Avatar
This is a damn hard one to write about. Let me just say right off the bat that Avatar is good. The only way you could possibly waste your money …
FreeMarket: Lord, Have MRCZ
(Yeah, I’m sure someone’s already done it. Still.) I recently wrote an article detailing my issue with the roleplaying hobby: the irony that, in a hobby that tends to pride …
FreeMarket: Challenges, Card Decks and Memories
Freemer Fever seems to have taken hold in my brain. After my first pass of the FreeMarket beta rulebook I’m giving it a more sedate reading, spotting bugs (i.e. typos …
FreeMarket: Early Impressions of the Beta
Well, I know I don’t do much tabletop RPGing at the moment; in fact, the recent game of D&D with Simon and his kids broke an eighteen-month drought. But I …
Why I’ll Never Be Pro
What I heard: We are practicing pretty much every single day and practicing around five hours a night… – Roy, Major League Gaming: Get Better Fast Player Match Commentary What …
A Collage of Homage, Pt. 1
Moving on fro my last post about an in-the-works sequel to a science fiction movie beginning with T, I figured it was high time I got around to writing about …
ReBoot Up Your Arse
If you can’t wait for Tron Legacy, let me direct you to the work of a couple of utterly insane fans of the first film, who’ve put together a pair …
Star Trek
Jim Kirk (Chris Pine) is a rebel without a cause, until he’s pulled out of a bar fight by Starfleet Captain Christopher Pike (Bruce Greenwood). Pike studied the career of …
Notes from Paradise City
I’ve been struck down with the Minor Dreaded Lurgi today; rather than push my luck and go into work I’m going to sit at home, eat fruit, chug down Lemsip …
Unusual Hard Disk Activity
It’s been a busy past couple of weeks when it comes to computers. It started, as I mentioned on the 24th, when I installed Ubuntu 8.04, a Linux distribution, on …