Superbowl not a victory for writers
The guys over at nfl.com wrote a doozie:
The Giants had the perfectly game plan for defeating the Patriots as they sprung one of the greast upsets in NFL history, if not the greatest.
Here's a screen capture, in case they fix it:
The original words are at the bottom of the nfl.com game recap.
Better than Meat Vegetables
I went to a Thai restaurant in Massachusetts recently that offered "Vegetable Vegetables" on its menu. I suppose that's better than Vegetable Meat, or Meat Vegetables.
That's the best picture my iPhone could do.
Live web cameras back online
After many years offline, I have finally bought a couple web cameras and pointed them at somewhat interesting places. You can see them at http://paco.to/live/.
What is a Game?
I met some folks who ran a "Passive Multiplayer Online Game." I got to hear them speak recently, and I've started playing it myself. But the problem was that I keep saying "this is not a game." Someone who started it long before me will have massively more points than me and, unless they go on vacation, will always have more points than me. What's the point? Furthermore, there's no winning or losing, and there's not much player interaction. I can blow people up with mines, and I get points for doing it, but it doesn't really change their behavior. They do what they're gonna do, and then they happen to discover that something blew up while they did it. This defied my definition of a "game" at a gut level. But the problem was that I could not express my gut. What is a game?
The Cubes are Alive with the Sounds of Foo Camp
So I'm off at Foo Camp with tons of cool people. It turns out that no matter how cool, smart, or hip you might be (and everybody here is a lot of that), you probably snore. These are the sounds of the cubes in Building B, Sunday morning. There's a really curious sound about 24 seconds in. Must have been a good dream. 45 seconds, 600Kb. Poor quality. Good humor value.