m. c. de marco: To invent new life and new civilizations...

Happy Pi Day!

I’ve collected enough pyramid content here and elsewhere to devote a page to it.

I expanded the pyramid randomization in the Zoning Out Randomizer to a general Pyramid Randomizer. I was thinking about saving your selected colors, but that hasn’t happened yet. I should also move it somewhere more appropriate than a github fork of someone else’s project, but that hasn’t happened yet either. Enjoy!

I’ve added pyramid randomization to the Zoning Out Randomizer, because it turns out it’s pretty annoying to draw pyramids by size from only one bag, and I was jealous of the Solomids randomizer. I also relaxed the restrictions on game size (previously to just the regular game and the small city variant) so it’s easier to set up Samantha’s toddler games with only one special rule.

I thought about adding a random seed to share challenges like the Solomids people do, but it seemed unlikely to get much use.

I made a Zoning Out Randomizer for a solo pyramid game that I haven’t actually played yet. I spotted the game on the Games Only You Have Played geeklist for this month, and it seemed like my kind of thing (I love Sprawlopolis), though not without the convenience of a randomizer like this one. I also enlivened the scoring sheet to do some of the math for you.

The odd URL is due to it being in a fork of mine on my github pages. I converted the README using pandoc (rather than by grabbing GitHub’s conversion), then added some vanilla modern javascript to do the randomization. You can also manually pick your three scoring goals, or pass some in in the URL. For example, for the first three goals, the URL would be mcdemarco.github.io/321/zoningoutrandomizer.html?1,2,3.

I changed the way I make some recipe indices for my cookbook so that it’s easier to add them; see, for example, my Thanksgiving recipes, by sort-of solving the general issue of tagging my recipes that’s been bothering me for a while. To do so, I followed some advice about adding metadata to markdown without YAML by using link references instead. You can read more about it in one of the READMEs at my repository.