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Christmas, the time for giving

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Don’t know what to get for the geek in your life this Christmas? How about an 1800-years-old d20? It will surely make all the lesser plastic-cast recently-molded dice cower in fear.
Now, if I only had $6k to throw away, that puppy would be coming home to Rohrmoser faster than you can say critical [...]

Off(line) I go

For those wondering about Gigabyte’s tech support, I still haven’t heard back from them.
I was unable to test the motherboard with Esteban’s Athlon processor, since it was an Athlon XP and my cretacean GA-7ZXR is only the first revision (thus XP-less). Considering other things, however, like the fact that the motherboard is beeping and [...]

Spoiled

Lately I’ve been reading more graphic novels and paperback collections than the old punctuation-paragraph-chapter style novels. I’ve run into a few interesting things, but mostly I’ve been left non-plussed by what’s out there.
It’s the Sandman’s fault.
Everything I read leaves a water mark. Most of the time the water mark just falls below the [...]

Must … burn … negatives ….

So I go in, my water- and dust-sealed camera oozing coolnes from every contour, half-used black and white roll inside (no digital equipment for me, the enlightened user of traditional film). The equipment bag ready with tons of gadgets a couple of feet behind me, an amazing landscape in front. I consider [...]

From the mouth of children

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Two weeks ago at Aya Sofya, I had an enlightening conversation with a friend’s date. When I was pseudo-dancing at the table, moving my upper body in rhythm with the music, she asked a question I hadn’t asked myself before.

If you like dancing so much, why don’t you do it more often?

I was ready to [...]