Well, the time has just about come for Charlotte and I to say goodbye to New York for a while. We’ve decided that at the end of June, we will move to Indianapolis, IN, a smaller city in the midwest, for at least a year.
Reactions from our friends have been fairly uniform thus far: they’re [...]
I’ve taken it upon myself to enact two projects involving my personal appearance. The first, and most important, is the LOSE 25 POUNDS PROJECT. I weigh 213, which is the most I’ve weighed since I met my wife. We successfully dieted in 2006-2007, and I dropped down to below 180. At my wedding, I weighed [...]
Let the Right One In: A Novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist
My review
rating: 4 of 5 stars
Like many Americans, I saw the movie version of Let the Right One In before reading the book, and enjoyed it quite a bit. This led me to pursue the book and, as is almost always the case for [...]
This past Wednesday was Crispy Gamer’s CEO’s birthday. Coincidentally, on Wednesdays we often have “Crispy Cocktail Night” where someone – typically me – makes drinks for the office and we hang out playing Rock Band 2. I was asked to come up with a new drink for the occasion, and after some experimenting, created one [...]
Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr.
My review
rating: 4 of 5 stars
Hubert Selbey Jr.’s Requiem for a Dream is a hard book to read … not due so much to its sensitive subject matter, which is frankly riveting, as to Selby’s unconventional, stream-of-consciousness prose. The guy barely believes in basic punctuation marks, let [...]
Hola, just a quick update to explain why it is that I’ve done nothing except review books all month — basically I’ve done nothing this month except read and work on the Crispy Gamer redesign, which we’ll be launching June 1st. All of my other hobbies are at a temporary standstill, and I just haven’t [...]
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
My review
rating: 3 of 5 stars
One has to remind one’s self, while reading the Harry Potter series, that they’re meant for children in the 10 – 14 range, give or take, and not for a married guy in his early thirties who’s simultaneously reading Hubert [...]
The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence by Ray Kurzweil
My review
rating: 5 of 5 stars
Ray Kurzweil has been accused by some as being incredibly optimistic in his vision for the future of humanity and the computer’s that we’ve created. His predictions, however, have an uncanny way of coming to pass, at [...]
GUD: Greatest Uncommon Denominator (magazine) Issue 3 by Debbie Moorhouse
My review
rating: 4 of 5 stars
As with each issue so far, GUD issue 3 contains an eclectic combination of short fiction, poetry and artwork, most of it in the sci-fi, fantasy, and horror genres. Once again, the overall quality of work is strong. Particular standouts, [...]
I’ve written ANOTHER article for Crispy Gamer, this one in the form of a blog post. This one talks about a favorite game of mine: Nethack. Here’s a snippet:
“No! It’s too strong! I … oh, damn it, the f*cking troll killed Carbomb.”
“What the hell are you talking about?” asks my wife Charlotte, who with a [...]
