http://razakius.com MMO player, Gamer, struggling Game Designer & Writer Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:33:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en National Geographic put out a new magazine to take advantage of the recent green buzz called The Green Guide. I heard about the magazine awhile ago but completely missed my opportunity to get the initial installment. However, for the second issue, I happened to be in the right place at ... http://razakius.com/life/review-green-guide/ In the original Wii videos that we saw (where we really saw the controller and nothing else), one of the game types that was promised was a cooking type game. The game type seemed at the time perfect for the system, and very likely at that. Cooking Mama was somewhat ... http://razakius.com/games/order-up-review/ Every year Sun Prairie has an event dedicated to corn, rightly called the Corn Fest. Essentially you go, you eat corn, drink beer, and go on some carnival rides. It's small but since I grew up in Sun Prairie, it is somehow nice to go back and do it every ... http://razakius.com/current-events/madison/corn-fest-08/ I went to the Brookfield Zoo last weekend. We basically decided that we wanted to do something special with my daughter since we had her for a big trip this summer and we wanted her to have some memorable moments to go into the school year with. We were getting ... http://razakius.com/life/family/brookfield-zoo/ Given how good this last Batman movie was, it seems likely that we will see a third Batman movie in this series. Of course, the big question in this would be whether Christian Bale and Chris Nolan would return to the series, but I don’t see why they wouldn’t considering ... http://razakius.com/entertainment/movies/batman/ I watched the opening ceremonies on Friday night and overall I gotta say it was fairly impressive. It was one of the more interesting ceremonies I've ever seen with the olympics and I'm glad that my daughter sat beside me and saw it as well because I think it was ... http://razakius.com/current-events/olympics-08/ Now that this whole Favre thing is behind us, I wanted to write up something directed more at New York Jets fans than anyone else. My basic premise behind this particular blog entry is to ask for kindness from you guys. Why? Favre is near the end of his career, ... http://razakius.com/entertainment/sports/note-jets-fans/ John McCain recently released a tire gauge in conjunction with a small portion of something Obama said about energy conservation that among other things, Americans need to ensure that our tires are properly filled. McCain thought this was a terrific idea and thus has decided to throw his support behind ... http://razakius.com/current-events/tire-gauges-galore/ The new kid on the block that has been making a lot of headlines over the last week is the new search engine by some former Google employees called Cuil.com. The developers of this site are promising two main things with Cuil. They are promising more relavant searching as well ... http://razakius.com/current-events/internet/cuil-cool/ On my work this last week I was listening to a Nirvana song (likely Teen Spirit) and realized that I had yet to own an album of theirs. I don't know what it is, but for some reason I never cared for Nirvana in the 90s during the height of ... http://razakius.com/entertainment/music-entertainment/greatest-songs/