All Things Chill

Lots of Skratch Saturday articles this time around. And… if you’re new to the site (HI!) and didn’t already know, I write about gadgets for Opposable Thumbs, a electronics/games journal on Arstechnica.com. I can honestly say that I love writing on a daily basis, whether its here on my personal blog or on [...]

View from Borders. What Ars Love looks like (also pimp’d on Jacqui and Clint’s site). The(1) Roc(2). Jacqui’s genuine smile. Stone Table! Clint’s chopstick techniques. And finally, some elevator(1) mirror tricks(2). All Flickr’d. Slideshow here.
I had a great time this week meeting Palindrome, Stone Table, Hannibal and [...]

I believe I’m a chat-a-holic. I attempted to write articles for a couple of hours @ Starbucks after work today and all I did was chat on DL and Arstechnica IRC. No o-ne-der wonder I don’t have time for TV! One reason why ARS IRC can’t stop, won’t stop?
hanser|work: you like teh [...]

The ArsTechnica 2005 Holiday Shopping Guide is now live and on the front page. Eric Bangeman, Ars’ (insert brown nose comment here) Managing Editor, compiled a HUGE list from all of the writers and made everything gravy. No lumps!!!
Introduction Snippet:
It’s that time of the year again: that annual, holiday-inspired consumer purchasing frenzy wherein [...]

It’s that time again. Here are my Opposable Thumbs gadget articles on Arstechnica.com for the first half of November (oldest to newest):
Lanyards are cool now, right?
Swiss Army Bits and Beats**
Skratch Saturday: PC Decks
Damn you Scooba Steve!!!**
Motorola RAZR: Hot pink or Icy blue?
Shake your B-On B-On
The Revolution (controller) will be televised**
Fill the void, with a [...]

Woof. With all the Trick-or-Treat-ers stealing all my candy and egging my front door, I seem to have forgotten to post the remainder of my gadget / gaming articles on Arstechnica’s Opposable Thumbs journal for the month of October. I already have a healthy count for November, so expect another gadget link bomb [...]

It’s been a interesting couple of weeks, gadget wise. Tiny computers, food gadgets and zit zappers were all covered on Ars. I was afraid that I’d lose some of my precious readership due to the lack of gadget posts on ALLTHINGSCHILL, but it’s actually skyrocketed to a lot of readers per day. [...]

I’ve been writing for Arstechnica’s Opposable Thumbs journal for a couple weeks now and I must say that it’s fun as hell to write for a larger (albeit more critical and unforgiving) audience. Here are the are the articles from the past week:
Skratch Saturday: The wheels of steel
Do the Ditty. The Dell [...]