Jay McGavren's Journal

Wow...

If you ever donate to an election campaign fund, do so anonymously if you can. I’ve been getting e-mail, snail mail, and phone calls from the Democratic Party ever since May. >:( Of course, the Republicans seem even worse - I’ve gotten junk mail from them addressed to “resident”.

Out of boredom, I Googled for my own name today. I wanted to see what dark corners of the Net my reputation had spread to. (I was surprised at just how far it had gone.)

Anyway, here’s an amusing post from a Neo-Geo mailing list in response to a post from doshichan:

>>I still think the best game mag to come out in recent times was Game On!
>>USA, which some of our MLers, namely Shidoshi and Greg Kasavin, were a
>>part of.
>
>Greg was part of the staff? Wow, guess I either noticed and just don't
>remember, or it never occoured to me.

I double-checked...it's definitely him! This is for Vol. 1, number 7,
BTW.

>
>Little bit of trivia: I wrote for more issues than many people think. After
>being hired over at GameFan, I switched over to using the name J.J. Dagger
>to avoid GF possibly finding out that I was writing for two magazines.

Really? I need to go back and see if I still have any old issues that
you might be in!

>As
>well, contributor Jay McGavren, who mostly helped out in the codes section,
>was one of the guys I used to make my old fanzine with.

Really? Cool! I remember him back when he was on AOL using the name
"TheSpook1". He was MAJORLY into the Game Genie, and started a club.
Those were the good ol' days...

Lay down. LAY DOWN! Bad lamp!

For those who have always wanted to outfit their home with creepy furniture:

Gravity Lamp

I no longer need to read Slashdot...

Now that they have articles with titles like 3D Chocolate Printer Made from Legos, I’ve seen it all.

Ahhh, new music that's actually *good*...

I bought Arovane’s Lilies off the iTunes Music Store last week (and then downloaded MP3s right after so I could listen in my car). Apple is really doing a good job of signing smaller labels - Arovane’s publisher is based in Germany. Maybe someday I’ll even get more of my music from the Music Store than I do from SoulSeek.

I’ve had “Cry Osaka Cry” looping through my head all day - I’m hooked pretty bad. Fortunately, Arovane’s music tends to stand up to repeated playing.