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Christmas Board Games
Dec 26
We always buy some board games for the Christmas period and play them in the evening. Started the practice years ago with Settlers of Catan which remains the gold standard. This year we tried:
- Hanging Gardens, The | BoardGameGeek. OK it seems like this could be a fun game and we started to enjoy it, but the game exploded into a major argument about the rules. The rulebook is not the strongest.
- Tzaar — fun and quick, but only two player. It is part of some series of games called Project GIPF that interrelate in some fashion, need to learn more about
- Wasabi! — some liked, some did not. The winner liked, shockingly. I thought it was fun tho I pissed everyone off by playing the Wasabi! card late in the which really put the brakes on the action. Late in the game, gameplay really slows down as the board gets cluttered which is a problem.
CrunchGear » Archive » Rogue for iPhone: nerdgasm. Installed.
Late 1982, I am killing myself chasing two degrees at CMU. In the mornings I was at the business school, classmates all wearing power suits and reading the WSJ and the Financial Times during breaks. Afternoons spent in the EE department with classic geeks.
After midnight in some lab deep in the bowels of the EE department, debugging some realtime ASM code for speech processing, and this lank-haired guy next to me asks “Hey, do you know how to kill a 12th-level necromancer?”
That was my intro to Rogue.
- Brett on Stuff » Distilleries of Scotland. A reason to hike Scotland
- WOW — stronger authentication than your bank. What does that say about the world.
- Running DC thru the house. An idea whose time has come again?
- Indie games DB. Often way better than mainstream games
- Guided Bullets. Why not.
- Thingiverse. Kind of an open source design site.
- Denhaus — awesome pet furniture
- Nitrogen-infused golf clubs. Golfers will buy anything.
- Dutch 5 Euro coin. Awesome, wish I could order. Not the first time I have been blocked from ordering a euro product, wish I could sign up for a forwarding PO box in Europe.
- Mini Magnetosphere. Maybe we all need one of these
The eyeballing game
Oct 14
The eyeballing game. Angle bisecting and right angling are apparently my special skills. I pretty much suck at finding circle centers and making parallelograms tho.
Spore is awesome
Sep 17
Quite addictive. And the exchange of creatures online adds a great element. Recommended. Yeah the amazon reviewers are all going apeshit over the drm on the title, but it is fun.
Games Without Frontiers: Games Give Free Rein to the Douchebag Within:
- Every time I plunge into a game, I inevitably choose the most Cro-Magnon, “Hulk smash, Hulk destroy” strategy possible.
- But what happens if the second self you create inside videogames turns out to be a total dick?
CrunchGear » Archive » Canadian movie theaters rent screen time to gamers — not sure this will ever pencil out or how it would even work, but the idea of playing Halo or COD4 on a giant movie screen is pretty awesome.
BuckeyeXtra – The Columbus Dispatch : Ohio State football results. — nice new service from the Dispatch. 9-11-1 against USC all time, 0-5 in last 5 games. Let’s hope Tressel can reverse this trend as he has reversed others
Bioshock film?
May 17
Verbinski to direct BioShock film — I will run to see this. How many films are about Ayn-Rand-ish Objectivist paradises gone horribly wrong? On the bottom of the ocean? If you haven’t played the game, you should.
MAKE: Blog: National Rube Goldberg Machine Contest 2008 — oh would this have been a blast to go to. Mousetrap had to be my all-time favorite game as a kid.
Free games, indy games
Feb 27
- ViaCrunchGear ? Archive ? It’s Wednesday, time to waste your employer’s money, play all your old NES favorites online
- Top 3 indy games to watch for — and here is the IGF website
Not sure any of these will reduce my COD4 playing time but still…
Wireless-enchanced DS?
Jan 31
Just ordered Amazon.com: Advance Wars: Days of Ruin: Video Games based on the NYTimes review today. Have to wonder — when will we see a DS with wireless integration like the Kindle? I don’t buy games that often, cartridges and manuals are a pain, why can’t I just download the games wirelessly?
Camera Shy? Pentagon Builds a Portable Lens-Destroying Laser and also linked in this article, technology for automagically finding sniper scopes.
Casual Games
Jan 5
some of these in nytimes this week.
- Cursor*10 (nekogames) — oh this thing is crazy
- Excit.
- Portal. 3d version is of course way more fun
- Spot the Differences
Christmas gift awesomeness
Dec 27
- The Kindle is awesome. The awesomeness is due to the wireless delivery of books. And the fact that I can browse Amazon at my PC and direct books to my Kindle with one click. (Similarly, the Unbox/Tivo integration is awesome for the same reason — Amazon is silently building a great asset here). The book selection is soooo much broader than that for the Sony Reader.
- Call of Duty 4 is awesome. the ranking/challenge system keeps you engaged. Haven’t cracked the UT box yet, so entranced with COD4 – must get to 5-star general.
- Stupid little RC helicopters that we got are fun. Available from lots of vendors. Pretty uncontrollable, watch out lamps!
Everything else is awesome too! I will blog it all in the fullness of time.
Essential Crossword Tips
Aug 16
Diary of a Crossword Fiend: How Constructors Try to Trick You — don’t even try to do the NYT crosswords later in the week unless you have embraced all these. I hate the “Phonetics and building blocks” class of clue, they seem cheap to me.
Software links
Jul 23
- WikiMatrix – Compare them all — lists and compares all the wiki implementations
- Forummatrix — same dealy for forums
- MonkeyGTD — the fusion of wikis and GTD ideas is a strong draw to me. i religiously use my blackberry todo list, i wish it could be richer and embody more GTD functionality
- Pictobrowser flickr viewer. nice way to view a flickr photo album
- WIndows codec installer. Amazingly sad that you need tools like this on windows.
- How to use photoshop to create a mosaic effect
- Bust a name — better way to find domain names
- I never knew the value of CTRL-SHIFT-ESC. ANother sad commentary
- Turok – maybe I will need to get a PS3
Software of Note
Jun 28
- Games ? Bloxorz — great timewaster
- PicLens — nice way to browse flickr. A little unobvious to use.
- Socialcalc. I continue to think this is interesting tho I have never installed it. hmm.
- Rich’s guide to cleaning up Raw images
- The Alphabetizer. I can see myself using this occasionally.
- 3 awesome free math programs
