memories

Dungeons & Dragons Anew

by verbal on 2010/06/10

It looks as if Dungeons & Dragons is making a play to be relevant in the age of video online gaming. I have fond memories of playing D&D on Friday nights in my junior high and high school years. I’m not sure I care to revisit them again.

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I Wasn’t Here

by verbal on 2009/10/17

I wasn’t here during the Loma Prieta earthquake 20 years ago. I was out of California, doing my stint for God and country. I remember when the quake happened. It was my day off. I had set the VCR in my bedroom to tape the third game of theWorld Series. I brought back takeout from [...]

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Half A World Away

by verbal on 2009/02/07

The last time I saw my uncle was thirty-three years ago when I went to the Philippines. It was the first and only time I had been to the homeland of my parents. I was young and bratty, traveling without my sisters for the first and only time. I’m not sure why my parents took [...]

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Last-minute Las Vegas

by verbal on 2008/07/29

Two Sundays ago I received an unexpected phone call from old friends who were traveling to Las Vegas for a vacation they had planned over a year ago. They asked if I could meet them there. It was fairly short notice, but I asked Farrah if I could go to Vegas because I hadn’t seen [...]

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Leaving

by verbal on 2008/06/18

I don’t blog about work much, but it’s difficult to read that many talented people are leaving Yahoo! lately (here, here, and here). When I was luckily enough to join Yahoo! in 2002, I was met with a work environment very similar to my first Silicon Valley job. The company seemed full of energy, wanting [...]

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