Maximum Geek

Lego Universe Gameplay Video.

jeffkirvin — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:14:16 +0000

Here’s a video of me playing Lego Universe at CES. It was very impressive for an Alpha build. The few minutes hands on I got actually got me excited about beta testing this game. I was a little awkward moving around because the mouse look was not inverted. Especially check out the very end of the clip where I build a gun out of the left over bricks of a big baddie. I apologize for the poor camera work, my uncle was behind the camera.

CES Pics

jeffkirvin — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:30:57 +0000

OK, lots of pics and a couple of videos from CES coming tomorrow-ish. I tried to post pics the other night but for some reason my data signal to my phone was crap on a stick. I’ll also have a couple articles coming up in the next few days and expect a new Max Geek “soon”.

CES Coverage

Josh — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:10:57 +0000

Alright folks. I’m heading to CES this year for my actual job but while I’m there I’ll be twittering and blogging live from the show. Expect pictures and videos. So keep an eye out here starting Friday (I don’t arrive until late Thursday because this was a WAY last minute deal).

Maximum Geek Vol. 3 Ep. 2

JKirvin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:07:29 +0000

Joy listened to us record this last night and said this was the geekiest episode of Max Geek we’ve ever done. Now she hasn’t listened to a lot of our early stuff but I will say we definitely set our geekitude to 11 in this one. Here’s what we cover.

MGUWC Update
NASA Finds Water on the Moon
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Wouldn’t ya like to be a hamster too
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Sezmi is cool
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Modern Warfare
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Microsoft hates mobile apps
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I for one welcome our new droid overlords
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Microsoft ripped off Apple?
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Apple hates Netbooks
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This cast comes in at 1 hour and 4 minutes so sit back and enjoy the show.

New Page Up

Josh — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:08:18 +0000

Check out some new details on the Maximum Geek Ultimate Writing Challenge. http://www.maximumgeek.org/ultimate-writing-challenge/ Now to work on some tools for tracking our word counts.

MGUWC Update

Josh — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:53:49 +0000

Never fear, I really am I working on some specifics for the challenge. In the next week or two expect to see some tools pop up and some final details on the challenge itself. Keep an eye here for more info and watch for, at the very least, a short cast tomorrow night.

Jeff on Dead Robots Societ

Josh — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:27:46 +0000

Jeff was a guest on this weeks Dead Robots Society. Check it out. http://deadrobotssociety.com/2009/11/10/epsiode-107-two-interviews-for-the-price-of-one/

Maximum Geek Writing Update #1

JKirvin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:17:13 +0000

OK, Jeff and I did something a little different last night. Instead of recording a full blown cast we did a short (for us) writing update. We talked about our NaNo/MGUWC stories and gave some more info on the Maximum Geek Utlimate Writing Challenge and why we’re doing it. I’m going to do something a little different and summarize our answers for the two questions we get the most about MGUWC. In cas you aren’t up for the 38 minute cast.

Question #1: “What’s the point, NaNo is already long enough to build a habit.”

Answer: Most of the people I know who do NaNo write their 50,000 words and quit. Some of them quit halfway through a story. I know very few people who keep writing (or even editing) after NaNo is over. The MGUWC is about keeping up that habit all year long. That’s why we have different target word counts. Not everyone can write 2,000 words everyday. For the MGUWC the point isn’t how much but that you take the time to write something, anything, EVERY day, not just every day for a month.

Question #2: “What’s different about MGUWC from NaNoWriMo, is it just longer?”

Answer: There are several differences. Probably the largest (besides length) is what you can write. This isn’t just for novelists. You can write poetry, journal entries, blog posts anything that involves writing counts. The other difference is editing and rewriting count. We haven’t quite figured out how to handle a metric for that though. MGUWC is about options.

Alright, now that those important questions are answered, go listen to the cast, we go into more detail about the point of MGUWC and why it grew from something just Jeff was doing into a challenge for anyone.

Maximum Geek Ultimate Writing Challenge

JKirvin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:14:32 +0000

OK, so I posted the basics, now let’s get a little more specific. Basically this is like a 300 day NaNoWriMo but less organized. Since 2,000 words a day is pretty hardcore we’ll be breaking it up into tiers and over the next month I’ll be putting together a page for tracking your word count and all that. Who knows how fancy I’ll get, it all depends on how much time I have.

The point of this is to build a writing habit. I used to set aside an hour of every day to write, then I stopped. If I can get back to writing an hour a day I can actually produce something. So I figure with a little competition and encouragement from other writers I can get back to that habit and actually finish some things.

Now even at only 500 words a day you can easily write more than one novel in 300 days. We’re not all Jeff and sitting on 7 novels. So I’m open to suggestions on how we count editing and revising once we get to that point. In the mean time, we’re quite a way from that so we don’t need to worry about it. The goal is to write everyday.

We’re starting with just doing the standard NaNoWriMo deal. That gives me time to figure out some guidelines and put together some tools for us to use to track everything. So, if you’re interested and not already registered for NaNoWriMo had on over to http://www.NaNoWriMo.org we’ll use their tools to track everyone for a month. Once you’re signed up email us at challenge@maximumgeek.org with your NaNo username and we’ll get buddied up.

That’s it in a nutshell. As we decide on the details of the tiers and how to handle editing once a first draft is done I’ll post those. Hoping to get a lot of emails on this. Come on and take the challenge.

Maximum Geek Vol. 3 Ep. 1

JKirvin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:59:09 +0000

That’s right, we’re back. Who missed us? Come on, don’t be shy, you can tell us if you missed us. Well here is the latest installement after a 10 month hiatus we’re back. We talk tech, movies and TV but mostly writing. Sit back, take your shoes off and prepare for 1 hour and 21 minutes of Maximum Geek. Or as I like to call it, 1.21 gigawatts. There’s a bit of wonkiness with the audio, Jeff cuts out a bit (we blame his netbook) and while our volume levels are pretty close, I am a bit louder, just loud enough to cause a bit of distortion if I really get up there. Anyway (notice the lack of an s, there is no such word as anyways) here’s the topic list.

Windows 7
The Nook
Random stuff
NaNoWriMo
Maximum Geek’s Ultimate Writing Challenge

More info on that last bit is coming soon. If you’re interested in the challenge give us a yell, @maxgeek on twitter or email challenge@maximumgeek.org. The more people who join us the more fun it will be.

On the topic of future episodes, there will be some, a schedule has yet to be decided though, we’ll keep you informed. If you’re not following us on twitter, you should. We actually post there once in a while.