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I just updated the favorite games page with a list of games that I want to like, but don't.

Picked up my own copy of the TR draft from David today. Jeepers, it's big. Before I can pounce on it, though, I've got to help out one of P&X's Japanese translators, who is struggling with Chapter 10, which is titled "XML Applications, Or: jmac's Brain Falls Apart". I can see that the word "monkey" appears about 32 times in his email to me, in various quotes from the chapter. Yep, that was the last chapter, all right. I... think I'll do the dishes first, and then make some tea, and then do that.

I have to mention that Erik has been great with this stage of P&X support; he's fielded all of the translators' questions very quickly, and he'd probably have fielded Tawa's Chapter 10 questions by now too if he had cc:ed the email to Erik, even though Erik didn't work on that chapter. I keep reminding me that he's so hyper about this even while he's up to his elbows in yet another book project of his own -- his third in a row!

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David was in my copyediting class last night. I got to drop your name again. "Yup, he's a close personal friend of mine. That's right, that famous author."

From the game page:

"A good Zendo game involves long stretches of its players contemplating -- perhaps silently, perhaps with great vociferousness -- a tabletop covered with strange, colorful arrangements of plastic pyramids."

Yeah, unless you're playing Speed Zendo, in which we went through, what, eight rules in twenty minutes? Some of them were easy rules like "must have a green pyramid," but not all of them. None of that long quiet contemplation crap there.