Twitter Week: 2009-09-12

2009-09-12 00:00 · Tags: Personal / Twhit-Twhoo!

Splotter’s Greed: http://tr.im/xXmB Let the competitive frothing begin. #essen #spiele #
Ahh, one copy of the Pere Marquette made (inkjet, Super77, manilla file-folder, some cutting). Now to find a table to inflict it upon. #18xx #
Good article on the evolution of software/product development and implications for licensing: http://bit.ly/Yhmzv (via @hnshah, @joshelman) #
It seems I am the west coast #18xx champion. 4P 18Mex, $1.3K, $1.1K, $1K, $500 (bankrupt on the 4Ds). Pretty much a straight capital game. #
@andsoerinsaid @scottredracecar I expect 18EZ is a poor game at all levels. (Barely) Okay for teaching as a walk thru, but unexciting. #18xx #
@scottredracecar @andsoerinsaid 18EZ is thoroughly Bill Dixon-esque, perhaps the least interesting of the #18xx design-styles. #
@ChrisTheCat I won the (single game) #18xx tournament at PaifiCon/ConquestSF (ala west-coast WBC). in reply to ChrisTheCat #
RT @timoreilly:Good Washington Post article: 5 Myths About Health Care Around the World http://bit.ly/139Yzs Be informed in your opinions! #
6P 1830. Bankruptcy on first diesel. 2nd by $50. Wild stock market. A teaching game where I think I learned more than the students. #18xx #
3 days of #18xx. About to go and start the third. More 1830 perhaps? I’ve been learning a lot about prediction & control of bankruptcies. #
Just listen. Carefully. RT @timoreilly:Beatrice Golomb on conflicts of interest in medical research: http://bit.ly/13tfSs #healthcare #
The return and welcome of the extinct bee: http://bit.ly/PZvv0 Charming. #
Newt Gingrich, William Gibson & I seem to agree? Shocking! Pretty good Obama education speech: http://tr.im/y6yF Not brilliant, but good. #
@BrenoKummel I’m still learning too much to want to slow down. I finally have a handle on what is required to be at least mediocre. #18xx #
@BrenoKummel http://bit.ly/AWN5Y Oh, & follow the money & think very hard about tempo. in reply to BrenoKummel #
@BrenoKummel I’m learning at lot about control of capital ATM. Great stuff. It has taken me ~100 games to get to this point of half-a-clue. in reply to BrenoKummel #
On Drowning in Games (http://tr.im/y6GH), my blog-post on learning curves and hope is suddenly getting a little rash of web-attention. Cool. #
3P 18FL, got priority, dumped the dog, floated new company, got $2K capital under control, 4 permanent trains, and ran away by miles. #18xx #
@BrenoKummel @andsoerinsaid 18FL was interesting solely because I pulled off the great swindle. I see little other value in the game. #18xx #
1830 Coalfields made & ready to play: http://twitpic.com/h5phm Wabash & Nickel Plate are next. Maybe Chesapeake Bay Bridge too. #18xx #
Greenspun surveys healthcare models and comparatives: http://bit.ly/2Hzxl #
Somehow I find this art-video viscerally scary. It hits a sort-of uncanny-valley goosebump-revulsion for me. No idea why, http://tr.im/ymUo #
@msaari That’s a fine chipset for #18xx. May suffer if playing larger bank games. eg 1830+Coalfields, $20K or 18C2C, $80K (heavens forbid) #
@msaari I would change the chipset a little: 50x1, 75x5, 75x25, 50x100, 25x500, either 25x10 or 25x2.5K. Total $20,050 or $82,300 #18xx in reply to msaari #
@msaari We often run short of 5s and 25s, popular chips, not often 1s, sometimes 100s in the late game. Thus adjusting for that. #18xx in reply to msaari #
@jesnellm @msaari Yeah, spreadsheet is good but having full bank allows visually gauging the end-game. Can see the bank running out. #18xx in reply to jesnellm #
@icheyne @msaari @jesnellm I mostly use my 320 chip set these days. I’d adjust it a bit too if I were doing at again. More 5s & 25s. #18xx in reply to icheyne #
@ekted The #Twitter concept of a conversation is not a sequenced thread but rather a set of time-ordered messages bearing the same #hashtag. in reply to ekted #
@msaari Welcome. Actually the chips you’ll want are a function of the games & players you play with. You’ve got a good base though. #18xx in reply to msaari #
RT @cshirky:”Dark Stalking On Facebook” http://pjf.id.au/blog/?position=590 (h/t @lehrblogger) #
Black Toad (a fine schwarzbier) on an empty stomache, followed by a 20oz steak chaser, has left this lad’s digestive tract feeling insecure. #