Here are some reviews of movies, TV shows, books, gadgets and other things.
boardgames
Last night, my wife and I wanted to play a boardgame by ourselves. Looking through my collection, we decided to give 7 Wonders Duel a try. The original 7 Wonders game is played between 3 and 7 players. The Duel version is made for two player game, with several nice
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So, I have good news and bad news about my book reading habit in 2019. The good news is that I've read more Christian books than other kinds of books. The bad news is that I've read the least books ever in 2019: six. The interesting
boardgames
Rival Restaurants is a game I ordered on Kickstarter. When ordering from KS, it's always a bit of a gamble, but my wife loves cooking, so I figured she will like it. Last night we played it with some friends and it was a blast. In Rival Restaurants,
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The grand finale for the Star Wars trilogy of trilogies is here. Or not so grand, because I went to see it in Oradea on the second day after it was released, and the cinema had at least a third of the seats empty. I didn’t enjoy TLJ and
boardgames
I've bought Tokaido about two years ago. I've opened it about a year ago, but I was quickly overruled by the others, who probably wanted to play a game they knew (cough Dixit cough). But today, we did a spontaneous board game night in
TV shows
Добрый день. Меня зовут Роланд! It just happens that in the last month I’ve discovered two masterpieces of Russian art: one is the Red Army Choir, the other one is Better than Us, a TV show about a family living in 2029, which somehow becomes the owner
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Another space movie came out, so of course I went to the cinema to see it, just like I did with Gravity and Interstellar. It was a very spontaneous decision, seeing an article about it at 7 PM, watching a trailer at 7:10 and
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A while ago, I mentioned how I back up my valuable data to my NAS. In the mean time, I added one more thing to it: a UPS[1] so even if the power goes out, it still says up and more importantly, it can shut down safely. This is
boardgames
One of the games that we recently played a lot is Splendor, a game with some really neat tokens, representing precious stones, and where the rich get richer (almost like in real life xD). The objective of the game is to get 15 prestige points. You get
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Inspired by many of the posts I saw on the blogosphere about how people did in their reading challenge in 2018, I decided to do a short recap as well. I started 12 books in 2018 and I finished 10 of them. This is unusual for me,
boardgames
This year I caught the bug of boardgames. I bought a lot of them, I tried a lot of them and I played some a loooot of times. My lovely wife also enjoys this hobby very much, so we often have friends over to play various boardgames. Almost all of
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After a year, prompted by a question Catalin asked me, I finally made time to write about a couple more great writers I follow. Seth Godin: Seth does many things, but he is mainly a marketing person. However, he doesn't do marketing in the annoying, in your face