Movies Birthday Fellowship 30 Apr 2019 For her fourteenth birthday we watched The Fellowship of the Ring together, just the three of us. We had all the movie-fare laid out you could want including candy, peanuts…
Board Games A Family Confrontation 24 Nov 2017 July 15, 2017 - As the kids get older they're able to take on more complex games, and this is the day the oldest and I played Lord of the…
Books Where You Might Be Swept Off To 8 Oct 201724 Nov 2017 It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off…
Board Games Cardboard LAN 12 Feb 2016 LANs are great, be they video or board game. The former is what took place on February 20-21 of last year (2015) and we had a fantastic time - games…
Books Sticking with Ms. Wilder 8 Feb 20158 Feb 2015 Recently my oldest said Little House in the Big Woods was boring. Having not read the book myself, I couldn't change that fact or argue that it's not. My wife…
Podcasts Textual Ruins – Drout on Reading Tolkien 15 Dec 201415 Jan 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXAvF9p8nmM Fantastic talk by Michael Drout at Carnegie Mellon University posted to YouTube in October of last year (2013). You get phrases like "epistemic regime" - which he does explain…
Board Games October Gaming Weekend ’14 15 Oct 201414 Feb 2015 The weekends come and go - we look forward to them all week, and they're gone too soon. Yet truly great weekends find a way to last longer, a way…
Video Games E3 2008 3 Aug 20113 Jun 2017 Originally posted at GameSpot on July 21, 2008 In honor of my first new emblem in nearly three years (watching some of the E3 coverage live for one day), I…
Video Games Playing a “game” game / Deus Ex Invisible War 3 Aug 20113 Jun 2017 Originally posted at GameSpot on June 30, 2008 It's hard for me to start a new game these days. With everything else going on in my life - not to…
Video Games Cerebrations of the past tense 29 Jul 20113 Jun 2017 Originally posted at GameSpot on November 19, 2007 (Or, recent thoughts I've been meaning to get in here but haven't had the time.) These are not in order of importance,…
