MEPACon is a fair-sized role-playing convention held in eastern Pennsylvania, and despite my best intentions, I’d never managed to actually attend it. This year, I decided to change that, and to help my resolve, I volunteered to run a few miniatures events. Friday was the first night of the con, and I headed up after … Read more
The 2005 Nuketown Readers Survey is our attempt to get a feel for what you love and hate about the site, as well as how you’d like to see the ol’thermonuclear burg expand. We did one of these a few years ago, and the drill is basically the same, the only difference is that if … Read more
For the second time in less than a year, the Delaware River has flooded Easton, Pa. While my house is ok — we live in College Hill, which overlooks the Delaware — downtown isn’t nearly so lucky. Last fall, after Hurricane Ivan came through (check out photos of the 2004 flood), the river crested at … Read more
My old gaming bumper stickers on the Wrangler are finally peeling off the bumper, and the time has come to replace them. I picked up the old stickers at GenCon in 2001, and they were pure geekery: “Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow”, “Why Choose The Lesser of Two Evils? Vote Cthulhu!” and “The DM … Read more
I love my Macs, but I know they can be a little frustrating for the uninitiated, particularly those who come to the platform from Windows with absolutely no experience on the Mac. My goal with this blog entry is to help ease the transition a bit by addressing some of the frustrations that I’ve seen … Read more
My daughter StarGirl is turning two on March 26, a fact I find astounding and awesome. Astounding because it really does seem like she was born yesterday, and awesome because of how much she’s grown–physically and mentally–since her last birthday. Walking What was such a major landmark last year is now commonplace and forgettable except … Read more
When I launched Nuketown’s latest design in June, I consciously switched it away from an “issue-based” model in which content was published on a set schedule, to a blog-like model, in which content was published when I felt like it. The goal, on my end, was to relieve some of the self-imposed stress of trying … Read more
Last weekend my wife and I were out computer shopping. Her for a new Dell laptop, me to dream of the laptop I might be able to buy around about 2007. We traveled to the King of Prussia Mall in southeast Pennsylvania, where Dell allegedly had a store, and to keep me quiet during Sue’s … Read more
I’ve spent a fair amount of time on Nuketown singing the praises of Audible.com, so I figure it’s only proper that I also mention the drawbacks. A friend of mine recently subscribed to Audible, and was eager to use his new MP3 player to listen to books. I’ve long hyped the benefits of Audible to … Read more
I’ve been publishing Nuketown as a webzine, and then as a sort of webzine/blog hybrid, since 1996. So why am I ringing in the new year by creating a blog apart from the ol’thermonuclear site? There are a bunch of reasons, but the biggest one is that despite its shifts to a more bloggish set-up, … Read more