tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87809872009-06-24T21:41:43.798-07:00Blah blah blah. I'm the author of the (sort of) famous "Eric's Ultimate Solitaire." The sample version shipped on a lot of Macintosh computers. Come here to read about what I'm working on and what's goin' on with my family. Also. Things that are funny.Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.comBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-10975101547083709242009-06-24T21:34:00.001-07:002009-06-24T21:41:43.812-07:00

I'm a big board game geek I don't like boring American games like Sorry, Monopoly, Trivial Pursuit or Candy Land... I like designer/Euro games that are really good. Like Ticket to Ride, Diamant and For Sale. Since I'm a board game geek I like to learn about board games. I like Scott Nicholson's Board Games with Scott . Check it out. Scott's really funny, plus you'll learn about some cool games.

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-78590323055399437842009-06-23T14:37:00.000-07:002009-06-23T15:26:52.809-07:00

Kelly's Kindle 2 Kelly's Kindle 2 (e-Book from Amazon) is broken. Well, the screen is broken. The upper-right corner looks all jumbled and there are some stray vertical and horizontal white lines too. I accused her like 7 times of dropping it or doing something bad. But she denied any wrong-doing. I googled around and the same thing has happened to other Kindle owners. I wonder if the screen is

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-10028659250828908032009-06-22T15:45:00.000-07:002009-06-22T16:02:53.281-07:00

I've tried a lot of iPhone games. Here are my two favorites. The Creeps! There are lots of Tower Defense games for the iPhone. This is my favorite. Cartoony monsters try to wake up the sleeping kid. You have to stop them. There's no scrolling or zooming, everything is on-screen. There are multiple modes and lots of levels for each that offer a good variety of game play. The best game design

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-41148996786978029702009-06-19T08:50:00.000-07:002009-06-19T10:08:02.108-07:00

The casual game I was working on at PlayFirst, DinerTown Tycoon, finally shipped! I finished fixing bugs early and moved onto the web version of the game. Unfortunately I was done with the web game super early (normally that's good), but then it was canceled. I'm bummed they didn't cancel it before I did the work. It's sad to see your work thrown out. Then I helped out on the SDK and with other

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-59206269518650146252009-02-23T21:12:00.001-08:002009-03-29T23:18:04.707-07:00

So far it's been a pretty stinky year, 2009. I won't go into the details onacounta who knows who reads this blog. Maybe I should password protect it? Sell subscriptions? Then it wouldn't be weird to cover what's what. Then again, maybe I don't need to. Most anyone who reads this (Hi Dad and Mom!) already know everything crappy that's happened this year. I've been making progress on solitaire for

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-51292703678158670482008-09-29T08:33:00.000-07:002008-09-29T08:42:12.659-07:00

I finally gave in and ordered an iPod Touch. I had lunch with my friend, Bob, and he graciously offered to use his Apple employee discount. I had been holding out for a while because I like to buy used things instead of new for a bunch of reasons. But the deals on used iPod Touches (That sounds a little creepy) were not-so-good. So soon I'll be the owner of a brand new one with a warranty and

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-31560810557039209572008-06-27T11:04:00.000-07:002008-06-27T11:14:11.476-07:00

My phone says it's time to post to my blog. And if I don't then I'll snooze the reminder until it reminds me again next week. And so on. So instead I'm going to write some stuff. Right now! I've been working a lot but just hit a big milestone for my game at PlayFirst so that's great. I can relax a little. Plus right now I'm working on a really fun part of the game. Jonah's birthday is coming up.

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-14593055292054471242008-06-08T14:59:00.000-07:002008-06-11T11:11:56.954-07:00

I just heard the news from my friends, Mary and Joe, that my friend, Erick Wujcik, died. I'm really sad. Erick was so nice and smart and just so wonderful to talk to. He was always supportive. I wouldn't be at my current job, which I like a lot, if he hadn't given the company his seal of approval. I ran my (grown-up) nephews through Erick's first published role-playing game, Sector 57, about a

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-4623666392550543002008-05-09T16:30:00.001-07:002008-05-09T16:30:55.573-07:00

This is take 2 of trying to post to my blog from my phone.Hey! It was "Crazy Hair" day today at Jonah's preschool. He was alittle worried and wanted to know what his friends hair would looklike. I explained the girls would mostly have lots of crazy pigtailsand the boys would have hair that was sticking out all over.So Kelly made his hair stick straight up. It was awesome.At school everyone loved

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-70373329396727988692008-05-05T12:26:00.001-07:002008-05-05T12:35:57.541-07:00

I just wrote a message about Baby Signs to some of my friends on dan&eric (a mailing list that, amazingly, is still around and grew out of a bulletin board from CMU made up of, well, me and Dan's friends and their friends long long ago). A lot of them are busy reproducing and this came up. So here it is in case some person stumbles on my blog and wants to read about Baby Signs... "Baby Signs"

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-83523470663377156012008-04-28T09:15:00.000-07:002008-04-28T09:28:29.214-07:00

Sheesh. It's been four months since I posted anything. That's no good. So here's to not worrying about posting important things, and to just trying to post more often. Everyone's been sick over here on and off the past month or two. It's ridiculous. Although mostly Kelly doesn't get sick, or she gets sick at other weird times, like when we're not relying on her. It's probably a special mother

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-74373719423259157032007-12-18T10:08:00.000-08:002007-12-18T10:28:49.310-08:00

Another battery has stopped working on Kelly's MacBook. Apple replaced the last battery a couple months ago which had the same problem. It wouldn't charge any more. It just showed a black x in the battery icon in the menu bar. Great.The good news is we paid for the extra two years of Apple Care. (Yay?) The new battery failed in just a few months... I suspect we will have two more years of

