Fine Dining Ramblings

Dinner With VIA & S3

After a long hard day of walking the E3 show floor it was sure nice to be able to settle into a nice relaxing dinner with VIA and S3. VIA makes motherboard chipset and S3 makes video chipset. They invited us for dinner at Roy’s Restaurant. Roy’s was started in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1988. At the time, Chef Roy Yamaguchi […]

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Ramblings

Relaxing On The Highroad

After 10 hours at the convention center today it sure was nice to be kick back and relax. And there wasn’t a much better way of doing that than to party with the people at Highroad Communications. Highroad handles PR for Microsoft Canada and they spent a lot of time showing us all the new XBox 360 titles for the […]

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Ramblings

This Media Room Sucks!

The E3 media room sucks! The internet here is as slow as a snail crossing the road. I am trying to upload some photos right now and so far I’ve only processed about 20 photos. In terms of media treatment, E3 is by far the worst of any trade shows. The lunch sucks (and it’s only served on the first […]

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Ramblings

The eFocus Party

The eFocus party is a media only event put on by Pepcom. You can alway tell a Pepcom party by their bar that is made from pure ice. The event is an opportunity for game and hardware companies to get some quality one on one time with the attending media (that’s me). eFocus is one of dozens of parties that […]

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Technology

How I Call Home

Vonage set up some free VoIP phones at the E3 media room. It was completely free to use and came in handy when I had to call home to let my family know I landed safely. As you can see the phone itself is really old school. The only thing that would make it more old school would be to […]

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Ramblings

Hello From E3!

We made it to LA nice and safe. Our flight landed early, but had problems hooking up the passenger exit ramp, so any time we saved on the flight was lost in the wait for fixing the ramp. We picked up our car at Enterprise but they gave us one with a broken lighter socket so the GSP had no […]

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Ramblings

Getting Ready For E3

I’m packing up stuff for my trip to LA tomorrow for the E3 Expo. E3 starts on Wednesday but the press conferences and parties started today. Dan is already down there covering some of the events and I’m sure he’s trying to pick up some booth babes at the Golden Gopher Bar right now (there’s a party happening there). E3 […]

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Cars

When AMG Is Not Enough

The Brabus S V12 S Biturbo is what you buy when the 612HP Mercedes-Benz S65 AMG simply won’t do. The Brabus S V12 S Biturbo engine is a prime example for the old adage that nothing can replace displacement except more displacement. A special crankshaft with longer stroke, forged pistons with a larger diameter and an increased cylinder bore result […]

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