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Shadeheart
It is a good day internet. Oh yes it is. I’ve been waiting to get my hands on these babies and after a LOT of dilly dallying on my part, I finally ordered…
Blizzard releases Heart of the swarm opening cinematic
Stop the presses. Stop typing, hell stop EVERYTHING! Blizzard just released the opening cinematic to Starcraft 2: Heart of the swarm. Anyone one that is even remotely into games knows that their…
A question of identity
Someone recently asked me what, in my opinion was the biggest challenge in getting someone to lose weight. My first impulse was to fire off a long list of reasons. Bad…
Crunch time
I hate standard abdominal crunches. Really, I do. But more than doing them, I hate teaching them. Apart from being a boring isolation move that looks easy to do but…
Review: Mark of the ninja
Has there ever been a prepubescent boy that did NOT want to be a ninja? The reality of being a merciless assassin bound by an inhuman code has never been…
Man vs. Bag
My lungs are on fire. My arms feel like lead. I’m so tired I can hardly think. Every inch of my torso hurts. It takes enormous effort to not sit…
Pacman was a ninja!
There are a lot of things that suck about being in your 30s. Keeping an eye on your waistline, paying taxes, excessive nasal hair… I could go on. But it’s…
Character Corner: Garrus (Mass Effect)
The concept of the “dynamic duo” is an old one. Though the term now is largely attributed to Batman and Robin, the origins of it are much older. Critics would…
Daphne Bavelier talks gaming (TED Talk)
What is better than watching a Ted talk? Watching a Ted talk about games. Daphne Bavelier, a brain scientist, has some interesting things to say about the benefits of gaming…