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Buzz Off
So, how about that Google Buzz, huh? Google’s last toy, Google Wave, was kind of a flop for me because it seemed like a neat collaborative tool, but none of my friends were on it yet. (On a reread, doesn’t … Continue reading
Game Review: Sims 2: Castaway
One day, you’re standing on the dock, waving goodbye to a friend, when you slip and fall and land in a crate, which is sealed and loaded onto a cargo ship, which is caught up in a storm and your … Continue reading
Posted in Game Reviews, Raleigh
Tagged candy, cooking, Eric, Game Reviews, games, Google, Raleigh, random, reprints, Sims, Sims 2, Strangetown, ThumbGods, WarCraft, World of WarCraft
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Nancy Drew Dossier: Resorting To Danger
Resorting To Danger, by Her Interactive, is the second in the Nancy Drew Dossier series, following Lights, Camera, Curses!. This time, Nancy is investigating a series of bombs at the Redondo, a rejuvenation clinic for the stars. The bombs are … Continue reading
Posted in Game Reviews, Raleigh
Tagged casual games, classics, e3, Game Reviews, games, garden, Google, greek, Her Interactive, mail, nancy drew dossier, Raleigh, reading, resorting to danger
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Lost in Blue 2
I’ve been playing Lost in Blue 2 on the DS for a while now, and while I always love games about island survival, like MyTribe, Sims 2: Castaway, etc., there’s a lot of room for improvement in Lost in Blue. … Continue reading
Posted in Game Reviews, Gaming Culture
Tagged cooking, frustrations, Game Reviews, games, girls play that too?, Google, LOST, Lost in Blue 2, mail, MyTribe, nintendo DS, Sims, Sims 2, ThumbGods
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Miss Venezuala
So I’m working on a blog promotion for Thimbler. I’m having such a great time with it… usually I’m on the receiving end of poorly-targeted Dear Blogger sales emails. I really resent those emails, both because marketing teams seem to … Continue reading
Posted in Raleigh
Tagged awesome, bloggers, Don Fransisco, Google, latin, mail, Raleigh, Sabado Gigante, Thimbler
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Create-a-Mall
I don’t think I’m quite the target audience for the new Create-A-Mall, since I don’t really like malls and shopping, but games often take a surprising premise to create a great game. A Nintendo game where you played a paperboy … Continue reading
Visiting Strangetown: Sims 2 on the DS
You’re on your way from someplace much cooler to someplace much cooler when your car breaks down in Strangetown, and the Sims 2 game begins. A local yokel says he can fix that, but while you’re waiting (it goes without … Continue reading
Posted in Game Reviews, Raleigh
Tagged Game Reviews, games, General, Google, nintendo DS, Raleigh, random, Sims, Sims 2, Stick, Strangetown
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Revenge Of The Artichokes
No matter how obscure an activity is, you can find other people on the internet who do it too. Saw this in my Google analytics today: I guess I’m not the only person to battle the artichokes, and lose.
Dirty Kitchen
A few years ago, my mom got me a magnetic poetry set. It was the seasons and celebrations collection, with haiku words like magic, flower, spring and rain. For Christmas, Andrea and Ian got us a sci-fi/pulp set. This one … Continue reading
All Artichoked Up
It’s been years since I ruined dinner badly enough to scrap it and order take out. Look, I’m not saying I’ve never had trouble boiling water, and there was that time in college when I set off Eric’s smoke detector, … Continue reading
Posted in Raleigh
Tagged adventures with Stick, awesome, cooking, Eric, food?, Google, Raleigh, Stick, things I'm not good at
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