Image via Wikipediaparticipant observation - “being there”, be a part of the social setting, firsthand knowledge, see behavior patterns, experience the unexpected (as well as expected), “make the strange familiar and the familiar strange” (erickson, 1973) which means understanding new stuff and questioning our assumptions about familiar stuff (ask why is stuff this way, what’s [...]
Archive > June 2008
reading notes - world of games - modern board games
Image by nicolasnova via Flickrgames of alignment & configuration where goal is to get markers in a row, among hte oldest games that we know - earliest ones thousands of years old in many countries, many of these can be played with just a board drawn on the ground iwth a stick and using pebbles [...]
reading notes - world of games - dominoes
Image via Wikipediadominoes (name of hte game is the same as the name of the things, origin of the word unclear might be named after a cloak worn by priests that was black and white) dominoes can be shuffled like cards - they have solid colored backs and you play them with the dice facing [...]
reading notes - The world of games - board games
ancient board games
been around more than 4000 years altho sketchy info on the earliest games because materials decay over time, we find game remnants in burial sites and drawings/wall paintings - but they don’t give us much info about how to play the games, many of these early boards alerady had the idea of a [...]
reading notes - The world of games
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games have tranascended time, language, geography, culture, social norms - people play games all over the world and some games cross cultures ex: hopscotch played in US, Nepal India, Burma China, Russia (it’s related to labyrinthes and mazes and then to the soul’s journey from earth to heaven chess started in India 1000 [...]
reading notes - history of card games - ch4
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lots of detail that i don’t care much about except for these bits
cards 1st mentioned in spain in 1371 and by 1380 had spread to italy, france switzerland
pretty sure they don’t exist before then because there’s no mention of htem in any of the popular culture of hte time - poems, [...]
reading notes - history of card games - ch3
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cards are a game system - tools for playing a lot of different games
card game look has remained pretty much the same for many years - people expect the cards to look the same so they can concentrate on the game and not the cards, whole card taken [...]
reading notes - history of card games - ch2
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good summary of thigns that go into a card game specifically and in most cases, games in general - i think it’s in this chapter - part of hte fun of games is the social time, the chance to talk during deals and after your hand is played
cards [...]
reaqding notes - lateral thinking - ch3, 4
Image via Wikipediasome people may be better than others at lateral thinking - but it’s a skill that can be practiced and learned, it’s just a different way of handling informaiton
sometimes we can see a logical path once we use lateral thinking to come up with a solution - but there’s no guarantee that using [...]
reading notes - lateral thinking book - ch2
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diffs between lateral and vertical thinking - ch2
vertical is selective (looking for the one right answer, other answers other paths are excluded, want the one best way of looking at a problem), lateral is generative (open up more paths to the problem solution generate as many alternative approaches as you can even after [...]
