Chris Salzman

Author: chris

  • The Passing of CATACA

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    Our cat, CATACA, died suddenly yesterday. She was acting normally and seemingly fine and then in the span of an hour she was gone. I found her lying on the ground her stomach heaving. Within a half hour we had her packed up to get to an emergency vet. My wife took her there and…

  • Newsletter April 9, 2018

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    Here are the Other Local Newsletters You Should be Reading Ed’s Vacuum newsletter for 2018-W14, Issue 5 (new series) George’s Roundup, April 6 The CivCity Initiative Spring Scrimmage for Local Civics! Reader and RSS Anil Dash tweeted a sentiment that resonated a lot with me: Google’s decision to kill Google Reader was a turning point…

  • Newsletter April 2, 2018

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    Newsletters, Local Newsletter Type Things Ed’s Vacuum newsletter for 2018-W13, Issue 4 is a good one. Lots of items of local Ann Arbor interest, and also one about multimeters! And George wrote a roundup! The tweet he shares in there made me a very angry online person. Internet, Ownership If I had a mission statement…

  • Internet, Ownership

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    Republished from the April 2, 2018 Newsletter. If I had a mission statement right now it’d be this: more people exhibiting more ownership over more of what they produce online. Right now we’ve swung almost entirely to allowing social media to own everything about our activity online: both in terms of consumption and production. Social…

  • Newsletter: March 26, 2018

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    Ed is up to three. Go, Ed! Twitter (and Facebook) Break I’m–well before I tweet about this–on a twitter break. Facebook too, but that’s less of a compulsion for me. It’s good to take breaks. Whenever I take a break it’s a good 24 hours for my brain to stop thinking in 140-240ish character likeable…

  • Newsletter: March 19, 2018

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    I like what Ed is doing over on Github with his weekly newsletter and joked that about doing fork of it (can you fork just a concept?). I’m still pretty bullish on the personal blog as a format hence here vs. GitHub. Ed validated that going through your twitter feed is a good format for…

  • Ypsi-Arbor D&D Gazette: Follow Up

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    We’ve officially crossed over a threshold in which there are subscribers to the Gazette that I don’t recognize by their email addresses. That’s an incredible thing, and also a bit scary! A few submissions have trickled in as well and they have exceeded expectations. Send yours in too! I promise it’s good enough. Read more…

  • Ypsi-Arbor D&D Gazette: A Zine

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    TL;DR: The Ypsi-Arbor D&D Gazette is a zine for empherma, stories, art, and other whatnot from the tables of Dungeons & Dragons players in Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, and surrounding cities. You can sign up to hear more about it and get a digital copy when it comes out in April here: Subscribe to Receive the…

  • Holiday One Shot

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    In early 2017 I ran a one-shot tabletop game that repurposed the story of A Christmas Carol and some rules from D&D 5e. It was quite fun! I can’t wait to run it again next year! Overview of What it Was The players were all newly deceased spirits in purgatory who had been assigned to…

  • Games I Enjoyed Enough to Put On a List: 2017

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    I wrote one of these last year and found that it sparked some good conversations and also that I checked it throughout the year to remember what the heck I played in 2016. Always blog so you can remember it later. In 2017 my wife and I bought a house and our baby became a…