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Am supposed to be starting to attend to my end of the revenue model implementation now, but wound up spending the afternoon fixing a hairy problem in the Perl libraries that has hung up another Volity hacker, a fellow chugging along with a Hearts implementation. It was a conscious decision: getting developers psyched is a top priority for us, and having broken libraries is not the way to do it. Furthermore, I am really excited about having a well-known game like Hearts on the Network.
I did the right thing but I really can't punt any more with the revenue stuff. The Andys will look at me badly if I haven't made progress by Monday night. But there's also all the RSS stuff that needs to get done... eek.
I didn't feel like doing anything last night so I worked on the G*mesh*lf for about three hours, enough to throw together a rough draft out of the footage from last December. It is not our best work - the guest players are great, but the host bits are a bit too dorky if you can believe that - but I wanna get it done. I can't start thinking about where to take the show next when I have this eight-month-old undigested bolus sitting on my hard drive. Gotta poop it out. I think you'll like it anyway, when it's done.
Speaking of poop, I dropped Tom Vasel's The Dice Tower podcast after listening to a few episodes. It's an all-right show - I especially like what he does with guest-produced content - but its overall attitude about games and maybe about life in general is just different enough from mine to irritate me.
I finally dropped the feed when a recent show featured a top-ten list of worst themed games, and I thought that every "worst theme" they mentioned was actually pretty awesome. They hated all the Cheapass Games themes for being either boring ("Who wants to pretend to be in a ren faire?!") or absurd ("'Devil Bunny'? That doesn't make any sense!"), and dismissed other games on bogus perceptions, like calling Funny Friends a game about "being a cool teenager" - though I'm sure that if they knew more about the game they would have hated it anyways. As far as I can tell these guys just don't like either sort of below-the-waist-based humor, and as far as I'm concerned that makes them aliens. (The kind of aliens that don't go to the bathroom and reproduce via budding, I guess.)
Speaking of aliens, I have picked up![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
taskboy3000's Pseudocertainty, a news podcast covering the world of pseudoscience and bizarre phenomena. I have only listened to the first ten minutes of the most recent show so far, but I like what I've heard, and now I won't be able to prompt jjohn for further mock outrage about how I never listen to his show.
It sort of fills the void left by Skepticality, which I stopped listening to when (and believe me, I feel like a jerk about this) Derek came back from hospital and I found it just too igry listening to him trying to communicate through his recent brain damage. Maybe he and the show are better now... I suppose I could give it another listen sometime.
I did the right thing but I really can't punt any more with the revenue stuff. The Andys will look at me badly if I haven't made progress by Monday night. But there's also all the RSS stuff that needs to get done... eek.
I didn't feel like doing anything last night so I worked on the G*mesh*lf for about three hours, enough to throw together a rough draft out of the footage from last December. It is not our best work - the guest players are great, but the host bits are a bit too dorky if you can believe that - but I wanna get it done. I can't start thinking about where to take the show next when I have this eight-month-old undigested bolus sitting on my hard drive. Gotta poop it out. I think you'll like it anyway, when it's done.
Speaking of poop, I dropped Tom Vasel's The Dice Tower podcast after listening to a few episodes. It's an all-right show - I especially like what he does with guest-produced content - but its overall attitude about games and maybe about life in general is just different enough from mine to irritate me.
I finally dropped the feed when a recent show featured a top-ten list of worst themed games, and I thought that every "worst theme" they mentioned was actually pretty awesome. They hated all the Cheapass Games themes for being either boring ("Who wants to pretend to be in a ren faire?!") or absurd ("'Devil Bunny'? That doesn't make any sense!"), and dismissed other games on bogus perceptions, like calling Funny Friends a game about "being a cool teenager" - though I'm sure that if they knew more about the game they would have hated it anyways. As far as I can tell these guys just don't like either sort of below-the-waist-based humor, and as far as I'm concerned that makes them aliens. (The kind of aliens that don't go to the bathroom and reproduce via budding, I guess.)
Speaking of aliens, I have picked up
taskboy3000's Pseudocertainty, a news podcast covering the world of pseudoscience and bizarre phenomena. I have only listened to the first ten minutes of the most recent show so far, but I like what I've heard, and now I won't be able to prompt jjohn for further mock outrage about how I never listen to his show.It sort of fills the void left by Skepticality, which I stopped listening to when (and believe me, I feel like a jerk about this) Derek came back from hospital and I found it just too igry listening to him trying to communicate through his recent brain damage. Maybe he and the show are better now... I suppose I could give it another listen sometime.