Author: Tara

Events

Free Digital Comics from Dark Horse

Dark Horse Digital is celebrating its two-year anniversary, and in addition to adding more products to their site, they’ve put 50 of their titles’ first issues online for free. You can pick and choose your favorites, or download the entire bundle. I’m personally excited to read Axe Cop, Buffy, The […]

A Geeky Home, Entertaining

Decorate with Octopi

What is it with geeks and octopi? Is it the relation to Cthulu? Kraken? Steampunk? Just huge fans of Ursula? Or maybe the sea in general? Anyway, whatever it is, octopi + geeks = true love. So I was thrilled to see all of these items appear in Pottery Barn’s […]

Geeky Fashion, Videos

Tara’s Daily Makeup Routine

OneUpMakeup posted my daily makeup tutorial today, so I’m sharing it all with you! Disclaimer: I’m a dork, and not a makeup guru by any means. There’s a reason why I’m usually the model, not the person applying the makeup! Here is the makeup I used in the video: Clinique […]

Entertaining

Dungeon-Building Dice Set

GMing a campaign and the players have decided to deviate off the set path? Need some fresh ideas on how to layout a dungeon? Want to play an impromptu campaign out and about and don’t have your notes with you? Grab these dice! The dungeon-building dice set allows you to […]

Crafty Geek

Free Printable BSG Card Game

Whether you call it Pyramid or Triad (the names switch between the classic and new series), you know you’ve wanted to try it. Print out your own version of the BSG card game you see the Viper pilots playing. Just try to avoid table-flips and physical confrontations, if you can. […]

Geeky Fashion

Colorful Pixelated Fashion from Kate Spade

Is once a week too often to blog about something from Kate Spade or it’s more affordable line, Saturday? If they keep putting out products that are subtly geeky, then I’ll blog about ’em every day! You may remember their “Windowpane” print from last week, a DIY-Pixelated-Art look. Now they’ve […]

Friday Favorites

Friday Favorites: April 19

Holy crap. This week, you guys. Although it feels weird to be looking for silly, shallow things while I’m worrying about my brother in Boston, it’s actually a good thing to focus on some positive things that make you happy. See what’s distracting me this week: Favorite Video: Real-Life Scribblenauts Satire put […]

Geek Etiquette

Geek Etiquette: Manners In a Digital World

Guys, I’ve been saying that technology is changing some of our rules on etiquette for a while, and now Emily Post agrees. (“Emily Post agrees” is one of my favorite phrases/arguments ever.) The new book, “Manners in a Digital World” answers questions such as: Do you have a healthy digital diet? […]

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Help Me With a Quick, 1-Question Survey!

I have some fun things in the works that I hope to announce in the next month, but I need some super quick info from you first! Can you answer this one question for me? It’s fully anonymous, won’t be published anywhere, and just helps me with some initial counts. […]