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Book Reports
Physics For Poets, Robert H. March I acquired this old book several months ago. It is hardly the most current treatise on physics, being only a few years younger than myself. Still, it is always...
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New Toy
A week ago I was typing in information from The Pill Book and I thought “What I really need is to have the book hovering over my keyboard so I don’t have to strain my neck to look at it.” I cursory...
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Interconnected reading.
I remembered a book (on tape) I forgot to mention last time. The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Darkness, by Carl Sagan. It appears to be a rewritten collection of various articles,...
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Disconnected Catch-Up
A few weeks ago I found a circuit board error at work. We were trying to add a new feature the product, and nothing involved in the new feature seemed to work. It was just about driving me batty....
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Read this book.
The Underground History of American Education, by John Taylor Gatto. You don’t of course have to agree with it. Personally I felt like it was putting into words a lot of things I had felt for a long...
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Real reading
I finally finished Rules of Play, an academic work about game design. It casts a broad net in several ways. Thus, much of the opinion I heard about it wasn’t good. Board game people were turned off by...
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New Game Patterns Book
The people from http://www.gamedesignpatterns.org/ have finally published a book, Patterns in Game Design. It appears to be written mainly from a computer game design perspective, but looking through...
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A Perfectly Rational Dog
One of many interesting things in the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, amidst much other technical insight, is this reference to a ‘a perfectly rational dog.’ “The fundamental...
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Letter To Aspiring Game Designers
One of my relatives has a son interested in game design. Though I’m not much involved, I’ve watched it enough to be able to give something of an answer: Unfortunately, the company doesn’t do many games...
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Building Better Applications by Michael R. Dunlavey
A new review of an old book. Published in 1994 (When I was starting college with a shiny new pentium-90 or thereabouts) I got turned on to the book through a comment by the author on StackOverflow.com....
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