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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: 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…
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George Lucas is Murdering Star Wars
I have to get this out. I gave Lucas the benefit of the doubt when the new trilogy came out. I went and saw the first two in the theaters, thinking “they can’t be as bad as people say”. They were, pretty much, especially Phantom Menace. I shrugged when he added a CGI Jabba scene…
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Old Game Tuesday – Star Trek: Birth of the Federation
Star Trek: Birth of the Federation (BOTF from here on out) is a turn-based 4X game based in the Star Trek: The Next Generation universe. A 4X game, if you are wondering, is a game where the goal is to explore, expand, exploit and exterminate. You scout and explore territory, where it’s space (as in…
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Friday Finds – Alligator Biodiesel and a Supernova
Missed a week due to unforseen circumstances, but here are the most recent posts: Movie Review – Rise of the Planet of the Apes – Long title, good movie. Old Game Tuesday – Star Trek: 25th Anniversary – Star Trek’s best game? Second Class Citizen – They don’t care about us folks that still watch…
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Movies to Introduce Your Kids to Science Fiction
Giant Freakin Robot has a list of 15 movies (or movie series) to use to introduce your kids to the Science Fiction genre. I agree with many of the movies here, though you may want to pre-screen some of them as it’s been pointed out that Ghostbusters has a bit of salty language and implied…
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Second Class Citizen
I went home last night, and while I was putting Eva to sleep for the night, I turned on Fox so I could watch Eagles/Steelers. HOWEVER, as my old CRT television hummed to life, I was presented with an annoyance. I could only see how many points the Steelers had. Of course, for most of…
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Old Game Tuesday – Star Trek: 25th Anniversary
First, a note: this is the PC game, not the console game of the same name. Now, as a young science fiction fan growing up, there weren’t that many options out there. So you were pretty much watching Star Trek, even if you were more of a Star Wars fan. I believe young me begged…
