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A Tribute to Geocities

Today, Yahoo killed its once-ubiquitous free hosting service, Geocities. Let us have a moment of silence for the thousands of ugly, not-updated-since-the-90s websites that have met their demise today. My favorite web comic xkcd was quick to pay their respect as well: Distracting background, scrolling marquee, garish colors, animated GIFs, broken links...

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Video Games Live

Yesterday J surprised me with tickets to Video Games Live at Beacon Theater! According to their website, Video Games Live is: An immersive event created by the game industry featuring the best game music performed by top orchestras and choirs combined with synchronized lighting, video, live action and audience interactivity. The first and and most successful video game concert tour in the world. This will be a long entry full of photos and links. So before I go on any further, let me cut to the chase: Video Games Live was the best concert I've ever attended. Would it be sad to admit that VGL was the most fun I've had in months? Well I'm not afraid to admit that SO THERE. I had checked the...

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