Aaron's Area

Aaron’s Area: The Life of a Texas nerd in California.

  • Prayer On The Internet

    This is one of those posts I hate to have to even write, knowing that almost all of my family and friends are devout Christians of one stripe or another and will likely take this the wrong way when they read it. Recently due to the tragedies that have occurred in the US, China and…

  • Suddenlink Outage Information And How To Get It

    This article was written in 2012 and appears to be getting a lot of traffic lately. I’ve double checked the information below to make sure it is still correct. With the impending quarantines all over the US, I’m sure a lot of people are concerned about not having internet.   -Aaron 03-21-2020 How to see…

  • IFTTT (If This Then That) – First Thoughts

    I was listening to Know How on the TWiT network this morning and they were talking about this service called IFTTT that will “Make the Web Work For You”. The basic idea is that the site will take you various web services like Dropbox, Facebook, Instagram and a lot more (57 in all), and let…

  • Testing IFTTT

    Heard about IFTTT on “Know How”. A podcast on the TWiT network. I’m testing to see how well the WordPress rules work. If this works I’ll be posting how you can use all this at home and at a small business. Maybe video!    

  • Sims 3 Seasons

    Just got Seasons the other day. I wasn’t terribly interested in this one until I found out that they brought back aliens. Remember back in Sims 2 you could play in Strangetown and there was that household with like the three guys in it? One of those guys would get abducted by aliens and have…

  • Book Review – Ninja Versus Pirate Featuring Zombies

    This was one of those books where the title and jacket copy was so hilarious I had to pick it up. I can’t remember if I got this in Toronto, Edmonton or Dallas (I have odd travel habits). I rarely just buy a book based on the cover but this one halted me as I…

  • Casual Vacancy – By JK Rowling

    This one has been out almost a month. Not sure how I missed it. Was glad to hear J.K. Rowling was going to write an adult novel as practically all of her Harry Potter readers are grown men and women now. If you think about it took 17 years or so to write all seven…

  • AT&T Phone Warranty Process

    So my Galaxy S2 bit the dust a few days ago and I went to go get a new phone at the AT&T store as I thought my warranty had expired. The guy at the store was really helpful and looked my account up. Fortunately my warranty hadn’t expired (still had less than a week!)…

  • Dredd Thoughts

    I went and saw Dredd the weekend it came out and absolutely loved it. I’m usually really critical about movies but this one entertained me enough I didn’t bother poking holes in it. I didn’t even recognize Lena Headey as Ma-Ma until the end of the movie when the credits rolled. She was the least…

  • Mini Review: The Sleeping Dragon by Joel Rosenberg

    I’ve been looking for a copy of this book for a long time. I read this book as an older teenager and absolutely loved it. It was one of the books that really cemented my interest in role-playing games, especially the tabletop variety. It made it click in my head how table top games were…

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