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Chenda Ngak is the Founding Editor of effinnerds.com. A San Francisco Bay Area writer and editor, she has contributed to hungry? San Francisco (2006), Shecky's Bar, Club & Lounge guide (New York City 2005), The Real Meaning of Life (New World Library), GamePro magazine, Star Wars Insider, 10003 magazine, GamePro.com, GamerHelp.com, OMGlists.com, Yahoo! Shine, Nerve.com, Flixster.com, and OrbitzInsider.com.
The story of her family's escape from the Khmer Rouge in 1979 and the process of assimilating into American society have been documented in the non-fiction books To Destroy You Is No Loss (East/West Bridge) and Bamboo and Butterflies: From Refugee to Citizen (East/West Bridge), respectively. She is the geekiest cool person around, or the coolest geek around...whatever.
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Contributors
Dianna Tate is a twenty-something writer, who grew up in the Bay Area--Oakland, to be exact. She loves to spend time with her son, family, and awesome friends. Other loves include traveling, writing, and dabbling in photography (in front and behind the camera). Shopping is her first love and finding great deals makes life just beautiful.
Joseph Gats is a writer from Sacramento, California. Joseph enjoys random behavior, radio documentaries like those found on NPR's This American Life, cheap pizza, audio books, long and endlessly boring tower defence games, and not having pictures of himself taken. Joseph was born in San Francisco and that is where he'd like to be buried.
Chris Manning is a life-long Bay Area native currently trying to understand the other "West" by living in Las Vegas. He is an ex-retail junkie who finally traded in the security of a decent pay-check for a return to academia. In his spare time he enjoys writing, traveling, hiking, and being alive. In the future he hopes to return to the Bay Area an continue struggling with the challenges of modern life through a detailed study of the past.