Axodys 10C Edition

These games will pit “Metro” against “Region” all-stars and will promote the highest quality of high school basketball and provide the players an opportunity to play with and against the best basketball players – seniors and underclassmen – that Eastern and Central Washington and North Idaho has to offer.

Putting together an Eastern Washington (and North Idaho) showcase for top area boys and girls basketball players is a great idea. Hats off to the Spokesman Review for making this happen in a combined event.

Spokane County Treasurer Michael Baumgartner is urging the Spokane Public Schools board to reconsider its earlier decision to replace aging Joe Albi Stadium at the same site. Baumgartner drafted a letter to the board, claiming that building downtown would save taxpayers $2 million.

There is far more parking in downtown Spokane and within walking distance of the original site than I think most people realize. It pissed me off at the time that there was even discussion of needing an expensive dedicated parking building for a new downtown stadium because that's demonstrably false. Anyone that's ever attended Hoopfest, Bloomsday, or any of the major events near downtown and Riverfront Park have encountered an event with an order of magnitude more people than will attend a typical high school game in the stadium.

In 2019, new content started automatically entering the public domain for the first time since 1998 and we celebrated with the Gaming Like It's 1923 jam. This year, we're continuing the tradition and celebrating works from 1924. Let's make games that are about or inspired by these works!

Cool premise for a Game Jam with just a couple weeks left in January. I'm intrigued by the idea of participating, but doubt I have enough time and motivation to make something worthwhile happen.

After three episodes of Jeopardy’s Greatest of All Time (GOAT) tournament, the question on everyone’s mind is: Why is Brad Rutter losing?

📺 Fun Jeopardy tournament analysis from two-time Jeopardy champion, Glenn Fleishman. I haven't had a chance to watch yet, but I've been following the results on via social media and I'm pulling for Seattle resident Ken Jennings myself.

📚Matt Bell's Baldur's Gate II (Boss Fight Books, #8) is part lifelong gamer turned writer memoir and part critical analysis of the classic computer RPG. I enjoyed the way the book weaves both threads together and empathized with the author's inner struggle to reconcile his nerdy gaming side with who he felt he should be as an as a successful adult writer. His insights into the game itself were quite good, but his struggle with self acceptance remained a bummer even as he made real progress on that front because we live in a time when everything he agonized over is more normal than ever before.

John Siracusa of Accidental Tech Podcast fame and numerous incredibly thorough MacOS X reviews has released a simple $2.99 utility he calls Front and Center to restore the MacOS Classic window layering behavior that Apple abandoned when they moved to OS X. Once the utility is running clicking an application window will bring all of that application windows to the front as well. I haven't really missed this functionality because I don't tend to run multiple windows, but I'm a Siracusa fan and as a long time Mac user I wanted to give this another try.¹

1. The first place I immediately noticed the impact of this was in the Finder. That's the one app that I tend to keep multiple windows open in having never really adapted to tabbed Finder windows.

Today I discovered Ableton offers a really impressive free interactive tutorial site on the basics of music and modern music creation tools. I think my older kids could learn a lot by going through the examples and exercises, I'm not a total music newb and I learned some things myself.

📚🎧 Finished listening to the audio book of Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics today¹, making it my first completed book of 2020. It's an incredibly thorough and interesting discussion of the evolution of soccer tactics over the history of the sport, and definitely one that I'd like to pick up in print so that I can revisit particular sections and use it as a reference.

1. Although I made it through the first three quarters of its 18 hour 20 minute length last Fall before my library loan expired.

Tyson Degenhart scored 35 points – his sixth 30-plus point effort in nine games – with 11 rebounds and Mt. Spokane beat Tigard (Oregon) 85-60 in a semifinal in the Les Schwab Invitational “The Eight” tournament at Liberty High School in Hillsboro, Oregon, on Friday.

🏀 Degenhart is now averaging 29.8 ppg through 10 games and I can't help wondering if the junior Boise State commit is actually going to end up there when he graduates because he's clearly a Pac-12 caliber player even if hometown Gonzaga isn't a consideration.

This is both entertaining and terrifying- not only did they break a wooden bat in the process of making this video, but they managed to break some aluminum ones as well.