posted by Chris on June 9, 2008 5:54 PM in Podcast
Join Weekly Geek editors Ross, Jinny, Qais and Chris this week as they discuss the new iPhone, how Apple may (or may not!) destroy the Nintendo DS, Republicans playing World of Warcraft, in-game ads, how the Atari movie could be an epic of our times, and the art of Adolf Hitler. The only other place you could get such a crazy mix of topics is if you were to be harassed by a meth-addled hobo! Don't let the hobo get you! Download the podcast post-haste!
Note: Due to unfortunate technical disturbances in the force, Ross' audio is at whisper-level. Instead of just scrapping this perfectly decent podcast, I opted to release it anyway for posterity. I apologize in advance for any burst eardrums caused by audio schizophrenia.
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posted by Chris on December 14, 2007 12:00 PM in Books
We're starting a new feature here at The Weekly Geek called Books That I Have. Every week we will profile a strange, funny, interesting or otherwise rare book that we have in our home libraries. I have a ridiculous amount of coolness to share with you, so I hope you enjoy it!
Just about every Sunday morning my girlfriend and I head to Glo's diner in Seattle for their fantastic breakfast and horrible service (but it seriously is fantastic. Seriously.) and make a trip to Half Price Books. This has turned up a few gems in the past couple weeks such as this fantastic find, Knights of the Road: A Hobo History by Roger A. Bruns, published in 1980. I have a strange affinity toward the use of the word "hobo" in everyday conversation, and tend to be fascinated by their history. I really enjoyed reading John Hodgeman's Areas of My Expertise in which he goes into elaborate detail of hobo history. I figured most of it was John's normal brand of carefully crafted bullshit, but once I started flipping through Knights of the Road I was stunned. Knights of the Road reads like a parody, a proto-Hodgeman piece that is equal parts ridiculous and strange. But no! This is a factual book made by an actual non-humor author who actually researched stuff like hobo kings and queens, and presidential scissor-sharpeners. That's right, presidential scissor-sharpeners.
How can you not love a book that has pictures of a man called "Steam Train Maury"? The hobo is a fascinating person, thought to be on the verge of extinction. Today's crusties only pale in comparison to the daring itinerant workers of the early 20th century. Train hopping, clever nicknames, hobo jungle feasts and more paint a very stark picture of a world completely foreign to most people. Maybe that's why I am so fascinated with hoboes, they live on the fringes of society and are content in eking out a living wherever they roam.
Certainly a lot of this romantic idea of wanderlust I would assume is fueled by the hoboes' penchant for mental instability (can you have a penchant for mental instability? I bet if anyone, a hobo could!) But it is eternally fascinating to see people who claim to be umbrella repairmen, who claim to have sharpened every president's scissors except Nixon, who claim to have shacked up with actresses and European royalty. Maybe it's all true, maybe it's a moonshine-induced delusion, but either way it's an incredibly compelling story.
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posted by Chris on April 20, 2007 3:52 PM in Geek Culture
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posted by Chris on July 31, 2006 6:26 AM in Podcast
#32 - E3 Has Forsaken Us
Running Time: 74:11
This week, guest geek Nathan Smart from The Game Rag joins The Geek and Frodo to discuss the end of E3, hobo names, candy scabs and massively multiplayer pedophilia.
-Frodo
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posted by Chris on January 24, 2006 11:28 AM in Video Game Review
Well, after a little over a month of playing different 360 games, I sat down and played one continuously. I decided Condemned seemed worth the effort due to it's creepy factor. Condemned starts off just like an episode of CSI. You're an FBI Agent sent in to investigate a murder which seems to be the same M.O. as a Serial Killer known as the Match Maker. Neat right? Well, kinda of. You do some investigative work, looking for evidence, which really isn't that hard. The game tells you when evidence near by which relates to a "special ability" your character has. From there, you press the X button and the correct forensic tool is in your hand and ready to go. This makes the game a little bit on the easy side, but some other parts make up for it. The overall story is you get framed for killing two cops at the scene of the other murder and you're tracking down the one responsible while defending yourself from drugged up junkies.
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