Archive for the 'Educational' Category

01 Apr

Video Games & Your Kids

When your kid goes to a video store and buys a “M” rated game, do you blame it on the video store owners or do you teach your kid not to lie and not to do something you don’t approve of? As a parent myself, I asked myself what i would have done in [...]

23 Mar

Information Security

These days with everything being computerized it’s both wonderful and scary at the same time. You can do your banking and pay your bills from the comfort of your computer chair, you can book movie tickets in advance, in some places you can even renew your license online. This level of convenience brings [...]

20 Feb

You let your kid play what?!

I like violent games, swearing is great, and being a regular guy I gotta say, I love titties. Not so much on the pixelated cartoony variety, but hey, if it fits the story line then throw ‘em in there. What gets me though is that these games are all rated M, they mention [...]

22 Dec

Get Learned

Going to college right after high school is considered the norm for most people, but I never did the college thing. I took a year of basic Accounting at the local community college and then promptly found work in a fish plant. It was hard to figure out what I actually wanted to [...]

10 Nov

Metal Detectors

Reading that title you probably thought of some old guy on a beach looking for quarters, but what I’m talking about are the large scale walk through metal detectors that you’d see at an Airport security terminal. As much as it sucks to have to think this way, I think security metal detectors should [...]

11 Oct

Learn Japanese

I remember years ago I had acquired a Japanese import of a popular RPG for the Playstation 1. It was a fun game but since I couldn’t read the story, it became a bit of a chore to play. I picked up a Japanese/English phrasebook and that helped a little, but not enough [...]