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Monthly Archives: March 2013

Tax deductions that don’t save you money

Posted on March 29, 2013 by Hunter — No Comments ↓

I recently read a blog from the Wall Street Journal, “12 Debt Myths That Trip Up Consumers“. It includes many great tips, leading with the best: “Avoid debt.” But then toward the end, it stumbles badly with this one: Mortgage-interest Continue reading →

Posted in Money | Tagged mortgages, taxes | Leave a reply

Quizgle in Beta!

Posted on March 26, 2013 by Hunter — No Comments ↓
Quizgle screenshot

Quizgle is live! Quizgle is a puzzle game where you have to guess the words that were used to generate the displayed search results. At a game of five rounds, you can share your result to see if your friends can Continue reading →

Posted in Gaming | Tagged puzzles, web development | Leave a reply

RoboRally Chess

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Hunter — 3 Comments ↓
King Twonky and four chess dice pieces

Inspired by this comment, I decided to come up with a chess variant for RoboRally. I wanted to keep the programming aspect of RoboRally and the multiple pieces & capture-the-king goal of chess intact. Programming a “side” of 16 bots would Continue reading →

Posted in Gaming | Tagged house rules, roborally | 3 Replies

Neil deGrasse Tyson at the Nutter Center. And multi-multiverses.

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Hunter — No Comments ↓
A long-distance view of Dr. Tyson on stage at the Nutter Center

Neil deGrasse Tyson was a special guest at the Nutter Center last night, and my wife and I took the kids out to see him. The teens were skeptical about the event, since it meant giving up one of this Continue reading →

Posted in Dayton, Science | Tagged multiverse, neil degrasse tyson, nutter center | Leave a reply

Applied Solipsism

Posted on March 7, 2013 by Hunter — 2 Comments ↓

Philosophy is one of those areas of study that people outside the field have a hard time finding applications for. It enables the basis of logic, and so underpins all of computer programming, so computer geeks should have at least Continue reading →

Posted in Time | Tagged bible quotes, gandhi, philosophy | 2 Replies

At the Orc Butcher

Posted on March 6, 2013 by Hunter — 1 Comment ↓

An orc cook goes to the orc butcher and asks for some prime elf steaks. The butcher says “It’s not ‘prime’ these days. Elfmeat went to ‘good’, ‘plusgood’, ‘doubleplusgood’.” “Oh. Okay, gimme some plusgood elf steaks and some doubleplusgood pixie Continue reading →

Posted in Gaming, Writing | Tagged puns | 1 Reply

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