2013 looks to be a pretty decent year We had an excellent year for movies this year, with Avengers, Iron Sky, Hobbit, Prometheus, Dark Night Rises and movies like Dredd and Total Recall providing a good crop of amusing moving pictures. Next year might actually be better, with Iron Man 3, Captain America 2, Thor [...]
Minecraft: like lego but with cocaine This is another of those “in case you’ve been living under a rock” segments where I tell you about something you all probably know about, but it was all I could think about lately so you’re getting it anyways. Minecraft is a fantastic game, and if you haven’t played [...]
Blah Hong Kong action films are a little bit of a guilty pleasure. Movies like Police Story, Hard Boiled or really anything staring Chow Yun-Fat are always good to watch. Like modern day movies like GI Joe: Rise of Cobra (which I actually really liked, but that’s another story) they are best enjoyed by turning [...]
Mail it in Thursdays It’s Christmas and I just finished staring at a sea of numbers, so have some fun with this video of DMX singing “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.” Letting go is the hardest part Casey Fever: unintended consequences I’ve written a little bit about Casey Fever, which is the unique phenomena caused [...]
A grab-bag of video games There has been some exciting news in videogamedom lately. One piece of interesting news is that The Old Republic, the latest in the several-hundred-million-dollar WoW killers has gone free-to-play. Declining subscriber base has meant that Old Republic really wasn’t pulling in enough profit to keep operating which is a shame for people [...]
This is one of my favourite things I was a fan of the Speed Racer TV show when I was a kid for reasons that escape me. Looking back, it’s terribly formulaic, was animated in a legendarily terrible manner, and had really awful voice acting and plots. But still it held a special place in [...]
Funny people are funny Social Media is great at wasting people’s time via connecting us to things that we wouldn’t have discovered otherwise. A friend of mine like’d the site Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee and in a very short amount of time I’ve consumed all the videos available. The premise is very simple: Jerry Seinfeld [...]
Fried from my business trip, so enjoy a video In the great and wonderful city of Saskatoon for a business trip (and I wasn’t kidding about the great and wonderful, the river valley here is gorgeous) so have a sweet video instead of some random diatribe: This is a thing I’m not sure how I [...]
Sports! Some things never change. Grass grows, we get blizzards in Alberta (what did we do to you mother nature?) and sports teams are terrible in Toronto. It’s almost a national past time to hate GMT teams with a passion for the rest of Canada (sorry Ontario LH HQ, it’s true and you know it) [...]
It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas The retail world has decided that because it’s one week since Halloween it is officially Christmas time and so the food and candy has started showing up in full force. Of course that means a new retail season which means for gamers there is a new bevvy [...]
Kickstarter is my Kryptonite Someone needs to take Kickstarter away from me. It hasn’t reached apocalyptic proportions yet but my gaming budget for October was obliterated a week ago when I decided that I wanted a whole bunch of things on there. I think the tipping point was the 10th anniversary limited edition hardcover of [...]
A Shout-out and Some New Games So I’ve been abesent for the better part of two months (quitting a job, starting another, getting married, going on a honeymoon and going to a couple of conferences will do that to you) and I’ve been spending some time in Seattle for the aforementioned conferences. I’m sitting in [...]
So this is a thing The oddest of things translate between cultures. One of the easiest things to get across to someone from another land/culture is humor, although that too can be hit or miss. I remember reading about a US Military outreach in the middle east in the form of a comedy club that [...]
Games that have Miniatures in them I definitely broke the bank on gaming this month. Saving up for a wedding is a long, hard process that is done over the span of an engagement, and it’s not a fun process. This often means scaling back purchases and luxuries and saving every penny you can. Despite [...]
Holy Rollers I usually have distracting things before the jump and Warmahordes after the jump, but seeing as I’m going off topic with a review of Mansions of Madness on the other side, I’ll put the Warmachine here and talk about Menoth. If you’ve been paying attention to the tournament scene you’ll see that during [...]
Let’s Talk Books I’ve got some literary recommendations for you this week as a slight change of pace. I haven’t been reading as many books as I’d like in the past few years, probably symptoms of an active lifestyle and a bevvy of video games Good narratives are moving away from the printed word and that’s [...]
Bad day bad day bad day! Watching Rush Hour again for the thousandth time I’m reminded that one of the great unappreciated masters of martial arts is Jackie Chan. Most westerners have only seen Jackie Chan in movies like Rush Hour and it’s spinoffs, long after he’s reached his prime. That’s not to say that an [...]
The Boys of Summer Full disclosure: Sports is one of those things that I’m insane about. I follow Hockey, Basketball, Football, Soccer, Baseball, Pool and yes, even Darts (No seriously! They have a professional darts circuit and everything. They take these giant beer halls in Europe, fill them full of happy patrons, beer, and everyone [...]
It’s The Summer Olympics … … so let’s talk about random things like RPGs and Board Games! I’ve been searching for a new game system to run, and I picked up a copy of Godlike for a leaf-through. It’s an interesting system with an interesting historical twist to it. In Godlike’s world, to open up [...]
Marvel Movies Oh My! If you have been living under a rock, there is a thing called Comic-Con that happens every year in San Diego (and New York). It’s a humble little gathering of comic book nerds that has barely eked out an existence drawing only 130,000 – 150,000 people every year for the past [...]
So, Hot! Need AC! Look to your left; if the person beside you is engulfed in flames you’re probably in the midst of the heat wave that’s been engulfing North America as of late. It’s been very annoying and I’ve been oddly cognizant of the oddities in temperatures because in planning our wedding I’ve also [...]
Happy Canada/USA Day! This is a little late in coming for both of the people it’s aimed at but happy country-based-celebration-BBQ-and-fireworks day(s) everyone! The beginning of July is an interesting time for me because four holidays are packed very close together: Canada Day, my Birthday, my parent’s wedding anniversary and Independence Day so it often [...]
Oh My If there is one person who’s really grasped the internet who I did not expect, that person would be George Takei. If you haven’t liked his page on Facebook, I would highly recommend it, he regularly posts funny images or anecdotes on his page and everyday there is something worth reading. Sometimes he takes a [...]
Sometimes Math is Cool As a Computing Scientist sometimes I think things that 90% of the population would deem lame are really cool. That’s not a “holier than thou” assertion but rather a realization that I’m strange and think that Math is fun. Algorithms are a great example of this and whenever I come across [...]
BRB, Graduating No peppy introduction today folks. I’m writing this in a shirt and tie (ewwww, take it off take it off TAKE IT OFF!) sitting in the common area of my universities Students Union building with a cap, gown and degree in front of me. My Graduation ceremony is a little bit away so [...]