Whilst gaming my way across the World Wide Web, I have experienced some of the most offbeat and wonderful gems that the indie community has to offer. Travelling and studying abroad has introduced me to gaming studios and websites I otherwise never would’ve encountered without the input of my gaming friends from around the world. [...]
I’ve been saving this one for a while. Let me just say that Chuck Norris is my hero. My beard is an active homage to his greatness, and I have an encyclopedia of Chuck Norris jokes stored away in my noggin. If anybody is amply prepared to spread the word of Chuck, it’s me. As [...]
Whilst voyaging the Caribbean this past summer, I learned a few things. First of all, it is still not alright to drink unfiltered water in third-world countries. One might think that contracting the same parasite in two different locations on different trips is absurd, but I like to think that I was just getting in [...]
When it comes to indie gaming, there is less of a focus on expensive graphics engines and gleaming eye-candy because the indie community is way past that. Game play and story have reemerged as priorities to those of us who are tired of the same monotonous stream of First Person Shooters on the next-gen systems. [...]
Weird Al Yankovic was a huge part of my childhood. My first CD for my first CD player was “Running With Scissors,” and to this day I still have every word to “Albuquerque” memorized, because that song is glorious. As I reached my mid-teens, Weird Al stopped putting out new albums and my musical tastes [...]
The music industry is full of variety for a reason: so we can listen to whatever we want. Genres are being spliced into sub-genres everday, and the Average Joe has to choose between dubstep, chillstep, house, electronic and many more sub-sub-genres when he wants to listen to techno. Where there is a demographic to appeal [...]
In honor of the late Steve Jobs, I thought that I would share my most positive Apple-related story. R.I.P., and get the hell off the Apple homepage. Your solemn and bespectacled face is bumming me out. It’s not rare that my technology fails me, but Apple seems to be especially efficient at driving me batshit-crazy. [...]
Hopefully you all know vaguely who Wagner was, or at least his profession. Have you heard “The Ride of the Valkyries?” Good, then you’ve heard Wagner. It’s pronounced vawg-ner, not wag-ner, so try not to be wrong. Wagner is not the only guy to put out some pretty rad classical music. Obviously he is the [...]
During the equatorial travels of my 17th summer I spent a great deal of time in Panama, a wonderful country with not so wonderful financial advisors. Many of my bearded tales of awe and thrill come from my infamous summer stint in Chorrerita, a small jungle village in the Coclé province. It was there that [...]
Ever since I discovered the joy of facial hair, my face has remained adorned with fuzz. My beard and I have traveled the world together, conquering countries and wooing locals. Not only have I cultivated my face hairs above the Arctic Circle, but I have also bronzed my whiskers near the equator. From here on [...]