Podcasts

Listen to me go on

The Gameshelf

Jmac's Arcade

The Cloud

Me, elsewhere

My Facebook page My Livejournal My LinkedIn page My Flickr page My Twitter page My YouTube channel

Nerdy Books

with me in them

Mac OS X in a Nutshell Perl & XML Mac OS X Hacks

jmac's Animal Crossing stuff

In January 2006 I picked up Animal Crossing: Wild World for my Ninetndo DS. It immediately charmed the hell out of me, and quickly became a favorite. While it's primarily targetd to children, I find that it contains enough sophistication and surprises to keep me coming back every day. Well, that and the fact that it does a very good job of tickling one's built-in urge to collect, and preventing the collection from ever growing too tiresome or repetitive.

My town

Here is my town information. Feel free to add me as a "friend" in your game, but (according to game rules) you won't be able to visit until I add you back, so you'll have to get in touch if you'd like to actually set up a trade or something.

Code0086-5380-5490
Namejmac!! (Include the !s.)
TownChecher

I find that trying to actually talk through the game's built-in chat interface is terrible (stop, bring up menu, bring up chat screen, laboriously poke out a message, hit send, put window away -- ugh), so I'd rather carry on a conversation over IM or telephone during an Animal Crossing visit.

Weblog posts

Here's all my "animal crossing"-tagged posts, in the reverse chronological order that's all the rage these days. Includes my ruminations about why and how the game works.

Wishlist

I am currently (as of the date found at the bottom of this page) seeking the following items in order to complete the various in-game quests in which I am currently embroiled. If you can help me out, I'd be interested in a trade of some sort.

Agitprop

Read my illustrated guide to conducting a real-world political agitprop campaign via Animal Crossing: Wild World.