Running RollerCoaster Tycoon (and Expansions) under Windows XP

One of my favorite games of all time is Chris Sawyer’s RollerCoaster Tycoon. I love carefully crafting a park layout, building coasters that work with the landscape and are fun to watch, and sitting back as thousands of digital denizens enjoy my creations (and hand over thousands of digital dollars). Piles of new games come…

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Categories: Games

Captain Vegetable

For some reason, this single sketch comes back to me more often than any other Sesame Street bit. Funny, I still don’t eat enough vegetables. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmjLqddPqZQ]

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Categories: Sketch of the Day

Discovering Artists: Saul Steinberg

“Untitled,” 1948.Work of Saul Steinberg.SaulSteinbergFoundation.org. Along with artists that have been my inspiration for a while, I love to discover new inspiring artists. Today I was for the first time introduced to Saul Steinberg (1914-1999) via Scott McCloud’s blog. Steinberg was an artist whose work appeared in the New Yorker for decades. Looking over his…

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Categories: Blog

Orwell’s Fairy-Story

I just read Animal Farm by George Orwell (1945). Little did I know, he subtitled his book “A Fairy Story,” which was a curious coincidence after reading The Tales of Beedle the Bard. I decided that yes, this is a fariy-story, if a rather complicated and nearly outdated one. Possible spoilers after the break…

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Categories: Books