Ken Newquist In 1999/2000, an e-mail hoax surfaced claiming that a man in Hawaii died after being exposed to rat urine in the back room of a supermarket. Although it offered good advice — always wipe off your soda can before drinking from it — the content’s were false. The hoax has gained a few paragraphs since … Read more
Ogre Cave (www.ogrecave.com) is a multi-person blog offering news and commentary about speculative fiction gaming in its myriad incarnations, from board games to role-playing games to card games. The site’s updated several times a week (and occasionally, several times a day) with short news updates, such as White Wolf Games lawsuit trying to stop Sony’s … Read more
About four months ago, my faithful iBook began having problems. When I’d lift the laptop’s screen, it would fade to black, and would stay that way unless I kept it at exactly the right angle. A few weeks after the problem began, the right angle disappeared, and the screen stayed dark. A search at www.macintouch.com … Read more
All through my high school career and a good chunk of my college one, I spent a fair amount of time questing for the soundtrack to the movie 2010. I finally got it in my sophomore year (1992), when my girlfriend at the time found it for me in a CD store up in State … Read more
Over the last decade or so of my professional life, I’ve had the displeasure (and occasionally terror, frustration and a bunch of other un-nice words) to work with a program called Quark Xpress. For those of you fortunate enough not to have had to deal with the program, Quark is a pagination program — it’s … Read more
The recent spate of viruses and worms to hit the net — notably Sobig, Blaster and Mimmail — have once again proven that people need to keep their antivirus programs current, their computers patched, and a skeptical and wary on any unexpected (or even expected) e-mail they receive. It’s also shown that the major anti-virus … Read more
I’ve been listening to some 80s Internet radio stations at work recently (no doubt reaffirming my … eccentric … taste in music with certain individuals in my Dungeons & Dragons campaign) and I’ve been hearing some old classics like “Weird Science”, “She Blinded Me With Science” and “The Future’s So Bright I’ve Got To Wear … Read more
While I was at work the other day, I was the proud recipient of StarGirl’s very first e-mail. And here’s what it had to say: “m, mmkkk/ bvn bu nmr b 6fcb ,mmm” Brilliant eh? Seems she was happily pounding away at the keyboard while Sue was trying to get some work done, so Sue decided … Read more
I love my five-month-old daughter StarGirl greatly. But that’s not to say that she can’t be very, very trying at times. Like last night. Or should I say yesterday morning? I put her down at around 11 p.m., then headed downstairs to finish up a level in Futurama, a PS2 game I’m in the process of … Read more
Radio is dead. Well, maybe not quite dead, but definitely dying. I first noticed the decline a year or so after Clear Channel bought two of the Lehigh Valley’s radio stations: 95.1 WZZO (a rock station) and 104.1 WAEB (a pop/Top 40 station) in the late-1990s. The radio play lists seemed to become more repetitive … Read more