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-87307553148699622692007-11-06T21:49:00.001-08:002007-11-06T22:03:24.917-08:00

Apparently iSight cameras are worth as much as gold now. Well, sort of. Apple discontinued making them and now they're going for $200+ on eBay. I paid $100 for mine when I was an employee at Apple. Actually I bought two 'cause they were such a good deal.Our MacBook has a built-in camera so we don't really need an iSight any more. And we definitely don't need two. So I put up an auction to sell

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-69892433394579731302007-10-29T09:30:00.001-07:002007-10-29T09:42:37.738-07:00

Last year a raccoon came in the middle of the night and killed one of our chickens. It's a funnier and longer story than it sounds involving Kelly, barely dressed, battling the raccoon with a pitchfork while I was sleeping, or at least trying to sleep.A few weeks ago I went to play video games with some friends. A pretty rare occasion. I got home late, and everyone should have been sleeping. But

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-18225738231109587732007-08-15T22:56:00.000-07:002007-08-30T09:42:38.776-07:00

I'm in a stinky mood. Anyway, hey, we had a Tanker Truck Explosion party for Jonah's birthday! We were celebrating a couple other things too, but the theme came from Jonah. I asked him what kind of cake he wanted for his fourth birthday and that's what he asked for. He wanted it like the tanker truck that exploded in Oakland and melted the bridge. I said "Yeah, we can have yellow icing for the

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-65430898412641600812007-07-30T18:42:00.000-07:002007-07-30T18:49:32.718-07:00

A very nice Russian cleaning lady who used to work for us made this for us a couple times. Here's my version of it. It's really good.Tanya's (Imitation) Crab Salad1 lb. Imitation Crab 2 cups Yellow Corn (frozen, canned, whatever) 2 cups Green Peas (see above) 1/2 - 1 oz. fresh dill, chopped 4 hard boiled eggs, chopped Mayonnaise (add later, to taste) How to make itCut or tear the imitation

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-76682902317552953312007-07-27T09:56:00.001-07:002007-07-27T09:56:40.188-07:00

This isn't really mobile. But I'm testing it out. Supposedly I can email go@blogger.com and it will post things to my blog. And you're all going to like it because I'll write from the train or from the back of an elephant. You'll see.

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-43838451267648918402007-07-26T19:53:00.000-07:002007-07-28T11:26:38.336-07:00

I heard a man and woman talking on the bus today. I'm sorry I missed the beginning of the conversation because it was so wild. They didn't know each other and mostly the man was talking. He went over how he and someone else were dragons. Well reincarnated dragons, and it went on for a while. I was thinking "Oh, okay, I didn't spot these two for geeks, but clearly they are either role-playing

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-63021445271182938742007-07-25T09:45:00.000-07:002007-07-25T09:52:47.597-07:00

I'm busy working... but I wanted to mention that the Mac/Windows game I've been working on, Wedding Dash, is shipping. Check out the 60 minute trial. If you like Diner Dash you'll love it.

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-61087931404925586652007-07-19T23:07:00.000-07:002007-07-19T23:13:48.817-07:00

I've been slacking on pictures of Jonah and Ari. So here are a few of my recent favorites.

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-90508162753362857902007-07-19T21:15:00.001-07:002007-07-31T21:36:14.838-07:00

My train pulled into the train station and I was rushing to put my headphones and computer away. That's when I slid my computer into my backpack and heard a loud POP. I thought it was a plastic bag although what's a plastic bag doing in my backpack? It turns out it was one of our DVDs from Blockbuster Total Access. D'oh. It snapped in half.I signed us up for Blockbuster Total Access, it's like

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-13388374445865409212007-07-19T08:32:00.000-07:002007-07-19T13:26:14.033-07:00

I take the train to the city a couple days a week to go to work. I really like taking the train. I can work without anyone bothering me, I don't have to drive, and trains are cool. Plus, sometimes there's the super happy conductor. He's always so positive and happy it's awesome. Here's what he's like:Bienvinudo namaste What a wunnaful wunnaful day. (Pulling into station) What a beautiful morning

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-29919521588500896052007-07-18T21:47:00.000-07:002007-07-19T09:29:44.057-07:00

We always sing Jonah songs when he goes to bed. It's part of his bedtime ritual. Apparently every kid has some bedtime ritual. Some families give their kids a bath, read 7 stories, do a dance, drink some milk, sing songs, take another bath and then the kid goes to bed, maybe. Our kids are lucky to get a bath a month. They're not the cleanest children. But they're cute! Anyway, we'd heard of these

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-44602441807360673092007-07-18T21:21:00.000-07:002007-07-18T21:47:48.453-07:00

The video game I'm working on at PlayFirst is going to ship really soon. I really want a Nintendo Wii but a big part of that is just because they're so hard to find. Also. I don't want to pay extra. I want to pay the $250 list price. It seems like a scam from Nintendo... "Hi, yeah, the Nintendo Wii is only $250! Not expensive like the PS3 or XBox. What? Oh, sorry, we're out of stock. We

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-55248936285975450202007-07-14T22:31:00.000-07:002007-07-14T22:47:39.824-07:00

We were sitting at the dinner table tonight and Jonah started telling us to stop and go. He was pretending to be some kind of stop and go machine. So we were eating our food and he would put his hands up with his fingers spread and we'd all stop eating (except for Ari, that kid never stops eating*). He was pretending to be a stop and go machine. So he'd put his hands down and we'd eat. Hands up,

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