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 I’ve played since
ZZT. And given the sound track (including the dialog), it may even be
better than ZZT.
August 25, 2005 – 12:09 pm
August 24, 2005 – 12:31 am
August 19, 2005 – 1:56 pm
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 a quest to save the world in a 12 passenger rental van stuffed with every gadget that any of us owns. I’ll write up a detailed report once I’ve caught up on sleep early next week.
After this event, my schedule doesn’t have any puzzle-related events on it for many months. I think I just might experience debilitating withdrawal symptoms. But I have an event up my sleeve that I’m going to host sometime this fall. Stay tuned for more details.
August 19, 2005 – 1:29 pm
A friend of mine sent a party invitation to my Hotmail address, but work is where I keep my master calendar. So I went hunting through my Hotmail calendar to find and forward the invitation to my work address. Unfortunately, I can’t find a way in Hotmail to forward calendar entries. However, I did stumble onto a pretty slick feature. At the top of any days for which MSN has a weather forecast, they put a weather synopsis. Which is great for "what days am I free to go hiking this weekend" types of questions. When you have so many things that you can integrate intelligently, it’s always fun to see what people think of.
August 12, 2005 – 6:22 pm
When I was down in Los Angeles for the National Puzzlers’ League convention, I went on the Warner Brothers Studios Tour. In the WB Museum that they took us to at the end of the tour, they had the real live Sorting Hat. He was actually alive and everything. I sat up on a stool, one of the Museum’s staff put the hat upon my head, and with almost no thinking whatsoever, he shouted out simply "Slytherin!". I’m not quite sure what I think of that, but just in case you’re avoiding those of us from the Slytherin house, that includes me.
