What I did on the Monday before Christmas (yesterday)
My mom is in town. This is what she and I got up to yesterday:
Dec
23
Dec
17
I know! I'll talk about video games!
I just listened to a short documentary on video games on the Search Engine podcast. It's by Jesse Brown, the host of the show, and it's a reflection on video games prompted by the recent death of a teen who ran away from home because his parents took away his XBox.
I really like this podcast, and I think Jesse Brown does a great job producing it. This documentary, however, was pretty bad. It was produced for one of CBC Radio's more mainstream shows and I felt that it pandered to the audience's sense of worry and fear about video game culture.
I wrote two comments on the Search Engine blog. Here they are.
Dec
14
Run Sam Run (Attempt 2)
My roommate A is athletic. I, on the other hand follow the usual fitness habits of a programmer. For the past two Saturdays I have tried joining A when he goes on his 6 mile run. I'm falling a little short of six miles. But that's ok. I expected that. I made it a little further yesterday than I did last week. If I can get a little further each week I'll be happy.
Here's the nerd angle: I used my account on mapmyride to log my run. If I can manage to abuse my legs and lungs every week I should be able to come back and play with the fun Google Maps doodad.
Anyway, here's the doodad: