Twitter Week: 2009-07-25

2009-07-25 00:00 · Tags: Personal / Twhit-Twhoo!

Music industry copyright arguments of 100 years ago. Yep, same old tired arguments, just more articulately and better argued. http://tr … #
What that last link should have been: http://bit.ly/oJHzT Sorry folks. #
RT @cshirky:FF 3.5 recommends AdBlock+ as an add-on. Moves FF from hosting the advertising arms race to being an active belligerent. #
4P 1830, went bankrupt in a beautiful 3 company train swindle. Then 3P 1830: $9336 (Daniel), $7502 (me), $7428 (Tim). Bahh! #18xx #
Last night’s 3-player 1830: http://twitpic.com/b0ynn #18xx #
Winsome Essen set: B&O reviewed. KP clever & unobvious. Wabash exp is brill: alliances for losers. PO exp good. GMO exp deeper than appears. #
@davemcclure #Twitter is public performance art akin to street acts. FB is more clubby & rife with social bonding & strong feedback loops. in reply to davemcclure #

Twitter Week: 2009-07-18

2009-07-18 00:00 · Tags: Personal / Twhit-Twhoo!

5P 18Mex, 3.5 hours, great train rush (every player had to sell shares to buy trains), OOOF!, every 4D bought, won with NdM, MC & TM. #18xx #
Sing to the tune of, “Oh I do want to be beside the seaside!” Continue riffing. Vague Scientist: http://tr.im/skw9 #
@newscientist Your tweet volume is fine – near ideal for me. #survey in reply to newscientist #
@icheyne When I last tested the OpenID plugin, it was fragile. I’ll look again #wordpress #openid in reply to icheyne #

Twitter Week: 2009-07-11

2009-07-11 00:00 · Tags: Personal / Twhit-Twhoo!

@ChrisTheCat Is Ducati back up? It was down for what seemed the longest time. #bzflag in reply to ChrisTheCat #
18TN appears better as a 3P than 4P. Odd little game. Neat, clever, small. I may just be a fan of Mark Derrick designs. #18xx #
RT @raphkoster:Brilliant infoviz graph porn on the economic recovery! RT: @tobiasbuckell http://tr.im/r8Dz #
18TN. 120 minutes start to finish. Scores: 6485 (me), 6374 (Daniel), 5745 (Aliza). http://twitpic.com/9nuyg http://twitpic.com/9nv0z #18xx #
Actually that should be 180 minutes for 18TN, but who’s counting? #18xx #
Paxos, bakery, other concurrent algorithms - my scratchpad is ink-sodden just thinking them through. #
18TN, 3 players, 3 hours, $6486 (Jacob) $5894 (me) $5424 (Aaron) - stupid 5 train! #18xx #

Twitter Week: 2009-07-04

2009-07-04 00:00 · Tags: Personal / Twhit-Twhoo!

@ingredientx Throw a thumb on the geeklist. Incredibly arithmetic, but also fascinating. Best with 4 or 5 players, not 3. in reply to ingredientx #
Both the hummingbird cickss have flown! http://twitpic.com/8l2hy Tart joy, unjustified pride. #
Empty nest syndrome: http://twitpic.com/8liaj http://twitpic.com/8li3h http://twitpic.com/8lihg #
If I work hard I can see them as the same colour, just barely. Clever visual illusion: http://is.gd/1gacn (via @andytinkham) #
RT: @MitchWagner: 1865 letter from a former slave on his former master’s offer of employment. http://bit.ly/vfByo #
@jdludlow OMG the pressure, the unbearable pressure! I have a migraine now – I can’t type! in reply to jdludlow #
@ChrisTheCat Such people simply don’t understand doubling periods. in reply to ChrisTheCat #
@jdludlow I wield temptation #1. in reply to jdludlow #
Excellently plain discussion of the bistable evolution of disruptive markets (semi-WRT to publishing): http://tr.im/qwAw (via @christhecat) #
Studio #Ghibli’s latest, #Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, is sweet and charming and twee, but is not up to the level of their previous work. #
RT @spacehack:Inflatable tower promises easy access to outer space: http://bit.ly/15RPZg #
Well, now, that’s umm, yes, rather. Robogeisha: http://bit.ly/vgyE7 (via @raphkoster) #
@ChrisTheCat Where are you playing #bzflag? I used to play a lot on Ducati (CTF, 2 teams, 2 shots, no special flags, no jumping) in reply to ChrisTheCat #
Beautiful images of the moon from LRO. It is hard to hope again. Such a small big thing: http://tr.im/qPnA (via @nasa) #

Twitter Week: 2009-06-27

2009-06-27 00:00 · Tags: Personal / Twhit-Twhoo!

