Resolutions

[googlemaps http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=217662224576327858051.000498d2dce7a049e86e2&ll=45.554309,-122.668591&spn=0.009484,0.014011&output=embed&w=425&h=350] I don’t usually make much of New Year’s resolutions, but for some reason I’ve got a whole battery of them this year. Getting in Shape My wife and I have been walking every day, starting with a couple miles. We’ve done the diet thing before and taken advantage of treadmills in the nearest…

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Categories: Blog

Echo Bazaar: Like a Dream

I’ve discovered a little game called Echo Bazaar. It’s kind of a giant choose-your-own-adventure mixed with a collect-a-thon. It’s hard to describe… it feeds you little bite-size bits of story and gives you several characteristics and knickknacks. Before you know it the backwards world of Fallen London pulls you in. Myself, I’m kind of fashioning…

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Categories: Games

Say No to Online Censorship!

Here in the United States, we’ve really got a thing for free speech and free press. It’s in the first amendment to our constitution: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the…

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Categories: Programmer

Reflection: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs

I just finished reading Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman (2003). The book is billed as “a low culture manifesto,” and is a jumbled mess of humor, pop analysis and lowbrow philosophy. I didn’t like it. I’ll try to talk about parts I did like below.

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Categories: Books

IFComp: Postmortem

IFComp 2010 is over and the results have been posted. Congratulations to Aotearoa, Rogue of the Multiverse, and One Eye Open!

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Categories: Uncategorized