Dec. 9th, 2020

kestrell: (Default)
Sneeze physics are strangely fascinating: I'm visualizing something like a space battle, only the droplets are like evil X-wing fighters and your nose and mouth are the targets on the Deathstar. Do you think if we used this kind of actioin-packed visual imagery people would be more careful?
https://scitechdaily.com/covid-face-shields-no-match-for-sneeze-vortex-rings/
kestrell: (Default)
I was reading the BoingBoing holiday guide, and fell in love with this game
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/7/cathedral

Basically, it is a wooden board with a bunh of differently-shaped wooden blocks, and you play it like Go, with two players taking turns putting down white and black pieces and attempting to occupy as much of the board as possible.

My game geek housemate, who is also old-school SCA, said it is actually from the 1970s.

I love it because it is all wood, and the pieces fit together like a Japanese puzzle box. I figure that, even if I can't make it accessible, which actually seems like an easy thing to do, I will still enjoy using it like a medieval puzzle box.

My first idea for making it accessible is to mark one of the sets of colored blocks with a tactile dot to distinguish the black pieces from the white. The pieces all have a bottom and top side, so marking the top should be relatively simple.

I've also ordered a tactile tactices graph from 64 Oz. Games, which I mentioned recently in a post. I figure I will lay it on top of the board to mark the squares.

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