Books, Pigeons April 7, 2023 The Origin of the Old Canard that Pigeons Spread Disease At this very moment, somewhere in some derelict, tax-burdened, crime-ridden metropolitan hell-hole, an adorable little grey bird totters across a sidewalk. A man (or woman) swings his (or her) leg toward the innocent creature. Though the ill-timed kick badly misses the bird, it opens its wings and does a little flutter-hop to get away. “Filthy, ...
Culinary March 10, 2023 Tips for Sharpening Old Damaged Knives With the Chef’s Choice Sharpening Station In 2015 I purchased my Chef’s Choice sharpening station. The manual was full of information, much of it baffling to a person ignorant of knives. I’d thought of the electric sharpener as a way out of learning sharpening stones, but, of course, one must learn the machine’s operation. This was clear when I’d allow family ...
Books, Reviews February 18, 2023 Gutbliss by Robynne Chutkan I’ve read mainstream doctor authors (Hyman, Gundry, Mercola, Perlmutter, etc.) and more than a handful of books about food, the microbiome, and digestion. Gutbliss showed me how little I actually knew about the workings of our guts. Celebrity cardiologists and neurologists write much about diet, but they’re not gastroenterologists. Their books never explain how or ...
Books, Reviews February 17, 2023 Land Without Justice: An Autobiography of His Youth by Milovan Djilas Last October on our trip to Kansas City to see the Bills play the Chiefs, I was lucky to find Land Without Justice at Steel’s Used Books. Mr. Steel sold us a goodly pile of interesting books at a reasonable price. We were sorry to hear that in the years prior, he’d been forced to ...
features, Video Games January 27, 2023 Controller Wars: Xbox Elite 2 Versus Scuf Vantage 1 Versus Xbox Elite 1 Microsoft's Elite 2 is a Serious Upgrade Over the Elite 1. Both Elite Controllers Blow the Scuf Vantage Out of the Water Since the time we wrote our last Scuf Vantage versus Xbox Elite review, we’ve purchased both a Scuf Vantage 1 and the new Xbox Elite 2. We bought the new Elite because John’s old Elite broke; details about what went wrong are below. We never wanted another Scuf until we discovered Star Wars Battlefront 2’s ...
features, Video Games January 27, 2023 Lost in Code Vein Getting Lost was One of the Defining Features of Code Vein. We Wanted to Find Out Why “When I had journeyed half of our life’s way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray. Ah, it is hard to speak of what it was, that savage forest, dense and difficult, which even in recall renews my fear: so bitter-death is hardly more severe! ...
features, Video Games January 27, 2023 Everything You Need to Know About Playing Code Vein Co-Op Here at Co-op Gaming Dot Info, the two of us play every game together, start to finish. Monster Hunter, Dark Souls, and other Japanese games we’ve played have a completely different set of co-op mechanics than open-world Western co-op games such as Far Cry 5 or Dying Light. Japanese co-op systems tend to work great ...
features, Video Games January 27, 2023 Flying in Anthem Sucks Comparing Flight in Anthem to Starlink Made Us Hate The One Good Thing About Anthem There’s a lot that sucks about Anthem, but we all love to fly in video games. Every Anthem player agrees that zooming around in your robo-suit is the best part of the game, which is why gamers everywhere were shocked to learn flight had been removed and reinstated several times over the course of the ...
Books, Reviews, Video Games February 3, 2023 Death by Video Game: Review Simon Parkin's 2015 Book Doesn't Deliver On Its Premise Browsing for books about video games on Amazon, I didn’t find many options. Death by Video Game: Tales of Obsession from the Virtual Frontline was easily the most sensationalist title. Its description reads, “In Taiwan, a spate of deaths at gaming cafés is raising a question: why is it that some of us are playing ...
features, Video Games January 27, 2023 How We Learned to Stop Searching for Couch Co-op Games and Love Gamesharing Splitscreen Is a Thing of the Past, but Gamesharing on Two Systems Can Be Even Better Console games used to be designed for friends and families to play together in their living rooms. Split-screen functionality, with as many as four players using the same screen, was a standard feature. XBox Live launched in 2002, and games haven’t been the same since. Online party joining and voice chat freed game developers from ...
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