Since money has been tight this month, I haven’t been able to buy beer for the Roster this week hence the title. In talking with Colin he suggested having a post in the spirit of my lost beer this week discussing the following: if you were stuck on a desert island what beer would [...]

I don’t know why this is so late. Really, I don’t. Blame Colin. Blame Kornfeld. Hell, I was sauced, so don’t blame me.
This week we discuss chimps leg up in the evolutionary race, deflector shields for real-real, and Jacklash. Another fantacular episode of Greg Howley’s GameGeek Challenge. On [...]

Beer shots, the great equalizer.
In my personal opinion, beer shots are one of best use for hard alcohol. I grew out of hard alcohol stage in after college mostly, so right now my use for hard alcohol comes down to beer shots or just straight shots if I’m in the mood for it. [...]

This week’s episode was slightly abbreviated. It was Colin’s birthday, you see, and it was past his bedtime. As he flexed his creaking joints and marveled at his venerable age, we discussed Apple’s Leopard OS leaping to an October release, Google gobbling DoubleClick, and Bethesda buying the Fallout IP. We have another [...]

Brewery: Rogue Ales, Newport, Oregon
Brewery Description: Gratefully dedicated to the Rogue in each of us. In the early 1990s Dead [...]

I’ve been privileged enough to review several of Insignia’s devices over the past year. Insignia is Best Buy’s in-house brand, and they are rapidly building a name for themselves as a source of relatively inexpensive, excellently-featured consumer electronics.
So, the opportunity to review their latest portable DAP excited me. I excite easily. And [...]

As a special treat for our loyal listeners, we bring to you our very first BostonGeek Supplemental Geek Filmfest Extreme Spectacular 2.1 Alpha. That’s right, we did it just for you.
We discuss 9 geek movies we feel everyone should see on this episode. No, I won’t list them here. I don’t want [...]

Drew Bledsoe decides to hang up the jockstrap.
I can’t help but feel that he won’t quite be remembered by all for being the talented quartberback that he was.  In New England, and perhaps in Buffalo and Dallas, we knew him as a QB that was accurate, tough (possibly one of the toughest to play the [...]

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
November 11, 1922 - April 11, 2007
Requiescat in pace.

Colin suggested that I set up a wiki for the game design, and even though the mere thought of using anything with the term “wiki” attached to it makes me throw up in my mouth a little, it really was the best way of going about things. However, in a purely sophistry-like manner, I [...]

This week… it’s the return of Karl Korfeld (a.k.a. Captain Damage, a.k.a Ming the Pretty Pissed Off, a.k.a. Count Leopold von Brugendorfer III).
While we were giddy, there was business to attend to, so this week we discuss EMI and Apple dropping DRM, Michigan’s iPod generosity for the children, and Sony ceasing sales of the 20-gig [...]

So, Tim O’Reilly posted his version of a Code of Conduct for Bloggers to adhere to. He admits it is merely a starting point for discussion, and nothing has been templated in stone. As such, I figured I would take the baton and run with it. I will try to take [...]

Brewery: Weyerbacher Brewing Company, Easton, PA
Brewery Description: “This incredibly intriguing Imperial Stout is made by aging our Old Heathen in some very famous Oak barrels that were used for aging bourbon! What do we have when we are done? A stout whose very essence has been enhanced. A stout whose complexity has been increased. A [...]

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.
“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
He didn’t say any more, but we’ve always [...]

So during my last trip up to Boston, we were playing Zombies and Carl made some offhand comment about how it would be cool to have a game that depended on co-operative play to win, like you had to have a number of people alive at the end to actually win the game.
A diseased section [...]

Colin seems to think we need to come up with an excuse for why there is no podcast this week. Excuse has such a negative cannotation. I am going with truth.
I suppose the fault is mine. You remember how last week’s episode was posted tardy because I was sick? Well, Colin [...]