This weekend alaricmacconnal and Kathy hosted a day of gaming. I got to play two new-to-me games (along with others), Through the Ages (board game) and Innovation (card game).
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Neat visualization #1: the scale of the universe, showing how big (and small) things are. Link from filkerdave.
Ooh, pretty: when Planet Earth looks like art. Link from browngirl.
Overheard at work: "Every time a developer cries, a tester gets his horns".
Neat visualization #2, from a coworker: 200 counteries, 200 years, 4 minutes.
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I came out of my previous encounters with Defenders of the Realm ( Read more... )

Dani played Defenders of the Realm at Origins and found it promising despite its high similarity to another game we enjoy, so he ordered a copy. We've now played a few games.
This is a cooperative game where the players are trying to prevent the ( Read more... )

At Origins Dani played Agricola and found it worthy of more exploration, so he bought a copy. We've played several two-player games and yesterday we played a four-player game. The game is evocative of Puerto Rico and Caylus and plays in about half an hour per player. I've found it a lot of fun so far.
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Yesterday we played a six-player game of Tales of the Arabian Nights, which was new to four of us. (It's produced ( Read more... )

Pesach has been going well. Tonight/tomorrow is the last day, which is a holiday like the first day was. Yesterday Rabbi Symons led a beit midrash on the "pour out your wrath" part of the haggadah; more about that later, but it led me to a new-to-me haggadah that so far I'm liking a lot. (I borrowed a copy ( Read more... )

We spent two long days this week playing board games. (Not adjacent. Dani can go to conventions and play games for four days solid, but I'm not that hard-core.)
( Imperial, Settlers (and what's with these weird pieces?), Puerto Rico, Pandemic )

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