http://tleaves.com Creativity x Technology Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:19:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Why won't I be buying The Sims 3? Because, although I sometimes do act like a dog who returns to his vomit, I have finally come to peace with the fact that I no longer have any interest in playing games that require as much effort as my job. ... http://tleaves.com/2009/06/30/wine-donuts-and-sex/ The other week I made a mistake and read some things on the Internet. In particular, I was sucked in to following a contretemps (read: "flamewar") with the nickname of "Racefail 2.0". The premise of the flamewar is that a writer, Patricia Wrede, wrote a book called The ... http://tleaves.com/2009/06/19/premises-arent-books/ Someone finally did it, and I should have known it would be Olympus. Back in 1972, Olympus shook up the 35mm SLR world by introducing the OM-1. Here was an SLR camera that was not as big as a brick. It was small and cute, and came with small and ... http://tleaves.com/2009/06/18/more-than-camera-enough/ If I have any hobby that does not involve the gratuitous exchange of money for material goods, it is the observation of the dork in his natural habitat. It's not just that I was educated by dorks at a school that was mostly dorky. Or that I work with dorks ... http://tleaves.com/2009/06/11/male-pattern-dorkness/ We had folks over for one of our periodic Chinese dumpling parties. The food came out particularly well this time, and I managed to use my nifty Panasonic LX-3 to take pictures of some parts of the process. So here is an updated and hopefully slightly more useful version of ... http://tleaves.com/2009/06/09/the-illustrated-pot-sticker/ Telltale has done it again. By "it", of course, I mean "find a humorous property and turn it into a point-and-click adventure game," and not necessarily "rolling around naked in fat sacks of cash," although frankly I'm pretty sure they're doing that as well. Their latest victory, as they trundle across the ... http://tleaves.com/2009/06/08/wallace-and-gromit/ Today over at The Online Photographer Mike Johnston wrote a post suggesting that spending a year using nothing but a Leica and shooting nothing but black and white film could teach you a lot. I think he's right about one thing. It would teach you a lot, but about what? ... http://tleaves.com/2009/05/29/teaching-the-less-important-lesson/ My recent experience buying a car has taught me a few lessons that I hope I remember next time. I'm going to write them down so I don't forget. Let me acknowledge up front that these lessons are colored by my personal hangup about "not getting ripped off", where "ripped ... http://tleaves.com/2009/05/28/dances-with-dinosaurs/ The title of this piece will give astute readers a sense of deja vu. You will recall that more than a year ago, disgusted with the state of writing about video games, I called on the industry to do a better job and find something interesting to write about our ... http://tleaves.com/2009/05/22/this-is-not-a-video-game-review-2/ This post can also be called "In Which I Ignore Kelly's Advice To Buy A Garmin And Pay The Price". I just got my DeLorme PN-40 last night. I went for the PN-40 instead of the Garmin because I was lured by the promise of awesome topo maps and easy-to-obtain-and-load ... http://tleaves.com/2009/05/21/delorme-pn-40-and-topo-usa-70/