I swore I’d never do it. I said it was pointless, watching video on an iPod at the gym. The screen’s too small, the iPod’s too far away, and there’s plenty of better stuff to listen to that doesn’t risk the iPod going flying across the gym after an inadvertent tug of the earphones sends … Read more
I didn’t hit the gym nearly as much as I needed to in December and early January, but the good news is that despite eating quite a lot of good food during the holidays, I only gained about two pounds. I’m holding steady at 210 right now, but I’m hoping to start making downward progress … Read more
Ah yes, my coffee shop starts blogging, and I all but stop. It’s been that kind of week. Heck, it’s been that kind of Interim. Working in IT at a college, January turns into a mad, frantic rush to get everything done between when the students leave campus in December, and when they return at … Read more
The Cosmic Cup now has a blog (the Cup being the Easton, Pa. coffee shop I frequent most). Not much there yet except for announcements about music and new coffee (but hey, I’m not complaining, seeing as how I like new music and love new coffee…).
A very merry (and hopefully, very geeky as well) Christmas to everyone! Right now the Newquist clan is basking in the occasionally turbulent afterglow of the holidays, gifts strewn across the living room and library like some sort of Toyland apocalypse. StarGirl and I are escaping it for a few hours to hang out with fellow … Read more
For years, people have been asking me for pictures of the Geek Tree, and for years, I’ve been promising to find a way to take them. This year, I finally did. Check out the Geek Tree in all its glowing glory in this Flickr photo set. I experimented with a couple of different approaches, but … Read more
Stumped with gift ideas for your geek? Can figure out what you should ask for yourself? Then check out Nuketown’s annual gift guide, which offers suggestions from movies to MP3 players to music to books to games. Dungeons & Dragons Chess Set Geeks love chess. Geeks love Dungeons & Dragons So why not get your … Read more
The next big home improvement project around the ol’thermonuclear burg will be rearranging our third floor office space, turning my wife’s craft room into something a little more office like (and a little easier for her to work in) and converting our old “office” into the new gaming room. As a result, I’m going to … Read more
The holidays loom large, and with them so does that most venerable of Nuketown traditions: the Geek Tree. This year’s Geek Tree includes a major addition which my wife Sue bought for me last Christmas: the Hogworts Express. This is an HO Gauge train set featuring a large oval train track, several over-long sleeper cars, … Read more
Uncle Bear officially turned 10 years old last week. The venerable ursine is one of the few geek zines/blogs/sites/whatever-we’re-calling-ourselves-now to have survived from the year of Nuketown’s own genesis. Congratulations to Berin, and here’s to another 10 years of geekdom and gaming goodness!