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I have returned from Seattle tired but super happy that I was able to attend PAX Prime this year.  Going back to Seattle is extra special for myself as that is where I grew up, so being able to see family, friends, and geek out over a long weekend is awesome.

I was fortunate to be able to join two panels at PAX Prime this year both on community.  Both were great fun.  I have to thank James Stevenson of Insomniac Games and Alli Thrasher of Harmonix for letting me jump in last minute.  Being on the panel and hearing how people and your counterparts view your work was really rewarding.  All the shoutouts for #HireCollin were extra nice as well.  I hope to have video soon of both panels, you can actually listen to The Various Roads to Becoming a Community Manager panels right now over at The Writer’s Bloc.

As for games, there were lots of them.  My highlights include Duke Nukem Forever, Mortal Kombat, Dead Space 2, and NBA Jam.  My pocket book is already starting to hurt.

After a long week at work with the launch of BioShock Infinite I have finally been able to do some laundry and catch up on some television.  All caught up on Sherlock, Burn Notice, Top Chef, and Psych.  I also decided to try out a new theme on the site here.  I think it is a little easier to read and parse.  Tell me what you think.  The theme was built by the wonderful people at WooThemes.

More posts shortly.

So a couple weeks ago I picked up the Microsoft Arc Keyboard.  I liked the overall design, but I had a difficult time typing with it.  Something about the pressure of the keys and the space bar was causing everything I type to be in a big block of text.  I took it back to Best Buy today and picked up the Microsoft Wireless Comfort Desktop 5000, which is a standard keyboard with a slight curve and a Microsoft Wireless Mouse 5000.  I had the Wireless Mouse 5000, but I broke the receiver while cleaning my computer, so it was a nice bonus to get that mouse again.  I am pretty happy having a new fancy keyboard that I can type on again.  Also the performance of the Arc with games wasn’t that great.  Just too small for a crazy FPS.

I picked up a Microsoft Arc Wireless Keyboard today at Best Buy while picking up MLB: The Show 10 today. Total impulse buy and so far so good. It is very tiny! Reminds me of my netbook keyboard, but with a slight curve. It feels pretty nice to type on, but I am making a fair amount of mistakes since changing from my good ol’ Microsoft Curve 2000, which has been my favorite keyboard for a couple years now. Check out the photos which will give you an idea of how small this keyboard is!!

I installed WordPress 2.0 for the iPhone and so far no major issues. It is pretty standard but does the job!

Living without cable makes you do many things, including catch up on television shows you never paid attention too.  I finally decided to check out Battlestar Galactica this weekend, starting with the mini-series and then onto Season 1 and the start of Season 2.  I love something with a sci-fi theme, and BSG holds up pretty well.  The characters are pretty good, the story is pretty strong, and the interrelationships between characters has pulled me in.  I hope it keeps up and stays strong.  Don’t spoil it for me!

I have been fooling around with various themes, wanting to change up the page a bit.  I am still modifying on a local version of the site here at home, but I decided to change the theme on the live site.  I have been reading Smashing Magazine a lot, which is an amazing site that everyone should check out.  I have gotten some good ideas from there, and hope to use some of that great information here on the site.  One of the bad thing about all these changes is links might start breaking, as well as other items.  I hope to clean everything up and keep the site updated.  Keep posted for updates.

With all the snow the local Blockbust had almost everything rented, so I fired up Comcast OnDemand and combed around to see the entire Back to the Future Trilogy in HD.  I have seen these movies countless times over the years, but not all three in a single night.  They are fairly silly, but I have to give the writers credit for paying attention to detail.  Christopher Lloyd is insane in this role, and I really can’t imagine Marty being Eric Stoltz at all.

I installed Windows 7 today on the Eee PC 1000h.  So far so good.  The performance really isn’t that bad at all.  Majority of the drivers worked, but I did have to use the XP drivers for the wifi and network, and after that everything worked.  I was surprised that Aero worked fine, but some things were a little slow such as some of the screensavers.  I installed the new version of Windows Live with Messenger.  One annoying this was I couldn’t find a way to turn off tapping, which I hate.  I’ll write more if something happens.

Capcom released a demo for Resident Evil 5 in Japan a couple days ago.  With the help of the guys and girls at NeoGAF were able to figure a way out to burn the demo to DVD and play it over here in the US, and that is what I did.

The demo itself is fairly short.  You have two areas to play in.  The game feels very much like Resident Evil 4, but with pretty graphics.  It was a little odd getting used to the controls on the 36o controller as I played Resident Evil 4 on the PS2.  The game is very action heavy in the demo, with lots of reloading and trying to fend off countless enemies.  I haven’t tried it co-op yet, but it seems to be pretty cool with the branching areas and teamwork moves similar to Army of Two.