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diff --git a/a-couple-of-my-duties-as-a-citizen-of-a-democracy.html b/a-couple-of-my-duties-as-a-citizen-of-a-democracy.html
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 <!doctype html><html><head><meta charset=utf-8><link rel=stylesheet type=text/css href=/default.css><title>game, game. repeat. | A Couple Of My Duties As a Citizen of a Democracy</title></head><body><h1><a href=/>g</a>ame, g<a href=/about.html>a</a>me. repea<a href=/tags.html>t</a>.</h1><div id=content><h2>A Couple Of My Duties As a Citizen of a Democracy</h2><div id=info>Sat 02 April 2022
-<a href=https://ggr.com/tags/politics.html>#politics</a></div><h3 id=speak-up>Speak Up</h3><p>I must speak up in public forums like LinkedIN, Twitter, and Christmas dinner. I’ve been taught that talking politics is impolite. But leaving good ideas unsaid and undefended, and letting bad ideas dominate the conversation and lead to bad decisions is even more impolite.</p><h3 id=change-my-mind>Change My Mind</h3><p>I must listen, learn, and change my mind, which is way harder than defending my beliefs and standing my ground. It requires humility to admit I was wrong and courage to let others see my mistakes. I have to love my community enough to do what’s right for us instead of what makes me look good.</p><p><em>“Americans like to think of themselves as uncompromising. But our true genius is for compromise. Our whole government’s founded on it.”</em> —Shelby Foote</p></div></body></html>
+<a href=https://ggr.com/tags/politics.html>#Politics</a></div><h3 id=speak-up>Speak Up</h3><p>I must speak up in public forums like LinkedIN, Twitter, and Christmas dinner. I’ve been taught that talking politics is impolite. But leaving good ideas unsaid and undefended, and letting bad ideas dominate the conversation and lead to bad decisions is even more impolite.</p><h3 id=change-my-mind>Change My Mind</h3><p>I must listen, learn, and change my mind, which is way harder than defending my beliefs and standing my ground. It requires humility to admit I was wrong and courage to let others see my mistakes. I have to love my community enough to do what’s right for us instead of what makes me look good.</p><p><em>“Americans like to think of themselves as uncompromising. But our true genius is for compromise. Our whole government’s founded on it.”</em> —Shelby Foote</p></div></body></html>
diff --git a/a-scrum-master-is-a-personal-trainer.html b/a-scrum-master-is-a-personal-trainer.html
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 <!doctype html><html><head><meta charset=utf-8><link rel=stylesheet type=text/css href=/default.css><title>game, game. repeat. | A Scrum Master Is a Personal Trainer</title></head><body><h1><a href=/>g</a>ame, g<a href=/about.html>a</a>me. repea<a href=/tags.html>t</a>.</h1><div id=content><h2>A Scrum Master Is a Personal Trainer</h2><div id=info>Sat 09 January 2016
-<a href=https://ggr.com/tags/leadership.html>#leadership</a></div><p>Scrum Master is a greatly misunderstood and under appreciated role. On most
+<a href=https://ggr.com/tags/leadership.html>#Leadership</a></div><p>Scrum Master is a greatly misunderstood and under appreciated role. On most
 teams I&rsquo;ve encountered its taken on by the PO or its ignored entirely. I&rsquo;m
 guilty of this sin myself and when <em>I</em> am not ignoring it, I&rsquo;m playing scrum
 master across way too many teams, in addition to way too many other duties, so

diff --git a/a-usability-scale.html b/a-usability-scale.html
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 <!doctype html><html><head><meta charset=utf-8><link rel=stylesheet type=text/css href=/default.css><title>game, game. repeat. | A Usability Scale</title></head><body><h1><a href=/>g</a>ame, g<a href=/about.html>a</a>me. repea<a href=/tags.html>t</a>.</h1><div id=content><h2>A Usability Scale</h2><div id=info>Sat 30 May 2009
-<a href=https://ggr.com/tags/design.html>#design</a></div><p><img src=https://ggr_com.s3.amazonaws.com/images/usability-distribution.png alt=3></p><p>Many usability professionals focus on, well, usability. But there&rsquo;s more to usability than an intuitive interface. The best stuff in our lives are pleasant, fun, even habit forming.</p><p><strong>The Scott Bonds Usability Scale</strong></p><ol><li>Unusable. Not useful or usable in any sense.</li><li>Functional. Very useful, but requires instruction (manual, training, demo, etc) before a desired feature is understood.</li><li>Usable. Intuitive, requires little instruction before the user is proficient.</li><li>Pleasant. Using it is satisfying and enjoyable.</li><li>Fun. Use it for its own sake, possibly independent of its core &lsquo;function&rsquo;.</li><li>Addictive. So fun its difficulty to give up its regular use.</li></ol><p>Products that achieve scores above a 2, beyond &lsquo;mere&rsquo; usability (which is itself tremendously hard to achieve), tend to enjoy more success than their competition. There are some <a href=http://www.upassoc.org/usability_resources/conference/2004/UPA-2004-TullisStetson.pdf>other usability scales</a> available as well as good advice about how to <a href=http://www.sensible.com/secondedition/index.html>gather feedback</a> to assess where your project lands on this scale.</p></div></body></html>
