Year: 2011
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Friday Finds – Gingerbread and Satellites
Hey everybody, hope you had a good week. I was busy being productive at work (and moving to another building) so the links are light. Here are this week’s posts: Gingerbread on my LG Optimus S – Got a surprise update this week, and it’s working pretty OK so far. Old Game Tuesday – The…
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Catching Up – TIE Fighter
The Best Star Wars game poll has shown me that many of you think TIE Fighter is the best of the best. In a fit of serendipity, my son discovered a copy of TIE Fighter I had bought at some point in the past. I think I paid a guy who was ‘simplifying’ his life…
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Mars Simulation Nearing Completion
I mentioned this mission back when it started, and now it is nearing completion (you may need a New Scientist login to view that article). What I’m talking about is Mars 500, an experiment to test the psychological stresses of long-term spaceflight, such as what would be required on a trip to the Red Planet.  the…
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HTC Rhyme – This Really Bothers Me
Take a look at that phone. It’s got a lot going for it. Verizon will probably be pricing it low, and it would fit very well at the low to mid-range of Android handsets. No 4G, but a better processor than my Optimus S, front-facing camera, a dock with speakers. Color is odd but hey,…
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Old Game Tuesday – The Homeworld Series
My review here will be on Homeworld: Cataclysm more than the other two, but much of what I have will apply. The Homeworld series of games, and Cataclysm specifically, I picked up because they were different. Unlike the 2D+ you got from some other RTS type games of the era, this had true 3D ship…
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Gingerbread on my LG Optimus S
Woke up this morning and was quite surprised to see a major update for my phone waiting – Gingerbread! That’s Android 2.3 for the uninitiated. I was a bit surprised, as I figured it had been long enough that I probably wasn’t getting it. I fired up the install and am now running from the…
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Friday Finds – Downy Canadian Dinosaurs and Colliding Galaxies
Hey everybody, hope you had a fun week. Here’s the posts from this week: Movie Review: Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D – Time did seem to stretch out before me in this, for sure. Old Game Tuesday – Civilization II – *snore* – Huh, what? I wasn’t sleeping after staying…
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Old Game Tuesday – Civilization II
Another game that needs no introduction, Civilization II is one of the most addictive games I’ve ever played. I know friends whose college classes suffered at the foot of it, long before Everquest and WoW would do the same for the next generation. Civ2 is still a go-to game for me when I want something slower-paced…
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Movie Review: Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D
You can file this under “Movies Mike saw so you don’t have to”. I had a pair of Fandango passes that had to be used by Friday, and this was pretty much the only movie left in theaters that was age appropriate. ‘Appropriate’ might actually be a stretch, as vomit/fart/poop laden ‘comedy’ isn’t really appropriate…
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Friday Finds – Robot Octopi and Arctic Airships
A light week this week, due to the holidays and not being home much. Raising a Reader – Getting boys to read. But that does leave plenty of room for links! Star Wars:Â Heir to the Empire 20th Anniversary Edition, a fine gift for the SW geek in your family. A horribly incomplete list of…
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Raising a Reader
Michael Forbes, whom I follow on Twitter for hockey stuff, linked an article in the New York Times, “Boys and Reading: Is There Any Hope?” by Robert Lipsyte. The issues brought up in the essay are boiled down to this passage: If we’re to counter this tendency and encourage reading among boys who may collectively…
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Friday Finds – Psychic Benefits and the Silmarillion
Hey all, hope you had a good week. I’ll be out of the loop a bit this weekend, though I might actually be able to do my fantasy football draft (wooo!). Here are last week’s posts: Old Game Tuesday – Star Trek: Birth of the Federation – BOTF is a solid 4X game, considering the…