If you know someone who works in travel you can usually end up having a full-on vacation with less hassle. They'll know where to get you the best deals, offer lots of suggestions that you may not have thought of that you could do spur of the moment, help you plan, etc. Or if you visit family they'll usually help you…

That's how it is where I work. Zilch when you start, a measly week after a year, and then 2 after 2 years. Then they take 4 days for Christmas so it's almost moot anyway...

For people looking to save a few bucks and maybe kids/elderly folk it's a pretty nice idea. Though that design looks morel like "doorstop" than functional but if it feels good then that's all that matters.

In the office we were just talking about how awful getting to that stadium is. Even if they are 100% trying to attract the tech people in the valley, it's going to be a better stadium simply because you won't have that bottleneck getting off of a bridge.

The place is pressed up against the Bay in the middle of a fog bank and with one freeway exit and no public access except for the notoriously shitty SF bus system.

Localization (or I guess adaptation) was one of the things I was better at when pursuing my major in Japanese. Though times have changed a bit and it's tougher to get into so making it a career is on the backburner for me, but man do I appreciate the hell out of localizers.

I don't even follow football and this whole series is what I look forward to every day. It makes me want to get into football just to see the hot messes in real time.

If Bob Costas wears a rainbow blazer and gets arrested we can give him props and won't have to watch him cover the Olympics. It's a win-win.

I'm completely bookmarking 7 Cups of Tea. I know once I no longer have my current insurance that seeing a doctor might be difficult and that I may not exactly need one so this seems like a pretty good option.

One was the general EA panel where they shared the stage with people from EA, one was a general one about BioWare, one was about communicating with the community, and one was about... romances I think? They were busy that weekend. And they were only a 2-person team!

To be fair, he was at least dreaming about a Simon sequence of Indigo Prophecy.

What I'm hoping for is for the technology to be expanded upon. Using a touchscreen computer table that can recognize miniatures, dice, etc. would be awesome and far more space saving than current setups. Maybe in the future we can roll, have the table recognize it and start doing calculations, and then our turns…

The people from Bioware who went to GaymerX were also amazing. Witty, fun, and did about 4 panels over the course of the 2 days. Even when they were talking about the shitstorms they never lost their cool. Fantastic folks over there.

I've been dealing with clinical depression and I sorta did find it funny. I think, and maybe they weren't exactly going for this, that a lot of the "bad" stuff she doesn't deserve is sort of like what depression feels like. You think all this bad stuff is going to happen to you but it's ridiculous and absurd to…

I'm older now, and I never want to watch the same movie more than twice. Ever.

This is something that's been on my mind for a lot of reasons. I'm young and make "decent" money (less than $30k but enough to pay my bills as they are now) but want to try and move to a different industry or role. I know I'll have to at least make what I make now in order to continue paying my bills and move…

I think I may stick to Waze now that it's search is better. While it and Google Maps gave up in the same area of Berkeley, Waze was able to recover faster and could recalculate a route faster than Maps could. It also rarely had the navigation arrow moving with my location but on the wrong part of the map like Maps…

I'm not sure if they're full-on projects but I do recall an income listing. Even so, they could have at least built... something... else next to it. I feel bad for the people who move into brand new apartments and are surrounded by mud and the stadium.

They built a bunch of brand new apartments across from the Coliseum on the other side of the BART station. Pretty nice looking facility surrounded by, literally, dirt and across from the giant grey structure of sadness. The rent is so low you can feel the management company begging people to move in. It's like a…

The bit about Calc is so, so true. A friend created some character sheets in Excel for us to use in our tabletop games but Calc sometimes messes up the things he created so I end up with cells that are broken. Though it works far better than the mobile office suite which just explodes when I try to use the…