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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.)
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.)
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.)
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I think that Jmac's Guide to Teaching Games would be fantastic to do, especially downloadable over the internets. And, wow.. you could even actually go so far as to make instructional videos for certain games (or to produce them for game companies.. hmm hmm).
Remember.
You need a day off. Once a week. Really.