The voteamabob once gain threw up the traditional pasta night games of Ticket to Ride and Dominion, so jonners99_uk did a bit more number-crunching and instead selected Scotland Yard and Galaxy Trucker as being the two games with the most first-choice votes. Perhaps the voteamabob app should take rankings into account when we eventually get round to writing it ( Read more... )

They're like buses, you wait ages for a post and then three come at once.

elemnar and I were chatting about our approaches to games, and how it is that elemnar usually ends up utterly annihilating everything without appearing to even try (back in the days of Pokémon, the others at church stopped battling her after it became clear that no-one stood a chance). ( Read more... )

Ok, so last night's update was actually submitted after midnight, but I claim that it's still yesterday's update as I hadn't gone to bed yet. Thanks to talismancer for prodding me.

Anyway, time for an actual post which isn't a random meme or a comment on talismancer's posts.

Recently I've been watching Mission: 2110, which in a nutshell is a futuristic version of ( Read more... )

Raymond Chen (of The Old New Thing blog) recently linked to a post asking, "How much does a gigabyte weigh?" The original poster had gotten confused (or is an excellent troll) and thought that as he installed stuff on his laptop it actually got heavier. Obviously that's not the case ( Read more... )

Music is a powerful art form. It has the ability to take the mind to different places, to unite cultures and people, to soothe and relax ( Read more... )