So theadana got a playtesting copy of a game from Looney Labs, and a few of us tried it out. I think it is understood to be impolite for me to divulge the mechanic before it is released and all, but: It was pretty good. I liked it..
Afterwards I showed theadana Sketchup and she made this beauty in like only two hours. I am still oh so in favor of 3d modeling programs with such a short learning curve.
Got dinner with gustavolacerda; he showed me some interesting cog sci papers. Hung out with him and rdore and some of richard's friends for a little while. Turns out geek houses have, like, 1.5 TB RAIDs for media storage these days. I feel old.
As I was walking home I thought of another angle for attacking type-safety of unification with forbidden-subterm placeholders. I say this every time, but I really think this one has the best chance yet of working — the particular reason is that it is vastly more syntactic than before, and keeps more information around in the terms themselves in a nice structural way.
haha that's funny cuz I had just looked up looney labs today because I was mentioning to platypuslord that Fluxx is a good game. I didn't realize they were in college park! (not too far from me)
It was awesome seeing you this weekend. Being introduced to SketchUp was excellent, and just generally hanging out was nice. We should do it again sometime. :)
