Wii Fitness Age
The Wii has a lot of features that you can use with the basic set up. One of the most popular seems to be the fitness test that comes with…
Traveling with Technology
I just got back from the annual Eastern Communication Conference in Pittsburgh. As I sat in the airport waiting to come home, I started thinking about the amount of technology…
King of Kong
A few weeks ago, Ann, Greg, Evelyn and I went to the Red River Theater in Concord and saw King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. I was prepared to…
Interdisciplinarity?
Ian Bogost's keynote presentation at this year's Game Developer's conference is about the notion of interdisciplinarity. Interesting stuff.
Games for Little Ones
The other day, Evelyn and I were in BJ's in Tilton buying large quantities of gum and soap when I spotted a display of games for the Wii. I've been…
Professional vs. Personal
Ann recently said to me that she was surprised to find that I had put pictures of my niece and nephew on my PSU web page. She had expected my…
Email Problems
We have been having some email problems on campus this week. I'm not sure what's happening but I do know that our email server will be updated in some way…
Desktop Layouts
My friend Ann (who, despite being one of the most astute critics of the technological life that I know (or maybe because of that fact--don't you love the parenthetical to…
Games as Rhetorical Tools
My friend Beth sent me information about a game that has been making some headlines in England and France. It's called Miss Bimbo and apparently there are about a million…
Online Viewing
Living in central New Hampshire means that access to independent cinema can be problematic. I've been a NetFlix subscriber for about 4 years--I've appreciated the range of their offerings and…
iPods and the “Real World”
There have been a number of stories in the past few weeks linking a rise in violent crime rates to increased popularity of small electronic devices like the iPod. The…
War–A Game-like Activity
I teach a class called Creating Games that fulfills the Creative Thought requirement within our general education program. The class is focused on game design principles that can be used…
Buying a Wii
So is it strange for a 45-year-old woman to covet a Wii? I've been intrigued by this game system since I first saw one two years ago. So I finally…
Dance Dance Revolution
One of my favorite ways to pass a cold New Hampshire evening is to play Texas Hold'em with a group of friends. One Saturday night in late January, I went…
About This Blog
The desert of the real is Jean Baudrillard’s phrase that explains our lives today. The phrase was made popular by Morpheus in The Matrix, when he shows Neo that the…
