Ryan Veeder

I found one of those secret code things, I think!

It occurs to me that my thoughts in that post about “The Van der Nagel Papyrus” derive not only from that essay I wrote about puzzles and gymnastics but from something else I wrote in 2023—a postmortem for The Little Match Girl 4: Crown of Pearls.

I recently participated in a one-on-one interactive fiction competition in which I served as Iron Chef Inform 7.

I recently participated in a one-on-one interactive fiction competition in which I served as Iron Chef Inform 7.

I didn’t make as much neat stuff this year. 2024 was a tough act to follow.

(I’ve spent so long thinking about this that the ideas have twisted around on each other, and it’s hard to distinguish my premises from my conclusions.

In 2021 I realized that my diachronic analyses of Ravenloft would only be complete when they incorporated Boris Karloff’s character in The Mummy (1932).

Good grief I did so much stuff this year.

I suppose I am a member of a certain genus, a certain sad fraternity scattered across the world, who are never quite comfortable, wherever we are.

I recently saw the Adventure Time episode “James” (season 5, episode 42) for the first time, and I got all excited about the ways in which it quoted 2001: A Space Odyssey.