If you're looking to buy any of these games here is a nice site for quickly looking up prices at many of the online game stores. You should also strongly consider supporting your local game shop if you have one (check the phone book). They can be a great resource for finding new opponents and some shops host a weekly board game night.
Ricochet Robot was indeed reprinted and is currently available as Ricochet Robots. I would describe it as a competitive puzzle and a good brain burner. It tends to elicit either love or hate responses. My husband absolutely loves it.
There is a Lord of the Rings game that is similar to Stratego which is very highly rated (ranked #28 on BoardGameGeek.com), called Lord of the Rings the Confrontation. Each of the characters has a different special ability. It was designed by Reiner Knizia, who has designed a bunch of great games.
For anyone who's trying to look these up, the designer's name is actually Sid Sackson, and the first game is actually titled I'm the Boss. By the way, Acquire is one of my favorite games - found companies, buy stock, cause mergers, end up with the most money - simple rules and so much better than Monopoly (there's no player elimination and it takes much less time).
Yes, Settlers of Catan is a very good game. If you're interested, you can research it as well as hundreds of other board games (including all of the wonderful new European board games) at BoardGameGeek.com
I've tried Peanut Linux and I like it. It fits KDE and Netscape in a 150 meg install. It gives you a basic Linux install without a lot of excess fat. I agree it is a good thing to get lots of apps on the distro cd, but I just want the basics when I install Linux. I don't want my hard drive bloated with a bunch of programs that I don't really need.
Yes, we do exist. The real question should be: do available geek girls exist? I'm living with my geek boyfriend, and am quite happy with him (of course we've got a nice home network and dsl modem). My previous boyfriend was a geek too.
I met my previous geek boyfriend when I was in college, and my current boyfriend at the cafeteria at work. The key is, they made an effort to talk to the shy girl.
If you are interested in buying this book, the best price that I've found is at www.TheBigStore.com They are offering the book for $18 and they don't charge any shipping for books.
By the way, I don't have any association with this site.
Actually, Juno now offers free web access in addition to free email, so they might be worth checking out. You can go to www.juno.com to download their software. They have access numbers all over the country. Just keep in mind that they are Windows only, and there will constantly be an ad on the screen.
I've seen that most of the responses to this article have been from guys, so I thought I'd add another female voice.
I'm a female geek and I have the CS degree to prove it. I enjoy playing computer games. I actually subscribe to a computer game magazine. I ignore the ads that rely on sex to sell. Those ads don't give me any reason to check out the game. The computer game magazines aren't the ones to blame for the sexual content of their ads, they just print what the game companys submit. I subscribe for the reviews and such, not the ads anyway. The magazines are responsible for their actual articles however, and I will never be subscribing to a magazine like PC Accelerator. They blatantly use sexy women in their articles. That does not appeal to me, and thus they don't get my business.
I'm an avid Q3A player, and my boyfriend and I love to play computer games over our home network. Actually a lot of my favorite computer games are sports games! Strategy games, flight sims, rpgs, adventure games, I've played all the genres. I realize that I may not be typical, but I thought that I would speak up, and be counted.
The Christian geeks I know of tend to also be theology geeks, who rather than accept a prepackaged Christianity, delve into all manner of arcane theological arguments.
Well, I know that I for one loved minoring in theology in college. (and I majored in Computer Science)
According to the article, the most common personality type for software developers on the MBTI test is ISTJ (introversion, sensing, thinking, judging). I've got the introverted part covered, but I'm definitely a feeler instead of a thinker when it comes to decision making style. According to the article 80 to 90 percent of software developers are T's, while 50 percent of the population is an F. Maybe it's because I'm a women, and software developers are usually men.
I studied computer science in college because I've always been very into computers, but I never felt the major was right for me. I just don't fit the mold. I also can't concentrate for long amounts of time like the people described in the article can. As it is, I'm still not sure what I want to do/should be doing career-wise.
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If you're looking to buy any of these games here is a nice site for quickly looking up prices at many of the online game stores. You should also strongly consider supporting your local game shop if you have one (check the phone book). They can be a great resource for finding new opponents and some shops host a weekly board game night.
According to their press release Robo Rally is being reprinted by Avalon Hill/Hasbro in July.
Ricochet Robot was indeed reprinted and is currently available as Ricochet Robots. I would describe it as a competitive puzzle and a good brain burner. It tends to elicit either love or hate responses. My husband absolutely loves it.
The space colonization game name which you couldn't recall is Cosmic Encounter.
There is a Lord of the Rings game that is similar to Stratego which is very highly rated (ranked #28 on BoardGameGeek.com), called Lord of the Rings the Confrontation. Each of the characters has a different special ability. It was designed by Reiner Knizia, who has designed a bunch of great games.
For anyone who's trying to look these up, the designer's name is actually Sid Sackson, and the first game is actually titled I'm the Boss. By the way, Acquire is one of my favorite games - found companies, buy stock, cause mergers, end up with the most money - simple rules and so much better than Monopoly (there's no player elimination and it takes much less time).
Yes, Settlers of Catan is a very good game. If you're interested, you can research it as well as hundreds of other board games (including all of the wonderful new European board games) at BoardGameGeek.com
I've tried Peanut Linux and I like it. It fits KDE and Netscape in a 150 meg install. It gives you a basic Linux install without a lot of excess fat. I agree it is a good thing to get lots of apps on the distro cd, but I just want the basics when I install Linux. I don't want my hard drive bloated with a bunch of programs that I don't really need.
>Do straight geek girls exist?
Yes, we do exist. The real question should be: do available geek girls exist? I'm living with my geek boyfriend, and am quite happy with him (of course we've got a nice home network and dsl modem). My previous boyfriend was a geek too.
I met my previous geek boyfriend when I was in college, and my current boyfriend at the cafeteria at work. The key is, they made an effort to talk to the shy girl.
If you are interested in buying this book, the best price that I've found is at www.TheBigStore.com
They are offering the book for $18 and they don't charge any shipping for books.
By the way, I don't have any association with this site.
Actually, Juno now offers free web access in addition to free email, so they might be worth checking out. You can go to www.juno.com to download their software. They have access numbers all over the country. Just keep in mind that they are Windows only, and there will constantly be an ad on the screen.
I've seen that most of the responses to this article have been from guys, so I thought I'd add another female voice.
I'm a female geek and I have the CS degree to prove it. I enjoy playing computer games. I actually subscribe to a computer game magazine. I ignore the ads that rely on sex to sell. Those ads don't give me any reason to check out the game. The computer game magazines aren't the ones to blame for the sexual content of their ads, they just print what the game companys submit. I subscribe for the reviews and such, not the ads anyway. The magazines are responsible for their actual articles however, and I will never be subscribing to a magazine like PC Accelerator. They blatantly use sexy women in their articles. That does not appeal to me, and thus they don't get my business.
I'm an avid Q3A player, and my boyfriend and I love to play computer games over our home network. Actually a lot of my favorite computer games are sports games! Strategy games, flight sims, rpgs, adventure games, I've played all the genres. I realize that I may not be typical, but I thought that I would speak up, and be counted.
The Christian geeks I know of tend to also be theology geeks, who rather than accept a prepackaged Christianity, delve into all manner of arcane theological arguments.
Well, I know that I for one loved minoring in theology in college. (and I majored in Computer Science)
I studied computer science in college because I've always been very into computers, but I never felt the major was right for me. I just don't fit the mold. I also can't concentrate for long amounts of time like the people described in the article can. As it is, I'm still not sure what I want to do/should be doing career-wise.