Happy 5-Year Anniversary
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Posted on July 3rd, 2008 by
In late June 2003, around Father’s Day, GamerDad was launched. We’ve passed that landmark, we’re 5 years old, and that makes us the oldest GamerParenting website. We coined the terms, we guided the argument, and we’re still going strong. GamerDad produces daily blog content, reviews, ideas, and advice and a clear cogent defense of video games that remains untainted and independent. That’s not going to stop now. No way! Enjoy your barbeque, enjoy your family, make some fireworks of your own with the video games of your choice. Happy Anniversary GamerDad.com, happy anniversary United States of America! Happy Independence Day and game with children along with us!
A Father’s Pride: What Could Be More Obnoxious?
Seems that lately the biggest thing in computers is … small computers. UMPC (ultra-mobile portable computers) in particular. Things have been moving from desktop to laptop for some time now, and it has been some time since notebook sales have become the driving force in the industry. However, as the shift occurred something else happened – laptops kept getting bigger. People wanted fewer compromises, and that meant giving bigger screens and keyboards while keeping battery life the same. They also wanted fully functional optical media devices (CD, DVD, etc) as well as a full complement of ports and slots. This all added to the weight and bulk of the systems. 
The Triplet’s of Belleville launches onto screens with a rollicking tribute to vintage vaudeville stage entertainment and the hyperkinetic animation stylings of Tex Avery. The titular Triplets bop and mince through their Oscar nominated tune Belleville Rendez-Vous as an audience of monstrously fat women and their tiny monkey-like spouses groove in their seats. A topless Josephine Baker does her infamous banana dance and the audience, literally, goes wild. It sets the scene, even if it is set in the past, and soon we realize we’re watching it on television with a morose old woman, with a wandering eye, and her little son.
I was working my way back to town. My party was battered after surviving an encounter with a FOE that should have decimated us. We had gotten some items we needed, logged plenty of experience, mapped out more of the strata, but were badly in need of some rest and resupply. Sure we could have used a Warp Wire to head back, but I knew we would make it through a couple of random encounters and any experience is always welcome. Then, just as I could see the exit … the screen went black, my battery was dead. And I hadn’t even noticed the indicator light turn red. 
I’m a nerd. Which is probably why I did a weekly feature around the time when GamerDad launched in ’03.
