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The End
While I reserve the right to change my mind, I think it would feel fitting for this to be the last post to this LiveJournal.
At heart, the reason for this is a purely practical one and simple one: it's no longer simple for me to cross-post from my Dreamwidth journal. I will be continuing to perform any long-form blogging that I want to do over ( Read more... ) -
Emerson Milford Dickson, 23rd April 1980 - 15th January 2023
I have the very sad duty to announce that my beloved husband Emerson Milford Dickson passed away at some point between midnight and 9am of Sunday 15th January ( Read more... ) -
John Evan Dickson, 6th October 1937 - 28th April 2021
My father has passed away.
No contact for now, please; I choose to assume your best wishes and condolences.
(Edited: the date in the original title was 29th April 2021, despite the message being posted on 28th April 2021, so it looked like a prediction from a day in the future! Clearly I didn't know what day it was under the circumstances, and I had ( Read more... ) -
New game: Currency Cat
Here is a simple, free-to-enter game to celebrate the recent turn of the decade ( Read more... ) -
"The Floor is Lava" mini golf
Insomnia last night inspired this game idea; maybe there's something to it, maybe there isn't. I might give it a try next time I'm at a games event.
"The Floor is Lava" mini golf, version 0.01
Remixing and improvement encouraged. Released under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Players: (at a guess) 6-10 at a time, freely subbing in and out between rounds
Duration: ( Read more... ) -
Show me the games and I will show you the man
The first meme to have really caught my imagination for a few years popped up on Twitter the other day.
Originally, Jennifer Scheurle asked: Let’s play the game version of this: Name 5 games that you’d recommend to someone to play to convey you best as a person. Go!
You would have to have a time machine to play mine but here we go:
It's A Crime! ( Read more... ) -
An interesting time in the world of chess
Between 2005 and 2010, I made a habit of making one post each year about chess. Now seems like a reasonable time to restart the habit ( Read more... ) -
Liars' Dice and Rule-Changers' Dice
Meg and I are in Wales this weekend! We are staying with friends and playing board games. We arrived fairly late last night after coming up from London by train. (There was a braying wedding party on one of the trains we took, then we were joined by several fat, drunk Scousers who had mostly lost money at Chester races. It wasn't the most pleasant ( Read more... ) -
How little changes
I'd say that I was getting myself onto night shift mode, but I just have a headache and cannot sleep. Normally I would post this elsewhere except that colleagues might worry about my ability to work the night shift tonight, which should be fine ( Read more... ) -
A once-in-a-lifetime puzzle hunt
I've mentioned Dan in the past, haven't I? Over the course of the past year, Dan has become family-by-choice to both Meg and me. Dan was part of our DASH 5 puzzle team, then we hunted together remotely on some online hunts, then he came up for ChrisCon and played our Puzzled Pint recast, then he has started (co-)running Puzzled Pint in London. Five ( Read more... )