From Zero to Brony in 7.99 Seconds

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is a great cartoon. More fascinating, though, is the fan community that has erupted around it. Pretty much everyone is scratching their heads, trying to figure out how a show about selling plastic ponies (with luxurious hair and accessories) ended up having such broad appeal.

But I think it’s […]

A Study of the Eight Virtues (by way of ponies)

I’m not surprised that I ended up enjoying My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. I went into it expecting a charming, adorable, and occassionally funny kid’s cartoon. What I Was not expecting is that the show is probably the best cartoon to hit the air in ten years. (No, seriously, ten years. That’s how long […]

Skyrim! (I finally stopped playing it and started blogging it.)

Sigh. I wanted to be caught up on Survivor by Thanksgiving. Really I did. But then Skyrim came out, and work got insanely busy, and…

Ah well. I guess I can just do a blog post about Skyrim instead, eh? What I’m going to do is give you my one line review of the game, […]

The Ballad of Big Bertha

Big Bertha the valkyrie joins Rosa the priestess, Grundle the caveman and Dez the archeologist in the Brickroad pantheon of NetHack demigods.

Most people start out in NetHack by playing one of the easier roles, most notably wizard, because they confer the most advantages. I did exactly the opposite, because I felt that learning the […]