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

#3GoodThings

1. Successful Jeopardy midterm review.
2. New record number of plays of Cascadia 9.0: 437.
3. A long-awaited crowdsourced board game has shipped.

My college is gearing up to install a new president, but if we just waited another month we could have an eggnoguration.

#3GoodThings

1. Was able to rearrange things to be filmed for local news.
2. A suitable project for next semester's software development class fell out of the sky.
3. Went to a talk with @htdrake.

Hair comment of the day, from a passing teenager: "Are you the dude on the dollar bill?"

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/ifo

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."

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.