Month: June 2025

  • game con-spiration

    game con-spiration

    I’ve been a lazy game developer lately.  A couple months ago I was proudly telling people how much progress I was making on Pleck’s Mart. Heck I was logging at least—at least—a couple hours every day adding to the code base and debugging the game and making art and then sitting at the cafe writing

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  • weekend wrap eight

    weekend wrap eight

    The last three days have been punctuated by epic thundershowers meaning not only does the lawn now desperately need to be mowed thanks to the rain, but also that it was a good weekend for a time-consuming indoor actitivity. This weekend was filled with: Games. Anita scored a pair of tickets to the annual Game

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  • book reviews: fathers day

    book reviews: fathers day

    Coinicentally perhaps, all three of the last trio of otherwise-disconnected books I recently read had a thread of fatherhood-related importance running through them.  It was Father’s Day yesterday, and my last as the dad of a kid (because The Kid will be An Adult in a couple months) so while I’ll be a dad for

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  • head over feets: zen edition

    head over feets: zen edition

    I have been doing a self-experiment. (That’s what I am going to call these things that others might call “challenges” or “streaks” of trying to build a habit over the course of 30 days. Experiments on myself.) I have been meditating every day. And before you get the images of me all new-age yogi omming

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  • writing: enough

    writing: enough

    It’s all well and good to write about writing but at the end of the day you’ve really just got to sit down and do it. It’s mid-June and Father’s day is approaching. This is something of an anniversary for me because on the day after Father’s day, two years ago, I had a meeting

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