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Twitter Week: 2009-07-11

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  • @ChrisTheCat Is Ducati back up? It was down for what seemed the longest time. #bzflag in reply to ChrisTheCat #
  • 18TN appears better as a 3P than 4P. Odd little game. Neat, clever, small. I may just be a fan of Mark Derrick designs. #18xx #
  • RT @raphkoster:Brilliant infoviz graph porn on the economic recovery! RT: @tobiasbuckell http://tr.im/r8Dz #
  • 18TN. 120 minutes start to finish. Scores: 6485 (me), 6374 (Daniel), 5745 (Aliza). http://twitpic.com/9nuyg http://twitpic.com/9nv0z #18xx #
  • Actually that should be 180 minutes for 18TN, but who’s counting? #18xx #
  • Paxos, bakery, other concurrent algorithms - my scratchpad is ink-sodden just thinking them through. #
  • 18TN, 3 players, 3 hours, $6486 (Jacob) $5894 (me) $5424 (Aaron) - stupid 5 train! #18xx #

Twitter Week: 2009-07-04

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Twitter Week: 2009-06-27

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  • The hummingbird chicks by my door are growing apace: http://twitpic.com/86zp9 Fed on the spiders from the junipers, they’ll be flying soon! #
  • @ingredientx This is the Valley. No way in hell Twitter will run out of money. VCs beg to give them money. The ecosystem has really started. in reply to ingredientx #
  • @ingredientx They’ve a long way to run before monetisation is an issue. They have the eyeballs: that’s all that’s required for some years. in reply to ingredientx #
  • @ingredientx I went through the bubble at VA Research, Nuron, Critical Path, Protego Networks etc. I grok. I think they’ll make it. in reply to ingredientx #
  • Looking into #Django. There’s a fair bit to like here for a rapid development platform, esp if your code is also high velocity. #
  • @ingredientx Hehn. Yet more echoes of Lokomoticve Werks? The local complaint has been the hidden/uncertain demand. (I’ve not played yet) in reply to ingredientx #
  • @rholzgrafe Congrats! in reply to rholzgrafe #
  • Thinking of learning/using #Django to parse the #18xx differences list into a RDBMS so that game-specific views may be extracted. #
  • @brettspiel Dude, I told you to see Coraline 3D at the tme! It was exemplary. Yet to see UP 3D, but may this week. in reply to brettspiel #

Twitter Week: 2009-06-20

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Twitter Week: 2009-06-13

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  • Yep, #twitter is a performance art more than a participatory or discourse system: http://tr.im/nEMD #
  • Common wisdom and the symmetry of popularity: http://tr.im/nEZh (via @andrew_chen, @jhong) #
  • @neilhimself So would that be the blessed schizophrenic duality of the beast or merely a squared beast, perhaps framed in fearful symmetry? in reply to neilhimself #
  • Piracy becoming the centre: http://tr.im/nJdZ If you outlaw piracy, only everyone will be a pirate. Ergo, you become what you resist. #
  • Blind search engine result testing: http://blindsearch.fejus.com/ Surprised? #
  • No, this is the onset of active data. RT @hnshah: RT @timyoung The web “page” will soon be dead. It’s days are numbered. #
  • @seo1970 And are the cows winning? Told Michael last night to not make a decision on the render, but to paste-up a real box. Light dawned? in reply to seo1970 #
  • @seo1970 Send me an URL? in reply to seo1970 #
  • http://twitpic.com/6zs9s It seems the hummingbird eggs by my door have hatched. http://twitpic.com/6zseh #
  • Google Wave’s success rests on its LCD OSS foundation? MS’s Mesh tied too hard to proprietary product stack? http://tr.im/nXIe #gwave #
  • Fiddled with Jeremiah Lee’s #Kindle during Tahuantinsuyu. Great human factors. The data-trap (Amazon dies, so does your Kindle) scares me. #
  • Do you know where you are? Really? Seen the Milky Way lately? Context is everything for a sense of life’s relative scales. http://tr.im/nZPb #
  • Here Cthulhu, here boy! Come on boy! That’s my little Cthulhu! Want a Care Bear for din-dins? http://tr.im/o69z (via @neilhimself) #
  • I’m off to meet the Wizard, the wonderful wizard of, umm, 18TN? B&O? Gimme my damn poker chips back, and no, you can’t have that many! #18xx #
  • Neighborhood pot boiler. RT @newscientist:Supervolcano under Mount St Helens may be cranking up for a biggun http://bit.ly/2HMDH #
  • The ranting on Rubicon’s offices is BS. They’re not an engineering/tech company, they’re market-driven media and they’re optimised for that. #

