…to get sick. 😛 Been knocked out since sometime yesterday, with a head cold or something — at leats it’s not the stomach flu version! All of us have been fighting it…
I wanted to write about Mirrormask, since I spent all night dreaming about it in that strange quasi-hallucinatory way you do when you’re ill, but I don’t feel up for sitting at the keyboard.
Now I am off to conquer the kingdoms of orange juice and their treacherous allies chicken soup. 😛
Apple isn’t very good at limericks. I mean, are “pirate” and “great” supposed to rhyme?
Yeesh.
The Age of the Computer Poem
It began when Apple let loose
With their copyright-defending Truth(tm):
Embedding bad rhymes within coding,
Chmodding the zeitgeist, foreboding,
And opening heretofore shut doors
That scare deep in multicores:
Whe’er pentameter’s big or little endian,
And runs on platforms Intellian…
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…who is under the covers on the couch, recovering from the stomach flu.
Mom: “I told her that it was whale-watching season and her eyes lit up.”
Me: “Yeah?”
Elena: “Yeah. I didn’t know.”
Me: “Yeah, it’s pretty cool, they all come up on shore to watch us.”
Sorry for no posts yesterday — we’re having a fun time around here at home… a combination of a diabetic kid and a stomach flu is tricky to manage; she can’t keep anything down, but we have to keep her blood sugars up, and then keep them down, and so on… without food, which is our usual main tool for pushing sugars up.
Anyway, you might have noticed the addition of the “other posts you might be interested in” thingie at the bottom of posts now, before the comments thread. That’s because I was too lazy to keep linking all of the disparate posts on single-player games manually.
Here I am listening to a panel and taking notes, and I figured, hey, I can share some of these with you. These are just my rough notes, not really a transcription. The talk had pretty heavy overlap with some stuff Will’s presented before.
How other fields can inform interactive design
Games exhibit “film envy,” taking too much inspiration from linear media. We shouold be looking at more fields to draw learning from.
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