2013-01-02
Munchkining Out: the Crossbowmancer
I wanted to have a little fun. the Crossbowmancer is not an original idea, but you would wonder why it has not been milked by…
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2012-12-18
Sending the Right Person for the JOb
In this instance I am not the right person for the Job. I have to say, if I didn’t ruffle any feathers, I consider that…
2012-12-11
Altruism After Wealth is a rare event
Why Workers Are Losing the War Against Machines The way wealth works is scary. Wealth plays to Loss Aversion, and that cognitive bias distorts the…
2012-11-26
Life style costs
I think it takes an extr ordinary amount of discipline, forethought and luck to maximize how i spend my time. I admit these days, I’ve…
2012-11-24
50 years ago Factory workers were cutting edge, now they are unskilled labor
This article was disturbing in its view regarding factory workers being constant for 50 years. Why You Shouldn’t Shop at Wal-Mart on Friday Today workers who do…
2012-11-06
Leads are Easy; Vetting them is hard
Its easy to get leads, everyone is looking for a deal… even when they are not in the position to get into one and when…
2012-11-01
Value Chain Strategy
Arm reminds me of the story of Honda. Honda began making small engines, back in the 60’s. They were the best small engine specialist, and…
2012-11-01
Gov't corruption
– Not everyone is on the take. There are some idealists and far thinking pragmatists out there – far thinking pragmatists believe their intelligence and…
2012-10-18
Altruistic Goals have the most Meaty Challenges
I began as an Idealist, then found out that in the nitty gritty what I dreamed about was impossible. I learned the pragmatic side of…
2012-10-11
Are we the only ones not giving a bribe?
Given how this is so common in the business landscape when it comes to high priced bids like Real Estate, Construction, and Manufacturing. I wonder…
2012-10-06
There are things to look forward too
LibreOffice will be an App next year. China Tablets at the $125 range (add $25 for the keyboard dock) have the stats of the IPAD…
2012-09-22
Corruption from Within
There is a big problem with my gaming goals, the company I’m investigating has some serious problems. The symptoms I’ve been observing has some more…
2012-09-17
Effective Communication Lecture Reflections
Ok, a lot of what is being espoused I’ve come to the same conclusions out of experience. it is nice that those suspicions are confirmed. Why did…
2012-09-15
A Lesson I remembered from being an Artist.
Its a surprise to me it is applicable to project management. I guess the thing about Art is that each project has a LARGE emotional…
2012-09-15
Some Simple Mental models – Margins and Consolidation
After Total Cost of Ownership we have the “margin” or some would call profit. My take on it is that is a very indirect form…
2012-09-14
Management by Due-Diligence aka Common Sense
We have had some interesting improvements in our situation. Improvements that was sorely failing in the previous managements. It has really turned things around, but…
2012-09-08
Visualization as a Tool to Prepare – Visualizing Sacrifice
I use Visualization as a tool for work. The way RPG hone Visualization, it allows me to visualize things in great detail. RPGs teach me…
2012-09-08
The Traveller Mindset for me
To me its like work but we can afford to lose and take risks we would normally not take. We get to use our skills…
2012-09-05
A short break
My airsoft team is active again and I’v gotten enough guns to bring newbies into airsoft. Also I’m in a work out/exercise phase trying to…
2012-09-03
A Source of Pain – needed to be Rational
Surprisingly I realize I draw from my sources of pain: regrets, humiliation, fear, disappointments, isolation, depression, anger and failures to make good decisions. The reason is…
2012-08-30
Rolling Diplomacy; Been Busy
A recent event has made me aware that Diplomacy Rolls, social circumstance, rolls can be varied in difficulty (like Duh). I think we are able…
2012-08-28
When a Game becomes Hidebound
This is a big deal to me, specifically because it is one of the contentions I had that made me leave a group. I know…
2012-08-25
13,000 people ordered 225 minis for $100
Well its almost done and I guess I’ll have to wait for March 2013. The Bones KickStarter is going to give gaming companies a benchmark on…
2012-08-24
Kazam a Open Source Screen Caster for making tutorials
Found Kazam through Nixie Pixel if you use ubuntu you can download it in the Software Center. too bad this is an awkward freeze frame. Anyway, it was…
2012-08-24
Some Drawing Updates
I’m drawing some mountain to be made into vector Icons. I can only work at home where I have a large screen and my new…
2012-08-21
Getting a Graphics Tablet for Mapmaking
I got this 10″ tablet only to find out that its not compatible with my Ubuntu 12.04 home PC. I even went out of my…
2012-08-17
Methods of Resolving Dramatic Actions
Combat is not the only Dramatic Action we will experience in an RPG and the interactive games in life. There are races, contests of will,…
2012-08-16
GMing and Personal Brand; and other ideas
Ok I’m heavily under the influence of a lecutre. I got to thinking about GMing and a Personal Brand. There is really no point in…
2012-08-15
USP: Using real world skills in a game so that we can hone them.
I am using hours as my “Character Credits”. My system uses the Term “Character Credits”, to differentiate the kinds of hours a character spends. Again…
2012-08-13
Arn: The Knight Templar Movie Trailer
very relevant to my interests