Archive for August, 2008

Card Game Idea

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

Hi all I had a funny skeleton of an idea for a card game and I want to share it. The premise of the game is this: every player is a political candidate running for office. The goal of the game is to ruin the other players "campaigns" by revealing dirt ...

FBAM: To be or not to be?

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

Hey Everyone, I figured that given the recent lack of interest in FBAM that we should strongly consider retiring it. I have a few options here. 1.) Retire it immediately. 2.) Get together a few people for a final round to close out the story. or 3.) Continue on, if people want ...

Hillarious Swedish Dr. blows your mind with cards

Monday, August 25th, 2008

http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/lennart_green.html This guy is a badass... that is really all I can say about his performance.

Capsaicin functions as an anti-fungal

Monday, August 25th, 2008

 Interesting article about chili peppers, and why sometimes you get one that is a dud. http://news.ufl.edu/2008/08/11/peppers-2/

Teenage Ninjas Fight Against Drug Use

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

Lol. http://gothamist.com/2008/08/22/wouldbe_nj_ninja_drug_warriors_arre.php

Nintendo DS Question

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Hey guys, I still exist! I'm sorry I missed a few of your while I was in Florida and a super big thank you to Carrie and Elmer for housing me and my Pops during our stay. My question for you guys regards the Nintendo DS memory cards. I had one, ...

HexML

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

I talked briefly about this with Elmer earlier today. The spec isn't totally final yet, but I have working stream-writers and parsers in PHP and Objective-C (for the iPhone and Mac OS), and a PHP utility for converting HexML to XML (obviously limited to XML's feature set). The basic idea is ...

CG Advances

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Here is something intersting: I'll jump your uncanny valley Can pornographic games be much further behind? SCIENCE.

Onion.

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Oh, the onion. 134 Year Old Man Green Clad Olypic Archer On top of that, here is a work of microfiction, or an opening line to a short story. "The lonely cold of deep space turned her nipples into black diamonds." And speaking of short stories: I have an idea for a Cthulhu mythos story ...

FBAM, and more

Monday, August 18th, 2008

First: I think I mentioned this to most of you, but just to make sure, I'm way too busy to write for FBAM write now.  Whoever would like to take my place, please do so.  Hopefully I'll get back into the loop later in the cycle. Second: Elmer, I couldn't find that carpet ...