Dungeons & Dragons initially popularized role-playing games (RPGs) in the 1970’s and 1980’s. Even today, after a decline in the popularity of RPGs, Dungeons & Dragons remains the best-selling and most well-known RPG. RPGs have traditionally been played with dice on a tabletop like a board game. However, modern RPGs are often played over the internet […]
Pinot Noir Beef Stew
Here’s a family favorite soup I’ve been making for many years now. I started making it for myself as a single college student in my apartment, and now I make it for my family of five! #recipe: Pnot Noir Bf Stw: 1# bf, 3 leek, 2 garlc, 1T oil, 2C broth, 1C wine, 1t thym, […]
Can a Liquidation Model Work for Retail?
Toys ‘R Us is out of business. It was fun while it lasted. Did you go to the liquidation sales they held? Everything 50% off. Then next week, everything 60% off. Then 70% off. Like standard practice in these retail liquidation events, they kept having bigger and bigger discounts until everything was gone. Everything has […]
Portraits of Blacksburg, 2002-2005
I lived in Blacksburg, Virginia 1997-2005 while studying at Virginia Tech. In 2002, I bought my first camera. It was a Canon Digital Elph that was small enough to put in my pocket and carry around with me. Photos taken in 2002 A corpse flower about to bloom at the horticulture gardens View from “The […]
Saving Kids’ Artwork
Children generate a lot of artwork. Parents often want to save the artwork in case it has some meaning to the kids or parents when the children grow up. In the digital world we now live in, there needs to be an app for saving kids’ artwork. I quick search turns up several apps that […]
Futurist Timeline
People have always been fascinated by the possibilities of the future. The future captures our imagination. There are movies depicting our possible futures (The Matrix, Inception). There are books about the future (1984, The Road). There are video games set in the future (Starcraft, Halo). There are futurists who explore our possibilities (Ray Kurzweil, Michio […]