The internet can produce some extremely amusing content, and Youtube is the nexus of much of this content. Anyone with a cellphone, webcam, or video recorder and some basic editing skills can put up pretty much anything online to amuse others. From opinions to commentary to reviews, you could spend months on end finding stuff […]
While not nearly as awesome or innuendo-filled as Flight of the Conchords have expressed it, I owe a large amount of who I am to the female authority figures in my life. This isn’t to say my life would have been aimless or wasted without them, but I’ve had a rather successive streak of influential […]
As a kid, video games were nothing more than mild amusement for families, treated as something more like a novelty. This, of course, was more a limit of the technology at the time than anything else, but also in the 1980s video games were barely around for 20 years. Music was minimal at best, with […]
I am a cosplayer. Or, rather, was. Though I’ve essentially retired from the scene in general, and making/commissioning costumes in particular, there will always be some enthusiasm for it. The extend of my fulfillment these days is Wizard World Philly for a Saturday afternoon. The biggest reason being is it’s an expensive hobby by most […]
Post-apocalypse video games, tv series and movies, and comics are great forms of escapism. Whether or not it involves zombies is more of a preference but ultimately only adds an element of horror to any already horrible situation. Anyone who partakes in this genre is outright lying if they say they never thought about how […]
I am an American history fan in many respects: I possess the books 1776 and John Adams by David McCullough (as well as the HBO mini series by the same name), Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick, and His Excellency by Joesph Ellis. Also I possess and obsessed over Assassin’s Creed […]
I am a zombie genre fan, no question. The Walking Dead being the most recent, and most popular, take on a post-apocalypse outbreak really roped me in. While there are decades of movies and video games devoted to this universe I was only mildly interested in them (all due respect to George Romero and Capcom’s […]
SCOUTS has just concluded one of their most emotionally charged sessions in recent years. The two big doozies among their ruling were regarding the Voting Rights Act and gay marriage. The latter broke down into two distinct rulings: regarding DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act) and California’s Proposition 8 law making a previously passed law of […]
I love JavaScript frameworks. Coming from a time when you had to code uniquely for IE (document.all) and Netscape (document.layers) most (including me) just did it for IE. Also, many of us were just learning about JS via the highly recommended Peachpit books, so we copied but didn’t understand. This was the late 1990s when […]
Considering Iran’s elections are hardly democratic by nature, the best possible outcome of all the presidential candidates was to have the most moderate one be elected. Thankfully, that’s exactly happened. Considering the massive fallout from 2009’s election and seemingly alleged (more like, “pretty sure it happened”) vote-rigging, we should be pleased that this time around […]