When my wife and I got married, I was 20 and she was 18. According to popular opinion, we were “too young,” and I’ll be the first to admit that we were toward the lower end of most marital age statistics. The median age at first marriage nowadays is around the mid-twenties (25ish for women [...]
(Lately, I’ve been inspired by the World of Warcraft fan fiction on Life in Azeroth, my sister-in-law’s blog, so I decided to start a story of my own. This is the tale of Sir Thalenir Bloodbrand, a blood elf paladin slowly coming to terms with the misbegotten holy power inside of him.) Clang! The clash [...]
Evolution is a fact. To those who take offense at the idea that we evolved from primates, get over it. You have 99.4% of your genes in common with a chimpanzee. It is an irrefutable, scientific fact. If you don’t believe me, this Korn video does a very good job of highlighting the similarities. If, [...]
To most people, search marketing is a pretty dry profession. Behind all the technical minutia and jargon, however, there’s humor that any web surfer can appreciate. For example, I came across this collection of unfortunate search ads over at SEOrefugee demonstrating how some online shopping sites reach a little too far in their ad targeting. [...]
With the help of my friend Adam, my company has been starting a lot of new marketing initiatives. I won’t go into details, but a lot of it involves affiliate marketing. The whole ordeal has given me a grim understanding of how the affiliate mind works and why the field has such a bad reputation. [...]
Imagine that you’re in my shoes for a moment. Your job requires you to work at one of the company’s conferences. It’s a four-day-long event that wholly consumes a weekend, during which you’ll be working about 15 hours a day. On top of that, you’re expected to work a normal week both before and after. [...]
Apparently, graphics can really affect your gaming experience. Who knew? Up until recently, my wife and I had been playing Warcraft on my old college computer. It was reliable, but showing its age. Nowadays, a four-year-old graphics card and a 768 MB of RAM just don’t cut it. Still, we enjoyed playing Warcraft on it, [...]
According to Slashdot, Wizards will be releasing D&D 4th edition in the next year or so. Described as “evolutionary,” it promises to be the most interactive version of the game yet, with online and offline content tied together as well as online versions of the no-longer-printed Dragon and Dungeon magazines. It’s an interesting development, although [...]
I remember seeing the first installment of Fallen some time last year. It wasn’t earth shattering, but it was okay. I also remember being disappointed that they wouldn’t finish the series until some months later. If anyone’s got an answer for that one, please let me know, because it still doesn’t make any sense to [...]
My friend Adam is very fond of the expression, “WTF?” Yes, he literally says those three letters rather than the words they represent, and I’ve been developing the same habit from listening to him. It’s a bit more polite to use the acronym, I suppose, although most people still recognize (and might be offended by) [...]