Posts tagged with travel
PAX 08: The Remembering
This past holiday weekend I traveled to Seattle with my good friend Mike to attend the annual Penny Arcade Expo. Penny Arcade is a trice-weekly web comic about video games and their surrounding universe. Started out of a passion for games, Penny Arcade has risen to a point where it runs a multi-million dollar charity, [...]
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Seattle is a Strange Land
So I’m here, at PAX, and after spending about 24 hours in Seattle I’ve noticed a few things. Namely, this is a strange place. The strangest thing, and the hardest to get over, is the fact that it’s three hours behind the East Coast. It feels like living in the past actually. When I turned [...]
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PAX BABY!!!
Today is August 28th and that means that I’m somewhere between sunny Orlando and dreary Seattle. That’s right, I’m leaving on a jet plain for a long weekend in the brittle north west. No, I won’t be enjoying the local grunge scene or partaking in a fine cup of joe, I’ll be getting my geek [...]
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Where the Hell is Matt?
My Twitter feed is starting to become my best source for finding interesting things scattered across the metaverse. Don’t worry, I’m not going to become one of those weird spammers “internet marketers” who attempt to follow everyone on Twitter in order to keep a finger on the pulse of the internet. I do, however, enjoy [...]
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A week in New Orleans
Earlier this evening I returned from the final mission trip of the summer. The destination was New Orleans, specifically the Upper Ninth Ward. Going in I was excited to help rebuild a city still devastated from Hurricane Katrina. When I rolled into The Big Easy and found out the majority of the week would be [...]
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