Dana Severance

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.

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 [...]

Just this past week, Bookmans sent me on a trip to the fine city of Austin, Texas for a conference known as South by Southwest. This wonderful event is almost more of a festival of nerddom than any sort of coherent conference. As far as I can tell, this is what gives SXSW its interesting [...]

I’m a fan of Netflix. I enjoy the concept of being able to have the video store just mail you a DVD instead of going to the nearby Blockbuster. I watched my absent minded mother rack up several hundred dollars in late fees over the course of my childhood. Now, couple this with the ability [...]

Every once in a while I find a foodstuff that just rocks my world. It’s the kind of thing you sneak up in the middle of the night to grab another taste of. I’ve done this with several different condiments in my life. Most recently is the delicious rice topping known as furikake.