Twenty years ago, Red Bull hosted their first flugtag (German for airshow) competition in Vienna, Austria. It has since grown into a large event held several times a year in different cities around the world, drawing enormous crowds. This year marks the 10th anniversary of Red Bull Flugtag in the United States, where it started […]
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My previous experience at the 2010 Giants World Series Championship Parade was incredible and unforgettable. Sadly, my 2012 Giants World Series Championship Parade experience was terrible and entirely forgettable. I hopped on the baby bullet Caltrain knowing full well it would be packed for the parade, but I naively thought that it wouldn’t be so
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Last weekend, Chrystie and I went to the Moscone Center in San Francisco to attend our second WonderCon. I somewhat expected a big hoopla for the 25th anniversary, but aside from a panel with some of the founding fathers, there wasn’t much celebration of their silver anniversary. Even the program was kinda sad, perhaps by
Two weekends ago Chrystie and I flew into Boston to visit my cousin and attend PAX East, our third Penny Arcade Expo and first one on the east coast. Visiting my cousin was great, the gaming convention, unfortunately, was another story. Upon arriving to the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, the lobby was absolute chaos
Last Saturday the Stanford Blood Center and the Sharks Foundation held a blood drive at the Shark Tank. The draw for the blood drive was that anyone who tried giving blood would be let in to see the Sharks morning practice skate. Not having given blood in over a year, and seeing a nice reward
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On Tuesday I took the day off work to stand in the presence of the Giants World Series trophy, less commonly known as the Commissioner’s Trophy. As you may recall, The San Francisco Giants Are World Champs! Starting January 4th, the Giants organization began taking the trophy on tour all over Northern California (and some
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Last Saturday morning Chrystie and I got up early and headed to the Shark Tank to see the Sharks practice. Every once in a while the Sharks will allow the public to watch their morning skate sessions – you may recall this post from last year. They were running the same promotion again, so we
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Back before Christmas, Chrystie and I went to the Cow Palace to partake in the 32nd Annual Great Dickens Chrismas Fair & Victorian Holiday Party. Similar to a Renaissance Fair, the Dickens Fair takes you back to the Victorian times of Charles Dickens in ye olde London. We arrived an hour or so after the
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Last Sunday Chrystie and I crawled out of bed at the crack of dawn to stake out seats for the San Jose Holiday Parade. Thanks to weathermen predicting heavy rainfall, there was not a huge crowd on the beautiful sunny morning. There was no traffic whatsoever, and I found street parking within 2 blocks of
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Two Sundays ago I surprised Chrystie with floor seats to the Trans-Siberian Orchestra (TSO) concert at the HP Pavilion. She took me last year and it was such a great experience in the lower bowl seats we had, I just couldn’t resist getting floor seats this year. I’ve been to more than a few concerts
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