The CaffiNation Podcast

Did you feel it? The world just changed. Not as your reading it, but when this was written. Maybe you can still hear the echo, feel the aftershock. At 2:52 pm I received this message via twitter. “@cc_chapman: Sad. Gary Gygax the creator of Dungeons and Dragons has died at age 69 - http://tinyurl.com/32gltg - Now rolling natural 20’s in the sky” Than thats when I felt it. First off CC Chapman made a classic reference to the game Gygax helped spawn, well played CC. But the missive went on past that. It went past my twitter stream, and finally took root here, hours after the news had been delivered.

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The other day I was listening to, Geek Label Radio, the hosts were talking about how soon you let your geek show. That is to say how long after you met your significant other before you let the true depths of your geekness show. I’ve been having a fun time talking to a bunch of my friends about this topic and wanted to throw it out there for anyone else to ponder. I was pretty up front, I had posters of Lord of the Rings, Tye dyed t shirts and was pretty much and out of the closet geek. Others I know took months for the anime, fan fiction to come out. (more…)