The hummingbird chicks by my door are growing apace: http://twitpic.com/86zp9 Fed on the spiders from the junipers, they’ll be flying soon! #
@ingredientx This is the Valley. No way in hell Twitter will run out of money. VCs beg to give them money. The ecosystem has really started. in reply to ingredientx #
@ingredientx They’ve a long way to run before monetisation is an issue. They have the eyeballs: that’s all that’s required for some years. in reply to ingredientx #
@ingredientx I went through the bubble at VA Research, Nuron, Critical Path, Protego Networks etc. I grok. I think they’ll make it. in reply to ingredientx #
Looking into #Django. There’s a fair bit to like here for a rapid development platform, esp if your code is also high velocity. #
@ingredientx Hehn. Yet more echoes of Lokomoticve Werks? The local complaint has been the hidden/uncertain demand. (I’ve not played yet) in reply to ingredientx #
@rholzgrafe Congrats! in reply to rholzgrafe #
Thinking of learning/using #Django to parse the #18xx differences list into a RDBMS so that game-specific views may be extracted. #
@brettspiel Dude, I told you to see Coraline 3D at the tme! It was exemplary. Yet to see UP 3D, but may this week. in reply to brettspiel #

Twitter Week: 2009-06-20

2009-06-20 00:00 · Tags: Personal / Twhit-Twhoo!

@brettspiel My FB and Twitter accounts are linked, but that’s mostly because I can’t think of a unique value for my FB account. in reply to brettspiel #
@brettspiel @jlweiss Good point on selective twitter/FB posting. I’d rather exclude specific tweets from #FB than flag those to cross-post, in reply to brettspiel #
#Twitter upgrade delayed to help Iran: http://tr.im/oGbF Thanks – I’ve family there. #nomaintenance #iran #iranelection #
#twitter at work: http://twitter.com/#search?q=#iranelection Primal. #iranelection #iran #
Someone has my respect and gratitude. RT @alleyinsider:State Dept asked #Twitter to delay downtime: http://bit.ly/2lH6Xy #iranelection #iran #
@raphkoster Overly dramatic. Just tell #iTunes to DL the upgrade 1st and then install it separately rather than DL & insta-install. #iphone in reply to raphkoster #
Subtitles that don’t word-match the same-language dub. Poor form! #anime #
@jdludlow Thanks. I’ll add that one to the list. This is Pumpkin Scissors. Reminds me of the horribly good/bad Mad Mission 3 dub. #anime in reply to jdludlow #
Metropolys expansion not so interesting: http://tr.im/p67Q Hoped for a game-inverter like a once-per-player treat-last-bid-as-if-were-a-1 #

Twitter Week: 2009-06-13

2009-06-13 00:00 · Tags: Personal / Twhit-Twhoo!

Yep, #twitter is a performance art more than a participatory or discourse system: http://tr.im/nEMD #
Common wisdom and the symmetry of popularity: http://tr.im/nEZh (via @andrew_chen, @jhong) #
@neilhimself So would that be the blessed schizophrenic duality of the beast or merely a squared beast, perhaps framed in fearful symmetry? in reply to neilhimself #
Piracy becoming the centre: http://tr.im/nJdZ If you outlaw piracy, only everyone will be a pirate. Ergo, you become what you resist. #
Blind search engine result testing: http://blindsearch.fejus.com/ Surprised? #
No, this is the onset of active data. RT @hnshah: RT @timyoung The web “page” will soon be dead. It’s days are numbered. #
@seo1970 And are the cows winning? Told Michael last night to not make a decision on the render, but to paste-up a real box. Light dawned? in reply to seo1970 #
@seo1970 Send me an URL? in reply to seo1970 #
http://twitpic.com/6zs9s It seems the hummingbird eggs by my door have hatched. http://twitpic.com/6zseh #
Google Wave’s success rests on its LCD OSS foundation? MS’s Mesh tied too hard to proprietary product stack? http://tr.im/nXIe #gwave #
Fiddled with Jeremiah Lee’s #Kindle during Tahuantinsuyu. Great human factors. The data-trap (Amazon dies, so does your Kindle) scares me. #
Do you know where you are? Really? Seen the Milky Way lately? Context is everything for a sense of life’s relative scales. http://tr.im/nZPb #
Here Cthulhu, here boy! Come on boy! That’s my little Cthulhu! Want a Care Bear for din-dins? http://tr.im/o69z (via @neilhimself) #
I’m off to meet the Wizard, the wonderful wizard of, umm, 18TN? B&O? Gimme my damn poker chips back, and no, you can’t have that many! #18xx #
Neighborhood pot boiler. RT @newscientist:Supervolcano under Mount St Helens may be cranking up for a biggun http://bit.ly/2HMDH #
The ranting on Rubicon’s offices is BS. They’re not an engineering/tech company, they’re market-driven media and they’re optimised for that. #

