Yes, kevin. I can blog from my phone. Super sweet, right?
Monday, August 29, 2011
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Monday, August 22, 2011
Four is cosmic
Five is four and four is cosmic. Ever heard this? It's a riddle, where you have to figure out why four is cosmic, and how any integer (right?) can be traced back to four. Some hints:
9 is 4 and 4 is cosmic
10 is 3 and 3 is 5 and 5 is 4 and 4 is cosmic.
9 is 4 and 4 is cosmic
10 is 3 and 3 is 5 and 5 is 4 and 4 is cosmic.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
College degrees and an educated future.
How needed is a college degree? With knowledge taking a move to be open and accessable in today's society of techophiles and wizkids, the level of education one can achieve without college is ever rising.
What I predict: Not the vanishing of college's or an anti college movement, but rather, the bar of "jobs above this need a college degree" is going to rise. People won't need a degree. Having a degree will no longer be a status of education, a trophy to say "I am smart" with. You will go to college to learn your subject, and not to achieve this signed piece of paper that allows you to work. A coworker may have a degree and you may not. This is my prediction as information and the ability to learn it - really learn it - increases.
On the similar subject of available knowledge, people (yes, those people) are saying that all this newfangled wikipedia and open information is making us tech generation's less intelligent. I disagree, its only shifting the focus. No longer will the smartest students be the ones who can memorize the best, but the smartest student will be the critical thinker, one who can analyze information for its integrity, understand concepts over techniques and who can engineer his way around a concept, with deep multi-angle analyzation. An adaptable student.
"Booksmarts" will no longer prevail. Its replacement: crticial thinkers.
Technology is not bad, stop saying that. We have to use it right and take advantage of the good (information) while learning how to defeat the bad (distraction).
What I predict: Not the vanishing of college's or an anti college movement, but rather, the bar of "jobs above this need a college degree" is going to rise. People won't need a degree. Having a degree will no longer be a status of education, a trophy to say "I am smart" with. You will go to college to learn your subject, and not to achieve this signed piece of paper that allows you to work. A coworker may have a degree and you may not. This is my prediction as information and the ability to learn it - really learn it - increases.
On the similar subject of available knowledge, people (yes, those people) are saying that all this newfangled wikipedia and open information is making us tech generation's less intelligent. I disagree, its only shifting the focus. No longer will the smartest students be the ones who can memorize the best, but the smartest student will be the critical thinker, one who can analyze information for its integrity, understand concepts over techniques and who can engineer his way around a concept, with deep multi-angle analyzation. An adaptable student.
"Booksmarts" will no longer prevail. Its replacement: crticial thinkers.
Technology is not bad, stop saying that. We have to use it right and take advantage of the good (information) while learning how to defeat the bad (distraction).
Monday, August 15, 2011
Off to College
I am off to college tomorrow, entering the graduating class of 2015. And how do I feel? In a word: Unprepared.
Not just emotionally, not-ready-to-say-goodbye, unprepared. I mean: I still need to pack!
Not just emotionally, not-ready-to-say-goodbye, unprepared. I mean: I still need to pack!
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Look forward to commercials
OK, so the most expensive TV advertising slot is the superbowl. This is because it has the most views. It, by popular opinion, also had the best commercials. It also has the funniest commercials which people are looking forward to. "I watch Superbowl for commercials" while sad, is a popular quote. Therefore the best commercials are the funniest ones. Therefore regular commercials should be funny, and I should kook forward to them.
TV industry, get on that.
Sunday, August 7, 2011
This Years GenCon Loot
- Cthulhu Poster
- 1955: The war of esppionage
- The Red Dragon inn 3
- Castle Panic
- Quarriors
- Onirim
- Guillotine
- Treasures & Traps (and expansion: Expanded Realms)
- Dominion: Intrigue
- Node
- Faceeater
- The Resistance
- Innovation (actually bought last year, but learned how to play this year)
- Scavengers
- 2 nice metal d6's
- Sixes
- Repurchase of We Didn't Playtest this at all (and it's expansion) (old copy got rained on)
- Whack a Catgirl
- CD: Hard times by Water Street Brigade
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Spending at GenCon
Or how I am managing my spending inside what is essentially a giant store filled with stuff I want.
Its pretty simple, I bring no money with me for the first two days. I go around and visit every game developer/publisher/distributor I can find and demo their games. I try and sit down with the designer of the game, as they are usually more enthusiastic. I am also picking their brains about how they got into the industry, designing games and whatnot. I play the games and if I want to buy it, I write down the game name and its price in my notebook. On saturday I am going to prioritize all of these games and buy them in order. I will leave money for Sunday for the games I only kind of want, and if they are on sale then, then sweet. But this way I ensure getting the games I want to play and not the games I don't.
I hope this works. There are so many games I want to buy.
Its pretty simple, I bring no money with me for the first two days. I go around and visit every game developer/publisher/distributor I can find and demo their games. I try and sit down with the designer of the game, as they are usually more enthusiastic. I am also picking their brains about how they got into the industry, designing games and whatnot. I play the games and if I want to buy it, I write down the game name and its price in my notebook. On saturday I am going to prioritize all of these games and buy them in order. I will leave money for Sunday for the games I only kind of want, and if they are on sale then, then sweet. But this way I ensure getting the games I want to play and not the games I don't.
I hope this works. There are so many games I want to buy.
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