Geek & Sundry is a web media channel headed by the ineffable Felicia Day (Show Runner for The Guild) with amazing contributors like the internet's own Wil Wheaton (of ST:TNG fame).

One of the shows I take the most interest in is Table Top, where Wil Wheaton and geek-list celebs play various non-electronic games. Usually it's a board or card game ( Read more... )

Because of my recent minor weight loss Julie Butter asked if I could get her husband on a health kick. The short answer is probably not. However I will share the things that helped me actually get started ( Read more... )

The buzz about Blizzard’s new MMO title is really still just buzz that they will be doing one. Nobody knows what it’s about. The escapistmagazine.com has an article posted about how Blizzard's New MMO Will "Blow People's Minds", and the article goes on about how there is really no news about this upcoming game. Read more... )

With my job winding down in the next six months or so, I'm starting to put out feelers for work.

If you follow my LJ you probably know me, and have an idea about what I'd be good at, so if anything comes up in your neck of the woods, please let me know!

The Millcraft Group and International Paper have created a very interesting video presentation about how darned wonderful Print is, but that video is full of misdirection which hides the true cost of print ( Read more... )

From online to the table-top the future of games has never been more full of promise ( Read more... )

Apparently a film critic you may be familiar with has expressed that video games aren't art. For some reason this upset lots of gamers. One of my favorite film critics and video game bloggers created a response - both to Roger Ebert and to the gamer fanatics who apparently wander the internet in packs looking to flame the Arch Duke of movie ( Read more... )

Sure there is a lot of sci-fi noise in this, but I think it's a good idea to have a declaration of principles that you can stand by ( Read more... )

I am tired of standardized failure. The American classroom-style education system does not exist to teach people to the best of their ability to learn, but instead to teach students to the lowest common denominator, thus wasting as much as 90% of the time for quicker students and bleeding from many of them the desire to learn. It exists to create ( Read more... )

Not for me, but apparently for my stepson.

How do I know? Well, when his teacher send you an email that includes "Danny is still being disrespectful, rude, out of his seat , telling me what he's not going to do and just being ill-mannered talking back." you know the rest of the evening is going to go down hill as well.