August 27, 2005
Generic Constipation
Had a good time at Origins last year. Unfortunately, things like work and the Pacific Ocean meant no big midwest game con for me this year. But thanks to Mike and the OgreCave crew with their GenCon multimedia extravaganza coverage, it was just like being there. Like being there half-blind with an ear infection, but still resembling a presence nevertheless.
The podcast with Allan and Chris (the EndGame guy, didn't realize they'd moved near Oakland Chinatown) is great, too. Highly recommended now that it's trivial to keep track of podcasts.
August 07, 2005
City of Blinkenlights
I thought that the lighting setup at the U2 show was made up of conventional decorative lights, like bulbs or neon. Well, turns out that I was wrong.
Scraping across oil-stained concrete, it bunches up anthropomorphically. Heaving up, Transformer-like, it comes alive, its shoulders the housings of giant speaker arrays, trailing epaulets of LED lighting.
Well, excuuuuse me. So I'm not a seminal science fiction author with full backstage access to the show. Good to see that the band is keeping up with the latest and greatest in solid-state lighting technology, anyway.
August 05, 2005
Bizzaro (Mac)World
I'm actually quite look forward to buying a brand-new Intel-based Mac, complete with the Apple multi-button mouse. Hey, I was there when they switched from Motorola 68K to PPC processors. No big deal. Hopefully they'll have a wireless version of the mouse by then. Funny how the multi-button mouse story garnered more Slashdot argumentation than the Intel switch.