*Thump*
I knew today was going to be a tough day for me. 12 months ago I held Remington in my arms on the kitchen floor while he had the seizure that would cause his death later that night. He’d been...
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Glazed with rain water, beside the white chickens.
Working in the consumer electronics hardware business has been a massive education. I now know what it takes to drive a manufacturing line in China from creating the steel tooling to combining molded...
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EVERYTHING MUST GO
So I have a box with 25 softcover editions of my first book, A Microsoft Life, and 11 Hardback copies. I asked twitter if people would like signed personalized copies from this stock so here’s the...
View ArticleThe Walking Dead might not just be Game of the Year, it might be one of the...
A lot gets lost in the discussion of video games as entertainment, and whether or not video games are art, etc. I consider the medium to be in its infancy, much like film was in the 1920’s. Video...
View ArticleNewtown, Now, Here.
If you want to send a physical letter to the families of Newtown, CT here is the address: Message of Condolence PO Box 3700 Newtown, CT 06470 I wrote something, I never know honestly if this type of...
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Flying.
I hate riding in planes. Please note I didn’t say that I hate flying. When you’re trying to make people laugh, choosing “hating flying” as a topic is pretty thin soup. I actually like flying in the...
View ArticleRecipe File: BBQ Beef Back Rib Meat
I keep telling people there’s two types of BBQ, what the restaurant sells to customers and what the kitchen eats. And what the kitchen eats is always light years better. That’s because the kitchen can...
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In Which I Concoct a New Way To Pay My Rent.
So for those who don’t know from Twitter or Facebook, towards the end of November I was laid off from my position of Director of Product Management at GAEMS. We’d just shipped the Halo UNSC Vanguard...
View ArticleKinect what are you doing? Kinect STAHP.
Funny story, and this isn’t Kinect’s fault in any way as much as it is trying to integrate its capabilities into your game so consider it a cautionary tale. My friend Mark and I are doing a run through...
View ArticleOn the Eve of the Playstation 4
It’s become kind of a cliché, because technology is the basis for the delivery method, but there’s never been a better time to be a gamer. I was perusing my game collection on my iPad the other day and...
View ArticleThe Curious Tale of MS03-007
This is a story about how I knew within a window of 48 hours when the invasion of Iraq (2003) was going to happen. It was early March, 2003. I didn’t know exactly who the guys in suits were, but I...
View ArticleNew Short Story; Buddy’s Eye
Tonight I released a 30 page short story to Amazon Kindle called Buddy’s Eye. It’s the first story set in a much larger universe and I am very proud of it. It’s priced at $2.99 and you can get it here....
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Strange Days
[WARNING: This blog post contains minor spoilers regarding the D&D Next module The Mines of Madness. It describes the first portions of a playtest of the module before its release. Do not proceed...
View ArticleOn Roger Ebert
There will be a ton of words written about the death of Roger Ebert today. His being a man of words and having inspired many to write, this is fitting and proper. I could write an entire book on his...
View ArticleThe TellTale Tale
So a month ago I applied for a game writer position at TellTale games. I would KILL to write for Telltale. I’ve already written about why I think their take on The Walking Dead was game of the year for...
View ArticleGenerations
My paternal grandmother, my Mee Maw, died around 9:15 AM Dallas time. I’m roiling a bit in mortality, starting to realize that yes indeed, I’m across the line where life stops giving you things and it...
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You are my Buddy, my handsome Buddy. You make me happy when skies are grey…
Dead pet posts suck. Think of this one more as a celebration of a life well lived. I was walking in the Snoqualmie river valley, by myself with Buddy. The day was a bit dreary, overcast but at least it...
View ArticleThen, One By One, We So Quickly Undo The Slow Adjustments.
The rugs on the hardwood to provide traction and prevent injury get pulled up and stored away. The baby gates that have turned our house into a zoned area for who can be where or with whom are retired....
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Why Bioshock Infinite Probably Isn’t As Good As We Think It Is
My mind’s bouncing a bit around the Buddy shaped hole in our lives. But I wanted to say this about Bioshock Infinite since I finished it last week. Let me state right off the bat, Bioshock Infinite is...
View ArticlePoignance.
It’s well past four in the morning. I hear the ticking of a clock I never really heard before. It’s on the kitchen wall and it’s loud. Gosh, I’ve been sick, sicker than I have been in 15 years. Food...
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