Jedi Knight Just before the Christmas break I decided to give Star Wars: The Old Republic a try.   I am definitely much more of a Star Trek fan, but I decided to give this game a try anyway.  It is free-to-play, so this was definitely a draw.  The game takes place a long long long time ago, in a galaxy far far far away.  As a player you have the ability to pick from

Something that showed up on my facebook feed this week The full story at the New York Times

Την περασμένη Παρασκευή είχαμε χιόνι. Απ ότι φαίνεται θα έχουμε επανάληψη. Πάμε για χιονοπόλεμο; ;-)

I guess I needed a little entertainment this semester so I couldn't give up all gaming ;-)  A while back I got a good deal on Call of Duty Black Ops and Black Ops II so I ended up starting to play Black Ops a few weeks ago during the winter break, before the semester started. Having finished 4 other Call of Duty games, the mechanics of this game felt pretty familiar.   The game

Some days in the office, computer waits for you...

This comic strip of Jurassic Trek makes fun of the the alternative universe.  Wait...were are the vil mustaches? (original archive here)

Ενδιαφέρων ιδέα από το Ντουμπάι, αλλά τι κάνεις άμα υπάρχει φορτούνα; Πάντως, καλή η ιδέα - ιδικά σε κάποια παραλία όπως στην Μαραθιά ;-) Φέρτε κανέναν επενδυτή να κάνουμε το όνειρο πραγματικότητα!

I never knew the joys of limited storage space...until I started playing MMORPGs...  I haven't gotten to having 8 "mule" characters yet but who knows?  If I continue playing, with all the expansions, I might end up there :p

The other day in facebook this image came up in my timeline.  It's in Greek, but basically the text translates as: Dad: If you don't study (hard) you will become like this guy Hobo: I am professor! I guess regardless of the country, there are issues in higher education.  In the US we have a high population of (low paid) adjuncts, and in Greece you have tenured folks making less than

This comic strip of Jurassic Trek makes fun sentient computers as captors (and Kirk's flirt-with-anything attitude).  Or ούτε θηλυκιά γάτα as the Greeks would say... (original archive here)