Posted in Vacation on Feb 16th, 2007 No Comments »
Mardi Gras isn’t nearly as seedy as Girls Gone Wild paints it out to be. If I was the City of New Orleans, I’d sue them for slander or something. There is basically one street that has the capacity to degrade into drunken debauchery, but on a night like last night - a Thursday, locals […]
Posted in Vacation on Feb 15th, 2007 No Comments »
So hot on the heels of my Vancouver adventure (fully funded by work) we are on a family vacation to The Big Easy. Not just my wife, but most of my inlaws and some of their family as well. We departed yesterday and as you can see we don’t pack lightly.
Note the princess decor of […]
Posted in Vacation on Feb 15th, 2007 No Comments »
In body, but not in spirit.
We did a Hurricane Katrina tour and while I don’t have time to process the images I can share some thoughts.
I was completely taken aback by the level of devastation found over a year later. Neighborhoods that were 70% abandoned and tilting wrecks with a few families eking out a […]
Posted in Video Games, Reviews on Feb 13th, 2007 No Comments »
Have you ever had english trifle? It is a desert composed of layers. Each layer is a delicacy unto its own but combined the experience is all the more exquisite, all the more sublime. In that respect, Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar is just another layer one what was already a marvelous confection and while […]