They say, “Variety is the spice of life.” That’s almost the perfect description for my 3rd trip to the Ben Avery shooting facility during our annual spring break trip to Arizona. This year, Jimbo, Art, and I shot trap again,…
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A totally random collection of stuff. Though now that facebook exists, its mostly guns and video games…
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Updating my office, again!
About 5 years ago, we redid my office. Well, now that there’s another little being on the way, my office is transforming back to bedroom form. So i had to update my office again. This time, there ended up being…
Project: Theater Cabinet
I don’t know what it is, but every time Laura and Easton leave for a week, I end up doing some project that consumes all of my free time, and half of my sleep! I finally have some time to…
Random Review: Alan Wake
Alan Wake was one of the most interesting games I’ve played in a long time. The story was an actual story. Well, it was really a story about a story, in the form of a game about a story. A…
Random Review: Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
The game begins in disappointment: you’re forced to install a console game. So before I can even do anything, I’m forced to wait 8 minutes. Great initial experience there. During the install I’m forced to watch a dude on screen…
Happy 1911 Day!
On March 29, 1911 the army adopted the John Moses Browning designed M1911 pistol. And today, 100 years later, the 1911 is still used by some of the special forces groups of the military and is still one of the…
Ben Avery Review #2: The Shotgunning Edition
Last year, Art took us to Ben Avery Shooting Facility to shoot some of his guns, and we had a grand old time. In what has become an annual tradition, we went again this year during spring training. But this…
Random Review: Torchlight
While Torchlight has been available for the PC for a long (long!) time, it just came out last week on Xbox 360 as an arcade game. And it is a great game! It’s probably the best value for an Xbox…
Random Review: Medal of Honor
This is one of the few sequels that doesn’t have a number or subtitle. It should be something like “Medal of Honor: Tier 1” or something, as the game was mostly following some Tier 1 special forces operators through the…
Random Review: Call of Duty: Black Ops
This is the (by my count) 7th game in the Call of Duty series. Of the recent ones (since CoD:Modern Warfare), this one had the best story. It had a very interesting psycho-drama going on, with the main character being…
