harrysaxon.com
the technology-obsessed life of a Vancouver gamerWelcome!
Welcome to harrysaxon.com! This is the personal website of Chris, a Vancouver-based gamer and blogger who goes by the Doctor Who-inspired online moniker of harrysaxon. My other online blog, where I generally discuss science fiction, video games, television (especially Lost) and my other geeky interests can be found at Not a Planet Anymore, and directly to the right you will find my latest columns.
Further over are my Twitter and del.icio.us feeds, and links to the various online photography, networking, music and video game sites I frequent. I generally use this site to amalgamate the various sites I commonly participate in, though I do post brief personal blogs or rambles about a topic not covered under NAPA’s umbrella here as well.
Thanks for stopping by, and please do visit, follow or otherwise interact any time, here and elsewhere on the interwebs!
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My absence…
As you may or not be aware, I’ve been absent both here and over at Not a Planet Anymore for some time. My excuse is fairly solid; I’ve been on vacation, during which I got married in Las Vegas to my girlfriend of 15 years.
Today I finished publishing the photos from the whole trip over on Flickr. Now that that first task is over post-vacation, I hope to be posting more, here and most especially over at Not a Planet Anymore in the coming weeks.
Though there’s still four hours of video to edit together as well…
Changes to the site…
As some may have noticed, the site has gone through a major revamp. I’ve changed the name of the site from the obscure Rassilon’s Arcade to the obvious harrysaxon.com, since I registered the domain and the site can now be reached at that address.
I’ve decided, after discussion with my cohort bloginhood, to re-tool this site as a more personal and technology-based blog, while focusing my efforts on Not a Planet Anymore in regards to my writing on entertainment and videogames. As such, I’ve moved some of my past posts on here over to NAPA, most notably my past articles on Lost. I’ve copied the text of these posts to NAPA and archived them here; unfortunately, that means that any comments made on them are now only available in the archive. My deep apologies, as I’ve appreciated every comment I’ve recieved here, and please contact me if you’d like me to figure out a way to get your comments over on the relevant NAPA posts. I will link to those posts I’ve moved at the bottom of this entry.
In the coming weeks, I’m going to be working on this site to provide more of a portal into my various online networks and identities rather than just a simple blog, though the blog will also remain. Thanks for visiting, I hope you enjoy the changes to come, and please come join us over at Not a Planet Anymore!
Quick update.
Been low-key on the gaming recently, though I picked up The Lost and the Damned GTA4 expansion, and I’m rather impressed so far. Been hitting up classic XBLA arcade games for gamerscore challenges as well, and finally knocked off a bunch of easily gained GoW2 multiplayer achievements. Other than that, just been playing a round or two of golf in TW09 to keep my streak up.
Keeping up with my usual TV shows. New addition, Dollhouse, is still jury-out. Late-night marathoned Arrested Development and Firefly again recently; moved on to my first watch-through of Buffy the Vampire Slayer since 2004. With Lisa, have been marathoning How I Met Your Mother in between new epis of current shows. Lisa loves it, I’m more on the fence, the laugh track and sitcom staples just grate on me at times, and I’m not much a fan of Ted, the main character. Still really enjoying it for the hearty helping of NPH goodness.
Light videogame playing and lack of movie watching mostly chalked up to reading a lot lately, Stanza on iPhone stuff. Got a widget that shows my more recent forays, no need to list them all here.
Superbowl, and stuff…
Okay, I’m not much of a football fan, nor do I really know much about the game. But that game kicked ass. Exciting plays and a lead that swung back and forth enough to keep me glued to the TV, especially the last few minutes. The Boss rocked, as well.
The Office episode that came after was outstanding. Both hard to watch at times – Michael’s roast – and then sublimely funny.
Excellent episode of Big Love tonight, if you’re a fan; confirmation about the compound and the “Prophet” like we haven’t really seen since the beginning, terrific subplot with the future 4th wife.
Some good Superbowl ads – all seen online instead of their proper HD glory thanks to the CRTC – but not as many as in years past. Blame the economy. The Hulu ad pwned all. Weird to see no presence at all from the big gaming/computer companies – nothing about PS3, Xbox 360, Nintendo, Apple, Microsoft. Are they all hurting so bad they couldn’t afford 30 seconds?
