To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Allergies Run In The Family, It Seems The Wedbush Morgan Securities annual conference kicked off today and while many of the talks were a little bit dull, the Activision folks came prepared to dish. Dish info about Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and DJ Hero. The whole talk...

To: Ash From: Crecente Re: What Makes A Quarter Pounder A Quarter Pounder? I noticed something today. When our puppy LittleFoot is really, really happy, he smiles. I don't mean like when a dog pants. I mean his lips actually curl up into a smile. It happened twice today. He was wagging his tail so h...

To: Luke From: Owen Re: Kotaku Signs Syndication Deal The Oscars are tonight of course, and one of my favorite parts about this show - inveterate sentimentalist that I am - is the montage of all the great artists, directors and contributors who passed away in the preceding year. They always pull the...

To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Making Stuff You Eat Is GREAT After his tennis lessons last night Tristan starting complaining of a headache. By the time we got home he had a fever of 103. I decided against breaking out in Foreigner. Today his fever is sorta highish, but after taking some medicine he spe...

To: Bash From: Owen Re: Valentine's Day Stories on Sunday were largely of a type: Sports or sexual deviance. Sometimes that's how the news cycle coalesces. In other news, I had a weird dream last night, which probably describes, in boldface type, my subconscious anxiety of late: Dad, realizing I had...

To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Eatin' With The In-Laws (No, They're Not Trying To Kill Me) Last week, while driving Tristan to his Math Club (he's learning Vedic Math) he asked me to tell him a story. So I told him about Odysseus and the cyclops Polyphemus. I'm not really sure why that popped into my he...

To: Luke From: Owen Re: Reportage I've been trying to sell my old TV, which is a nice HD screen but it's big and heavy and about four years old. Friday I got a call from a guy up in Sacramento, which is more than five hours round trip, wanting to look at it. He didn't speak English natively, and I t...

To: Luke From: Owen Re: CHARITY! This week I listed my PSP on Craigslist. I bought it in May 2007 back when I got a new job and was riding the train two hours a day. It's not that I've necessarily moved away from handhelds, but with no commute, I'm not using this one as much. It's a PSP-1001, not th...

To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Small Car Or Big Car, That Is The Question Wow, today was a dark day in the industry, what with Sony, Microsoft and EA's employment news. I heard earlier that a bulk of the 1,400 people let go at Microsoft today came from the Devices and Entertainment Division (aka Zune an...

To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Wash Your Hands? Gargle? I think maybe, people don't understand the sheer volume of emails we receive in a given day. And how incredibly different they can be. A bulk of the emails I receive are either tips, people contacting me from a company or bloggers/writers asking fo...