Weblog Sin Pies

By Charley Daniels

With celebrity cameos!

[Via Bob and David]

By Charley Daniels

I know this is old. Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw tears Halo 3 a new one, and he’s absolutely right, for the most part. I enjoyed the game, but everything he says in this review is true. The multiplayer aspects do make it worthwhile, but the single-player campaign is terrible. Most importantly, he’s pretty funny.

By Charley Daniels

Time for another exclamation-filled edition of Hey You! (Advice you didn’t even know you needed!).

Hey expecting mothers! If you think Dale is the perfect name, you’re right! There is a catch, however: There’s no little girl version! For Christopher, there’s Christina; for Charles, there’s Charlotte; for Nicholas, there’s Nicole — but what about Dale? Lovers of Dale with newborn girls need bear this burden no longer! For Dale, there’s Female Dale. It rhymes!

Hey interviewers and panel moderators! When you’re asking an interviewee a question, try to make it simple and open-ended, and definitely try not to answer the question for them! When an audience goes to see a panel discussion or Q&A, they aren’t interested in you, the moderator. For example, say you’re moderating a panel discussion that features the person who invented the spork. You might ask, “Where did you get the idea to combine a fork and a spoon?” Simple, direct, and open-ended! A less-successful attempt at the same question might go something like this: “So I read that one day you were having a picnic with your family and you only packed forks, which turned out to be a disaster because one of the dishes you brought along was a soup. And I mean, some soups work fine with a fork, and you can always drink the broth instead of scooping it, but even still that situation made you realize it would be great and economical to have a utensil that’s both a fork and a spoon…” And on and on until the spork guy interrupts you with some sort of answer (probably just “yes,” since you basically answered the question while you were asking it). Keep it simple, interviewers and panel moderators!

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