Part of my extended blogging break involved playing some new video games – and an old one. First up is Portal 2, which I bought Jenn for her birthday. We started with the cooperative mode, wherein you play two Wall-E like robots in an abandoned, post-apocalyptic research facility. Using “portal guns” to open doorways in [...]
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Several years ago I played an earlier iteration of the Civilization series on my old PC. I loved it, but it kept crashing my computer and I drifted away from the series. Recently I felt the itch for a new gaming pasttime, and since I figured my new Mac would be robust enough to handle [...]
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I rang in the holiday season with two new video games. I’ll start with NHL 11, the latest installment in EA Sports’ classic line of hockey simulations. This series goes back to 1994 with me, when I first played the Sega Genesis edition, and I’ve basically been a junkie to it ever since. It’s come [...]
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I just noticed I’m on pace for my least productive blogging month since I launched this site two Januarys ago. I think part of it has to do with the Futurismic shutdown, which I have to say hit me like a ton of bricks — harder than I expected, actually. I didn’t think it would [...]
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This year my M.O. for vacation time has consisted of scheduling it out piecemeal into various four-day “staycation” weekends that give me a chance to get away from the office and recharge my batteries — in the company of my favorite person and my two favorite cats, of course! Since home is my favorite place [...]
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A couple of TV mini-marathons this holiday weekend, courtesy of instant-streaming: The tragically canceled Party Down‘s 10-episode second season started a little slowly, but hit its stride midway through (“Steve Guttenberg’s Birthday” and “Not On Your Wife’s Opening Night” are two highlights), mostly living up to the promise of its first year. As usual, low-key [...]
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It was kind of a long, rough week, so Saturday came as a welcome respite, and Jenn and I spent a busy and celebratory day together. First we went to Jenn’s studio in Burbank for a screening party of the new Slangman’s World episodes. For those who aren’t aware, Jenn has been writing and voice-acting [...]
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