Back from California: How did the Reader do?

I just last night got back from a trip back to San Diego to celebrate my grandson’s first birthday and a little early Christmas with my daughter and her husband (that JUST MIGHT have involved some Super Mario Galaxy!) It was also a shakedown for the Sony Reader. I didn’t bring any books, and I … Read more

I love my Sony Reader, and so does my cat.

I owned a house up in Monterey, California. I loved that old house; I raised my kids and my cats there, and it had oodles of space, and I had books pretty much everywhere. Two book cases in the garage, two in the family room with the computer, two in my bedroom, a huge one … Read more

EQ2: Charasis — The Vault

No time for leveling last night; when I sat down to play, I was invited to a Crypt of Agony group right away, and of course, I had to go. Have I mentioned that dungeon crawls are my absolutely favorite thing to do in EQ? It would be fair to say that meeting the dangers … Read more

EQ2: The City of Mist

The City of Mist is an island in the north of the Kunzar Jungle, full of heroic skeletons and golems and some bosses that, though the zone has been entirely redesigned from EQ1’s zone of elevators (of death) and invisible sky ramps (of death and gravity); EQ2’s is a ziggurat-shaped ramp system leading to the … Read more

No Country for Old Men

We went and saw this… disturbing movie today. I’m not sure I would call it a movie. Maybe a war between the antagonist and the movie, as if the antagonist had decided that conventional ways of telling the story weren’t going to end well for him, and so he fought back, changed things around. This … Read more