Fantasy Football
I can’t really do a review about fantasy football because (a) I am not a particularly good fan of football (in that, I have watched some games, and I have watched the Superbowl, and I have attended...
View ArticleCrafting (Regular, IRL)
I didn’t really want to frame this as a review, because it’s more of a catalogue of discovery and my associated learnings/feelings. Today, basically as a side project while we drafted another...
View ArticleFaster than Light
I’ve written at length about teleportation and how it might be achieved (along with the virtues and perils of those forms of travel), but since I just finished rereading Dune, with instantaneous...
View Article#11: Financial Times
As I kind of alluded yesterday, I wanted to kind of define where I went wrong with money this year. I wasn’t really keeping track of how I spent what I had, so even though I didn’t particularly...
View ArticleFaceboat, Redux
A few years ago, before I went on the Magic Cruise, I envisioned a digital bulletin board we could use on the boat (without actual internet access!) that would allow us to plan and meet up when it’s...
View ArticleHow I Love/Hate Web Development
So I often enjoy exercising my programming and design skills in doing little web projects, especially ones that I can share with other folk. I made Breeze (a Magic draft simulator), a very prototypey...
View ArticleScaling Up
I went to an interesting get-together that was co-organized by Brandon and attended by many of my game-designer-y friends where we took part in a few proto-game experiences involving projection on the...
View ArticleEconomic Epiphany
(An epiphany about economics, not an affordable epiphany.) As I was thinking about some of the discussions I have about government, markets and utility with Lee, Max and others of my libertarian...
View ArticleTravel Advisory
I take more than a few trips (which is awesome, and I am grateful I am able to do so!) but I always am unsure exactly how much stuff to bring along when I fly. This mostly boils down to: how am I going...
View ArticleUnexpected Party
I was on the Carnival Glory, and we had set sail (after an arduous safety briefing). Our group of Magic players and significant others were set to meet in the conference room (Green Room) on the 4th...
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