I was reading a discussion on boardgame geek about the nature of chance in games and various people mentioned game mechanics during the dicussion. I then picked mechanics that I enjoyed and built a game arround. I don't know whether it would be enjoyable or not, thought I would get some comments/feedback before I bullied my friends into playing it ( Read more... )

http://paulgraham.com/identity.html
I'm not convinced that I agree with him - I'll have to think. Sign of a good essay.

Found it interesting to come across while doing some technical Web Mining

I'm enjoying playing with the idea of a 3D printer. at this stage (before buying one) everything is easy, all my designs work, the prospects are unlimited. I have to accept that setup will take a while, by designs will sag, fail, warp and generally be a problem. But still havign a lot of fun designing things in google sketchup (Saturday I'll start ( Read more... )

I must have nudged the tuning dial on my alarm clock - I woke to loud "white noise" rather than music. I startled awake, that is that jerk you get from "falling" while you sleep ( Read more... )

Found this - Woke up my workmate because I was laughing so hard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=281ax7Ovlsg -

After I paused it and apologised, I started reading teh comments - then woke him again

Next shift cycle, I'm tempted to see how many songs fit exactly this song

I've been looking at buying a "toy" for a while. I've decided that it isn;t going to be an iPad - at least until OS4 or until the second hand ones come down in price ( Read more... )

Single person sitting center stage casually on a barstool, one spot ( Read more... )

At the top of the form it says "all Data fields are mandatory" - as soon as a saw that I became attentive. There was bound to be something I could mess with on the form. I found it at the office location where there is a field for "building name" - I decided that Fred was a good name for our building and continued down the form with the warm ( Read more... )

I got pointed to http://www.merriam-webster.com/video/0003-ibeforee.htmRead more... )

I have been reading Wiki (did I mention that I often love my job) and in one of my multi-hour dunkard walks I came accross Pitcherskaia. She is a Russia lesbian who requested asylum ( Read more... )