Years ago Nuketown had a weekly newsletter called “RADIATIONS”. It was lovingly handcrafted by me and included a list of the previous week’s stories. The kids pretty much killed that one — who has time to update a web site AND maintain a newsletter? It’s something that people have asked me to bring back, and … Read more
Last week, for the first time in years, I found myself home sick from work. I’ve had a few minor colds over the last few years, but I mostly dodged them with little more than sniffles. Not this cold. On Monday, it waylaid me a few minutes after I got back from skiing when a … Read more
One of my goals with the Nuketown redesign was to aggressively pursue a social media strategy, rather then letting it simply flop around like a dying fish.
It’s been a while since Nuketown ran a “Follow Friday” column for Twitter, but it seemed like a tradition worth restarting. This time around we’ve got geek dads, RPG designers, Mars rover drivers, science fiction publishers, and much more.
My birthday (Dec. 17) and Christmas have come and gone, and now there’s a nice pile of geeky presents stacked on the Geek Tree’s rocket-themed tree skirt. On the board game front I turned in a birthday gift card to get the original Carcassone. My wife Sue and I enjoy playing Carcassone: Hunters and Gatherers, … Read more
I bought a Kindle Touch over the summer for two reasons: 1) I wanted to take a bunch of books with me on vacation, and didn’t want to pack four hardcover novels and 2) I was jealous of my daughter’s Kindle.
StarGirl, age 9, got the Kindle Touch from her grandparents for Christmas and spent the next six months devouring books on it. Early in the summer the family went to Sandy Hook, N.J. for the day, and I decided to give it a try. I was curious about how well it held up in direct sunglight, which is something my iPad has a notoriously difficult time with.
My family and I recently went to Disney World. This is part 4 of my 4 part series looking at the trip. Read Part 1: Downtown Disney, Epcot, Hollywood Studios, Part 2: Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom, and Part 3: Pin Trading, Autographs, Fastpass, Card Games.
My family and I went to Disney World in October 2012. This is part 3 of my 4 part series looking at the trip. Read Part 1: Downtown Disney, Epcot, Hollywood Studios and Part 2: Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom. Pin Trading One of the things our kids enjoyed most in Disney World was pin trading. … Read more
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. Magic Kingdom We arrived at the Magic Kingdom just before it opened and got to see the show that opens the park. We … Read more
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 — … Read more