A New Scholarship for Making Games

As reported earlier this fall by the San Jose Mercury News and others, UC Santa Cruz recently received more than $450,000 from Sony Computer Entertainment America (as part of a class-action...

Stuart Gray Was Not a Stiff

It turns out that I was wrong. According to Dave Berri, Stuart Gray was actually a good player for the Hornets. Gray - especially the year he played in Charlotte - was not a horrible player. Here...

Best Toys…..It’s getting close to that time

I’m very particular about the toys we buy.  My mom?  Not so much, but we don’t buy alot of toys around here.  What she buys is enough to keep them in plastic junk, so we...

Thanksgiving 2008

The past few years I’ve learned the hard way that no one really cares about your (my) Thanksgiving recipes. At least not in my family. Around here people want their food salty, fatty, and...

Story Generation in 1K

Michael’s here at MIT and just gave a great talk. While he was preparing for it, apropos of conversations I’ve had recently with him and Beth Cardier, I wrote something that I think is a...