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Dear xymotik:

I just gave my extensive model car collection to Joe Lieberman. Sorry, but you just don't have the joementum.

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Even in this startup mode, I think I need to take a day off at least once a week. Yesterday was that day for me, though I refused to admit it until bedtime. After the shoot I returned home to work, and while I did do a little I mostly farted around online for 10 hours. (Some of that was me diving headfirst into the /davis_?square/ mess, which I actually consider to be time well spent, but mostly it was around-farting.)

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Oo oo I just got a good idea for a Gamshelf side-project: Jmac's Guide to Teaching Games. A short video illustrating my personal principles of good board game teaching, contrasted with my observations of well-meaning-but-ineffective teaching. This was inspired by a thread on BGG where I witnessed people complaining about how nobody ever listens when they teach a game by reading its rules out loud, to which I say, "You're reading the rules of a game out loud?!"

I would like to use a "goofus and gallant" format, but am not sure whether I should be in one role, or both, or neither. The most "obvious" choice to me involves me playing the Good Teacher and casting "evil jmac" (me w/ glued-on goatee or Dali 'stache or something) as the Bad Teacher but that's kind of a tired joke so I don't know.

It would be entirely scripted, making it a fun new challenge for me. (The Gameshelf's host segments are only lightly scripted, which is unfortunately evidenced by the thus-far strained nature of my monologues. I need to improve this.)