I didn't read the Earthsea books until college but I absolutely loved Atuan.

I grew petri dishes using mouth swabs as an elementary school project to test the efficacy of different types of mouthwash. My mom was very upset about it.

Presumably my former classmate who quit journalism to write YA novels.

My school had a practical arts elective requirement so journalism was the go to for kids who didn't want to take computers or engineering. Editing their work was always delightful. My favorite was the piece that used conspiracies.net as a source, though I suppose the joke's on me as he was just ahead of the times.

The vast majority of my 10K eggs have been Evee. It's very sad.

I started a high school Magic: The Gathering club. Cool girls from my journalism class showed up just to make fun of me. I never actually got a wedgie though.

I try to avoid out of print games for the column since they're both hard for me to track down and of limited use to readers.

Yeah, I'm well aware. I'm the site's resident MMO fanatic and have reviewed the last four expansions here. I'm also a food writer so this cookbook was basically meant for me.

Here you are: http://gameological.com/201…

Sure. My favorite games tend to be cooperative or low-interaction competitive. You?

Are you talking about Captain Sonar? I'm planning on writing about that later for a piece on hidden movement games. There are so many new games released at GenCon that I'd need a team to get all of them. This isn't meant to be comprehensive, just what I played and liked and wanted to share.

Correct on both counts.

Glad it was helpful! I always like stopping by some of the smaller booths that might not get noticed.

My favorite line in this excellent song is "Don't you know that everything's a hunter weapon."

I wish this was a daily: http://www.wowhead.com/ques…

I find it helps with professional writing in general.

I requested to review it because I hate myself.

Nope. It was a graphic failure from the game designers. They saw the error and sent us a new version to sub in.

Me too. I asked if I could get an early copy for this article but no one ever got back to me :(

Or a Kafka story.