I took my mom out for breakfast on Mother’s Day (bear with me, this is totally related to Infinity Blade), and started talking to my younger brother about the Kindle app for iPhone (trust me, I’m getting there). Since he doesn’t have a credit card, let alone an Amazon account of his own, I linked [...]
Experiencing “Journey” (Not the Band)
I never played flOw or Flower from thatgamecompany, but I’d heard enough about both games in the past that when I came across Journey, I decided to preorder it. There was enough buzz ahead of time that I felt pretty confident that I’d enjoy this game, but man I still did not expect how wonderful [...]
Facebook Acquires Instagram, and it’s “as if Millions of Voices Suddenly Cried Out in Terror, and Were Suddenly Silenced”
I couldn’t resist throwing in my two cents into the echo chamber that’s the Facebook acquisition of Instagram. Apparently, Facebook is doling out $1 billion for the photo app, which is twice what it was valued at right before the deal went down. It’s a pretty crazy figure, but then again Instagram has a built-in, [...]
Coding for a Purpose
I spent a lot of time this weekend doing exercises over at Codeacademy, and I made quite a bit of headway in the lessons that I’ve been skipping out on. One lesson in particular asks you to create your own function that does whatever you want it to do, and I couldn’t for the life [...]
Back Online
So, my site died for several weeks, and it was quite a wake up call because (1) I’ve been mooching off of a friend’s server and it melted, putting all the content of my blog into jeopardy; and (2) none of this stuff was backed up. Fortunately, Google cached pretty much everything, so I didn’t [...]

