My daughter is working on her Silver award for Girl Scouts. The gist of it is that she has to find a way to make her community a better place, then take action to do it. So, she’s working on a project to bring bird houses to (among others) retirement homes and libraries, as a way to make it more pleasant for both humans and strengthening the ecosystem as a whole, not just the birds. As such, I am helping her research which birds live in the area, which bird predators live in the area, and how to make a bird house safe and relatively predator-proof. You could call me a real bird brain right now.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions, and — wait, I didn’t mean it like that.

This week's World of Warcraft maintenance isn't too bad, but The War Within servers are getting a slightly extended two-hour downtime.

If there's one thing I'm looking forward to in World of Warcraft's next expansion, it's player housing.

If you've never heard of this week's featured cute animal, the rock hyrax, allow me to paint you a word picture -- imagine a cross between a loaf of bread and a groundhog, add adorable little fangs, and inflate the resulting animal's paws to comically round proportions.

It’s my favorite person’s birthday! Everyone, make sure you wish them a super happy birthday!

They’re pretty special and deserve it.

While I finish wrapping a gift that I was definitely told not to get them, it’s time for — The Queue!

It's a once-in-a-lifetime heist: to sneak into the biggest game convention around (celebrating much loved baking sim and MOBA Heroes of the Dough) and steal the esports trophy (which happens to be made of pretzels) from under everyone's noses (both literally and metaphorically).

This week, Wizards of the Coast updated the System Reference Document (SRD) for Dungeons and Dragons to version 5.2, making the game's 2024 rules available in an open source format.

It's such a nice, warm, beautiful day outside!

Feeling lost and confused with all of the new things in World of Warcraft this week? That's okay! Here's four new games for your weekend instead!

Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) is probably the most notable of the 19th century German Romantic artists (even if you’re not into art you’ve likely seen the header image in other media) and one of my personal favorites. As a result I’ve had a trip to Hamburg to see Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog and other examples of Romantic Art as a bucket list item for decades now. Fortunately for my wallet we got the first comprehensive exhibition of Friedrich’s art in the United States happening right now in New York City so I went to see it two weekends ago and it was definitely worth the trip. I may still try to go to Hamburg one day — not every work of art housed there that I want to see was in the exhibition — but it’s less of a goal now than it was a fortnight ago.

The trip to the museum wasn’t all positive though; my favorite gallery was closed for renovations. On the other hand there’s some new Cycladic Art that wasn’t there for my last visit and while not as satisfying that should tide me over until the Ancient Near East Gallery reopens and I make it back to NYC.

While I plan my next museum trip — Philadelphia — let’s answer some questions!