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Why I Bought a Kindle Touch 3G

January 5, 2012 Personal

I was a voracious reader as a child and even through middle school until high school (aka sex & alcohol) took over my lizard brain. As an adult I found movies to be a great story substitute and my reading habits almost disappeared entirely. The writer in me struggled during these dry periods without any [...]

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New Year Movie Experiment

December 28, 2011 Movies

I’m a movie nut in all conceivable ways. If allowed, I would spend thousands of dollars to build up my DVD collection, in a single purchase… every couple of months. One of the few topics I still speak passionately about is film and my knowledge of it is more encyclopedic than my knowledge of Information [...]

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Feast: How to Screw with Conventions

November 7, 2011 Horror

A group of strangers banding together to fight a relentless evil is nothing new in the horror genre. There have been many great movies made in that vein (i.e. From Dusk Till Dawn, Demon Knight, etc.) so I thought it was pretty difficult to inject fresh blood into a worn out story. That’s where a [...]

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TRAUMA: Immersive Gameplay and Unique Storytelling

November 1, 2011 Nerd

Point and click adventures have been my favorite computer games ever since I first popped a floppy into a drive. I still vividly remember watching the intro to Maniac Mansion and wondering what this wacky game had in store for me. From that very moment I was hooked. I grabbed a hold of as many [...]

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Gabriel vs. the Ghost Peppers

September 20, 2011 Food

Everyone has a mental list of stupid decisions they’ve made over the course of their life. Dating that chick with the psycho ex-boyfriend, lending money to your serially unemployed friend and other assorted bonehead moves. This week I added to my own list of dumb shit I’ve done. For those of you that don’t know [...]

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Crafting Comics

April 11, 2011 Blog

I’m a nerd. This should not come as any surprise (it’s in the damn sub-title of my blog), so when I profess my love of comic books no one will be wonder where that declaration came from. I’ve loved comics for as long as I’ve been able to read. Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, Image, you [...]

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This Is My Hour

March 23, 2011 Personal

People often complain about the lack of free time in their lives. They burn through days running on the hamster wheel of modern living all the while bemoaning; If only I had more time I could finally <learn that language/write that book/take that trip> I always wanted to. For most it’s the daily unease which [...]

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Technical Difficulties

March 4, 2011 Blog

Cuban Nomad went completely offline for several days this week. I was caught with my pants down on this outage and didn’t have anything to let people know what was going on. Lessons learned from this one: I should never touch MySQL without a trained professional nearby and contingency plans need to be formulated before [...]

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Broken Glass and Cracked Asphalt

February 28, 2011 Travel

The downtown portion of a city can tell you a lot about its character like the small town feel of Charlotte’s "uptown" (its like a Fisher Price "My First Skyline") or the extreme poverty meets ultra luxury of downtown Miami. Some cities are defined by their downtown area while with others are reminders of their [...]

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Why I Contribute to Crowdfunding

February 16, 2011 Movies

Crowdfunding is an internet spin on an old idea. For as long as I can remember people have been raising money for one reason or another; Girl Scout’s with their cookies, Salvation Army with their buckets and of course politicians with their promises. With the Internet we’ve taken the bake sale fundraiser and gone global. [...]

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Another last minute NYC Midnight submission

February 14, 2011 Writing

Once again I signed up for NYC Midnight’s Short Story Challenge. I find having skin in the game (entry fee), a looming deadline and subject matter outside my comfort zone makes for a stimulating exercise. Last year I placed third in my heat (Genre: Spy; Subject: Newscaster) which wasn’t too bad for my first writing [...]

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