"You wanted to be a manager so badly, that you'd probably be a good one. Now you are." Someone said this to me who had heard the same from someone else. This comes from about three years ago, and was said in the context of my then current role (having moved from process and supervisory management to direct people management). It bothered me. I first got to be in management, some 20 years ago....
This month, I built myself a new gaming PC, and decided to spend just a little extra money for the nVidia 3D Vision 2 package with a pair of shutter glasses and a USB controlled IR timing transmitter. What I'm talking about here is PC gaming in stereoscopic 3D. This is gaming that not only depicts a 3D play environment, but also looks 3D to the player's eyes. I remember that Descent came out in 1995, and it had support for a virtual reality headset called the Forte VFX-1....
Four years ago, I wrote about a script that I had been working on called Authban (though I didn't name it at the time): http://blog.vollink.com/2011/09/geek-attack-vectors-and-twitter.html I first started running a custom script to block IP addresses that tried too many times to login to ssh back in 2010. At the time, the script (and my home web host) was running on an Ubuntu virtual server. The name, Authban, surfaced in early 2011, as I organized the script to do more than just block ssh....
I already have tickets for two other conventions this year, but NYCC is the big one that happens in the city where I live and work. I know in the last few years tickets have been harder and harder to get, and I figured my chances were not going to be very good. If this is too long one can safely scroll down to the Conclusion at the bottom. I tried to buy tickets to NYCC the minute they went on sale....