Remembering Dr. Fredrick P. Brooks, Jr. after his passing on 2022-11-17

This year I was a late addition via the (quite excellent) Women in Games org to a wonderful IGDA Foundation Jam team putting together a really exciting concept: A Tower Defense game where in addition to having the usual tower defense mechanics and a rockin' "protect wildlife" theme, you could …

Just a quick PSA for the World Science Fiction Convention/ChiCon folx who are attending and I may have told that I would meet up with this year. Unfortunately I have been impacted negatively by the historically bad flash floods and fires in North Texas/the Dallas-Fort Worth metro region …

Remember, remember the 8th of August. The day between Hiroshima and Nagasaiki. Like a lot of American families, my family is defined by the unique sequence of events in history and our collective memories of those days in August. The time after Trinity, when it was clear that Atomic Weapons …

Some quick thoughts after watching the ACS/CSA/ESA/NASA