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Joel Uckelman
Me,
the name I call myself:
I am, in no particular order:
owned by two cats;
married to this wonderful woman;
the sysadmin for nomic.net and ellipsis.cx;
in Kraków, Poland, in the photograph at right;
pursuing a PhD at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam;
an avid boardgamer, I particularly enjoy historical simulations, a.k.a. wargames, and have quite a collection of them;
a contributor to various open-source software projects, see below;
a literalist, a lover of puns, and never bored. There are too many things to do.
Domains
, which I operate:
, a collection of recipes that Sara and I enjoy.
I enjoy cooking, though I do not pretend to be especially skilled at it, and have collected a small database of recipes that I tried and liked. The web interface for it is here. A few of these are my own creations, in particular the white chocolate cheesecake, which I developed during spring 2000 in an attempt to replicate the cheesecake sold at the Campustown Santa Fe Coffehouse in Ames, Iowa.
Software
, in the development of which I am involved:
- Board: A virtual board for playing board games by email. Now defunct.
- Bones: A secure dice server with web and email interfaces.
- CBUtils: A group of utilities for manipulating Cyberboard gameboxes and GTL files.
- mkhexgrid: A utiltity for creating hexagonal grids in PNG, SVG, and PostScript.
- PhpWiki: A WikiWikiWeb implementation written in PHP.
- Signet: A virtual sealed envelope suite. Permits simultaneous revelation of choices, bids, etc..
- VASSAL: A game engine for playing electronic adaptations of board games.
Games
, and the playing thereof:
Photographs
, of various people and things:
Miscellaneous
, including, but not limited to:
