Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

When Kermit fails to take a hint, does Miss Piggy issue a dense frog advisory?

Unfortunately, due to supply chain issues, prices at thegamecrafter.com are about to go up. If you're planning to order Siva Afi: The Fireknife Dance of Samoa, now's the time!

https://tgc.link/siva-afi

#SivaAfi #CardGame

#3GoodThings

1. Made a choropleth map by sheer force of will.
2. Strategic time management.
3. Another good session of FATE with Susan, the passive-aggressive uplifted capybara.

Saw a car with the vanity plate INNNI.

It was, inevitably, an Audi.

The student lounge in the Department of Mathematical Sciences has a 4x4x4 Rubik's cube.

Today someone was in there with a 5x5x5 ... talking about how the moves generalize after that.

#3GoodThings

1. Groceries acquired.
2. Giant pumpkin regatta.
3. Got my Evil Hangman program working in Haskell.

Overheard: "It feels like cheating, but then I wouldn't have to draw snakes."

@jalefkowit I'm told that light themes are better than dark when projecting on a screen.

Overheard: "I know it will get better. I'm just going to whine until it does."

The AI Sensei analysis had been staring at this part of the board for well over a hundred moves, while both of us 1k humans ignored it.

I won as white with the spaghetti strategy: keep throwing things against the wall until something sticks. After losing the fight in the lower left corner, I played this move ... and soon realized it won me the entire top side.

#go #igo #weiqi

#3GoodThings

1. Got my bivalent COVID booster.
2. Gave feedback on a bunch of student posters.
3. Something finally happened on Andor.

#3GoodThings

1. Got some work done between meetings.
2. Training neural networks is about 25x faster with the GPUs.
3. Glow show well-received despite minor technical difficulties.

@rolltime ... and even many bad ones!

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/4656/classified-encyclopedia-chess-variants

@rolltime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriegspiel_(chess)

#3GoodThings

1. The neural network is training.
2. Made popcorn for my 90-minute Zoom meeting.
3. Solid rehearsal for tomorrow's show.

A story about my earthquake video game project.

https://www.lclark.edu/live/news/49588-shaking-up-disaster-preparedness-with-video-games