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Gaming as a service

Kit — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 19:13:37 +0000

There are always a lot of people panhandling and busking on the Pearl St. Mall here in Boulder. But today, as I walked along with the first drops of rain starting to flick through the sky, after a good lunch with a good Rosetta Stone friend, I saw a funny thing. Someone sitting with a chessboard, willing to play anyone who walked by and was interested, donations accepted.

That’s really awesome.

Water, this time with lightning

Kit — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:09:27 +0000

At the end of the driveway: a field full of fireflies, with lightning flashing over the next ridge. Finally, the rain that’s been threatening all day arrives, and it pours, and it pours, and it is still pouring.

The Rain it Raineth All Day Long

Kit — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:37:17 +0000

So, I went to another board game party with coworkers, this time at Aaron’s. It was great fun, there was Settlers, beer, guitar, geeking out. The best bit came, however, at the end: it was THUNDERING by the time we all left, so Theban drove all of us as far as he could manage (except for Vesa, the Finn, who decided this was fine weather to bike home in). This left me at the Boulder Transit Center, a few blocks from my house. I had thought, for some reason, to bring an umbrella, and it was definitely a good idea. This rain is torrential, and I had a bag of games to keep dry! But the weather lifted my spirits like nothing else I could imagine, and I started belting out Bold Riley as I walked. A girl walking a bit ahead of me noticed, turned, smiled, so I commented that “you have no idea how much I’ve missed weather like this.” Her rejoinder: “I’ve been in Cairo for a year. I do!” It was lovely, to sing in the rain, and, I must admit, frolic a bit. Puddles may have been splashed in.

The thunder out here is spectacular. When I was in Hakodate, I saw the most amazing fireworks of my life. Part of that was just that the Japanese know their fireworks, but part of it was that it was a sonic display as much as visual: the sound was designed to have some impressive deep notes and booms, and best of all, echo off of the mountain at the end of the peninsula. Here, the thunder—already impressive—has a whole mountain, and particularly good sounding boards like the Flatirons, to echo off of. You get it all twice, at least.

Memorial Day Weekend

Kit — Tue, 26 May 2009 05:35:18 +0000

It was a pleasant one; the thing that has made it best for me, though, is probably the rain every evening, like right now, as it comes down outside, and I contemplate how much water, particularly moving water, is amazing. (Who am I kidding? Seeing friends and talking with random strangers was what made it best.)

I’ll be back east in less than a week, and that’s great. I am also coming to some very clear ideas about what I want in life, and possibly how to achieve that. Fortes fortuna adiuvat.