I didn’t order a pip-boy edition, just a standard pre-order from Amazon. And mine came A DAY EARLY! BWHAHHAHAHAH! I was very pleased to come home from work last night to see a bright sparkling package (with an eerie green glow?) on my doorstep. Apparently some of us Northern Cal folks got lucky.

I played Command & Conquer: Renegade back in the day, one of the first Mutli-player shooters. (Anyone remember Wolf Severs? I was an original member). Anyway, I'll never forget being an Alliance engineer, the only one left in our base, furiously repairing our HQ while under attack by a bevy of flame tanks. It was…

Ooooooohhh, Book of the New Sun is just one of the best books ever written, so glad to see you are reading it. I hope you like it well enough to read it again at some point, as it is a book literally written to be read multiple times (there is a whole 'nother story hiding within the surface story). Gene Wolfe is…

My sojurn in DA:I started with a head scratching glitch...after the cut scene of racing up the blasted hill by demon spiders and being touched by, uh, Andraste? you are supposed to (I came to find out) awake being interrogated by Cassandra. Instead, my character came to on the blasted hill! The world was completely…

I already have, but in my defense, your mother was a beautiful monkey.

The incredulous skepticism is natural, and warranted after all the garbage we've been thrown about Bigfoot, and the lack of good evidence. But, I resent bad reporting, that's where this screed comes from. We'll see in a few weeks, when the paper is released, what the story really is.

Yep, saw that too late! A nice ironic typo...

Let's come back in a few weeks and check on that, mkay?

I know you are, but what am I? ;)

The flaws are with the reporting, nothing more. The over 200 samples were collected from across the US by various teams. Contamination was cross checked against the genomes of the sample submitters and lab personal and subjected to blind testing by multiple labs (government, private, university). There were hair,…

As a follow up, many of the people who submitted samples to this study also submitted to the Oxford study being run by Bryan Sykes (a world renowned Geneticist) so we should have confirmatory results shortly after the release of this story. It is a real shame sights like this don't look more deeply into this story. …

So much shotty journalism around this, including this piece. First off, Robert Lindsey is such and embarrassment for so many reasons, you should feel some deep shame for trying to use him as a source for anything. There were over 200 samples submitted to the study: Hair, saliva, blood, even a tissue sample. Of…

Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe, in which a young boy moves from Tortures Apprentice, loses his first love to suicide he encouraged, and ends up being the ruler of a dying realm. Belongs on the list for sure.