As I have mentioned before I like a good Video Game, they relax me, bring me joy and allow me to take out my frustration on passers by (without being arrested). So I figured for this blog I would take a look at some of the best games I have played. Now this is not … Continue reading
I have a long running debate with a friend of mine about which is the better medical detective show, Diagnosis Murder or Quincy. Now I am sure that I don’t need to tell you my good readers that the correct answer is Diagnosis Murder but in case I do lets look at the facts: Qunicy … Continue reading
I have come to the conclusion that Top Gear is one of the best shows ever made, hell I’d go so far as to say the show is better than some of the more well known geek staples like Lost and Star Trek TNG, it’s that good. Now some of you (those that haven’t seen … Continue reading
When I was 14 I started playing Dungeons and Dragons, specifically Dragonlance. For those of you that don’t know what Dragonlance is all about then I suggest you go to Wikipeida and look it up, because I really cannot be bothered to explain it here. Suffice to say it’s good vs evil, there are some … Continue reading
This blog is a cop-out, I’m sorry to have to do this to you but I have been I’ll since Friday night and today is the first time I have actually felt well enough to concentrate on putting together a blog. So instead of a normal blog please except my apologies and some unconnected random … Continue reading
Alternative titles for this blog could have been:How I watched England crash out of the World cup in a pub in France with a group of Germans. If the Translator app on the iphone fails to make your point, gesture wildly and make a thunk, thunk sound. This year ether due to madness or a … Continue reading
I don’t pretend to understand women, or relationships for that matter, but as a geek who is married to a wonderful woman of the non nerd variety I have learned a thing or two along the way. So this weeks blog is a quick list of things to keep an eye out for if you … Continue reading
This is the third part in a series of blogs looking at the TV shows, books and Films that made me the geek I am today. Part 1, Masters of the Universe: http://chud.com/articles/blogs/2627/Anatomy-of-a-Geek.html Part 2, Ghostbusters: http://chud.com/articles/blogs/2630/Anatomy-of-a-Geek-Part-2.html There is an episode of Red Dwarf where Rimmer describes Lister as a Fried Egg sandwich with Chilly … Continue reading
This is the second entry in a series of blogs looking at the TV shows, books and Films that made me the geek I am today. The first entry can be found here. http://chud.com/articles/blogs/2627/Anatomy-of-a-Geek.html The first three films I ever saw on Video were Empire Strikes Back, The Care Bares Movie and Ghostbusters. My folks … Continue reading
This is the first in a series of blogs looking at the TV shows, books and Films that made me the geek I am today. The year is 1985, it’s Christmas and I’m and my Grandmothers house, this is the year that my folks relented and bought me all the He-Man toys I had been … Continue reading