April 2009

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• History & Anthropology

  Pilgrims and Wampanoags

  04.25.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  The purpose of this post is partly to ponder the pure privation and perilous period of the Puritan’s past while promoting the prodigious presence of the Plimoth Plantation through pictures and praise.
  Please proceed.

  Sorry….. Anyways, Cam, Meg, and I spent the day at Plimoth Plantation last weekend and I wanted to give them a much deserved [...]

• Books & Literature

  Possibilians and the Afterlives

  04.14.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  I just finished an interesting book called, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives. I bought it almost immediately after listening to an interview with the book’s author [and neuroscience] David Eagleman on a segment of NPR’s On Point called Envisioning the Afterlife. The book is a blast; it’s a fun and thought-provoking exploration [...]

• Gaming Culture

  FPS: Console vs PC

  04.11.09 | Permalink | 37 Comments

  There are many different genres which exist in the gaming world today, but my personal favorite has been, and most likely always will be, the First Person Shooter. This genre has been around for almost four decades and has always been predominately geared towards the PC. With the advent of next generation console gaming, however, [...]