by Brian Crawford | Feb 29, 2020 | personal, tech
Portal and Portal 2 have remained two of Callum’s favorite video games since he was 7 years old (here he is at 11 years old in a Star Trek uniform playing Portal 2 – yup, he’s my kid). For those not in the know, Portal is a first-person...
by Brian Crawford | Feb 15, 2020 | travel
Today Callum and I took a father-and-son trip to Dresden. As soon as we walked out of the train station we stumbled upon a huge protest of far-right demonstrators, as well as a matching counter-protest, for the 75th anniversary of the bombing of the city in 1945....
by Brian Crawford | Jan 26, 2020 | tech
This afternoon Callum and I visited the Apple Museum, which has the largest private collection of Apple products in the world. When I was a kid in the 80s my dad worked as a tech executive at Bell Canada, and he used to bring home different computers from that era for...
by Brian Crawford | Dec 31, 2019 | personal, travel
I’ve been to Gen Con, and I’ve been to Dragon Con, and I thought they were pretty crowded. But today, Callum and I went to Comiket, the biggest fan convention in the world, along with half a million other people. To get some idea of how long the line was to get in,...
by Brian Crawford | Dec 30, 2019 | travel
Last New Year’s Day I made a resolution to break the mould and try out some new places. This evening we went to a “maid café” in Akihabara, Tokyo’s “Electric Town”, where the servers were dressed as maids and performed little shows for the guests as...
