Dominid is a result of buying a set of dominoes and realizing how boring and skill-less domino games were. So, here is the first ever published instructions for the best new domino game of the 21st century.
Dominid
Required: 28 regular dominoes (0 to 6) and 2 people
Objective: To have the lowest score after all dominoes have [...]
I’ve finally decided to restart my blog after one and a half years with a bit of nostalgia from exactly* one and a half decades ago. But I don’t want to dwell on old friends and inside jokes. Instead, I want to tell you, oh faceless reader, about a neat game we invented.That year, I [...]
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about hybridding. A hybrid, in the modem context, is something that will combine multiple energy sources to perform a single function. Two things about this are difficult. First, the device must be fairly intelligent to manage the 2 sources. Simply, plug it in and close the switch will no [...]
There is an intense immediacy in life when things happen quickly, unexpectedly-something that I hope I can always experience. And what exactly is spawning this Hallmark-grade drivel? Three things:
I had a jam with my band the other day that I’ve been listening to a lot on a recent trip back east. Here it is in [...]
I don’t read many blogs and so I really don’t have much to inspire me on that end. But, one of my favorite is 5ives a humor blog by Merlin Mann who is, dare I say, a fellow Web.2.0 renaissance man. Whatever. I found myself having a number of conversations over the last few days [...]
I uncreatively use Microsoft and Yahoo! for nearly everything I do. It’s not that I don’t see the superiority of Google or Macintosh it just I prefer to go with what’s popular and easy for these things. I see now that when it comes to music, I’ve lost out. I totally dig the new WiMP [...]
The following is my adaptation of a puzzle offered by an old friend. The original is a little too bawdy so I’ve recast it…
This one eccentric winemaker believes the secret to great drink is to have the grapes squashed by the feet of dancing maidens. He has arranged for one on Saturday and another for [...]
I set myself – what appeared to be – a very generous deadline about 5 months ago to finish a piece of software I was writing in time to show at a conference. The conference was just last week and so the weeks leading up to it were busy with final touches to the code [...]
I know I haven’t written an entry in a while, and this short one really doesn’t satisfy, but here goes.
This is a picture of 3 packages that arrived at our house last week. Each contained exactly one small item (the light green packages). All are from the same company and yet each uses a different [...]
I’ve been talking on and off about how we don’t use our own human energy anymore – everything is electric or hydrocarbon powered. In the spirit of hybridding, it’d be nice to harness human power where appropriate. There are better studies of this topic than what I’m about to write, but this one is compact [...]
