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My 40th Birthday Survey Results
TL;DR: Despite an unfair advantage, my sister still wins. 🙂 Back in September, I asked people (by e-mail and social media) to fill out a quick survey describing how long we’ve known each other, where we met, and their first…
SnoutCast #167: Comparative Playtesting in Portland (Afoot vs. DASH)
In which we preview the Portland Afoot Game (May 4th) and DASH 5 PDX (May 18th). No spoilers! [ Download mp3 – 31 MB ] 00:59 – “verifiable”02:42 – compare and contrast05:00 – cisgendered team formation07:30 – a puzzling philosophy11:16…
SnoutCast #152: Pricing Puzzled Pints
A special extended conversation, in which we estimate how much one of our monthly events would cost at retail! Also, how would you like to adopt a cat? [ Download mp3 – 36 MB ] 00:59 – “valuable”02:28 – the…
Damned Lies of the Week
After watching @snarke‘s vlog from yesterday, I was going to post a comment about the most effective job search strategy being talking to people you know—friends, family, co-workers and former colleagues. I even had a statistic: my wife, who’s also…
SnoutCast #136: Gamer Profile – Richard Malena
A conversation with Portland’s own @rmalena, a.k.a. “Nice Math Teacher!” [ Download mp3 – 26 MB ] 00:00 – promo: BANG 33 rerun +online!01:30 – “mathematical”01:48 – cats: better than math?02:34 – getting mixed up with Puzzled Pint05:10 – teaching…
SnoutCast #124: Three Things
Show notes? You want me to write up show notes when we’re prepping for a live-fire Dry Run in just four days? Well, okay. [ Download mp3 – 23 MB ] 00:58 – “contingent”01:51 – backstory05:53 – “few” vs. “several”…
SnoutCast #122: WARTRON Listener Mail
You’ve got questions. We’ve got answers. Sort of. [ Download mp3 – 26 MB ] 00:58 – “active”01:44 – Question #1 re: demand for weekend-long Games02:53 – For WarTron: 40 teams registered (35 actual applicants)…06:50 – …28 teams completed application,…
snout.org downtime
UPDATE (5/23 18.26 PT): Data center move rescheduled to “next week on some day Tuesday [5/29] onwards,” and likely to be after business hours. Precise details to come later. My primary web host is moving data centers this weekend–probably Friday,…
SnoutCast #96: By the Numbers
Math is hard. Let’s solve puzzles? [ Download mp3 – 27 MB ] 00:59 – “statistically significant”01:40 – compiled for Doctor When: Curtis’ personal puzzlehunting history08:56 – other statistics: regarding this very podcast!14:48 – five minutes of disclaimers later, a…