September 20, 2005 – 1:34 am
[Yes, the asterisk in the title for this blog is really really stupid. Apparently, MSN Spaces considers the word "cockpit" a prohibited word, but only in the title. Sigh.] Yesterday, Jennifer and I took our friend Arthur on a flight around the area. At one point, we decided to do some landings and takeoffs at [...]
September 20, 2005 – 12:45 am
I’m a little behind on blogging. For example, I really want to finish writing up the Mooncurser’s Handbook Game, but I’ve been swamped at work for the last couple of weeks trying to get the MSN Search feature that I work on out for an internal alpha test. I finally finished that up on Friday, [...]
September 20, 2005 – 12:35 am
The other day, I saw what I believe was a cop pulling a somewhat dirty trick. There’s an intersection (NE 51st St. and 148th Ave., for those familiar with the area) with a dedicated right turn lane that gets a right turn arrow when the cross traffic has a left turn arrow. This trains drivers [...]
September 15, 2005 – 11:46 pm
My friend Shawn brilliantly characterizes what Democrats and Republicans look like through each other’s eyes: http://spaces.msn.com/members/shawnmal/Blog/cns!1p0DxeegZ81utgNOvxNm5B0Q!178.entry
September 10, 2005 – 10:35 am
http://lightforce.freestuff.gr/warehouse.php And, Shawn, if I don’t post puzzles for a while, just start going through all of the puzzles linked to on the left side of that page. Some of them are hard! (Use comments to point out particularly good/fun/difficult/whatever puzzles from this collection or any others–I’ve gotten us started.)
September 9, 2005 – 8:32 pm
Y’know, even more than being able to assign a particular ring tone to each caller, I wish I could have my cell phone play a random ring tone from its library for each call. That way, I’d get a wider range of ring tone experiences, and the distribution would no longer be at the mercy [...]
September 5, 2005 – 9:01 pm
I recently replaced my Samsung i700 with a Samsung i730. Verizon’s network continues to treat me well, except at work and at home. Oh, wait. Their reception is crap in the places that I spend 95% of my time. But at least when I’m hiking up to Melakwa Lake on Mt. Denny, I can phone [...]
September 5, 2005 – 7:23 pm
http://www.cheesygames.com/panex/ (or the insanely hard original version) http://gwyn.tux.org/~bagleyd/java/PanexApp.html
September 5, 2005 – 7:03 pm
A couple of acquaintances of mine in puzzle-land (Mark Gottlieb and Mike Selinker) developed this year’s Maze of Games for Gen Con, and I had the pleasure of being subjected to the puzzles for purposes of beta testing. There were a bunch of really fun puzzles in the set, but the most memorable phenomenon from [...]
September 5, 2005 – 6:41 pm
I got up to my alarm at 6:30 yesterday morning. I don’t get up that early for just anything. In fact, I only get up that early for about one thing–flying. (For puzzles, I’ll stay up until 6:30 and beyond, but to wake up then is a different story.) Jennifer and I were going to [...]