The Magic Pantry

I really love text adventure games. I’ve always had a fascination with natural language processing (my postgrad research was about computational grammatical inference after all), so part of the fun was figuring out how the parser works, and applying that knowledge to write my own text adventures in BASIC on the C64. These days there [...]

I checked my personal records. I purchased my first-generation, “stick’o’gum” iPod shuffle on Saturday April 23, 2005. It probably cost $150 or something outrageous like that. On the same day, we ate barbequed corn and “shaking beef”, played “Lost Cities” and “Carcassonne”, played the demo of “Meteos” on the DS and watched “Iron Chef”, which [...]