Of all things Geek. I am…
Special Report by Agent Parker
A funny thing happened the other evening. With our tax return in hand, I promised the kids one purchase each to celebrate Uncle Sam’s annual kickback.
Not surprisingly but certainly with some geek pride swelling in my heart, both chose video games.
Boss battles presented nearly insurmountable challenges for my little gamers, and once again, it was Dad to the rescue.
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Released in October of 1995, Homelands, Magic: The Gathering’s seventh expansion, was a small expansion set that numbered 140 total cards. The set added to the Sengir, Serra and Clockwork families, in addition to adding new prefixes such as Anaba, Aysen and An-havva. The set also added some new viable tribes, Faires, Minotaurs and Falcons…
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One hundred two years ago on April 15th, 1912, the RMS Titanic was on it’s maiden voyage. As we all know, it ended in tragedy at the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean after striking an iceberg. It was one of the greatest transportation calamities of the 20th Century only rivaled by the Hindenburg disaster 25 years later.
In the 102 years since it’s sinking, the world has had a growing fascination with this ship, culminating in many documentaries and movies, perhaps most famously with James Cameron’s blockbuster “Titanic” in 1997, but that’s hardly the most accurate depiction.
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A few things up front. I am current with Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. I watched the episode before Captain America opened and I watched the one that essentially spoiled the movie a few days later. I had a spoiler free post about Captain America: The Winter Soldier all ready to go, when this week’s episode of S.H.I.E.L.D. spoiled it, so I threw it out and wrote this.
Captain America’s trailers months ago led all of us to believe that he was acting less like Captain America the superhero and more like Captain America, an Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
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“The IPCRESS File” by Len Deighton is the story of an unnamed spy telling his tale and accounts to the governor minister. Those accounts build the story for the reader. The story itself takes place in many locations but both starts and ends in London.
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