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October 17, 2010

Favorite Video Gaming Moments (1st Edition)

I really do enjoy writing, whether or not anyone ultimately reads the result. You should see my backlog of posts that I’ve started but haven’t yet finished because of my inability to stop rambling on Tim-Rogers-style.

Thank goodness for 1up’s article about their writers’ favorite gaming moments; it serves as a good bite-sized writing prompt.

Let’s get on with it, then… (more…)

Carl @ 2:04 am
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October 14, 2010

Me, My Car, and LA

Last week I went with some buddies to attend a friend’s wedding. We were flying in and out of LAX, the wedding was in Santa Ana, and there was a party downtown. We needed to rent a car.

Early in my undergrad, I’d joined a group of students on a trip to LA to see Bob Barker on The Price is Right before he retired. We rented cars and after witnessing the chaos and havoc of the LA freeway, I swore I never wanted to drive there.

But…for this trip last week, I’d volunteered to drive anyway. No one else actually enjoyed the act of driving as I do, so I seemed like the only real candidate.

This experience left me with a few thoughts:
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Carl @ 12:37 am
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