Wow, I started writing this post around April 2021 and never published it. More updates to come… I’m working on a card game! About 18 months ago, I started with a Ruby text-based prototype based on the Slay the Spire combat system. (I am aware that STS is derived from Dominion, but have never played …

I checked my blog several weeks ago, and found WordPress was completely broken. Fortunately I was able to reinstall it and re-import the posts table, but all the images are gone. Mostly screenshots from Lupin III. Will fix those if and when I feel like digging through old backups.

(I should start by saying that I’ve never played the most popular deck-building games like Magic: The Gathering, so I don’t know how much of this game is innovation and how much is convention. I am writing another post about the game’s rule system.) Slay the Spire is a “roguelike” virtual card game with a sword-and-sorcery theme. …

Living in the Seattle suburbs with girlfriend and her teenager. Cats: 1. Cats in household: 6. We are super-saturated with cats. Employment: still at Skytap. Just had 8th anniversary (!!). Emotional state: fair. Still need to lose 25 pounds so I can get off some medication, and I’ve scarcely exercised since my iPad broke a …

Still alive. Still at Skytap. Celebrating 5th anniversary with girlfriend. Working on comics. Things are going really, really well — better than I could have dreamed just a couple of years ago. I have a lot to be thankful for.

GoDaddy sent out a notification about a critical upgrade for WordPress, so I’m taking a moment to update a few things — replace the Twitter widget, look sadly at the generic site theme and lack of activity. I’m looking at other hosting providers again. I do not get a lot of spam. GoDaddy apparently has …

I published my first comic last year. Crash Blossom: Monorail was released at the Jet City Comic Show on September 22, 2012. And by “published” I mean a limited run of 40 copies, hand-folded by the author. “Crash Blossom” was supposed to be an anthology, but as it turns out there were only two of …

Life is still going pretty well. Thankful for that. Took down a bunch of older blog posts. A lot of them were too candid, or lame, or uninformed comments on current events. That’s what microblogging is for.

The following had been sitting in my drafts folder since March 2012. After 19 months at Lockerz, I’ve made the jump to another Seattle startup called Skytap. They provide “cloud automation solutions,” basically a tool that allows you to create weather on the fly. 😉 Ahh, too tired to explain cloud computing. I was excited …

Yep. Unlike some people, I am still alive as of this writing. Also, I finished the single-player campaign in Portal 2. The game itself felt too short, even at more than double the length of the original; I don’t think they could have made it long enough to do it justice. The ending was suitably …