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Sent Back From the Future

Succinct lifestyle recommendations.  New posts on Thursdays, usually.

For The Love of Running, Tracksmith

This last season my wife and I have fallen in love with Tracksmith, a runner’s apparel company out of New England (where we live) …[continue reading]

Sci-fi Under the Sea

Low by Rick Remender and Greg Tocchini

 

The Comeback Sheep

Color Sheep Updated

And so the time has come to dust off your color mixing skills, or if somehow you’ve missed this gem, start mixing.  Just over …[continue reading]

Why Indie?

In the markets of tomorrow the most successful game development will be done by leaner and more sustainable practices …[continue reading]

The RTS You Didn’t Know You Were Waiting For, Rymdkapsel by Grapefrukt Games

Finally the RTS mobile deserves. A game truly well designed for mobile is above all, lite.  Rymdkapsel floats.  Martin Jonasson who is Grapefrukt Games […continue reading]

 

Burakku Majikku M-66 (Black Magic) by Masamune Shirow

Masamune Shirow’s earliest OVA is an underrated classic. In the wake of Ghost in the Shell it’s easy to pass over Shirow’s earlier works.  Appleseed has continued to grow as a series over the years, its latest installment Appleseed Alpha was as recent as 2014.  And the Dominion series had Tank Police Team Tank S.W.A.T. 01 […]

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East of West by Jonathan Hickman and Nick Dragotta

Dystopian Science-Fiction Western Comic Series East of West is that rare breed, elusive even among sci-fi westerns which are usually in space, of Weird-West and takes place right here at home.  The apocalypses has come, but not all the Horsemen are equally excited to bring about the end.  Death it would seem has some unfinished business. Written by Jonathan […]

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Table Tennis Tomorrow

App enabled trainerbots, projected interactive realtime data visualizations, radically redesigned bamboo paddles and a beautiful hardwood table that isn’t out-of-place out of the basement?  Yeah, ping pong is about to level up. I feel like I’ve been seeing a lot of great table tennis innovation recently and so I thought it could use a little spotlight.  Here […]

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J. L. Lawson & Co. Spinning Tops

I love spinning tops.  Their origins lost in antiquity they are a toy humanity has enjoyed for millennia. If you’ve only ever played with cheap poorly balanced tops then likely you won’t understand the interest.  But watching a well crafted top spin, seemingly defying gravity for minutes at a time, spinning so smoothly it actually looks […]

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Sci-Fi & Fantasy on Netflix – April 2016

There’s a of lot of great sci-fi and fantasy on Netflix this month, and I’m not going to point out every title, (I hope you already know The Princess Bride and V for Vendetta for example) but to point out a few you might have overlooked… Mr. Nobody (2009) The Machine (2013) Automata (2014) Europa Report (2013) […]

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The Comeback Sheep, Color Sheep Updated

And so the time has come to dust off your color mixing skills, or if somehow you’ve missed this gem, start mixing. Just over three years ago I recommended Color Sheep by Trinket Studios, I even had the pleasure of speaking with one of its co-creators Tom Eastman.  Today Color Sheep still stands up as […]

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