Jacob and Marcia

I’ve written a new game, Boomshine, for the iPhone/iPod touch, which has just become available in the App Store.
It’s a fully authorized recreation of the original Boomshine game that took the web by storm last year, which you can still play at k2xl.com.  Here’s the official description:
Boomshine is an addictive casual game.  Touch the screen [...]

OK, I’m really going to try not to be political with this. It’s already pretty clear who we support in the upcoming election, but I thought putting together this list would be interesting.
The following is a list of four major technology-related issues that are important in the upcoming presidential election, and the candidates’ positions [...]

We have avoided anything political on this blog for a while, but the time has finally come…
There were a few candidates of varying persuasions that we felt an inclination for, but most have dropped out of the race, and only one remains: Barack Obama.
We do not agree with everything that Obama stands for, but we [...]

So I have been working on a project lately that has me using Google Maps. I have learned a few things while doing this. One thing I wish to share is odd, these maps do not read the letter “E” as an apartment number. It reads it as east, every time. [...]

Here’s another first: On Saturday, we did our first real paid catering gig (along with my mother and my uncle Kevin - my mother was the head chef). Marcia has worked as a professional chef before (at the Bed&Breakfast she used to manage), but this was my first time in the professional arena. [...]

Yesterday we took a trip “to town.” For those of you who are wondering, I do not mean Wal-Mart, I mean Springfield. We went to Best Buy, looked around and realized that we still didn’t find anything to waste our hard earned money on, so we left. As we waited along the [...]

There used to be a building near Stirling Castle in Scotland, which had an inscription carved above the door “What-e’er thou art, act well thy part.” The building was eventually torn down, but the engraved stone was taken to Salt Lake City. I’ve seen it, and ever since have contemplated its meaning. [...]

The following is an ad that I received by snail-mail last year. I was going through my files and found this. I put it away thinking I would do “something” with it “some” day. Today is apparently that day.

I laughed as soon as I saw the Verizon logo on the U.S. Cellular [...]

It’s been a while since I’ve written a post on this blog.  Thankfully, Marcia’s picture quizzes have kept it alive while I’ve been “away.”
I haven’t really been physically absent, I’ve just been in crazy finish-the-product-and-get-it-out-the-door mode for the last 3 weeks, finishing up a new version of the software that I write.  I finally finished [...]

Lately, I’ve become increasingly enamored with a woman named Kathy Sierra. Ok, not really with her - I don’t even know her - but with her writing. Kathy’s post today is particularly striking. “Success” should not mean “Management” basically questions the entire model of how promotions in business work. She points out that while businesses always want to promote their people into management positions, a lot of people (especially technical people like programmers and engineers) don’t want those jobs. They take them because the pay and benefits are better, but they don’t necessarily involve doing the things they actually want to do.