Am I people? I tend to think so... (2011/05/30)
So, someone wrote recently to thank me for the blog postings, reminding me that I was doing them. My correspondant commented about people seeing the diagnosis, but not seeing that there’s a person in there.
[read more...]Eating candy. FOR SCIENCE (2011/05/29)
Unsorted M&Ms taste the same.
[read more...]Who does Lady Gaga sound like? (2011/05/28)
Everybody.
[read more...]Hoover support: It sucks. Not in a good way. (2011/05/24)
I got a new vacuum cleaner, a Hoover “multi-cyclonic”, model number SH40060.
[read more...]I sorta wonder whether I could hold down a job... (2011/05/22)
Yeah, I know. I have one. It works out, they seem happy, I’m happy.
[read more...]An open letter to my psychologist of Way Back When (2011/05/21)
Hello, David. Long time no see. I got to thinking about our conversations some years ago, and something’s bugging me.
[read more...]But what if wire mother let you stay up an hour later? (2011/05/18)
There was some fairly famous (and extremely disturbing) research on non-human primate babies raised by various substitutes for a mother, such as a wire frame shapped roughly like a monkey, one covered with cheap fake fur, and so on.
[read more...]You can play WoW in any MMO. (2011/05/07)
There’s an old saying among programmers: You can write FORTRAN in any language. What this means is that, while many languages allow you to write much clearer and more expressive code than is typically produced in FORTRAN, none of them force code to be better. Even the ones that claim they do. It just can’t happen. You can’t make a bad writer good.
[read more...]A month or so in: Why I still love RIFT (and Trion) (2011/04/18)
So, this weekend, RIFT had a “world event”. A huge in-game event that affected the entire in-game world. Lots of stuff happened. And… Some of it went pretty badly. The event design called for people to participate in a specific short time window, as a result of which thousands of players couldn’t log in, because the servers were full. Lots of complaints.
[read more...]Coolest dice EVER. (2011/03/20)
Okay, this is gonna be a thing that will sound incoherent to gamers, but:
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