I saw a review of minecraft that claimed that he got the point of it. He was under the impression that the overriding point of the game was that as evil little humans, we could not get along with our environment, and that we needed to destroy mother nature in order to live the way we wanted to ( Read more... )

Minecraft. In all reality, this is a pretty stupid simple game. You farm something - you get something. You use the somethings to craft something else. You build with the something elses to create other things ( Read more... )

OK, so maybe it doesn't actually mean WAR. But one of the local morning DJs found that someone was blogging negatively about one of the stupid antics on the show in a national forum. That kind of thing is to be expected, and not something that I would get up on my soapbox about. The person in question could got enough facts straight that people ( Read more... )

I had an opportunity to go to Dragon Con. I thought it would be a really cool, relaxing time to get my geek on and see how conventions are run in other towns, and spread the word about yadda yadda yadda ( Read more... )

Well, after a long hiatus of not doing much with my talent with rope, I have found a couple of things that have made me want to re-examine my knotty abilities ( Read more... )

I just came home from driving out from a nearby town to pick up ice cream. On the way back I found not one, not two but three people in a five minute span driving spuriously. Do you know what they all three had in common? They were all on their cell phone ( Read more... )

OK, I think we are going to try to do this on Saturday morning. I think earlier would be better to beat the heat. I would like to shoot for 10 am, at the cookie, but will take counter proposals ( Read more... )

The Mad Scientist next door to the Mint Cookie needs assistance and is willing to pay hale and hearty folk who can help him move some timbers from the front of his house to some other where that he has determined ( Read more... )

I was hoping after blowing a considerable amount of cash on the A/C situation (IE New A/C NEW furnace) that after a night of cooling down, the house would be....well, cooler. The current temperature outside the house according to weather.com is 83 degrees. the current temperature inside the house is 83 degrees. Granted, the job was not done ( Read more... )

It looks like there will be no Spiderman 4. Apparently there were script problems that Tobey McGuire and Sam Raimi could not get around. To which part of me goes WTF ( Read more... )