What Happened This Week – Freak Monsoon HoliDelay a Go-Go
For those of you fortunate enough to not live in northern Illinois, we got whacked with what I can only describe as a reverse hurricane: a freakishly narrow storm front that lasted for about thirty...
View ArticleWhat Happened This Week – Just Another Day
Ngaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Well, I guess I’ll have to apologize after all. Sorry folks, it’s been unusually busy this weekend; had company over, cracked windshield, all sorts of fun. On top of that the...
View ArticleWhat Happened This Week – Everybody Misses the Nineties
Yaaay, we’re back! And hopefully we’ll stay on time going forward, or at least we won’t lose power right when I’m about to start writing. Anyway, news time! Sony acquires streaming game service...
View ArticleWhat Happened This Week – Kickstart the Atom
Is this year going fast for anybody else? Maybe it’s my mad scramble to find another job, virtually any job, outside banking right now, so I’m just noticing the passing weeks more. Oh well. It’s news...
View ArticleWhat Happened This Week – Podcast Later, Serve the Newell Now
Alan Wake’s American Nightmare, Bastion (+soundtrack), Beyond Good & Evil (thanks, JMan711!!), Blocks That Matter (thanks, xerozohar!), Burnout Paradise, Civilization V, Driver: San Francisco,...
View ArticleWhat Happened This Week – Now Seventy-Five Percent Off!
Ooof… man, what was I thinking? Don’t… nobody even tell me the damage. If I don’t see the bill, it doesn’t exist. I’ll pretend this big stack of games I bought just magically appeared there. Yeah, that...
View ArticleWhat Happened This Week – Naysayers Right and Wrong
News time, everybody! Get it while it’s hot, metaphorically speaking as the transfer of information is not linked to temperature! In tonight’s episode: Zynga’s stock takes a nosedive due to slashed...
View ArticleWhat Happened This Week – Low Voltage
Once again, my evening was brought to a screeching halt by a combination of mother nature and the inadequacies of our local power grid. This time it tricked me into a false sense of security, as we...
View ArticleWhat Happened This Week – The Cold Calculus of Microtransactions
All right, back in business once more. Hopefully we won’t be hit by another freak storm this weekend, but really it seems like the power dies if someone so much as coughs too loudly. Let’s get to the...
View ArticleWhat Happened This Week – On Hiatus
Well, I suppose this shouldn’t be a huge surprise. Yes, after frequent delays, false starts, and lack of time to search for a new job, I’ve decided to put What Happened This Week on hiatus. It’s not an...
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