Twitter Week: 2009-06-06

2009-06-06 00:00 · Tags: Personal / Twhit-Twhoo!

The short definition of Google Wave: Conversation as a first class noun/object. The rest is just network & RPC model. #gwave #googlewave. #
@timoreilly @vanessafox Search spiders replicating human/client views isn't l/t viable. Predict custom views for spiders - & trust issues. in reply to timoreilly #
Google Wave may rewrite the blogosphere. Blogs become wave collections. Goodbye RSS! If waves can nest, blogs become just another #gwave. #
@ysrthgrathe Aye, getting the auth model right for Google Wave will be interesting. #gwave in reply to ysrthgrathe #
#tweetdeck limited to 11 columns, #nambu 20 searches. Must run multiple clients to get perspective? Need 75+ w/ priority sorting. #twitter #
Twitter, Facebook , blogs etc allow users to find discussions. Google Wave doesn't. Participating is one thing, finding is another. #gwave. #
Good discussion of systemic trade-offs in both problem resolution and process: http://bit.ly/On0Rl #
@davemcclure Microsoft, Google and Yahoo! have re-invented their platforms at least once every 5 years. #twtrcon in reply to davemcclure #
Any guesses on number of RPCs/second/user for Google Wave? What are the operational boundaries? #gwave #
Greedy algorithm is strong in 4 player Mexica. With 3 players is viable but not dominant (tough proof). http://tr.im/n8n7 http://tr.im/n8na #
Game design thought for the night: What if you're herding cats (or dogs), but all you can do is to point their tails in the right direction? #
@doctorow On source `dpkg --get-selectiions | fgrep -v deinstall | cut -f1` > pkg.list then `xargs apt-get install < pkg.list` on target in reply to doctorow #
Max-diff surveying what customers really want with clear differentiation and ranking: http://tr.im/nsFK (via @seanellis, @brantcooper) #
@raphkoster While twitter can support conversation, it is more of a performance art upon a stage. in reply to raphkoster #
A little sentimental, but well worth the time, the thought and the resulting discussion. Home: http://www.youtube.com/homeproject #
Ray Ozzie has a point: Google Wave “is anti-Web” http://bit.ly/12VwcD #gwave #

Twitter Week: 2009-05-30

2009-05-30 00:00 · Tags: Personal / Twhit-Twhoo!

