Archive for October, 2009
I Never Miss Small Details
Posted on October 27, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under video games | Leave a Comment
Tecmo Bowl has been around for twenty years and I never noticed until literally just now that the game features only nine players on each side. Crazy.
…In related news, is Tecmo Super Bowl ever going to come out for Wii Virtual Console? I would really like to be able to modify my playbook and whatnot. [...]
Pointless Self-Reflection
Posted on October 24, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under meta | Leave a Comment
In writing my first significant research proposal for grad school, I’ve discovered two conflicts between my mode of thinking about academic research and the actuality of it that I need to overcome. It seems as though writing them down might help.
1) Academic research is largely incremental, and there’s nothing wrong with that. No one is [...]