This weekend I will be at the TGA auction up in Massachusets. TGA, or Tokyo Game Action, was an arcade and bowling alley focused mostly on music/Bemani and fighting games. A lot of imports, rare stuff (especially on the east coast), and a cool place in general. Last December they were flooded (for the second time in their history) and closed ( Read more... )

Dear Senator Specter,

Thank you for getting MSNBC to shut the fuck up about swine flu.

Love,
Etty

P.S. When you also change your mind about how bullets travel, call me.

June 11th and 12th (thurs and fri), Eddie Vedder is playing a solo show at the Tower Theater in Philly. I want to go but probably won't alone. Anyone interested?

One of my coworkers stopped in my office just now. "I think I just became a real banker," she said.

I looked at her funny. "What do you mean?"

She opened her hand to reveal two small pills. "I'm taking antacid."

This weekend I went to I-Con in New York. It was a lot of fun. There were video games and hot dogs with french fries. A man dressed as a Naruto gave me a coupon for magic cards that was also good on yugioh cards. It was a lot of fun. The end!

(Pictures and details later.)

I am not dead.

I just thought you might like to know maybe.

NO I WAS NOT IN DES MOINS, IOWA LAST WEEKEND.

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It appears Star Conquest has returned, but... well, they've always been very heavy on enforcing roleplay, and I've never been good at roleplay, so I was slightly dismayed to see that they now require you to write out a character background and submit it for approval ( Read more... )

http://www.ajiraairways.com/

I'm ashamed I did not pick up on that last week, they linked it in the little "hints to what things mean" window on the bottom of the previous week's episode =/

I really don't have any intentions of going to Vegas anytime soon (or ever, you know how I get along with airplanes... I don't), but if/when I do, I'm so doing this.