Archive for category: Yada Yada Yada


Game Flashbacks, Random Awesomeness

16 May, 2008 (21:19) | Yada Yada Yada | By: James Yates

Ha! I just ran into a pretty cool video that brought back some memories about the oooooooooooooold days of video games. The nicely edited mini-masterpiece lives at:
http://eatpes.com/game_over.html
The short titled ‘Game Over’ is a stop-motion rendering of some of the more famous Atari-style video games like Frogger and PacMan. The crazy thing is that while most [...]

I won Dad, that means you lose

28 March, 2008 (19:36) | Yada Yada Yada | By: James Yates

You could say I’ve been on a downswing lately, at least concerning game playing. To punctuate this point, I’ll begrudgingly let you all in on the disheartening fact that I just lost 7 consecutive games of Hungry, Hungry Hippos. To my 4-year-old. As we headed upstairs he said the title to this post and then [...]

Holidays and Apples to Apples

26 December, 2007 (11:45) | Yada Yada Yada | By: James Yates

We just completed another fantastic Christmas get-together, and I have to say I had a blast. So much so that I slept for a record 9hrs straight afterwards! All of our favorite people stopped in late yesterday afternoon and had a great time, opening gifts and catching up with lots of conversation. We were all [...]

Site Updates with New Design

1 November, 2007 (20:43) | Yada Yada Yada | By: James Yates

I’m so pleased with the results of the new redesign of Chess and Poker Dot Com that I can’t stop clicking around the site exploring all of the great looking guides! It really is the result of tons of hard work paying off. I hope everyone else enjoys it as much as I already do. [...]

Happy Birthday to Your Humble Narrator

29 October, 2007 (21:35) | Yada Yada Yada | By: James Yates

The wife and I had a great weekend, catching the scare-flick “30 Days of Night” in a rare adults-only outing after enjoying a nice meal out. We were of course celebrating out 6th anniversary which rolled around on Saturday, which means my phenomenal lucky streak continues! Then we had the families over for an early [...]