Beyond the Rhetoric

I’ll be the first person to tell you that I am no skateboarder. I don’t have the sense of balance or style to just keep myself on the deck (at least I know the terminology), let alone pull off any kind of tricks. That said, I do enjoy watching the competitions on television, and I [...]

I came across this during my daily journeys through the tech blogs and thought I’d share with the rest of you. All you old school gamers out there should recognize at least a handful of these. If you don’t, you’re not geek enough. 1. “All your base are belong to us.” – Zero Wing 2. [...]

As I sat there in the Starbucks on the UBC campus, bashing at the keyboard to write my slate of Mobile Magazine articles, sipping at my vanilla latte, the nice young lady wearing the standard green apron came around with a tray of shooter glasses. Well, not exactly, but they were these little cups filled [...]

This is a little disheartening, but it’s nearly four months since Christmas and I’ll still recovering from the holiday blahs. It’s not really the lack of the festive season or the onslaught of gift giving (and receiving), so it’s not that aspect that I’m talking about. It’s the fact that I haven’t been particularly active [...]

You know you’re getting old when you start saying things like, “I remember when I was younger…” or “Things aren’t like they used to be”, or — perish the thought — something as extreme as “Those were the days, weren’t they?” I find myself doing that when it comes to television programming “these days.” Growing [...]