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    the listening machine?


    2010 - 04.20

    I dug this out of my archive. I liked the pictures I used. Isn’t BC beautiful? Anyways, this is from a Toastmasters speech I gave in July 2009, and it covered some of the basic problems I’ve been approaching. I want to thank Victoria Beaver Toastmasters for cheering me on. They seemed to think I was going to be rich someday. I don’t know if they were right. I think I’m already rich and I sure don’t have any money. :-) I just want help building this thing, so I can play it and see if games really can change the world.

    I think I’ve done two full iterations of the design and talked to at least seventy-five people directly about it since then and most people are really enthusiastic. I’ve only had one person say it was a terrible idea on a blog comment, I asked him to find others to berate me and stop me from going ahead, but he said it would only take one person to stop a bad idea. Anyone else think that is slightly illogical? I want war to end. Did it work?

    I also want to thank Allen for coming up with this draft tweet for entry into a US contest I can’t enter. “Engage politically disenfranchised with online game which displays consolidated opinion and fuels sponsorship of political clarity #100KTwitch” It’s nice to know that someone out there is reading my blog and getting a clear picture of what it would look like to them. Any other enthusiastic readers interested in this game? I want to stress this is a text based game, not video, and not 2d graphical, but still a game with actions to take, an exciting ladder to climb with your friends, and nifty rewards to earn. I would love a set of comments saying “I am interested” or even better “I’ll do everything in my power to stop you, even if I have to do it alone!”.

    Love your enemies! Thanks for reading.

    spin, spin, spin


    2010 - 02.20

    Round we orbit,
    spin The Galaxy
    thanks be Yours

    A god I find,
    not nearby,
    I coax Him in
    and what does He say
    “Love” (more…)

    Thanks Rose!


    2009 - 11.20

    I went to the Island Tech Conference on Friday Nov 13th.  I got up early, to go to the morning VIP keynote address, given by Will Harbin.  I missed the bus and didn’t want to be late, so I walked fast.  It was nice out.  Everything was freshly washed by a heavy rain.  The sun was beaming down warmly and the wind hadn’t picked up, like it did later in the afternoon.   The walk got my blood going.  I ended up being early for the speeches, because the 8am start was actually for a meet and greet with time to take in the Empress’ continental breakfast.  I scanned the site for water and found only hot.  I passed into the ballroom proper and got a nice empty table closer to the front.  Water was in a pitcher at the center.

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