Eleven years ago. I think there may be some fertile ground left to plow in the concept.

The last I heard was Fall 2018, so you might want to lean your expectations more toward late summer.

I got a lot out of Chris Hadfield’s “An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth.” Really good talk about how to aim for a big dream while still feeling fulfilled if you don’t achieve it, how to be your best self at a new workplace or in a new situation, and other advice that I think would be great for anyone. I’ve bought…

Way!

Movie rec: Michel Gondry’s portion of Tokyo!(2oo8)

Can’t wait for the Switch version!

Thanks for this rec!

I thought that he actually had moved on from the Roomba to another brand, and I thought I’d mention that, and then I thought it was super creepy to have been paying enough attention to the podcast to be aware of his robot vacuum history, so I just stuck with the Roomba.

Sorry, Siri; apologies, Alexa. You’re still just appliances to me.

Go figure.

Subsurface Circular was a pretty great little game, and I bought Quarantine Circular the moment I heard it existed, which was about twenty minutes ago.

Hopefully we’ve learned

I could spend three years just trying and failing to finish off my backlog.

Seriously, I don’t need better graphics. After Horizon: Zero Dawn and God of War I’m not even sure what that would look like.  I need developers using tools they’ve had the time to work with so that they can spend more time on polish and mechanics and - god willing - the writing.

Did you ever see the mariachi band and the beluga whale? It’s probably my favorite thing about being alive.

I loved that book - great information, great details.

That’s a fine way to play the game, but I wish they’d just drop the pretext of pretending they’re “weaving narrative into each of the modes.”

The shipping’s sadly a mint but $35 for a hardcover book is about the going price.

Ann Arbor has (hopefully still has) the last Bagel Fragel, home of the fragel (hot cinnamon sugar raisin bagel fried and dusted in more cinnamon sugar).

Man, I had no idea how seriously people used to take their gingerbread back in the day. Giant, molded bride-and-groom gingerbreads covered in gold leaf as the centerpiece of the medieval wedding.