Twitter Week: 2009-06-06

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  • The short definition of Google Wave: Conversation as a first class noun/object. The rest is just network & RPC model. #gwave #googlewave. #
  • @timoreilly @vanessafox Search spiders replicating human/client views isn't l/t viable. Predict custom views for spiders - & trust issues. in reply to timoreilly #
  • Google Wave may rewrite the blogosphere. Blogs become wave collections. Goodbye RSS! If waves can nest, blogs become just another #gwave. #
  • @ysrthgrathe Aye, getting the auth model right for Google Wave will be interesting. #gwave in reply to ysrthgrathe #
  • #tweetdeck limited to 11 columns, #nambu 20 searches. Must run multiple clients to get perspective? Need 75+ w/ priority sorting. #twitter #
  • Twitter, Facebook , blogs etc allow users to find discussions. Google Wave doesn't. Participating is one thing, finding is another. #gwave. #
  • Good discussion of systemic trade-offs in both problem resolution and process: http://bit.ly/On0Rl #
  • @davemcclure Microsoft, Google and Yahoo! have re-invented their platforms at least once every 5 years. #twtrcon in reply to davemcclure #
  • Any guesses on number of RPCs/second/user for Google Wave? What are the operational boundaries? #gwave #
  • Greedy algorithm is strong in 4 player Mexica. With 3 players is viable but not dominant (tough proof). http://tr.im/n8n7 http://tr.im/n8na #
  • Game design thought for the night: What if you're herding cats (or dogs), but all you can do is to point their tails in the right direction? #
  • @doctorow On source `dpkg --get-selectiions | fgrep -v deinstall | cut -f1` > pkg.list then `xargs apt-get install < pkg.list` on target in reply to doctorow #
  • Max-diff surveying what customers really want with clear differentiation and ranking: http://tr.im/nsFK (via @seanellis, @brantcooper) #
  • @raphkoster While twitter can support conversation, it is more of a performance art upon a stage. in reply to raphkoster #
  • A little sentimental, but well worth the time, the thought and the resulting discussion. Home: http://www.youtube.com/homeproject #
  • Ray Ozzie has a point: Google Wave “is anti-Web” http://bit.ly/12VwcD #gwave #

Twitter Week: 2009-05-30

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  • Won 18C2C: C&O+Wabash & Norfolk&NW+GMO for the win. Beautiful stations & destination runs. Phew! #18xx #kublacon #
  • Late mid-game in yesterday’s 18C2C: http://twitpic.com/5s0sg #
  • Cavum, Corner Lot, 18Mex, 18TN requested by others for today. #kublacon #18xx #boardgame #
  • How strange: was just asked to sign a copy of Age of Sream: London/Sun. #kublacon #
  • Corner Lot desc’d at #kublacon design competition as Knizia-like strategy-dense publishable. Another request for player aids. #
  • Corner Lot in top 3 of #kublacon competition. Some complaint of too unobvious, mathy and tempo-driven: ie things I like & designed it to be! #
  • @punkzter My #AgeOfSteam maps (Wales, Central America, Denmark, SE Australia etc) are still slowly moving toward publication. #boardgame in reply to punkzter #
  • Played 18C2C, 18Mex & 1889 at #kublacon. 18C2C endgame continues long after gameplay dies. 1889 is proving deeper than I’d thought. #18xx #
  • Winner of the #kublacon design competition was combinatorial game, “Kiva”. Simply brilliant game. Sadly unpublishable but deserved the win #
  • Dice rolling redux (via IngredientX) http://gamesbyemail.com/News/DiceOMatic #
  • @frandallfarmer More evidence to support man’s gestation as a creature of lightly wooded plains? in reply to frandallfarmer #
  • A/B testing: when does it have meaning? http://tr.im/mAOe (via ericries) #
  • Hummingbirds are nesting right outside my front door. Eggs too! I feel bad merely leaving the house for the scare I must give them. #
  • RT @BoardgameNews:Article: Brett Gilbert applies John Maeda’s “The Laws of Simplicty” to game design – http://bit.ly/17tde0 #
  • RT @asbruckman DRM encourages people to break the law to use content legally. Empirical study by Akester in Ars Technica: http://is.gd/IiF5 #
  • Bing: But It’s Not Google. Ooops. #
  • (Ahoy, the startup life!) “”Sleep” and I broke up a few nights ago. I’m dating “Coffee” now. She’s Hot!” (via @ev, @CoryBooker) #
  • Marketing makes good works known, Sales makes them bought: RT @NotGodinREPOSTs:The difference between marketing & sales http://ff.im/-3mLLy #
  • She’s right, but only at scale: RT @alleyinsider:Subscriptions Only Work “Selling Weird Porn,” Says Arianna Huffington: http://bit.ly/zruA5 #
  • Gahh! Is a low noise twitter search for #18xx related (game) traffic possible? http://search.twitter.com/operators #
  • Obama’s burger outings are both branding touchstones and incredible marketing. Could beat Teddy’s fireside chats. http://tr.im/mPRg #
  • @haazmatt #18xx OR “Deep Thought Games” OR “Heron Games” OR 1830 OR (list of 18xx titles) -from:news5_1860 (last needed as I list 1860) in reply to haazmatt #
  • @haazmatt Which isn’t a very good search, but is what I use for now. in reply to haazmatt #
  • The cost of phyrric victories writ large at Microsoft? Or inclusive vs exclusive relationships with customers & partners? http://tr.im/mQ7R #
  • @brettspiel I’d search for just 18xx and not just the hashtag #18xx, but it matches all the crime stat reporting services.. Bah! #18xx in reply to brettspiel #
  • @brettspiel I suspect 18xx means it is from radio-scanned dispatch rather than official. 17xx & 18xx are usually dispatch in police lingo. in reply to brettspiel #
  • Is the big problem with electronic speech the separation of intent & meaning? Human speech is not algebraic, but our electronic speech is. #
  • I dislike the centralised model espoused by Facebook/Google Wave/Twitter etc. Where is personal federation? Must the model be hub & spoke? #

