The Physical Act of Reading

I’ve been devouring the printed word on my Kindle ever since I got it last week (why yes, I did spend $180 so I could get my hands on Dance with Dragons nine hours early… why do you ask?). I’ve always loved reading, but the truth is I’ve never been that big of a reader, […]

Thoughts on Dance

Having just completed A Dance with Dragons, the only thing my brain wants to do is spill a long, rambling blog post about it. So that’s what I’m going to do. I think I can say what I need to say without SPOILERZ, but please forgive me if two or three slip out.

On the […]

To Transfer Or…

Having come into possession of a 3DS, I know it’s wrong to transfer my DSi games over on to it. I know it in my bones. The DSi has a bigger screen, the better to see Shantae‘s ridiculously pretty sprite art. It’s the better system to leave in my desk at work, since Peanut won’t […]

I’m Dancing

I think it goes without saying that I’ve invested every waking moment today in A Dance with Dragons. Plus, in an effort to maximize the number of waking moments I seem to have somehow only gotten a couple hours of sleep. Work tonight is going to be a bear.

I spent the first couple hours […]

LPFF2: We Have an Airship Now!

Hey yeah wow this crazy LP is back! Finally! Again!

Here’s the approximate forum page for this update. Don’t forget to flip back through the ten or so pages of glorious Photoshops preceding it!

Nerd Consultant

A few years ago I suggested Hollywood start hiring canon watchdogs to prevent plot holes in their multi-part film-o-matic epics. Trying to play through the final few days of Survivor DS last night, I decided the shallow end of the video game industry that subsides on licensed junk could benefit from something similar: a Nerd […]

Three Simple Tricks That Will Make You More Awesome at Old Nintendo Games

Three (3) Unrelated Things

Thing the First: Peanut bought me a book full of H. P. Lovecraft stories. They are about monsters and universes and stuff, which is cool, but I have this pretty serious problem: my inclination is to read them in the dark for maximum sacriness effect… but of course without light I won’t be able to […]

Survivor DS

I’m not going to insult your intelligence by actually reviewing this game. It’s not horrible, but not’s not good, either. Or fun. Or even playable, really; there’s a weird, fatal freezing bug that seems to hit at random points with no recourse but to start over from Day 1. Aside from the game-killing but, Survivor […]

This is the last time I’ll probably ever need to post about Lost.

My main reaction to the ending of Lost was, “Wow! What a great ending!” This is pretty high praise considering I avoided the series for so long because I was in no way convinced the writers were building to anything worthwhile. Some fans of the show have tried to sell me on the idea that […]