Posts from December 2007.

The rules of Piquet

Yesterday, boredom resulted in a friend and I finding a two-player card game that’s actually interesting. It’s called Piquet. However, even the best set of rules we found took us a while to understand, and there are competing older rulesets that actually describe different versions of the game that antedate the current one, so learning the game took us two or three hours and several botched games. So, after figuring out that the rules are in fact relatively simple, I’m writing and posting an easy-to-understand set of rules in case anyone else is looking for one. More… »

Grad school and thesis thoughts

Apparently I should write in this more often. I’ve sort of been waiting to post until I can put together some really good ones, à la City of Sound, but it might also be worthwhile to mention what I’ve been doing, and what I will be doing in the near future. More… »