Won 18C2C: C&O+Wabash & Norfolk&NW+GMO for the win. Beautiful stations & destination runs. Phew! #18xx #kublacon #
Late mid-game in yesterday’s 18C2C: http://twitpic.com/5s0sg #
Cavum, Corner Lot, 18Mex, 18TN requested by others for today. #kublacon #18xx #boardgame #
How strange: was just asked to sign a copy of Age of Sream: London/Sun. #kublacon #
Corner Lot desc’d at #kublacon design competition as Knizia-like strategy-dense publishable. Another request for player aids. #
Corner Lot in top 3 of #kublacon competition. Some complaint of too unobvious, mathy and tempo-driven: ie things I like & designed it to be! #
@punkzter My #AgeOfSteam maps (Wales, Central America, Denmark, SE Australia etc) are still slowly moving toward publication. #boardgame in reply to punkzter #
Played 18C2C, 18Mex & 1889 at #kublacon. 18C2C endgame continues long after gameplay dies. 1889 is proving deeper than I’d thought. #18xx #
Winner of the #kublacon design competition was combinatorial game, “Kiva”. Simply brilliant game. Sadly unpublishable but deserved the win #
Dice rolling redux (via IngredientX) http://gamesbyemail.com/News/DiceOMatic #
@frandallfarmer More evidence to support man’s gestation as a creature of lightly wooded plains? in reply to frandallfarmer #
A/B testing: when does it have meaning? http://tr.im/mAOe (via ericries) #
Hummingbirds are nesting right outside my front door. Eggs too! I feel bad merely leaving the house for the scare I must give them. #
RT @BoardgameNews:Article: Brett Gilbert applies John Maeda’s “The Laws of Simplicty” to game design – http://bit.ly/17tde0 #
RT @asbruckman DRM encourages people to break the law to use content legally. Empirical study by Akester in Ars Technica: http://is.gd/IiF5 #
Bing: But It’s Not Google. Ooops. #
(Ahoy, the startup life!) “”Sleep” and I broke up a few nights ago. I’m dating “Coffee” now. She’s Hot!” (via @ev, @CoryBooker) #
Marketing makes good works known, Sales makes them bought: RT @NotGodinREPOSTs:The difference between marketing & sales http://ff.im/-3mLLy #
She’s right, but only at scale: RT @alleyinsider:Subscriptions Only Work “Selling Weird Porn,” Says Arianna Huffington: http://bit.ly/zruA5 #
Gahh! Is a low noise twitter search for #18xx related (game) traffic possible? http://search.twitter.com/operators #
Obama’s burger outings are both branding touchstones and incredible marketing. Could beat Teddy’s fireside chats. http://tr.im/mPRg #
@haazmatt #18xx OR “Deep Thought Games” OR “Heron Games” OR 1830 OR (list of 18xx titles) -from:news5_1860 (last needed as I list 1860) in reply to haazmatt #
@haazmatt Which isn’t a very good search, but is what I use for now. in reply to haazmatt #
The cost of phyrric victories writ large at Microsoft? Or inclusive vs exclusive relationships with customers & partners? http://tr.im/mQ7R #
@brettspiel I’d search for just 18xx and not just the hashtag #18xx, but it matches all the crime stat reporting services.. Bah! #18xx in reply to brettspiel #
@brettspiel I suspect 18xx means it is from radio-scanned dispatch rather than official. 17xx & 18xx are usually dispatch in police lingo. in reply to brettspiel #
Is the big problem with electronic speech the separation of intent & meaning? Human speech is not algebraic, but our electronic speech is. #
I dislike the centralised model espoused by Facebook/Google Wave/Twitter etc. Where is personal federation? Must the model be hub & spoke? #

Twitter Week: 2009-05-23

2009-05-23 00:00 · Tags: Personal / Twhit-Twhoo!

I see the #eurovision song contest is still long on kitsch but catchy hyper-enthusiasm: http://bit.ly/u9WKq (via @om) #
@andrew_chen TwitterTools is good software: Does what it claims, does it well, and what it claims is useful. in reply to andrew_chen #
Why should stem cell research have more oversight than shooting people in wars or killing people in capital punishment? #stemcell #
Until 26 May, comment on NIH #stemcell research guidelines: http://tr.im/lzlP Respect sapiency & intelligence more than tissue. #
@timoreilly I love clotheslines for how crunchy my clothes, especially cotton, are afterward. Towels feel like super-absorbent mega-wicks. in reply to timoreilly #
3P 1832 last night. 2nd by $300. It is a fine game up to the 5-trains, maybe the 6s, then not so much: typical uninteresting Dixon end-game. #
@jdhuntington I’ll take #irssi over #Adium or #Colloquy for the win thankyouverymuch. #irc in reply to jdhuntington #
Mergers and acquisitions are back up. Is this really a bellwether or merely temporary (in)digestion with better credit? http://tr.im/lHJp #
The fact that I can’t go back and edit my 1832 post from earlier this morning to append an #18xx is bugging the crap out of me. Gahh! #
18C2C game starting Friday morning at Kublacon. We may have a seat open. #18xx #
@BoardgamesToGo You have questions on Chicago Express strategy? in reply to BoardgamesToGo #
@BoardgamesToGo No worries. I should post the next Wabash Cannonball: Set Piece article, The next one deals with end-game timing. in reply to BoardgamesToGo #
Yes, yes, we know: The world is small and space is big and HOLY CRAP THERE ARE A LOT OF STARS OUT THERE! http://tr.im/m3sw #