We’re looking for a new place.
When we moved to Utah from Colorado 18 months ago, we had to sell out house. Because of the economy and the slump, we were able to find someone to buy the house while we financed it, so while we technically still have a house… we really don’t. So, we [...]
Archive for the ‘Geek’ Category
House Shopping
February 19th, 2009
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I Love / Hate the Mac
January 28th, 2009
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The first computer I ever got was a Mac, back the the D.A.Y. when all you had were 128K floppy discs and no hard drive to speak of. The emergency disk eject was a hole you had to insert the end of a paper clip into. It was a grey scale screen and the mouse [...]
No one was more shocked…
November 20th, 2008
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… than me.
I gotta talk about the D&D session I had last week with my brother and brother-in-law. First off, I was really nervous because, as I have posted before, these guys love to make fun and tease and mock. And here I was, letting them into my inner sanctum of nerdery (a real word?) [...]
Into The Breach…
November 11th, 2008
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To anyone who knows me already knows, I’ve been playing Dungeons and Dragons since I was 12. I started out like most kids that age, cracking open a 1st edition book in my friend’s basement and making a character on plain ruled paper. Those days were still when D&D was considered “of-the-devil”, which of course [...]
Why the Hulk worked (for me, at least)
June 16th, 2008
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In a word? Destruction
The story served it’s purpose… to propel Banner further and further down the line, into the cross-hairs of the obsessive Thunderbolt Ross and his legion of nameless soldiers, and to change into the Hulk. The villains did their job; giving Green Jeans someone to smash. But in the end, [...]
