Geeking out often leads to information overload. One becomes so enamored of a thing that they seek data about it from any and, often, all sources. Such is my affliction when it comes to wine these days, and thus how I found my way to Winemaker Extraordinaire - a fun, "wine biz" game for the iPad.
When I was growing up my family had a psychotic dog. Once, the dog (his name was Chumley - strikes fear in the heart, no?) and I were playing with his rawhide chew toy - he would bring it to me, we'd play tug-of-war with it, I'd win, throw it across the room, and he'd come trotting back with it for more. On about the dozenth or so go at it, Chumley dropped the toy at my feet where I sat on the floor, wagging his tail and with a big ol' doggy smile on his face. I picked up the rawhide for one more round of tug-of-war and Chumley, logically, lunged at my face and took a bite out of my chin. It wasn't bad, just a tiny gash, but I was more distraught by how he had turned on a dime like that.
