Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Given how often I’m over at the OneBookshelf sites, I don’t know how this slipped my attention previously, but it turns out that through Dec. 7th they are doing a promotion called Teach Your Kids To Game Week. The idea basically is . . . ummm . . . to teach your kids to game. [...]
Friday, November 23, 2012
The turkey is eaten, the leftovers are in the fridge, it’s the start of a long weekend . . . IT’S TIME TO SHOP!!! Yes, so-called “Black Friday” is upon us, and all over the U.S. (and around the world, I’m sure), shoppers are out looking for interesting and appropriate holiday gifts for friends and [...]
You may recall that back in the first few weeks of the year, I spent a lot of time dealing with the Great Wall of Boxes in hopes of reducing the amount of junk I’m storing but ALSO letting me get about actually DECORATING the apartment I’d recently moved into. Well, here we are two [...]
The other night, I was out at Applebee’s with a friend (and anyone who IS my friend will find nothing strange about that). The music, as often happens during the Late Happy Hour in “the Neighborhood,” seemed to be custom selected from “songs Stan! really dug in 1979-1984.” As we were getting up to go, [...]
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
I wasn’t kidding yesterday. After work tonight, instead of going straight home to turn the light switches on and off in my apartment, I drove down the street and did something some people (including my mother and my friend Sue) might have thought I’d never do — I went furniture shopping of my own volition. [...]
Yesterday I talked about my general Gen Con experience, but today I’m going to get to the MEAT of the matter-I’m going to talk about all the cool STUFF I brought back with me from the show! Gen Con is a gamer’s candy store … no matter what you want, the chances are there are [...]
The Internet is abuzz today with gamers trying to figure out what they should buy at Gen Con. Just to make sure that I’m never accused of missing an opportunity to blatantly plug projects I had a hand in, I suggest those of you in Indianapolis this week check out these booths. STUDIO 2 PUBLISHING [...]
One thing I have to say about Apple, they certainly have their shipping processes wired. After receiving my keyboard, I was still able to track the process on the remainder of my order (namely, the iPad itself), which it turns out was coming to me direct from the factory in Shenzhen, China. I knew when [...]
As with so many big retailers these days, Apple is shipping various parts of my order to me separately from warehouses in different parts of the country. Yesterday, I got the first of those shipments. Now, who doesn’t like the thrill of opening up packages containing items you’ve ordered? (There’s that consumeristic hedonism again.) But [...]
When I placed my order at Apple.com, they said that my shipment would arrive in 1-2 weeks. But the friendly folks at the Apple Store said that the web site generally plays it very safe in those estimations, and that if I ordered there I’d probably get my products faster than the listed time. So [...]