Guru Meditation

  • Kaweco Sport Piston Fountain Pen

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    Using notebooks and journals isn’t new to me. But having a thing for fountain pens? That came later. For years, I scribbled in Moleskines and other notebooks with whatever pen I had on hand. Eventually, I gravitated toward gel pens — always loved the smoothness. But somewhere along the way, I fell into fountain pens.…

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  • Capcom Fighting Collection 2

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    Note: I should have included this in my latest random stuff post, but I completely forgot… If there’s one thing that still hits me right in the nostalgia, it’s a solid Capcom fighting game from the golden era of Arcade gaming and now, with Capcom Fighting Collection 2, Capcom did it again. After the first…

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  • The “IT Guy Kit”

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    When you work on IT you’re prone to two things: being a geek and carrying a lot of gadgets. Well, I surely can’t escape my fate, and suffering from both issues (geeking with gadgetry) I have a plethora of things always ready on my “IT Guy Kit”. Here’s the list: The kit pouch itself –…

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  • The Blog that sleeps…

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    It’s more like the blogger who sleeps… I really have to reconnect with my blog. Twitter, Facebook and G+ are taking a heavy toll on blogs. Mine is no exception. In the social networks you have almost an instant audience, it’s like you are in the middle of the street shouting you rants at strangers,…

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  • Farewell LucasArts

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    It’s a sad day for us gamers in their 30’s and 40’s. Today Disney announced that it’s closing LucasArts. The famous game studio that was part of LucasFilm, and included in the package that George Lucas sold to Disney, is being closed down after 31 years. I’m 34. I grew up with LucasFilm Games (that…

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  • Big things have small beginnings

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    The title of this post is one of the most significant lines of David, one of the main characters in Prometheus and it’s perhaps the best way to describe Ridley Scott’s latest sci-fi movie. First, let me get just one thing out-of-the-way. Prometheus is a great movie, one of the best sci-fi movies of the…

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