There's been so much going on since the beginning of the year. January and February are always incredibly busy months, and 2011 is no exception.

( Gaming, yarn, television, books, food, gadgets, and more )

... this is likely to bring back a few memories:

I'm looking at you, freakyferret, jasondemotte and kerensky. (I'd be looking at florindo and gilchrist, as well as tagplazen and twr, if they were still active here.)

Too fun! I can't imagine better plates for a gaming party:

Tetris-inspired dishware brings the game to dinner

I hope they actually make it to production.

Speaking of food, this dish from the 2010 South Beach Food and Wine Festival looks absolutely divine. What a brilliant pairing!

Burrata and Lobster Salad from Michael White's Marea

Courtesy of a dear guildie, here's the launch trailer for Mass Effect 2I'll give you a few minutes ( Read more... )

I just picked up Mass Effect from Direct2Drive. They've got it listed at just under $5 for the next 13 hours as their featured Cyber Monday deal. Even if I don't have time to play it right this second due to holiday preparations, I couldn't pass that up.

I'm very proud of one of my favorite gaming studios today. BioWare, the Edmonton-based creator of Baldur's Gate, Mass Effect, and other best-of-class RPG titles, has recently released Dragon Age: Origins. The game is rated M for Mature, in case anyone is wondering, but as far as I know, it is the first mainstream release to include an option for ( Read more... )

Gamer squee time: in the span of about three minutes, I saw jasondemotte's post on this while my husband was watching it on his monitor and gesturing for me to come over there and watch it with him, and then saw a link to it on my guild's boards right after ( Read more... )

Clearly, it would be undesirable to have zombies on one's lawn. Fortunately, your plants are there for you. :)

Credit to my sweetie for sharing this. He knew it would make me giggle. :)

For those who remember my Easter Egg, I was tremendously amused to find out that a band by the following name exists:

Banshee in the Kitchen!

They even mention grits on their site. What are the odds?

Perhaps best of all, they play Celtic music, which is a genre I like.

Speaking of music, I'm listening to the World Cafe on the WABE Classical web ( Read more... )

Long rumored but now confirmed, BioWare is finally doing an MMO:

KOTOR MMO confirmed by Electronic ArtsWe've had plenty of speculation -- lots and lots of it -- but now we've got confirmation from Electronic Arts chief executive John Riccitiello that Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is indeed getting a massively multiplayer online iteration ( Read more... )