In Austin for AGC
I highly recommend not traveling when you seem to have a splitting headache and a 100 degree fever. I can’t even muster the energy to go to Rudy’s, how sad is that?
Misc
Stuff that doesn’t quite fit anywhere else.
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Airport security
I had occasion to fly yesterday, and got to experience the ban on liquids first-hand.
At the San Diego airport, the increased security meant a few more National Guard walking about. I got there way early fearing long security lines (the San Diego airport has on occasion obliged me with massive lines, particularly around any sort of holiday season). Instead, I found myself sitting around for an extra hour.
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From the mailbag
I just got done reading Chapter Nine of your Theory of Fun for Game Design and I think it suffered for not having a functional definition of ‘art’. I’ll throw you the one that I developed and hope that you find it useful as it is very applicable to systems in general. “Art is a manifestation of Genius.” This definition does more than just separate ‘good art’ from ‘bad art’ subjectively, but allows art to spread accross a wide swathe of mediums and fields. Yes, a beautiful mathematics proof can be art. Computer programs (and even games) can be art. It makes art reflect upon the creator and context. One’s regard for Duchamp’s Fountain, for example, is based on whether one thinks it a cute idea, a clever idea, or a manifestation of genius. The definition also rids us of the notion that art is somehow about communication. The only thing that art universally tries to convey is ‘Look what greatness mankind has wrought’.
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Over priced housing market? Right here.
As I think most readers of the blog know, I live in San Diego now, as a result of having moved here a few years ago for the CCO job at SOE.
It comes as no surprise to me to see the news today that San Diego is easily one of the most overpriced housing markets in the country. By 70%, according to this particular table.
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Comic Con 2006
Has Comic Con grown up?So today, we went to Comic Con.
Leave house: 10:30am.
Get downtown: 11:10am.
Find parking spot: 12:20pm. $5 (amazingly, most of the close ones were $20, but they were full. We had to park on the other side of Petco Park).
Make it to the convention center: 12:35pm. $20 by pedicab — no way the kids were willing to walk that in the heat.
Entrance for me and the kids: $25. (And a very nice ComicCon employee let us cut the line when he saw I had two kids in tow).
