http://www.radicalhive.com The HiveMind of Brian Garside Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:33:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_1212" align="alignnone" width="420" caption="And I shall call him...mini-behemoth!"][/caption] Almost a year ago Ryan and I built the Behemoth.  It's fully assembled (except for the darned doors which I just can't seem to manage to build), so last weekend I decided to build a unit for Kaylin.   It's not nearly as ... http://www.radicalhive.com/2008/11/i-shall-call-it-mini-behemoth/ If you're reading this post, then you're reading it on Radical Hive's new host...  I've moved Radical Hive over to DreamHost where I am hosting a lot of other sites, and hope to one day move All New Comics over to as well. This new host is much faster, and I'm ... http://www.radicalhive.com/2008/11/new-host/ [caption id="attachment_859" align="alignnone" width="350" caption="The best games from the beginning of 2008"][/caption] I don't know when it happened exactly, but at some point in the last 5 years, I stopped being a huge movie nut, and transferred some of that love over to video games.  I used to read Premiere magazine, ... http://www.radicalhive.com/2008/11/how-did-games-become-my-new-movies/ [caption id="attachment_1189" align="alignnone" width="420" caption="The Sony PS3"][/caption] Well, I did it.  Last week in a moment of weakness I sold my HD DVD discs, put the HD DVD player up for auction, and went out and bought myself a Blu Ray player...a PS3 to be specific. The deal at Rogers video was ... http://www.radicalhive.com/2008/10/good-bye-hd-dvd-hello-blu-ray/ [caption id="attachment_1051" align="alignnone" width="420" caption="Yes, his name is really Al"][/caption] There's a reason that the "Comic Shop Guy" is such a stereotype in the comics industry.  There quite frankly isn't a lot of money in the business, and the overwhelmingly "pack rat-ish" mentality of comic book fans means that owners (who ... http://www.radicalhive.com/2008/10/the-realities-of-the-comics-business/ [caption id="attachment_1179" align="alignnone" width="420" caption="Star Wars hoodies by Marc Ecko"][/caption] I like Marc Ecko, I had a really cool Marc Ecko yellow shirt once that Charlene hated with the firey heat of a thousand burning suns.  Unfortunately most of his stuff is a little too "Affliction" for my tastes. However their new ... http://www.radicalhive.com/2008/10/so-uuber-lame-that-it-just-might-be-cool/ [caption id="attachment_1114" align="alignnone" width="420" caption="The Flip Ultra in all its glory"][/caption] When we bought our Pentax digital camera, we discovered that it had a nice little built-in video feature.  The movies it made were good, but not great, the sound was quite distorted, but the pictures were good enough that we ... http://www.radicalhive.com/2008/10/gadget-dad-the-flip-ultra/ [caption id="attachment_1148" align="alignnone" width="420" caption="Here is Maks as he gets his first test"][/caption] Today at 1:20pm, we welcomed the newest addition to our family as Maks O'Brian without too much fuss. Char woke up at 4am, tossing and turning and woke me up around 5 (of course last night was the night ... http://www.radicalhive.com/2008/10/maks-obrian-joins-our-clan/ [caption id="attachment_1140" align="alignnone" width="420" caption="I give you these 15 (SMASH), these ten, ten commandments!"][/caption] There are a few pet peeves I have of web site designers, things usually done by people who don't really know any better, who think that "more is more", or who blindly listen to advocates without understanding ... http://www.radicalhive.com/2008/10/the-web-design-10-commandments/ Quoits, sometimes known as coits, the sport of kings or at the very least sailors is one of my passions.  I train for it for 12 months of the year to prepare for the annual "Bond Street Cup" (this year renamed the "Balvenie Street Cup").  I'm a proud two time winner, ... http://www.radicalhive.com/2008/09/defeat-is-a-dish-best-not-served/