Recent content by GiftedMonkey

Hey dude! 11,000 posts doesn't seem like so much anymore.

Here comes my ballot, just in time: Gone Girl Interstellar Grand Budapest Hotel Blue Ruin* Chef Edge of Tomorrow Rise of the Planet of the Apes Neighbors The LEGO Movie Godzilla *IMDB said this was from 2013, but both of the reference sources that Wicked provided say its 2014...

Spoiler alert! Guardians of the Galaxy is going to be this year's winner. I've seen an embarrassingly slim number of movies this year (full time grad student all year) but I'm sure I can squeeze an extra one or two in before the end of the year. I'll have my list up by then, and in the mean...

At first I was a little ambivalent...then the X-wings over the water piqued my interest...and then at the end when the theme started blaring and we saw the Falcon in a dogfight with TIE Fighters I was like :D :D :D :D :D

You're gonna want to be able to use your phone as a flashlight. For that, get droidlight. Shazam is useful for identifying that song you're hearing and don't know what it is. I've been enjoying the game Plague, Inc. It's a strategy game where you play as a...

On rainy or snowy days when I have nothing better to do, I will play Heroes of Might and Magic III, for (and sweet merciful crap, do I ever hate this word) nostalgia purposes.

I don't know if this drink has a name, but if you mix ginger ale with spiced rum (Captain Morgan if you live in a dorm room, something like Mt. Gay if you want to impress and don't snicker) it tastes like cream soda. Ever had a dark and stormy? This is a strong tasting drink that'll put hair...

I had hamsters when I was a lad. All the hamster literature said that hamsters are solitary creatures, and should be kept separate. Same sex pairs will fight, hetero pairs will make babies. Do you have a plastic storage tub or something that you could feel with wood chips to be a...

Look at the poster on the wall, they're in Thailand or Vietnam or someplace that definitely isn't America.

Yeah. Those things weren't around when I was an angsty teen, so I did my venting here. It was pretty shameful, looking back on it. *** Oh shit, remember the whole El Dorado crew? Whatever happened to them?

Five of my last six meals have been ham-based. You don't even want to know about my snacking habits.

"Joust" for fun, check out this video, if you haven't already: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Krz-dyD-UQ (May contain minor spoilers through season 2, but probably in the absolute most vague sense of the word.)

I average about a book a month. I feel like that's pretty good. The last book I read was Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, by Robin Sloan. I liked it a lot. In fact, it was one of the best books I had read in a while. I would recommend it to anyone interested in the intersection of old...

Groundhog Day. Bill Murray drives a truck off a cliff with the groundhog inside. The truck lands on its roof ("He's probably OK"), then explodes.

I haven't heard of Oculus Rift until a day or two ago. Someone break this situation down for me and tell me why I should care. No more than four sentences, please.