The official currency of Sweden is the Swedish krona, abbreviated SEK and written with the symbol kr. As of September 10, 2026, one US dollar is worth approximately 9.60 Swedish kronor. The word krona derives from the Latin corona, meaning crown, which reached Swedish through multiple languages. The name was adopted in 1873 when Sweden…
Things I Like: Sonic Adventure 2: Battle (GameCube)
When Sonic Adventure 2 landed on the Nintendo GameCube, it felt genuinely surreal, considering that just a decade earlier, Mario and Sonic had been the most iconic rivals in gaming. With Sega stepping away from the console business entirely, there was something almost poetic about them finding a home with Nintendo of all companies and…
Fun Facts and Trivia About Doctor Zhivago (1965 Film)
Doctor Zhivago is a 1965 epic historical romance film directed by David Lean and written by Robert Bolt, drawn from Boris Pasternak’s 1957 novel. The story unfolds in Russia across the years of World War I and the Russian Civil War, following Yuri Zhivago, a married physician and poet played by Omar Sharif, whose life…
Our Visit To The 2026 Upstate Renaissance Faire (South Carolina)
The Upstate Renaissance Faire has been running for most of the 2020s so far, kicking off after the Unitarian Universalist Church of Greenville, South Carolina, discontinued its Enchanted Chalice event back in 2020. It’s grown and evolved quite a bit since then, though we hadn’t actually attended in two or three years. Last year, my…
Fun Facts and Trivia About Nintendo’s Game & Watch Handhelds
Nintendo released the Game and Watch in the year 1980, with the first model arriving on April 28. The idea came from Nintendo designer Gunpei Yokoi, who observed a bored businessman on a train passing time by pressing the buttons of a calculator. Yokoi saw an opportunity to create something small, inexpensive, and portable enough…