There’s a special kind of regret that comes with realizing your 12-year-old self didn’t think things through when picking out an email address. You know the one—the email you signed up for that was cool at the time but now[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
No child reaches adulthood without experiencing at least one era of being a complete menace. History tends to sanitize childhood, portraying famous figures as cherubic prodigies or angelic little scholars. But the truth? Every legend was once a tiny chaos-goblin[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Have you ever fallen down the social media rabbit hole, refreshing your notifications like a gambler at a slot machine, hoping for that sweet, sweet dopamine hit of a like? It starts innocently enough: “I’ll just post this cute pic[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Security updates can take forever. I used to tell my students that they would spend a great part of their lives watching progress bars. Progress bars are the digital equivalent of watching paint dry, if the paint occasionally stopped to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“Free-to-play” games are the ultimate bait-and-switch—like getting a “free” puppy and then realizing you’ve somehow spent $3,000 on organic dog treats and a designer raincoat. You download the game,thrilled by the price tag, only to discover it’s basically a digital[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There exists a special class of gamer who believes their $3,000 RGB-lit battle station automatically makes them superior to the common folk. You know the type – they don’t just play games, they perform them, treating their gaming setup like[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Gone are the days when arguments happened in hushed tones or behind closed doors – now we broadcast our beefs to the world like it’s prime-time entertainment. Social media has become the digital equivalent of throwing chairs on Jerry Springer,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Years ago, a rumor made its way across the internet that you could wash your keyboard in the dishwasher. In actuality, it was the keycaps that could be washed, but so many people with horribly grimy keyboards took the information[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Deep in the bowels of government research labs and financial institution basements, two technological elder gods slumber restlessly – FORTRAN and COBOL, the programming equivalents of mummies that refuse to stay in their tombs. These linguistic relics from the dawn[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve often had that one more turn moment in gaming—whether it’s Civilization, an RPG, or just about any strategy game that demands my full attention. One more turn is the three-word phrase that has ruined more sleep schedules than caffeine[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…