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In the early days of computing, before Graphical User Interfaces were commonplace, nerds still needed games to play on their primitive computers.  Thus the text based interactive fiction game was born.  While the Zork series wasn’t the very first instance […]

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My Favorite Movies 42: This is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner, 1984)
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Mailbag Monday 49
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(Due to my site being down because of copyright infringement shenanigans, I was unable to post this Monday, but not to worry, here you go, 6 days late!) Hello dear readers, it’s MAILBAG MONDAY again!  On …

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We now return to our regular programming
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I have been BOMBARDED with emails over the past week, all frantically wanting to know why my website was down.  Well, I'm sad to say that it was a simple matter of copyright infringement that …

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Monthly Movie Reviews – May, 2013
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Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in May. Stats Movies watched – 15 Movies that were new to me – 9 Star Trek movies – 3 Monthly Masterpieces – The Adventures of Robin Hood, Out …

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Middle-earth Monday 41: Pinnath Gelin
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Minor Key Monday 41: Jefferson Airplane – Today
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My Favorite Movies 41 – Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur, 1947)
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