Andrea got caught behind a Berthoud Pass closure today on her way back from the mountains, and cotrip.org was a little vague on the situation and options, so she called me, and I pulled up a map to try and help out. While on the phone, she said she was going…
Vercingetorix on NPR! The guy, not my game ;)
My number one objective this holiday break was to make some definitive progress on the next revision of my board game about Gaul. I researched a lot of battle locations, tuned a lot of game mechanics, assembled a folding cardboard base to mount the next prototype board, and sat down…
Six Months with YNAB
Flashback six months ago: I thought I was doing well, financially. I’d been making a decent salary at Rapt Media, I (thought I) was making some progress on the credit cards I had run up while working on Signal Genius, and I just generally seemed to have a lot of…
Protospiel 2013
A few weeks ago, I attended a Board Game Developer’s conference called Protospiel. As luck would have it, it was in my hometown of Ann Arbor, MI, so the trip got to double as a visit to see the folks and an old friend or two. I got some shocking…
Quote: Charles Babbage
On two occasions I have been asked, “Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?” … I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. —Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of…
An Institution Goes Dark
Boulder wakes up a different city today. Atlas Purveyors closed their doors last night, leaving many of us wandering the streets aimlessly before heading in to work this morning. Like many, my introduction to Atlas was early in my Boulder tenure, accidental, and unassuming. It was my second full day…
gmail + gdrive = clever
Well this is clever: I tried to email a link to a Google Doc to someone, and before sending it, Gmail identified that the recipient wouldn’t be able to open it and suggested some options.
Once Upon a Friday at Flixmaster
At Flixmaster my development team uses a group chat application called Flowdock to collaborate and discuss bugs and features; basically it helps keep us all on the same page. Jenni does anyone think lori’s bug might be due to the same reason the vids are choppy? Justin possible not sure…
Space Oddity
I can’t imagine what it would be like to get to live in space for months and then have to come home.