Perry in San Francisco

12.23.2017

Good Yule!

Merry X-mas! Jay went Santa at the Micro Center. Sweet.

12.20.2017

Tank God for Fractal Design

Back in early September Kyle built a PC in a fast going yacht. This time around he's got help from Jay. On a tank. Yep, that's right. They're building a high end PC on top of a TANK.

12.18.2017

'Tis the season

The happy holidays approach...

Photos: Awkward Family Photos

12.04.2017

Sunday flight

The flight from Paris today was a bit messy. Sundays are the worst.

From phone

11.26.2017

Jason's here!

Jason's here! And he's just as happy to see Philippe as I am to see Jason. Great fun! :-)

From phone

11.22.2017

Happy Thanksgiving!

I'm in it for the turkey...

Photo: Awkward Family Photos

11.06.2017

A new world record

Did you know that a blowtorch and vaseline are essential to extreme overclocking? Watch Jay and Vince have a go on the Kingpin.

11.02.2017

Salesforce Tower has wings

SF Gate published a cool pic of our new behemoth Salesforce Tower today. There's apparently some force emanating from it. Check the article out HERE.

10.31.2017

Trickin' the Hall of Weenies

Happy Halloween! No decorations on our house this year as neither me nor wifey is in the US. But we're still celebrating it the good ol American way. Love from both of us to all of you.

10.10.2017

Being far away from our California home it feels terrible to see all the apocalyptical photos being streamed on the Bay Area news channels. North Bay is on fire. Parts of Santa Rosa are ashes. Man, the weather gods and Mother Nature aren't happy with us this very year. Natural disasters seem to be the order of the day...

Photo: California Highway Patrol

10.05.2017

Coffee any good?

Coffee Lake is here. The embargo is off and Jay takes an initial look at the new i7-8700K cpu.

9.21.2017

On review bombing

So your favorite game or the game you're investigating prior to a purchase is suddenly dropping in user review score on Steam? Or maybe you didn't notice the drop because... this was the first time you were looking into the game and decided to skip this one because of the bad review score?

Steam is implementing a review bombing graph which enables the customer to see when exceptionally good or bad reviews have been posted.This as a response to the Pewdiepie controversy where Campo Santo issued an DMCA takedown notice against his Firewatch videos. Apparently a lot of Pewdiepie fans went mad and review bombed tons of bad scores on Steam, and by that lowered the overall score of Firewatch. With the new graph, customers can see if bad scores have been posted in a short period of time and make their own opinion on why this is. If a game gets bad (or even good) reviews in a short period of time, something can be fishy. In this way Steam adds a layer of "caution" for the customer to consider before pushing - or refraining from - that lovely purchase button.

9.15.2017

Celebrating a secret mining operation

In case you missed Kyle's hilarious fail the other day. Here's Steve's response to why Kyle popped the bottle. Secrets... secrets...

9.06.2017

Just for the fun [pain] of it

Kyle just released a silly video on building a high end PC in a yacht on the choppy ocean waters of SoCal. For a pc hardware enthusiast this is pure torture.

9.03.2017

SFO

Leaving for Copenhagen today at 5.35 pm. Sarah already left for Hong Kong at 1.30 pm and I have 4 hours to kill. Well I ventured outside the terminal building but guess what, it was almost empty. It is CRAZEEE HOT! No one with their sanity intact wants to be outside. Not even a sun lover like me. Sorry SF, I'm leaving you for a fall-like Europe...

From iPad

9.02.2017

Good night, Bay Area

The sun is going down over Cleveland Heights in Oakland this freakishly hot Friday. And tomorrow is forecast to be even hotter... We're spending the night here in our rental instead of our house in Sausalito as we had to leave the car back home. Now we simply just Uber our way to SFO tomorrow. Convenient!

From iPad