And there we are… Whee!
“I’d like to thank the Academy for this honor…”
GamerGod – The Ten Most Interesting Developer Blogs of 2005 by Grimwell
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Jan 272006
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Stuff that doesn’t quite fit anywhere else.
The PARC visit was great!
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Jan 262006
There’s something really cool about being somewhere where so much computing history has been made. I got to see a “gadget wall” that was a tribute to the main guy behind ubicomp, for example. I also learned that even PARC can’t prevent plasma screen burn-in. 😉
The Forum was very well-attended (thanks for coming, Brian!) and I think it went very well. I got a souvenir pen and a copy of the poster, which is basically a large colorized version of this image. I have to admit it was mildly depressing when one of the folks organizing the thing said “It’s so nice to have a Forum speaker with graying hair!” I ended up whining, “But I’m only 34…!”
Considering I was running on three hours of sleep (and still am, actually), I think I was reasonably coherent. Big thanks to the PlayOn guys for having me out there; we had a blast spending the whole day digging into all kinds of questions about social architecture in MMOs, in-game economies, and lots more.
Also, Bistro Elan in Palo Alto has a really good butterflied chicken breast in pineapple curry sauce.
I’m too fried to try finishing any of the four different partially complete blog posts I have here, so I’ll see you all here tomorrow, same bat-time, same bat-feed.
There are more things…
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Jan 252006
…in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
“The future is in algorithms.”
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I was first told that by Mr. Smarty Pants of the Austin Chronicle (believe it or not, Kristen and I actually worked with Mr. Smarty Pants for a while at Origin).
Over the years, it’s seemed to me that the ways the world is changing are very much driven perhaps not by the algorithm per se, but the increased awareness of how much we are swimming in a sea of mathematics.
Where You Are
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Jan 202006
We’ve crossed 100 readers on the Frappr map, so I thought a post to celebrate would be worthwhile. In fact, we’re at 106! Well, 105, because I think there’s one duplicate in there…
Notable facts revealed by the map:
- Most of the readers are in the Eastern U.S. and Europe. This isn’t surprising given the language the blog is in, I suppose.
- Some of you are clustered a bit. Likely candidates for “blog reader luncheons” are Chelmsford, UK, since Alice, Richard, and Darryl could all get there; somewhere between Manchester, Leeds, and Sheffield for the other UK folks except Jherad (he’s just out of luck, unless he wants to drive to London); the Los Angeles area; Austin TX; the DC area; the Seattle area; and small pockets in Michigan and Chicago.
- Those of you in Australia are all really far apart from one another.
- We have one guy in Russia, and he’s really lonely. Also one guy in Brazil. I’d sugget they get together, but’s a long hike followed by a long swim, then another long hike.
- Bruno in Brazil is in fact really far away from everyone else.
- Other places I never expected to have readers: Bulgaria; Turkey; Louisville, KY; and Broken Arrow, OK.
All in all, very cool. Of course, based on other web stats, there are folks in Austria, Spain, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Iceland, and so on who haven’t yet put themselves on the map. Around 11,900 of them, in fact.
