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A Civ Parable
Reflections on different victory conditions in Civilization games and what they reveal about strategy, culture, and human nature.
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To my Grandfather, Fallen War Hero.
This Memorial Day is a significant one for me. As we remember our fallen heroes, a name close to me has been added to the list. My Grandfather, William G. Comben, (papa Bill, as my daughters dubbed him), passed into eternity last Thursday at 9pm after a battle with Alzheimer’s disease. He was 90 years […]
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9 Things That Remind Me That I’m Not God Part 2
Before I list reasons four, five, and six, I realized I did not do so good a job giving a basis for my non-God-likeness at each point. One comment was made on the last point about our being made in God’s image. I do not intend to give a defense of the Christian doctrine of […]
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Nine Things That Remind Me That I’m Not God Part 1
Because sometimes I forget. The last few weeks of reflection have brought something to mind that was a fairly interesting revelation to me. It wasn’t an all-at-once sort of realization, but more of a compilation of many thoughts I’ve had over the last couple of years. This post (series) is an exercise in thinking through […]
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A letter from myself, age 13
Today, I received a letter in the mail… from myself… age 13. No time warp or weird movie premise. Our class president mailed us our letters that were written in 7th grade as part of a time capsule project. It was great fun to read. It was also a little eerie to read some of […]
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Thankful
Why I’m thankful this year. On my personal blog: Thanksgiving – Matt and Nancy Heerema
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Daring Fireball: Let’s Have a Panel on What We Didn’t Like About SXSW 2007
John Gruber sums up how I felt about SXSW in general. Daring Fireball: Let’s Have a Panel on What We Didn’t Like About SXSW 2007. I will have to make my own obligatory SXSWi recapp post soon.
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SXSW So Far
People met: – Matt Mullenweg – Ryan Carson (who is a true stud) – Eric Meyer (again) – Peter Paul Koch (who was interested in my last name) – Nathan Smith, Cody Lindley, Ryan Hargrave, Nathan Logan, Phil Coffman Things learned: – I’m severely uneducated – I need to sketch more – Grids are good, […]
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Headed to SXSW
I’m headed to SXSWi for the next week. If any of my wonderful readers (all four of you) are going to be there and would like to hook up, shoot me an e-mail. Of course, there is a fairly full slate of meet-ups, parties, panels, and bowling scheduled. But who knows, we might be in […]
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Liveblogging: AEA: Pre-game.
7:51am – After a rather pleasant train ride through the suburbs into the city, I am sitting in a Starbuck’s in the downtown Marriot drinking a $4 hot milk drink (with a little caramel and espresso flavoring. (a.k.a., the Caramel “Macchiato†which isn’t actually a Macchiato and is barely caramel…). It was amazing to see […]
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Hurricane Relief: Web Development
I just got back from spending the last several days in Shreveport, LA. I took a team of 13 volunteers from our church down to assist in whatever way we could. We ended up working at the Red Cross shelter at Hirsch Coliseum. You can read about the experience at my personal blog. My contribution […]
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Customer Service
To: Spire USA Time: Thursday, May 20, 2004 10:43 AM Hello, I received my new Nova 2004 bag on Tuesday May 18. It is a beautiful bag, looks like quality material, excellent positioning of pockets, perfect size, great suspension and padding; in short, I was very excited to start using it. Imagine my shock and […]