Moment of Zen – Super Mar10 Day!
Wahoo! Rewind to 1981. Arcades were generating billionsof dollars in quarters, and Atari was selling home consoles. At the time, the biggest hit in arcades was easily Pac-Man, but an almost century-old family business in Kyoto, Japan entirely broke the world by...
Moment of Zen – People Driving Cars
On average, every single day a human being driving a vehicle crashes into a 7-Eleven in the US. As of the time of writing this, there are 9,449 7-Elevens in the United States, which means in less than 26 years, if we are careful and strategic, we could make sure that...
Moment of Zen – The Fermi Paradox
This will probably be the most depressing moment of zen. The Universe is huge, and based on the last decade or so, we’ve learned that the galaxy around us is loaded with planets. We also know that humans are very late bloomers in the grand scheme of things – there...
Moment of Zen – That One Thing You Learned in High School Biology
Everyone learned exactly one thing in high school biology, and it’s that the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell. Good for you! It’s also the reason we have complex life on Earth. It’s why we have bugs, fish, humans, Muppets, and Nick Offerman. Billions of...
Moment of Zen – Salmo the Baker
Let me take you back to a simpler time, where a humble baker named Salmo aimlessly wandered the cobblestone streets of Skingrad, yearning for the opportunity to taste bread and end the world. Okay, it wasn't all that long ago - it was in 2006, and I'm describing a...
Moment of Zen – Not My Boba Fett
This was a Moment of Zen from late January, so you'll have to trust that when I shared it with work, it was much more timely. Disney really played us for fools with the new Boba Fett... Photo: Lucasfilm / Disney Sure, Temuera Morrison looks like a hardened bounty...
Moment of Zen – Arcades and Dragons!
Everybody and their mom knows that Pac-Man was supposed to be called Puckman, and not because he looks like a hockey punk, but because it comes from the Japanese phrase "Paku-Paku" which means to flap one's mouth open and closed. Of course, they adjusted his name...
Moment of Zen – Pride Month!
Every Friday, when the clock hits 5:30 and signals the end of the work week for me and my associates, I wish everybody a good weekend and provide a Moment of Zen. It started out as just a funny picture or some cool photography I found online, and slowly evolved into...
Moment of Zen – IKEA!
When God of Thunder/Marvel Superhero played by Chris Hemsworth created Sweden, he laid the groundwork for a popular furniture store and place to get lost in for days. IKEA was founded in Sweden in 1943 (right in the middle of World War II). It's name is an acronym....
Asteroid (2021) is a Terrible Movie Starring Oneonta, NY
We all like a little camp, right? Right? I grew up on Mystery Science Theater 3000. If you aren't in the know, it's a show where a man and a couple of plastic robot puppets watch low-budget science-fiction-adjacent films and riff on them. If this introduction has any...
I Played a Bunch of Video Games So Far in the Pandemic
At the start of the pandemic, to prevent myself from worrying about the slow crumble of the world, I made a pact that I would focus on getting through my backlog of games. Okay, first of all, when I say "backlog," I don't just mean games I haven't played before. My...
Moment of Zen – Chicken Butts
Every Friday at the end of the day, I treat my coworkers with a 'moment of zen.' Analogous to Jon Stewart's sign-off on the Daily Show, what started as just sharing a cool space photo or a funny animal picture turned into me doing what I do best - ruining peoples' day...
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest (SNES – 1995)
Yesterday was my birthday. That means a lot of the games I loved as a kid that were released in November are celebrating 20 to 30 year anniversaries. It's hard to think about, but I'll wax nostalgic regardless. I spoke pretty highly of 1994's Donkey Kong Country. Its...
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