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January 9, 2013 Draw Something Pro

The last time I talked about Draw Something it inspired some of my friends to take their turns, so this site has made itself worthwhile, I feel. I now have about 10 active games taking place, which seems about right. Too many would turn the game into a full-time job, and the virtual coins don’t […]

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December 19, 2012 Why?

While I was playing The Simpsons: Tapped Out the other day, I said to my wife, “The Muntz house cost me $74,000!  That’s crazy!”  Her response was, “Why do you need to buy it?” I didn’t have an immediate answer for her. The best response, I guess, is “Because it’s there!” You can climb Mt. […]

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December 5, 2012 Draw Something

This game was huge for a couple of weeks about eight months ago.  everyone was playing it, everyone was having fun with it, and then, bam. Nothing. Stopped. Everyone was so over it. Well, most people, anyway. I still play, and I’m glad I have a few friends who still like to play or I […]

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November 29, 2012 Zen and the Art of Angry Birds

Two years ago I bought a Windows Phone, a Samsung Focus. My experiences with it are fodder for another entry some day, but the important thing about it for now is that Windows Phone has Xbox Live games that let you earn achievements. Sure, achievements are totally worthless (well, up until recently, at least), but they […]

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November 5, 2012 The Simpsons: Tapped Out

For the longest time I never understood how anybody wanted to play Farmville.  It made no sense to me – clicking on things, waiting, clicking on more things, begging friends to click on some of your things… this was surely the height of Sisyphean tedium! But now I understand completely, and all it took was […]

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