When Pennsylvania went to full-on “stay at home” to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus, my gaming group went fully online. We put our Saltmarsh campaign on hold and launched a new Star Wars campaign using the Saga Edition[…]
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Author: Ken Newquist
Searching for Geek Fitness Blogs
I’m looking for fellow travelers on the road to geek fitness, specifically geeky blogs that talk about fitness or blogs that discuss the intersection of geek culture and getting fit. These don’t need to be hardcore fitness blogs, or blogs[…]
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Blogworthy: Believing Virus Myths, NASA Worm, Stargate RPG, Kool Aid Man, Skyrim Mods, Mars Rover, Galactic World Building
Why smart people believe coronavirus myths talks about a phenomenon I’ve seen too many times to count: Otherwise intelligent people retweeting or re-posting questionable content without thinking it through. Case in point: people stating as fact that individuals are getting[…]
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Fitness Playlist: Across the Spider-verse
About a year into the #BrokenAnkleSaga, I started running again. After slowly ramping up by running on carpet and the soft turf of our local college’s football field, I was ready to really run. The problem was … I wasn’t actually ready[…]
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Off the Bookshelf: The 5th Season, Salvation Lost, Recursion
Nuketown’s 2019 Summer Reading List is finally complete. After beginning in May 2019, I finally finished the last book on the list – The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin – in February 2020. That left me free to get[…]
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Blogworthy: Good News, Toilet Paper Economics, Star Trek Swearing, Wither Betelgeuse?, Tales from the Loop, Good-bye Dirk Pitt
Some Good News with John Krasinski: The star of The Office and Jack Ryan started his own Youtube show dedicated to bringing good news to a world that desperately needs it. Thanks John, this is awesome! What Everyone’s Getting Wrong[…]
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Brainstorming Nuketown’s Summer 2020 Reading List
It’s April and we’re under “stay at home” orders in Pennsylvania. Work from home – and remote learning – are the order of the day for my family. Summer seems a hell of a long way off, and even when[…]
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The Trail To Philmont, March 2020 Recap
We started actively training for our big 12-day backpacking trip to Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico in January, and got into a good groove in February. And then everything changed. During the first half of the month, we maintained our regime of working[…]
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Finding a new routine in the COVID-19 world
Ok, at this point, you know the drill. Millions of people in the United States are in some sort of isolation, ranging from “try to avoid people” to “stay at home”. Pennsylvania closed schools and non-essential businesses. My wife and[…]
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The Trail to Philmont, February 2020 Recap
I expect to learn a lot on the Trail to Philmont. In February, I learned that if you run a lot … you need to periodically buy new running shoes. I bought my Hokas when I started running again after[…]
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