PAX Prime 2010: Nerds In The Mist

Katelyn — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:30:00 +0000

Penny Arcade Expo 2010 is over now, and some 60,000 gamer nerds have gone back to their basements with backpacks stuffed with free decks of Magic cards, wearing Portal 2 t-shirts, and clutching fistfuls of beta invites for new online games like Firefall and Rift: Planes of Telara. The free stuff is nice, but the unabashedly nerdy companionship at the Convention Center this weekend was better. Until next fall, when PAX returns, the community will have to settle for bullshitting on the forums, gathering in homes for D&D and Munchkin Cthulhu, or playing games together online. No one could blame [...]

O Come, All Ye Faithful, to the Seattle Cheese Festival

Katelyn — Sat, 15 May 2010 16:32:00 +0000

Three cheeses at last night’s opening reception, courtesy of Willis Marketing The two comforts that get me through the traumatic religious mess that is the Christian Holy Week in April are mass quantities of mimosa and the cheery thought that the Seattle Cheese Festival is nearing once again. The Cheese Festival is a corridor of fermented and fresh dairy product worship that takes over Pike Place Market for two days every May. Much cheese is tasted (for free); much cheese is sold at often remarkable prices. This year’s festival is taking place today and tomorrow, and I strongly recommend that [...]

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PAX Prime 2010: Nerds In The Mist

O Come, All Ye Faithful, to the Seattle Cheese Festival