Saturday, January 31, 2015

Review: Defense Grid 2 (PS4)

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I'm a big fan of tower defense games, but many of the current mobile games (such as FieldRunners) leave me cold: the production values a...
Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Review: The Golem and the Jinni

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The Golem and the Jinni is Helene Wecker's debut novel. Set in turn of the century New York City, it blends together Arabic and Yiddish...
Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Review: Little Big Planet PS Vita

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The Playstation Vita is easily Sony's least loved gaming platform. It's weaker than the PS3 or PS4 graphically, but despite that ...
Monday, January 26, 2015

Review: How to Fail At Almost Everything and Still Win Big

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Authors are strange and irrational creatures. Ask any author with multiple books out which book they wrote they like the most, and they almo...
Sunday, January 25, 2015

Review: The Walking Dead Season 2 (PS4)

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After playing the first season of The Walking Dead on the PS Vita, I decided that there was no way I would pay full price for Season 2 , an...
Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Review: Joyland

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Joyland is Stephen King's serial killer/murder mystery set in an amusement park. It is a short quick read, but a lot of fun and well wo...
Monday, January 19, 2015

Review: Infamous First Light

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I don't usually play or buy downloadable content (DLC) for computer games. They're rarely discounted, and at full price represent un...
Friday, January 16, 2015

Gaming Nostalgia

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I've been playing a lot of Resogun , recently. Now usually when I finish  a game, I don't ever go back to it. But Resogun has someth...
Thursday, January 15, 2015

Review: Kindle Unlimited

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During the holiday season, it was possible to get Kindle Unlimited for $5 a month for 6 months . At $10 a month, I wouldn't have gotten...
Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Review: Boyhood

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I'm a Richard Linklater fan. Before Sunrise/Before Sunset / Before Midnight were all excellent movies, as intense as any experiences you...
Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Managing Storage in the World of Cloud Storage

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I was a Google employee when Gmail first launched. At that time, 1GB of e-mail storage was stupendously huge, and you could never use it up....
Monday, January 12, 2015

Review: Big Skinny World BiFold Wallet

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I travel just a few times a year, but I'm weight conscious. Over the years, I've worn out any number of wallets and abandoned severa...
Saturday, January 10, 2015

Cancun 2015

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I'd been in Cancun before (in 2011, in fact) but only to dive in Cozumel and a cenote near Playa Del Carmen. That time, my camera floode...
Friday, January 09, 2015

Review: Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview

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Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview , is a collection of interviews with the famous author before he died by his biographer, Sam Weller. It con...
Thursday, January 08, 2015

Review: Final Horizon (PS Vita)

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I'm a sucker for the tower defense genre, and happily sink hour after hour into the genre. One of the interesting things about the genre...
Tuesday, January 06, 2015

Review: Sand Omnibus

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Hugh Howey has written yet another novel in the tradition of Wool , his previous post-apocalyptic world. In many ways, this novel amplifies ...
Sunday, January 04, 2015

Review: Oh Myyy!!

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Oh Myyy!! is George Takei's how-to book about how to use Social Media if you're a celebrity. It's short, and rather than talk a...
Saturday, January 03, 2015

Review: Afterworlds

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Afterworlds is Scott Westerfield's Young Adult novel about writing. It's an ambitious work. The book's structured between alt...
Friday, January 02, 2015

Review: Little Tikes Pirate Ship Toddler Bed

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We'd been sharing a room (but not co-sleeping) for months during our remodeling, and now it's finally time for the parents to move o...
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Thursday, January 01, 2015

2015 will see the debut of a full-on Windows phone

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I try not to make tech predictions, but sometimes one just kicks me in the face. Windows 8 has been a massive failure, and Microsoft is movi...