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 [...]
August 31, 2005 – 1:07 pm
Just found out that despite being in the top third by seniority of both my group and the company at large (which is how office space is allocated around here), I’m back on the list of people who don’t get their own office. When my boss broke the news to me, he added "not that [...]
August 30, 2005 – 10:33 pm
As I mentioned in a previous entry, I played in a Seattle area Game a couple weekends ago. Despite not having much time outside work these days, it’s time to start writing it up before I forget too much. I’ll make it a series so I don’t feel like I have to find hours to [...]
August 30, 2005 – 2:44 pm
The parking lots at work are tight right now. Apparently, there’s some maintenance going on in one of the parking garages that’s taking up quite a few parking spots, because coming back from lunch it’s very difficult to get a spot. I get here early enough most days that there are still hundreds of people [...]
August 30, 2005 – 12:38 pm
Warning: getting started with DROD (Deadly Rooms of Death) may result in chronic severe productivity loss! Not that I have time to be addicted to a game these days, because we’re coming up on the second milestone of the project I’m working on for MSN Search, but DROD is seriously the best Rogue-like puzzle game [...]
August 30, 2005 – 1:27 am
Somehow this evening I ended up on Fandango’s web site (I think I was checking to see if The Island was still playing in my area) and I noticed that The Blues Brothers was back on the big screen in celebration of the release of its DVD special edition. The start time for this one-time [...]
August 25, 2005 – 12:09 pm
http://oos.moxiecode.com/examples/cubeoban/
August 24, 2005 – 12:31 am
http://www.abc.net.au/gameon/chasm/chasmgame.htm
August 19, 2005 – 1:56 pm
Obligatory puzzle/game/thing to keep Shawn from yelling at me: http://www.planarity.net/ I’m headed up to Bellingham tonight with five of my puzzle-solvingest friends for the release party for the 42nd printing of The Mooncurser’s Handbook. Something will "go terribly wrong" either at the party or at the hotel the next morning, and we’ll be off on [...]