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mrmorse and I, in our copious free time, have been trying to rework someone else's idea of mixing "Memoir '44" and "Zombies!!!" into a playable game.

Today's attempt:

Axis: 0
Allies: 1
Zombies: 6

Prognosis: Needs recalibration. (Even worse, the one Allied point was when I played a Barrage card on a one-figure unit that had already been savaged by Zombies!!!.)

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I think that the Volity meme's been released into the water supply somewhere... got two messages about it from strangers, yesterday and today. (One posted to the mailing list via the Usenet link that PSA set up, which I believe to be a first.) Could be a coincidence, but experience suggests that even two datapoints with this sort of thing means that it got a mention somewhere. I've seen it happen before with my writing, or with different jmac.org toys.

Uh, waitasec, daerr set up a Web traffic analyzer with the site itself well over a year ago. I'll go check it out now. OK holy crap, there's been as much traffic in the first three days of July as all of June. Hmm, it may be due to the http://byond.com people finding it... I see a bunch of referers from there, and relevant chatter on their message boards. Perhaps I will pay them a visit. Now I'm all nervous about what they're saying on their forum! Will steel my nerves w/decaf and then give it a butcher's.

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Feeling a little whacked out from four straight days of coding (zombies aside), and I'm still not done with my Volity tasks, implementing a lot of long-defined protocol chunks for the first time and battling a thousand devils down in the details, stuff that isn't obvious until you first try setting things to code. I'm so happy that Zarf is doing parallel work in Python; I don't expect there to be many unhammered bumps left in the platform, between the two of us. And then the public beta will happen, the first uncontrolled user-tests shall come, and it will all collapse with a puff and a sigh. No, don't get like that.

And tomorrow is going to be all day with ICCB coding as I try to meet Tuesday deadlines. The holiday just means I don't have to go to the office. O poor poor me. Actually no complaints; I had my July 4 on June 30, with the rest of Somerville. (Thanks hauntmeister!)

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Ricky's coming down to check out Art Beat this year. I am optimistic.