One of the perks of working in the game industry is that whenever a Geekdom movie comes out, there's a good chance we'll get half a day to go see it on the Friday the week it comes out. You know the types of movies I'm talking about: Epic Fantasy, Super Heroes and Comic Book characters, Science Fiction... Unless too many come out in too short of ( Read more... )

The following exchange in the Arizona Republic came to my attention:

Wrote one reader:

Question of the day for Luke Air Force Base: Whom do we thank for the ( Read more... )

There's the meme going around where you list 10 things you've done that you don't think other people reading your LJ would have done. This is easier for me than some, having a smaller friends list than many, but it was also hard to think back on experiences that wouldn't likely be had by at least some people on my friends list ( Read more... )

At the end of my last post, I mentioned something I've come to refer to as Chronological Freedom. I find it necessary to qualify freedoms into categories because there are often facets of our lives that are free while parts are not. I'm using Freedom here mostly in the context of being 'able to carry on activities one wishes to do'. There are two ( Read more... )

As I mentioned at the end of my previous post, I took Wednesday through Friday off this week, giving me effectively a five-day weekend. The break was to allow a reprieve before shifting gears at work. Over the last three weeks I had been juggling three separate projects during my working hours. I was helping complete the interface tweaks needed for ( Read more... )

Resolutions ( Read more... )

Bethesda Softworks is probably best known for their Elder Scrolls line of games. If you look around out there, there's reviews for Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. I found their last game in the series, Morrowind, to be intriguing, if not excessively open and shallow at the same time ( Read more... )

After undeniable empirical data obtained by live testing, it has been found that the real Achilles heel of vampires is their funny bone.

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I never thought that I'd say that the place I get most of my MUCK RP now days is a *MUSH*, but that's definitely what's happened over the last few months. I have to admit I was incredibly skeptical of seifergrrl's latest brainchild when she first started telling me about it. No one's going to get it, I thought. And those that do manage to ( Read more... )

It's time for an issue so controversial entire nations have risen or fallen based on what side their populaces felt about it ( Read more... )