UI grumble redux: dok stax stil sux

[viktor_haag]

It appears that, although I may have sounded like a bit of a raving loonie, I am not the only one who thinks that the UI team at Apple in charge of the dock may have been on some bad weed: John Siracusa apparently also thinks so. I feel vindicated.

Comments

[thebitterguy]

I saw you mention in Nicoll's blahg a Waterloo gamers group. Do they actually meet, or is this more a hypothetical thing?

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

No, we actually meet. Every Wednesday night. Other members include james_nicoll, doc_lemming, briandorion, and a host of other folks without LJs (Jim Gardner, Ian Lim, Vidal Bairos). The core group has been playing for over twenty years, so we're pretty set in our ways.

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

Also, to be fair, I should mention that we're not the only gamers in Waterloo, nor do we have any kind of formal exclusivity on the name I shouldn't think... but we quite often make snide comments about the kind of behaviour that Waterloo Gamers engage in during play... for example, a GM who's at a bit of a short end has but to roll a die, say, "A drop of water lands oooon.... your head", and then sit back and watch the paranoid fun ensue.

[thebitterguy]

Ahhh. I just am going to try and network and outreach with local gaming groups in the GTA this year (for the Expo) and I thought that it might be an organized group.

Uhhh.. Is it organized, like a club, or just a 'gaming group' type of thing?

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

Nah, it's just a gaming group. The closest thing I know of locally that's "organized" is the Kitchener Waterloo Gamers (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KitchenerWaterlooGamers/) boardgame club that was started by a fellow by advertising on BoardGameGeek. It's really just a casual gaming group, but it has a mailing list that's used to arrange meetups.