Tuesday, December 10
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Circus Train Review - Boardgame Reviews
Circus Train Review - Boardgame Reviews: " When I got swept away by the first wave of German import board games I had this peculiar vision that what I’d get was a tide of easily learned, fast playing games which were nevertheless strategically demanding and full of interaction. What I got mostly were bland, empty shells of games, bereft of thrills and drama. Circus Train is the sort of game I was expecting, except it turned up a decade too late."
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Monday, May 13
Relic review from someone who never played Talisman | Relic | BoardGameGeek
Relic review from someone who never played Talisman | Relic | BoardGameGeek: Actually, "the Trader ended up being corrupted by chaos long before the end of the game due to a string of bad encounters" is the point. This is not a systems game where the art and theme are there to make the gears look cheery—Relic is the page numbers and paragraphs of a choose-your-own-adventure novel rolled out onto a board and stacked in decks of cards to be accessed by the roll of the die. The game is about the random, emergent narrative, no two alike. The story is the prize you leave the table with, win or lose. Some of my most cherished gaming memories are from years-old Talisman games where the absurdity and awfulness of the adventure dwarfed any feeling of "accomplishment" the winner might have felt. (It's important to note that I cannot recall who won which games; I have only the memory of my wretched circumstances. And those stories warm my heart.)
Thursday, January 10
Thursday, February 16
Moreover, Randall Popken, who is a WPA at Tarleton State University in Texas, writing in College Composition and Communication in 2004,
showed that class size is a long-standing, serious issue with his historical
case study of Edwin Hopkins, a writing teacher at the University of Kansas
from 1889 to 1937 (618-41)� Hopkins, following the then relatively new
composition pedagogy of having students write extensively, reached the
point of a breakdown from sheer overwork�
Friday, January 27
Publications of Cathy N. Davidson: C.N. Davidson, Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn (Viking Press June 2011 publication date) (2010) [org]
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Panic Station - I Never Knew Passing Gas To Thwart Alien, Parasitic Buttworms Could Be So Awesome http://ping.fm/OsP4R
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