It’s almost a little difficult to describe. Ubiquity is a new project from Mozilla, which ads a command prompt to the web when you hit CTRL-SPACE. Sort of. It lets you do things like grab wikipedia entries, find maps, manage links, etc. even more easily than we already can in the age of the internet, by having all this stuff show up in context. Sort of.
It may only have been a week or so since I posted on this corner of the internet, but it seems like years. Gen Con was an unbelievable, astounding success with more people there than I can even count. Hot and cold running games, a ridiculous bar bill, and people heading home exhausted after four days of complete abandon.
We came home from GenCon to a backlog of work, is to be expected. Plus, since my wife and I had managed to go without the kids, the kids missed us a lot, and needed perhaps more attention than I expected. A few days of recovery, a little work out the door, and we went off to another annual three-day weekend away in the boonies of New York State with yet another circle of friends.
Along the way, I got a last-minute commission for a short-term, fun, exciting project. A few days of work later, it and it’s out of my hands and in the client’s and I am struck with a sense of loss. It’s odd. I have more than enough work to do. It’s not that I’m bored all of the sudden. I’ve just been running at 100 miles an hour for so long that sitting here at 8 p.m. on a Tuesday night without a crushing deadline staring me in the face (or more recently a fun project waiting for the whip) just feels,
Hollow.
Hopped into the city to do Games for Windows radio, which you can grab here. Was a total blast, and completely different than the normal podcasting I do, which is far more structured and done remote (with all of us in different rooms.
Also a lot whackier (there’s no other word for it, safe for work or not) and random, but that’s cool. Life needs diversity. In other news, GamersWithJobs Conference Call just cracked the iTunes top 20 video game podcasts. Yay us!
Looking to do some pretty good audio work at GenCon, in between gaming my ass off. Oh yeah, and at some point I have to get some actual work done in order to pay the mortgage. Details, details.
My column this week is about Star Wars. Not just about Star Wars, but about this ill-concieved pet theory I have that it’s the presence of religion in the SW universe that makes the fiction resound so strongly with kids.
Separately, check out 2d6feet.. It’s a gaming podcast I listen to (and host, here at rabbitcave) that I’m not on. They talk about Pen & Paper gaming for the most part, with a big chunk of RPG, but I like to think they’re kind of a parallel to what we do over at Gamers with Jobs.
The side note is that I’ll be at Endgame Oakland – or at least, I’ll be across the street at the pub – tomorrow night, and am looking to play some boardgames after some obligatory beers.
… and I wrote a little piece about it’s passing for Gamers With Jobs.
Also, a piece I did for print months ago is on the front page of 1up.com, for reasons I don’t get. It’s about kids MMOs. It’s not a bad piece, and I guess it’s time-irrelevant, so it got the recycle treatment.
EDIT: Also, did an interview with Felicia Day (Penny in Dr. H), some of which is in this weeks podcast.
Not 6 words I thought I’d ever write. But there’s this guy running for office in Kansas who decided it was time to actually be an internet candidate – as in someone who understands what XKCD and Rickrolling are. He’s going to rock the world. I gave him 10 bucks, and I don’t even live in his state, and he’s only asking for exaclty $8.34.
Please go support this guy, if only because he’s one of us. At least drop him an email telling him he rocks.
Nothing I ever do will be this brilliant.
Today is the day. And no, i don’t mean the rest day in the TdF. No, today:
DR. HORRIBLE’s SING ALONG BLOG is thrust upon the world, and it’s all kinds of awesome.
Another almost random “quick, we need this” article over at 1up.com. In a way, it’s karmic payback for getting to play iPhone games on someone elses dimes all day – I had to spend an evening playing Runescape.
Still, if you’re looking for an MMO that’s free and lets you kill monsters, you could do worse.
Some days, it’s good to have this little side gig. I spent most of yesterday downloading, playing and writing about all the halfway-decent or otherwise top-of-mind iPhone games for 1up.com. Verdict – a mixed bag.
I’m trying to love MobileMe too, but it’s part of the great iPocalypse of July 11, 2008, it seems.