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Too Many Socks

by Drey on April 1, 2009 in Books, Life, Movies with 2 Comments

I just realized that the main reason I still have DVDs and books is so that other people can look at them and make a judgment about how awesome I am. They are decorative. This is the age of Netflix and Amazon. I don’t need all those things taking up space. Rare is the time when I absolutely must watch a particular film immediately. And being such a slow reader, I doubt I will be re-reading anything any time soon.

So I’m going to liquidate all my DVDs and books that aren’t rare or hard to get. I’m tired of dragging them around. If people need to know the movies and books I like, they can check any number of online sources.

Citation Needed

by Drey on March 9, 2009 in Dreams, Geek, Life with No comments

Recently I was forwarded this video about the exponential growth of information technology.  One of the facts presented in the video is that “It is estimated that 4 exabytes (4.0×10^19) of unique information will be generated this year. That is more than the previous 5,000 years.” My first reaction was, “Wow, that is a lot of data.” Today I thought, “What does that even mean?” What qualifies as “unique information”? A blog post? A novel? Who is quantifying it? And how? Do they mean more than the previous 5000 years combined? Or more information per year on average? Continue reading →

Retrogasmic 1.5 – Might As Well Jump

by Drey on February 15, 2009 in Video Games, Writing with No comments

New Retrogasmic column up at Secure Immaturity. This one’s on Dragon’s Lair and games with quick time events.

Check it out!

Retrogasmic 1.4 – You Have the Power of Ameritrash

by Drey on January 19, 2009 in Board Games, Geek, Writing with No comments

Visit the Secure Immaturity site to read my latest article on early Ameritrash board games and the geek who loved them.

As usual, please comment at the Secure Immaturity site.

Delicious

by Drey on December 31, 2008 in Geek with 2 Comments

I have become obsessed with categorizing all of my bookmarks using delicious.

I have decided to share them with you here.

2008 Movie Wrap-up

by Drey on December 28, 2008 in Movies with 1 Comment

I don’t expect to see anything else this year to break into the top ten, so that leaves us with:

1. The Fountain
2. Brothers Bloom
3. Blade Runner
4. The Dark Knight
5. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
6. There Will Be Blood
7. Batman Begins
8. Justice League: New Frontier
9. Moulin Rouge!
10. Ghostbusters

And for the movies that were released in 2008, there’s a list for that as well:

1. Brothers Bloom
2. The Dark Knight
3. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
4. Justice League: New Frontier
5. Slumdog Millionaire
6. JCVD
7. Zack & Miri Make a Porno
8. Wanted
9. Hancock
10. WALL-E

Retrogasmic 1.3 – My Primitive Ancestry

by Drey on December 15, 2008 in Geek, Video Games, Writing with No comments

My latest article is up at Secure Immaturity. It is on early, pre-graphic games and their modern descendants.

I’ve closed comments here to encourage responses at the Secure Immaturity site.

Earworms

by Drey on December 1, 2008 in Music with 6 Comments

We all get songs stuck in our head. Here’s my mental soundtrack of tunes that got stuck into heavy rotation this year.

So to Speak – DJ? Acucrack

Falling Slowly – Glen Hansard

Looking at the World from the Bottom of a Well – Mike Doughty

Tender – Blur

Lollipop – Mika

Going On – Gnarls Barkley

Chase the Morning – Sarah Brightman

That’s Not My Name – The Ting Tings

BoardGameGeek.con 2008

by Drey on November 26, 2008 in Board Games with No comments

Along with Fantastic Fest and, recently, GenCon, BGG is something that I now look forward to every year. A comparatively small convention (only about 700 people this year), the Dallas-based convention focuses exclusively on board games.

The highlight reel:

Although Agricola is still hugely popular, it came out at last year’s BGG. This year the new hotness was definitely Dominion. When describing the game, most people reached for the easiest comparison: Magic the Gathering. More specifically, the deck building mechanic and the strategy of playing from your graveyard. You essentially build your deck as you play, trying to saturate your deck with certain cards in order to increase the odds of drawing specific combos. Your victory points are also cards, effectively useless for anything but points at the end. So you have to decide if you want to go for a bunch of the low hanging 3s and fill your deck with cards that do nothing, or hold out for more valuable but more expensive single cards.

Continue reading →

Retrogasmic 1.2 – Once Upon A Time There Was No World Wide Web

by Drey on November 17, 2008 in Geek, Writing with 2 Comments

I’ve posted a new article for the Secure Immaturity podcast and website. This one is about life online pre-World Wide Web.

Read it here.

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