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[Feb. 9th, 2008|11:59 pm]
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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.
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[User Picture]From: lars_chan
2008-02-10 07:41 am (UTC)
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)
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[User Picture]From: theadana
2008-02-10 09:44 pm (UTC)
They have a pretty fun game night, too. :) I didn't realize you were so close to where I was living in MD- Kensington. :P
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[User Picture]From: lars_chan
2008-02-10 10:19 pm (UTC)
Well, by close I mean an hour away, but it's a straight shot down 95 at least. (I live in nottingham- next to white marsh)
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[User Picture]From: theadana
2008-02-10 09:45 pm (UTC)
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. :)
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From: rdore
2008-02-11 08:21 am (UTC)
I hope the firemancomics voice didn't traumatize you to severely.
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