I have these moments when I feel completely content. They’re zen moments, haiku moments. It’s not as if I were completely emptied of emotion — the other emotions are still there, playing in the background — but as with overwhelming anger or joy, so too with this: it is overwhelming bliss. And strangely, these moments [...]
The playtest of my roleplaying game, Fall of Prometheus, went quite well yesterday. The mechanics did not fall apart as I thought they would, and the players got really involved with the premise. I set our playtest in Ancient Greek mythology, and Max and Nick decided that their characters would be the two halves of [...]
Happy Pi Day! In honor of this glorious date, Cindy and I baked a very special apple pie:
Made with tender nerdy care. A little burnt, but rest assured–it was delicious!
This past week has been so busy and exciting, now with Spring Break I hardly know what to do with myself! We lost Peaches Monday, only to finally find him in the MLLL (Reed’s comic book library)–he had managed to sleep through all his classes and cause his friends to worry a lot. William Diebold, [...]
I have found my god, and it is Spore. I have wanted a sequel to Sim Life and Sim Ant for so long, and Will Wright may finally be responding to my prayers: Spore starts you off as a single-celled organism, and lets you build your way up to an intergalactic civilization. And most of [...]