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Minecraft: or Recapturing my Childhood
by / on October 23, 2012 at 12:00 pm / in Rocking the Boat

Minecraft: or Recapturing my Childhood

My favorite toy of all time is Lego. When I was a child, I would often spend entire afternoons building castles, spaceships, islands populated by pirates, and anything else I could imagine.  I was  never very good at free building, but since it was my imagination, that didn’t really matter to me. After all, whatever I built would eventually be [...]

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A Pillowcase Full of Handmade Halloween Geek Goodness
by / on October 2, 2012 at 1:00 pm / in Sarcasm & Snuggles

A Pillowcase Full of Handmade Halloween Geek Goodness

Like Rob, I’m a bit of a Halloween aficionado. I don’t particularly love candy; horror movies aren’t my thing; but for some reason, Halloween is my favorite holiday. I dress up as often as possible. This is my friend Jen Emling and I dressed as the Frenstruck Brothers, aka the “Wild and Crazy Guys” from an early Saturday Night Live [...]

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Console Gaming. Mobile Gaming. Angry Birds. [Rocking the Boat]
by / on July 12, 2012 at 12:00 pm / in Gaming

Console Gaming. Mobile Gaming. Angry Birds. [Rocking the Boat]

Video game publishers never fail to amaze me with their business decisions. For example, Activision announced their pricing for bringing Angry Birds Trilogy to consoles and the Nintendo 3DS…   $40 on consoles and $30 on the 3DS. That’s a 1000% plus markup, depending on the platform you are buying it on. Why would they do this? Because people will probably [...]

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The Week in Geek: June 8, 2012
by / on June 8, 2012 at 9:58 am / in Geekery

The Week in Geek: June 8, 2012

This week I come equipped with more links and fewer images. So, join me on a journey around the week that was! Pioneering science fiction author Ray Bradbury died Tuesday at 91. In his honor, pull your high school copy of “Fahrenheit 451″ off the shelf and pull up a patch of grass this weekend. The E3 conference this week [...]

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A Better Class of MMO [Rocking the Boat]
by / on June 7, 2012 at 12:00 pm / in Gaming

A Better Class of MMO [Rocking the Boat]

John wrote an article yesterday about his disappointment with the current World of Warcraft. I agree with all of his points, but I thought I would take it a step further and talk about the kind of MMO I would want to play. As I was thinking about it, I came up with this formula. Mass Effect’s character creation + [...]

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