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Geek Salad

RIP: David Lance Arneson

The world has lost another great nerd. David Lance Arneson, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons has passed away and I’m sure he would have wanted his obituary to claim that he failed to make his saving throw against cancer (well, maybe not). Having lost Gary Gygax last year, I couldn’t help but feel a flood [...]

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Geek Salad: Evo-douche-on

Some low-impact Googling will reveal to you that the word “geek” is derived from the old German word “geck,” which meant “fool.” You probably already know that if you are a geck or were alive in the 16th century, when it was first uttered by mouths. Four hundred years later, the word was modded and [...]

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The Salading

Dancing With the Woz
I had never seen an episode of “Dancing With the Stars” before a week ago, mainly because I have a sensitive gag reflex. I ONLY watched because of Steve Wozniak and I was unsarcastically hoping that he would do a Segway grind across the judges table. Instead, he used his feet on [...]

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Geek Salad: Now on The Escapist

At CES this year I met some really nice folks from North Carolina who happen to work at The Escapist, a fine digital gamers’ magazine that also ends in “-ist.” Some other stuff happened and now I’m going to be writing for them twice a month under the heading, “Geek Salad.” My first article has [...]

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