Dana Severance

My sister and I have decided to start another weekly (to bi-weekly) family ritual to make sure that the ties that we actually see one another more frequently than for holidays. Like all good traditions and rituals, it involves food! (more…)

Every once in a while a video game comes along that keeps me coming back. It won’t matter whether I’ve played the game two or twenty times, my enjoyment level is the same. Disgaea is one of those games. (more…)

It is now April and I’ve had several months to work towards the New Years resolutions that I made earlier in the year. At that point, I kept it short and I knew which ones I’d have problems with. So, here’s for the update: (more…)

I love the Final Fantasy series. It’s volumes have given me numerous story lines that consume hours upon hours. They helped whittle away long and otherwise uneventful summers. From underneath the awesomeness of the stories, gameplay systems, and wicked CGI bubbles up some common archetypes and themes. (more…)

Every once in a while I run into a problem that’s just stupid. There’s no other way to describe it. Anyone who codes for the web knows this feeling. There’s always one browser that refuses to comply, and now you have the privilege of finding out which bug is causing Internet Explorer to render differently than everyone else.

I just had one of these wonderful errors, and Twitter came to my rescue. (more…)