Dave Snider

Table Slayer is now feature complete. I plan on opening it up for beta up next week, and doing a full release once I come back from vacation in mid April. It will be Open Source. Here's a demo. If you're interested in helping with the beta, sign up at tableslayer.com.

Most folks won't know how fun Koenig was in Babylon 5. It's hard to recommend given the visuals, but it was an important Sci-Fi show and he played a great asshole on it. RIP.

Picked up some mats to make my Captains Chair setup a bit more organized. This is still my favorite solo game right now.

How come every drug advertisement doesn't mention talking to an imaginary friend as a side effect? Seems common.

What a doofus. He sits like this all the time, as if he's on horseback.

Secretly think Elle (Legally Blonde TV show) is pretty awesome. Setting it during 90s Seattle was a pretty clever plot device.

Same issue for the O's in their playoff games in year's previous. They run "loyalty windows" for early access. The only thing you got was worse seats for higher amounts. Before the game, good seats open at lower prices because it's undersold. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/athletic/768...

Added my book reading activity to my website. Currently reading The Quiet American by Graham Greene. Previously King Solomon's Mines, The Pearl and Murder on the Orient Express. Been on a classics tear this month. Will post reviews as I do for movies.

"Spartan" is David Mamet's best movie. I would have loved to see Kilmer's "Bobby" character in follow up films. What happens to a man when he stops shooting and starts thinking?

Still thinking about "Digger".

I bounce off of most survival games. Valheim is the exception. I've been playing exclusively with my son. It has the right balance of exploration, difficulty and progression. 10 hours in and we've cleared our first dungeon. The pacing is great.

Never coached a Fall season of little league like this before. 3 out of 5 games have been rain outs. The early sundowns make it hard to reschedule.

TIL that "All These Things That I've Done" by the Killers is about Matt Pinfield (of MTV's 120 Minutes). Here's a feel good cover of it that I always return to because it has a bunch of kids singing the chorus trying to hide how much fun they are having. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yQP...

I hate this creepy tribble. The cribble.

My dog gets so excited when we head out. Adventure!

Went to the Maryland Renaissance Festival today. Always fun. Somehow I walked away with The Game of Y. I love elegantly simple games you can teach in less than a minute. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_%28ga...

How can you not love Baseball?

A small reminder that Colin from Accounts is pretty awesome. Was worried the third (and final) season wouldn't match up to my love of the first two after such a long break, but it continues to be one of the best comedies on television.

Robert Jackson Bennett is slowly creeping into my favorite Fantasy authors list. Most are good at characters, plot or world-building. He excels at all three. I like that he takes chances in his trilogies and doesn't rest on what made the last novel work.

Network continues to tell the future. youtu.be/yuBe93FMiJc?... arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Cincinnati to St. Louis was pretty fun. Was tempted to swing under the arch.

I am a sucker for Humble Bundle ebooks. Book series about space lions? Sure... why not.

My flight recorder for MSFS now builds out visualizations for landing approaches and runway rolls. Here's a touch and go where I hit the centerline, then rotate back up into a climb. It polls at a higher Hz when you are under 1000ft, which gives me all the detail. This is pretty neat.

10 of 30 MLB ballparks. I did my last leg to Cincinnati in a Turbine Duke because getting across to the west coast would be too slow in a Comanche. I'm happy with the flight recorder, but am going to try to build visualizations for my landings, which are still shaky. davesnider.com/ballpark-tour

I now have a robust playback system that includes wind-speed and fuel economy. I made horrible time on my flight to Ithaca and wanted to know why. Turns out I was in 20 kts of headwind the whole flight! Also added some climb, cruise and descend metrics. Next up will be measuring bouncy landings.

Built a small tracker to combine my MSFS flights into one map. It tracks my goal to fly over every MLB ballpark. Apparently I can always find something super nerdy to build. I'll put together a separate post on the actual build / scripting side later. davesnider.com/ballpark-tour

4/30 baseball stadiums flown over. Realized with this Mets / Yankees flight that I should get my scripts to auto mark photos taken on the map / chart. It would explain the elevation drops. I'll figure that out for next flight, should be easy since everything is timed.

This is pretty cool now. You can see a short flight I did in MS Flight Sim 2024 with real data coming in. The "checkered" spots are when I was flying through clouds, which somewhat explains the shakiness! I'll write up a blog post at some point: python script pushes sim data to website API.

I still can't get over the Colton Cowser game-saving catch from last night. This alternate angle shows just how insane it was. To get that high, hit the wall, and recover is pretty wild. I'm not sure I've seen one better.

Absolutely insane catch. So glad I stayed up to watch the O's tonight.