Now this is a story, all about how…. no, no, wait. This isn’t that kind of story. This is the story of a quest for my very favorite X-man. I’ve written about my search for Beast before–even written a poem that describes my desire to be him–but toward the end of my last update on the search, I was feeling pretty bummed about my chances to own the perfect Beast statue. Continue reading
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Geeks You Should Know: Ralph Baer
Americans love a good rags to riches story, especially when the protagonist has to work hard, pull himself up by his bootstraps, and eventually makes it big. Horatio Alger sold dozens of books based on this very formula. There’s also a Geek You Should Know that did this very thing! Ralph Baer is credited with creating the world’s first gaming console, the Brown Box–later called the Odyssey–but he didn’t start as a technological guru.
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Saturday Review | Love: the Fox
Love. The Fox (Magnetic Press)
Written by Frederic Brrémaud
Illustrated by Federico Bertolucci
From time to time I find myself staring at my double screens in my basement office, wondering why I’m not lying in the grass on an island paradise and watching the fauna go about their daily business. Then I opened the pages of Love. The Fox and I was there! This book is reminiscent of all the beautiful, animal stories that I read as a child (The Jungle Book, Cinnabar the One O’clock Fox, and Redwall all come to mind). From the first pages, I was enchanted. Continue reading
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Tracy Discusses Depression
Like Andrew and Becky, I too have faced the struggles of depression. My depression is cyclical, and is very contingent on the season. Every fall I start noticing that I’m finding it harder and harder to get up in the morning. As soon as work ends, I drive straight home and spend the next few hours on the couch watching Netflix, or reading (usually the former, because it takes less work). The deeper it gets into winter, the less likely it is that I get out of the house and do anything I’m not required to do. I even find myself taking more vacation time–not to do anything fun, but just to not have to get out of bed in the morning. Continue reading
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Therefore I Geek 