my life as a pile of stuff

I took this photo of my desk the other day:

I was pretty happy with how well it summed up all my hobby activities. I could probably write a blog post on each of these things and feel okay about it. Here’s a breakdown of the junk on my desk.

Role-playing game stuff

• purple bag of dice and pencils
• black and red volume of Dyson Logos’ Magical Theorems and Dark Pacts
• octagonal dice rolling tray (yeah, that’s a thing)
• five sets of Fudge/Fate dice
• a copy of Fate Accelerated just barely visible on the red notebook by the binoculars

Other games

• a few Decktet decks
• a copy of The Quiet Year (it’s in that burlap bag)
• poker chips, in part for playing All My Diamonds
• the rules to Go
• a copy of New Rules for Classic Games
• Dice Games Properly Explained
• Great Book of Domino Games

Computer stuff

• a copy of Thinking Forth
• my Arduino Starter Kit
• a copy of Smalltalk Best Practices
• an Erlang sticker

Random stuff to read

• my iPad, which spends about half its time as a comic book reader
• a copy of Future’s End from Free Comic Book Day
• The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind — quite a book!
• Stylized: A Slightly Obsessive History of Strunk & White’s The Elements of Style

Written on May 16, 2014