http://joe.schneible.net Tue, 30 Mar 2010 03:57:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I realized shortly before I left for Boston that this would be my first time driving in a major north east city. It ended up not being too bad except for the lack agreed upon lanes in the city and the fact that I hate valet parking. On Thursday night, I ... http://joe.schneible.net/?p=1778 Passage is a short 'game'. It's kinda one of those things that you have to make of it what you will. The creator, Jason Rohrer, was the focus of the most recent full episode of A Life Well Wasted. My understanding is that he's drawn some criticism for selling out ... http://joe.schneible.net/?p=1758 From time to time I will still ask people not-so general knowledge questions when I have easy access to a PC. Possibly equally silly, when there is a topic of interest to me I don't immediately look for a blog on the subject. After posting about a couple independent games ... http://joe.schneible.net/?p=1751 On the Saturday before Easter I woke up to find Dad at the computer. He had been looking for a new trail to hike and found the Link Trail. According to the website, the Link Trail was created to connect the Finger Lakes Trail and the Old Erie Canal Trail. ... http://joe.schneible.net/?p=1719 At camp there's a photo that has been there as long as I can remember. It's so much a fixture at camp that for the longest time I never really thought of it as a real place or even a place that I could go to. It took on a ... http://joe.schneible.net/?p=1704 I started following Newt Gingrich on twitter recently. I don't agree with him all the time (my impression is that he's a bit of an elitist), but he does tweet about some important topics (e.g. Iran, the new energy tax, health care reform) without an excessive amount of chaff. A ... http://joe.schneible.net/?p=1699 Apparently the IGF has been around for a while, because the 11th annual festival was earlier this year. Even though a number of the independent games I've mentioned here, including World of Goo, Crayon Physics and Braid, have won awards at the IGF, I don't remember hearing about it until ... http://joe.schneible.net/?p=1690 Let's see if I've got this right. The government is effectively taking over private companies. Congress is going to vote on a new energy tax that will likely further screw up our beleaguered economy to no useful end. The president is trying to take over more control of our health ... http://joe.schneible.net/?p=1686 The way that smokers are treated in America sickens me. The government puts out ads denouncing their chosen lifestyle. They are persecuted through excessive taxation on the things they need to satisfy their desires. The government even has programs to cure them of their 'illness'. It is important to ... http://joe.schneible.net/?p=1610 [gallery link="file"] At the end, the Union general got up and started yelling at the Confederates because they were "killing" the wounded. One of the Confederates got so tired of listening to him that he shot him. The Union general's response was, "You missed. Got anything more?". The Confederate shot him ... http://joe.schneible.net/?p=1638