Reiner Knizia on the Nintendo DS?!

We went to Game Stop Whatever yesterday evening to pick up a Warcraft DVD for Russet ($2 for a 14 day demo) and were browsing the DS cartridges when I saw one in the puzzle/brain training category called Brain Voyage. And on the back it listed "By Dr. Reiner Knizia".

I'm kind of embarrassed to admit that I knew I should have known that name, but I couldn't place it. After we got home after going to my aunt's to play dominoes (I got SO horribly hammered in the first game! six rounds (out of 13) that I had no starters!) it hit me: it is only one of the most recognized names in table top game design. I didn't know he'd done a DS implementation.

I should check to see if he's doing anything on the Wii. Not that I have one. Yet.

"Why do we have to restart routers?"

Yesterday afternoon a post went up on Slashdot wherein this guy wails that he always has to restart his Linksys WRT54G wireless router. And my first thought is: "Whaa? Nani?" What the heck is this guy talking about? I've been using that router for ages, I've recommended it to others who've used them and they've been pretty much trouble-free.

There had been over 800 threads when I pulled up Slashdot this AM, and I knew I couldn't contribute anything insightful. Three trends emerged, aside from the "I've been using that model for years and it's trouble-free". First, apparently if you do torrents, it can eat up resources in your router and cause instability. They recommended installing something like Tomato and doing a little parameter tweaking. Second, some routers are sensitive to power, a UPS takes care of it. And according to at least one post, DLink makes really crappy power adapters and some models are prone to failure. I have one small DLink router that was retired until I got this job and had to get an apartment, I brought the Linksys down here and put the DLink in Cloudcroft. Third, maybe you've got a bad one.

I was unaware that they could get squirrelly in brownout conditions, maybe I'll pick up a dinky little UPS for my networking gear, which is just the little DSL router and my Linksys. I should also get one for Cloudcroft, we get a lot of brownouts up there.