable consequences would surely be societal disaster. But why? Quite simply, as long as we’re human we’ll act like humans. [...]
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February 26, 2006 – 3:50 pm

A news story (linked on the picture and again below) reminded me of the arcade game NBA Jam that I played on occasion. This NBA 2 on 2 basketball game’s popularity came not only from the fact that it featured real digital likenesses of real NBA players with their real team jerseys (before this [...]
February 9, 2006 – 5:25 pm

My new hard drive is finally being used, but not how I’d like. Despite my best efforts, and the use of some otherwise reliable hard drive companies’ software, I was not able to convert my new drive over to the boot drive (C:) with a valid image of the original hard drive. The [...]
December 16, 2005 – 1:44 am

I have been asked how this website (the one you’re reading) got its name… so sit right back and you’ll hear a tale. Way back in the year 1997 I was gaming online with some Navy buddies of mine. Quake 2 had just come out and we hopped onto a server that had [...]