Last night, as part of my "play more games" intention, I started playing a game of Ironsworn (or at least made a few initial attempts). Ironsworn is a game that can be played either solo, cooperative, or with a GM. It borrows from many existing games and systems and synthesizes …

Spent entirely too long last night looking at videos for "adventure" board games after looking at the rules for Mage Knight. I was hoping there were a few that were similar to Return of the Heroes but many of them are either "cooperate against the evil" (Gloomhaven, Legends of Andor …

This year Google will stop supporting and remove Google Hangouts. Google Hangouts, if you're not aware, was Google's replacement for their chat program Google Talk. Google Talk was a XMPP-based chat client that was available for all users of Google services. Google Hangouts was rolled out around the same time …

• Title: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
• Author: Hunter S. Thompson
• Year: 1971
• ISBN: 0679602984
• Rating: Well-written cult-classic that kept my attention.

This has been in my "fiction" pile for a while, so in the interest of "read it or pitch it" (the mantra for my book decluttering) I decided …

I have a confession to make: I've been running on Ubuntu 14.04 up until the end of 2020. I know, I know, it's shocking to see someone running a 6 year old OS in these trying times, but I did it and frankly I kept doing it out of …