Turn It Up And Rip The Knob Off! Podcasts for Nerds

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     I work inside a 100+ year old building.  I don’t know what’s in the bricks they used back then, but whatever it was, it isn’t conducive to great radio reception.  Luckily, I’ve got an office in the dungeon that I share with no one so I can pretty much listen to podcasts on my computer all day long. If you could sit and talk about your hobbies and interests for hours on end, then the next best thing while you’re shackled to your desk or stuck in traffic is firing up a podcast.

     Here’s a laundry list of eight podcasts I regularly tune in to during my mind-numbing workday… Continue reading

Dusthammer 40K?

     There’s a line from the movie Time Bandits that my wife loves to hear me say…”I’ve got an idea forming in my head.”  It usually means we’re about to do something cool.  Well, I think I’m about to try something cool.

     I may have mentioned that I sit at a desk all day at work.  Radio reception in our 100 year old building isn’t great so I tend to listen to podcasts all day.  One day last week, I was tuned in to a recent episode (#102) of The D6 Generation, a gaming podcast.  The guys had Romeo Filip of 40K Radio as a guest and gave a detailed review of the game Dust Warfare from Fantasy Flight Games.

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My Nerd Cave To-Do List

     Now that my new home within my home is more or less completed, it’s time to actually have some fun in here.  But as you might have noticed, I don’t confine my hobbies to just one or two interests. So, instead of making things up as I go, I’ve decided to put together a little “to-do” list as far as projects I’d like to get done in the near and not-so-near future.

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Designing the Nerd Cave–Modeling Workbench

    I’ve been buildling models since about the age of ten and I’ve had a model workbench everywhere I’ve lived since 1989.  I’m a huge military history buff and I used to build 1/35 scale armor models almost exclusively.  However, in the years since my kids were born, I’d gotten bored with them, had less time and all but lost interest.  They tended to be massive dust collectors and I had pretty much maxed out my skills on them.

     In the years before our house fire, I’d started dabbling in Warhammer, 40K, Lord of the Rings miniatures, spacecraft and large scale figures. I actually had a pretty nice Warhammer Vampire Counts army progressing. Key word: had.

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