I’ve been asking around about good locations for a boardgaming meetup in Toronto and settled on the Tequila Bookworm at Bathurst and Queen. They have an upstairs room that I have reserved for 2 PM. Benefits? All local microbrews, reputable food, they’ve held events before so they know how to handle a group without getting […]
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NaNoWriMo and Why I Won’t Do It
November 1st, 2011 · 6 Comments · Me
I wasn’t really a fan of National Novel Writing Month (i.e., November Hackapalooza) until I came to terms with the basic fact that it’s not about quality, it’s about discipline and that’s a value I can get behind. Encourage people to commit to just putting the damn thing on paper and you are slowly building […]
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November Toronto Board Gaming Meet – The 19th
October 24th, 2011 · 7 Comments · Board Games, Me
OK. Let’s do this. I want to meet people for board gaming – fans and readers and friends. I have settled on November 19th because it gives me about a month to think about some important things like location, choice of games and arrangements for anyone who wants to come but needs to travel. I […]
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UPDATE: Fall Meetup in Toronto
September 20th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Me
EDIT: Lack of interest and my own schedule means we’ll have to postpone this to later in the year. If someone has some space, we can do a proper board game afternoon. While Rob and Julian scramble to have a Boston meeting that doesn’t involve the two of them joining with Chris Remo and Ken […]
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Why We Don’t Do Transcripts
September 20th, 2011 · 10 Comments · Me, Podcast, Three Moves Ahead
Whenever we do a very popular podcast, it’s inevitable that there will be email or forum comments asking for transcripts of the podcast. This is especially true if the game we are talking about is one with a global audience. And it’s understandable to an extent. If English is not your first language, then reading […]
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The Emotions of Strategy
September 6th, 2011 · 17 Comments · Me
Over the weekend, I mentioned that I was reading J.E. Lendon’s Song of Wrath, and it’s really an interesting book. His major argument is that we can’t understand the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War when it happened by just looking at it as a classic bipolar system breaking down because of colliding spheres of influence […]
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