bshirley BoardGameGeek has been releasing collections of games in different categories leading into the holiday gift-giving season. They have come upon their list of “Heavy Games” – ones that hard-core gamers enjoy. There were five on their list, and I touched each of them. Three of the five are reimplementations of prior games. I think that’s … Read more
I have vaguely heard of Fastball in the background of my brain, but they never came into my consciousness. They are ultimately an Austin band, and you don’t see many of those in Houston. Or maybe I wasn’t looking. Or it wasn’t what I needed at the time. Anyway,… i acquired the late 90s album … Read more
After spending the past year (post-Harvey) unemployed, I finally landed a new job (and I’m loving it). However, the new job took me to Austin. I started the new job on the first day of early voting: Oct 22.
I went to the Harris County Clerk’s Office on Wed Oct 12 to request my ballot-by-mail. After a full week of early voting and not having yet received a ballot, I called and then officially wrote a signed letter delivered via email to the clerks office requesting a second ballot.
I was… having an enjoyable evening. Exploring my new neighborhood, dining at a new place, enjoying the food, the drink. I stopped into a japanese book store: interesting nick knacks, a nice pen, an intriguing book. I stepped into the japanese market: looked at the deli items, the varieties of fish cake, the baking ware. … Read more
A while back I posted my tweak to some Xcode testing for asynchronous calls. Here’s an update I did in Swift for XCTestCase. extension XCTestCase { /** For use testing async functions. Will wait for completion of the function. You need to provide a test function for when the call is completed. The ultimate timeout … Read more
After a power outage, my iMac (27″, Late 2012) with macOS Sierra (10.12.2) booted into a black screen with the mouse in the upper left. Notifications seemed to be showing up (as they do on the login screen). Several leads didn’t pan out. Ones that were basically different kind of resets. Mark Gibbs tipped me … Read more