http://www.spwug.com the blog for the thinking geek Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:29:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Greetings, Shadow Warriors! There’s an old saying where I come from, and it goes something like this: “If you can’t come up with a Spwug article for the week, just make something up.” How anyone in my home town even knew there would ever be a web site called Spwug some day in ... http://www.spwug.com/2010/03/10/meeting-at-the-docks-33-mega-bits/ So this past Friday, I was treated to a late-night showing of the new Tim Burton offering, Alice in Wonderland. I'd really been looking forward to this movie, and didn't do any reviewing of the content beforehand, so what I got in the theatre was not at all what I ... http://www.spwug.com/2010/03/09/movie-review-alice-in-emoland/ Greetings, Madballs! Holy crap. I’m sure those of you who own one of the “fat” PS3 systems (like me) became quite acquainted with the issue that occurred last Sunday on the right and straight on ‘til Monday. In short, the non-slim PS3s all took a huge dump. In a major snafu that most-assuredly gave ... http://www.spwug.com/2010/03/03/meeting-at-the-docks-32-look-before-you-leap-year/ Well, guys, it's been a busy week, and we're only three days into it! I could ramble on and on about the state of the Geek Nation (we're not quite as snazzily-dressed as the Colbert Nation), but Battlefield: Bad Company 2 has dropped today, the next installment in EA's comedy-action-FPS ... http://www.spwug.com/2010/03/02/interlude-about-games/ …hooboy!  Look at the time!  Sorry, lads and lasses.  There will not be a full “Office” install this week.  Partly because I’m in the process of backing everything up so I can do a full install of Windows 7 on my lappy (See what I did there?  Tied it all ... http://www.spwug.com/2010/02/25/11-the-don-says/ Did you ever feel it's time to ramp up the intellectual content of this writer's articles? Yeah, me neither. But there's no denying that sometimes, sometimes, when you're not otherwise paying attention, something involving thinky-meats will come up and smack you over the head, and you'll say, "This is COOL!" Then you'll ... http://www.spwug.com/2010/02/23/interlude-science-inside/ For those of you who are tired of the oversaturation of zombie flicks and feel like the current vampire trend has become vacuous and pedantic, I have encouraging news. The werewolf film may be re-marking its territory. Yes, I know that werewolves have already reared their heads in the forgettable, if not ... http://www.spwug.com/2010/02/17/office-of-the-don-64-big-and-talbot/ Did you miss webcomic reviews after the untimely death of my last computer? So did I! Luckily, I've been workin' hard on getting new review notes compiled since then, and I now have some fruits of my labours. So let's jump right in on this Review After the Fact.... Maybe you're ... http://www.spwug.com/2010/02/16/webcomic-review-backward-compatible/ Greetings, Toxic Avengers!! Valentine’s Day is coming up.  So, in honor of this day of hearts and cupids I should probably do some kind of article commemorating fatal romances in movies, dictating the top love triangles in comics, or listing the love ballads everyone says they hate but secretly love. I’m not ... http://www.spwug.com/2010/02/10/office-of-the-don-63-hail-to-the-editor-in-chief/ So I hear there was a sacred ritual in America this weekend. Supposedly it consisted of humans gathering in big groups with large amounts of fried food and chips, watching sweaty, muscled meatsacks ripping the flesh from a large hog, then tossing the resulting oblong wad back and forth. It ... http://www.spwug.com/2010/02/10/supper-bowl-not-dinnertime/