Twitter Week: 2009-05-23

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  • I see the #eurovision song contest is still long on kitsch but catchy hyper-enthusiasm: http://bit.ly/u9WKq (via @om) #
  • @andrew_chen TwitterTools is good software: Does what it claims, does it well, and what it claims is useful. in reply to andrew_chen #
  • Why should stem cell research have more oversight than shooting people in wars or killing people in capital punishment? #stemcell #
  • Until 26 May, comment on NIH #stemcell research guidelines: http://tr.im/lzlP Respect sapiency & intelligence more than tissue. #
  • @timoreilly I love clotheslines for how crunchy my clothes, especially cotton, are afterward. Towels feel like super-absorbent mega-wicks. in reply to timoreilly #
  • 3P 1832 last night. 2nd by $300. It is a fine game up to the 5-trains, maybe the 6s, then not so much: typical uninteresting Dixon end-game. #
  • @jdhuntington I’ll take #irssi over #Adium or #Colloquy for the win thankyouverymuch. #irc in reply to jdhuntington #
  • Mergers and acquisitions are back up. Is this really a bellwether or merely temporary (in)digestion with better credit? http://tr.im/lHJp #
  • The fact that I can’t go back and edit my 1832 post from earlier this morning to append an #18xx is bugging the crap out of me. Gahh! #
  • 18C2C game starting Friday morning at Kublacon. We may have a seat open. #18xx #
  • @BoardgamesToGo You have questions on Chicago Express strategy? in reply to BoardgamesToGo #
  • @BoardgamesToGo No worries. I should post the next Wabash Cannonball: Set Piece article, The next one deals with end-game timing. in reply to BoardgamesToGo #
  • Yes, yes, we know: The world is small and space is big and HOLY CRAP THERE ARE A LOT OF STARS OUT THERE! http://tr.im/m3sw #

Twitter Week: 2009-05-16

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  • @jdludlow Mind sending a summary of your game of Corner Lot? A comment on my blog would be great – that’s how the rest are reporting. in reply to jdludlow #
  • Played 1832. I’m not a Bill Dixon-game fan (cf 1870). Too many levers, fiddle, exceptions & chrome. Bank private & price protection are nuts #
  • I should learn: the lower the player count, the faster the train rush in #18xx. 1860 tonight? #
  • Played my favourite #18xx: 1860. Hugely facile & dynamic: 4 competing rhythms/phases, nasty tile set & track, many precise timing points. #
  • @msaari 1860 is the next on JKLM reprint list, incl mult improvements over 1st ed. It is a truly weird 18xx, weirder than 18EU or 1841 #18xx in reply to msaari #
  • @msaari Yup. JKLM’s relationship with printer is not…ideal. I am patiently on edge of my seat. 1st ed took 8mo from order to ship. #18xx in reply to msaari #
  • RT @icheyne:On the advice of @securitynow podcast 195, I’m disabling Javascript in Adobe Reader - http://is.gd/z833 #
  • RT @ericries:Great article “Fear is the mind-killer” by @ericries… reduce consequences, and fear often, fear early. http://is.gd/z33N #
  • Retweet this if you disagree with Twitter’s decision to hide replies to people you don’t follow. #fixreplies #
  • @icheyne I use the all-replies model to find useful people & conversations. It is the only signal network that Twitter actually represents. in reply to icheyne #
  • Nail-biter Stephenson’s Rocket: Last move merged all networks into 1, giving me share & station lead & win after trailing all game by 40+VP #
  • The most clear visual evidence we live on an orbiting planet, seen while standing on said planet: http://bit.ly/pK9I1 #
  • I doubt: RT @ericries:RT @mashable: Twitter’s Response to #fixreplies: We Can’t (please RT) - http://bit.ly/FAoUV #
  • Oh #twitter, the caterpillar of death is far less charming than the #failwhale of uncertainty! #
  • Remember how the HHGTTG runs on about how very large space is, how unimaginably huge & population zero? Yeah, me too: http://tr.im/lgVx #
  • @ChrisTheCat I’m mostly pleased with Nambu. in reply to ChrisTheCat #
  • @ev Voice amplification of @ replies is what made #twitter useful to me. I hope #fixreplies doesn’t toss the baby with the bath water. #
  • @ChrisTheCat Just upgraded #twitterfon. Where are the ads? in reply to ChrisTheCat #
  • @andrew_chen Did the “coffee?” email you requested I send you get spam trapped? #

Twitter Week: 2009-05-09

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