I'm going to try tumblng for a bit (at http://mirrorful.tumblr.com/). It's gotten to the point where my greader was full of tumblrs anyway, and I must maintain my online policy of being VERY SLIGHTLY BEHIND THE TIMES.

A neat interview, tweeted or retweeted by William Gibson for obvious reasons; I particularly liked this bit, where Roy Slaper, autodidact jeansmaker, describes his change of vocation:ROY ( Read more... )

Embassytown! A surprise, in several ways. I ordered it months and months ago (China Mieville's got a new book?) and promptly forgot about it until it showed up on my Kindle. And I certainly didn't expect what actually showed up: anthropo-SF of the old school ( Read more... )

I will say, I am enjoying the unreadable javascript nonsense. Our network storage library has a lot of asynchronous things with callbacks that lend themselves nicely to anonymous functions ( Read more... )

Narrowly averted! Apparently ( Read more... )

It's frustrating. A while back I went and cranked out a UI system, and, while it's taken a lot more work than I expected, it feels like it's finally close to complete. And then I went to actually build some screens in it, and found out that it very cleanly and conveniently solves exactly half the problem. You can almost see the line where neat ( Read more... )

Christine Love just released don't take it personally, babe, it just ain't your story, a--spiritual sequel?--to her earlier Digital: A Love Story (which is one of those 'if you haven't played it, go! i'll be here when you get back' games); don't take it personally does a pretty good job, but doesn't have the same payload of nostalgia, nor, quite, ( Read more... )

New apartment! Across the bridge, in the near suburbs. Closer to work, substantially cheaper; it feels like a minor defeat, moving out of the city, but, eh. If I haven't been posting much lately, it's because that time's been spent looking at apartments, putting things in boxes, etc.; it feels like I'm uniquely terrible at it, but I think it ( Read more... )

This makes me happier than it should! If only because Populous was, like, the one awesome thing Molyneux ever did in a lifetime of saying he's going to do awesome things. (and a powerful influence on young me, for all that i've never really been able to translate that into game designs of my own. maybe i should fix that ( Read more... )

So, shipping two games at once: not highly recommended! And by shipping I mean moving into closedish beta. But people who aren't us are looking at it, which would be more nervewracking if I was less worn out from the process. It's kind of exciting at the same time. We've been a few weeks away from this for about half a year now, and we've ( Read more... )