Disney With Kids, Part 2: Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom
My family and I went to Disney World in October 2012. This is part 2 of my 4 part series looking at the trip. Read Part 1: Downtown Disney, Epcot, Hollywood Studios.
It's Alive! Nuketown 7 is in production!
It's alive! Nuketown 7 is now in production. It's not quite finished yet -- there are a couple of bugs here and there that need to be squashed -- but the site has been upgraded to Drupal 7 and it's running its spiffy new theme. The social media buttons are active and -- amazingly -- working and we can now post microcontent updates directly from the site to Twitter.
A test twitter update from Nuketown.com. Nothing to see here ... unless there's something to see here.
Nuketown Radio Active 86 is recorded. Now for editing…
Radio Active #86: Return of the Return
On this edition of Nuketown Radio Active I return from a far-too-long hiatus to talk about the year that was and the year that will be. Topping that list is a look at the redesigned, Drupal-7 powered Nuketown and a return to geeky writing. With site news out of the way I take a look at the RPG and Xbox 360 games I've been playing and put out the call for PS3 game suggestions. Finally, I round out the podcast with some thoughts on the upcoming Star Wars Trilogy.
Disney With Kids, Part 1
Up until October 2012 I'd been to Disney World five times, never with kids. This week that all changed as my wife and I took the kids on our first-ever destination vacation to Disney World.
Off the Bookshelf: Existence, Newton's Wake, Mistborn
I made a serious dent in my Summer 2012 Reading List, but as always a few books carried forward, and a few others dropped off as we moved into fall. One book I carried forward was David Brin's Existance, a novel of first contact that occasionally gets too preachy for its own good. Summer book The Way of Kings led me to try Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy, which is about a truly epic fantasy heist.
RT @Blastr That time Marvel almost killed all of its major comics characters http://bit.ly/ZgorsD
RT @io9: 2001: A Space Odyssey recreated in bread and chocolate http://on.io9.com/eOJSY3
Elder Sign: Omens (App Edition)
Fantasy Flight Games made its name creating huge, sprawling board games with hundreds of fiddly-bits and robust game mechanics that take hours to play. Fans who buy Arkham Horror or Mansions of Madness know they’re getting their money’s worth … and that there’s no way the game will fit in their pockets. With the Elder Sign: Omens app for iPhone ($3.99), Android ($3.99) and iPad ($6.99), they’ve taken a different approach: create a lightweight, fast-playing game that’s as atmospheric as its predecessors but can be played anywhere.