Progressive Odyssey

You know this band , the treadmill guys: And the warehouse-sized Rube-Goldberg machine: What else is there to say but that  they...

I've been working on a technology art project (not as cool as this one) for over a decade now and by "working" I mean "m...

There's a new expansion for Catan: Explorers and Pirates .  Rather than a fundamental extension of the game like Cities and Knights ...

Sights from the recent trip my brother and his family made to Wichita to (ostensibly) see my wife and I. My brother demonstrates an impo...

To complete the PhD program in the engineering department at Wichita State , the following steps must be completed: Complete 60 hours of...

Two weeks ago I was hours away from taking my iMac in for repair for the fifth time.  One failed hard drive, two failed optical drives, and ...

Truth be told, the most common type of board game I play are translations of traditional cardboard-and-dice games to the iOS platform.  (Som...

The weather radio starts going off on a regular basis, warning of the frequent severe thunderstorms. I ride to school in the morning in l...

US News and World Report confirms the reality I experience every day: there are a lot of international graduate students here at Wichita Sta...

You may have heard that the men's basketball team at Wichita State made the NCAA tournament Final Four this year, a feat they have not a...

Our anniversary is coming up and its near coincidence with Easter and the Easter dinner with friends inspired my wife with a great idea: buy...

The  whole article  is interesting but the graphic (which should be larger) says it all...

As I've recently written , my Dominion case is too small to hold all the cards in the games and I'm preparing for the day when I...

Dominion is similar to Carcassonne in that it seems to be made for expansions.  Both games come with a base set of cards/tiles with a defi...

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For a birthday a few years ago my wife purchase me a Carcassonne Big Box: the base game and multiple expansions in one box (and the box was...

As I've mentioned previously, Settlers of Catan was the game that started it all for me as it was the first modern board game I purchas...

Wichita has a Duck Truck.  The name is mine and a misnomer but it came to mind when I first encountered said truck.  The Duck Truck is a pic...

The last remnants of last weeks snow storm are all but gone but we have photographic evidence of what transpired. One disadvantage o...

I have my good friends Troy and Lauren to thank for my love of modern board games; they spoke often of their weekly games of Settlers of Cat...