Games

New rules, rulings, commentary, Monte Carlo…

Hugo Awards

My guide to obtaining the Retro-Hugo nominees for works in 1944

Conventions

Fannish Archival Services

Cons I've worked on in a significant capacity:

Current: Decongestant 5. I'm the shadow-casting chair.
Current: Minicon 55. I'm treasurer and have assorted odd jobs.
Done: Decongestant 4. I was chair.
Done: Minicon 54. I'm treasurer and have assorted odd jobs.
Done: Decongestant 3. I was chair.
Done: Minicon 53. I'm treasurer and have assorted odd jobs.
Done: Decongestant 2. I was chair.
Done: Minicon 52. I'm treasurer and have assorted odd jobs.
Done: Decongestant 1. I was chair.
Done: Minicon 51. I was treasurer and had assorted odd jobs.
Done: Minicon 50. I was assistant chair.
Done: Minicon 49. I was sub-chair.
Done: METHOD Con 1. I did the website.
Done: Minicon 48. I was vice chair and webmaster.
Done: Conjecture 2. I did the website.
Done: Minicon 47. I worked registration, was co-webmaster and volunteers head.
Done: Conjecture 2. I did... something? The website?
Done: Minicon 46. I was at-con registration and volunteers head(s).
Done: Minicon 45. I was pre-registration and volunteers head(s) and helped with the pocket program.
Done: Convivial 4. Kelly and I ran the consuite.
Done: Minicon 44. I was co-chair, webmaster, and helped with the pocket program.
Done: Minicon 43. I was co-chair, co-webmaster and helped with the pocket program.
Done: Minicon 42. I was gaming head, webmaster, and helped with the pocket program.
Done: Minicon 41. I was gaming head and did (helped with?) the pocket program.
Done: Minicon 40. I did some sort of general work on this convention; I can't remember what.
Done: Opcons 8–10 (1997-1999). I'm not sure I had any significant responsibilities, but at least I helped in some fashion. Here are Opcon t-shirts. (It seems that as of 2016 Opcon is still running. Holy crap, a one-day high school SF convention that runs for over 30 years?)

Programming

Oh gosh, this section is embarrassingly old. Please don't view it as representative of my coding. If you want to get a better sense of that, maybe look for my CV on my professional website, or Github, or at least see games above.

Snowpath: If you've lived with snow, you're familiar with the paths people make across areas of ground with no sidewalks. The locations of these paths are probably determined by some function of the length of the path (people like to walk in straight lines) and the difficulty of the path (people don't like to walk through fresh snow), plus a lot of randomness. This program attempts to model the process.
Handed off: Layer 7 packet classifier for Linux
From 2000: AIM Protocol (page with info, links) I did this for my Networks class. I've updated it minorly since then.

Things

Also pretty old…

I have a collection of numbered books
The Graffiti of Carleton: (last updated 1 June 2001)
A guide to Russian letters that I made while foolishly taking Russian during my first term at Carleton: page 1 | page 2 | page 3.
Download Monuments of Mars. It's shareware. Remember shareware? This game is one of the reasons I keep a copy of DOS around. You don't need pure DOS to run it, but it helps. (Ancient file: self-extracting win32 rar, GNU/Linux people get "unrar".)

Quadong

What is it?

It might be a misspelling of "quandong" or "quongdong" (elaeocarpus angustifolius), an Australian fruit, articled on Wikipedia.
It seems to be a game for Amiga on ASI-GAMES-VOL 53, a.k.a. Assassins Disk 053 (referenced previously here, then not here, now here again! (but maybe not by the time you see it) and also previously here). Try the Wayback Machine.

Three cycles for king d'Elven under the sky,
sieve for the dwaries getlteman in their corridors of the rock,
nine for the man of inoperative women, the condemned, the end to die,
by the dark degree getlteman in relative darkness of the thrones
in the track of Mordor, where they are the colors.
All a cycle governar it, A cycle for the position he,
a cycle, the end to obtain all in him and the lock of the density
in the track of Mordor, where they are the colors.

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