I can’t put it any other way than that.
Richard, have you volunteered to have your brain sliced and diced by science yet?
Richard Bartle has a very weird brain
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Jan 192006
Misc
Stuff that doesn’t quite fit anywhere else.
Jan 182006
Has anyone ever noticed that captchas (the thingies that make you type in a nonsense sequence of letters) can sometimes make great tools for alien-name generators?
I just got one that asked me to type in “Eerep.” I immediately conjured in my mind someone green, with flippers, nice big black eyes, rubbery skin…
(The image is one of my old doodles…)
Jan 162006
Those readers outside the U.S. might not be aware that today is Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, a holiday (a “bank holiday,” to use the British term). So I’ve been enjoying a long weekend — I took Friday off as well.
It is worth remembering why we have this holiday. My daughter came home from school able to quote the “I Have A Dream” speech, this bit in particular:
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Virtually Lecturing at Wharton
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Jan 142006
For anyone at U Penn/Wharton, I’ll be a guest at Prof. Yoram Wind’s class on “creativity” at 10am on Tuesday morning, via videoconference. My understanding is that the lecture is open to any members of the U Penn community.
Stay tuned for news on a PARC Forum as well…
2005 – the year in cities
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Jan 132006
I saw over at Kim Pallister’s blog that apparently this is a bit of meme right now.
I don’t think I can remember all the cities I stayed overnight in. 😛
San Diego, CA
Los Angeles, CA
Cambria, CA
San Francisco, CA (a lot)
San Jose, CA
Jacksonville, FL
Seoul, Korea
Taipei, Taiwan
Bloomington, IN
Austin, TX
Seattle, WA
Dana Point, CA
Redondo Beach, CA
Selma, CA
Most of those were conferences…
Kim did say
Theory of Fun for Game Design by Raph Koster. Awesome book. 5/5. Must buy. Go now.
…so that’s gonna go on the book’s website at some point. 🙂 Endorsements: gotta catch ’em all!