+<a href=https://ggr.com/tags/design.html>#Design</a></div><p><img src=https://ggr_com.s3.amazonaws.com/images/usability-distribution.png alt=3></p><p>Many usability professionals focus on, well, usability. But there&rsquo;s more to usability than an intuitive interface. The best stuff in our lives are pleasant, fun, even habit forming.</p><p><strong>The Scott Bonds Usability Scale</strong></p><ol><li>Unusable. Not useful or usable in any sense.</li><li>Functional. Very useful, but requires instruction (manual, training, demo, etc) before a desired feature is understood.</li><li>Usable. Intuitive, requires little instruction before the user is proficient.</li><li>Pleasant. Using it is satisfying and enjoyable.</li><li>Fun. Use it for its own sake, possibly independent of its core &lsquo;function&rsquo;.</li><li>Addictive. So fun its difficulty to give up its regular use.</li></ol><p>Products that achieve scores above a 2, beyond &lsquo;mere&rsquo; usability (which is itself tremendously hard to achieve), tend to enjoy more success than their competition. There are some <a href=http://www.upassoc.org/usability_resources/conference/2004/UPA-2004-TullisStetson.pdf>other usability scales</a> available as well as good advice about how to <a href=http://www.sensible.com/secondedition/index.html>gather feedback</a> to assess where your project lands on this scale.</p></div></body></html>
diff --git a/amazon-customer-support-has-gone-downhill.html b/amazon-customer-support-has-gone-downhill.html
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 <!doctype html><html><head><meta charset=utf-8><link rel=stylesheet type=text/css href=/default.css><title>game, game. repeat. | Amazon Customer Support Has Gone Downhill</title></head><body><h1><a href=/>g</a>ame, g<a href=/about.html>a</a>me. repea<a href=/tags.html>t</a>.</h1><div id=content><h2>Amazon Customer Support Has Gone Downhill</h2><div id=info>Wed 30 November 2016
-<a href=https://ggr.com/tags/politics.html>#politics</a></div><p>Amazon used to have outstanding customer support. But it seems their focus is elsewhere these days. In the past I&rsquo;d contact them via phone or email and someone would try to understand my issue and resolve it in my favor. But yesterday I had a phone+email exchange about a very late order that they struggled to understand and chose not to fix&ndash;it seemed it wasn&rsquo;t a fit for their playbook, so they couldn&rsquo;t figure out what to do except to tell me I&rsquo;m out of luck. The fix would have been easy for an empowered, quality CS rep to handle, but that&rsquo;s not what I got.</p><p>I&rsquo;ve been a customer since 1999 and I&rsquo;ve spent a lot of money (millions) with the for my family and my companies. But I guess folks like me aren&rsquo;t worth the trouble anymore.</p><p>Oh well, nothing lasts forever. I haven&rsquo;t been super happy with their poor management of counterfeit merchandise, review quality, higher pricing&mldr;this is a good excuse to get off my butt and take a good look at the alternatives.</p></div></body></html>
+<a href=https://ggr.com/tags/politics.html>#Politics</a></div><p>Amazon used to have outstanding customer support. But it seems their focus is elsewhere these days. In the past I&rsquo;d contact them via phone or email and someone would try to understand my issue and resolve it in my favor. But yesterday I had a phone+email exchange about a very late order that they struggled to understand and chose not to fix&ndash;it seemed it wasn&rsquo;t a fit for their playbook, so they couldn&rsquo;t figure out what to do except to tell me I&rsquo;m out of luck. The fix would have been easy for an empowered, quality CS rep to handle, but that&rsquo;s not what I got.</p><p>I&rsquo;ve been a customer since 1999 and I&rsquo;ve spent a lot of money (millions) with the for my family and my companies. But I guess folks like me aren&rsquo;t worth the trouble anymore.</p><p>Oh well, nothing lasts forever. I haven&rsquo;t been super happy with their poor management of counterfeit merchandise, review quality, higher pricing&mldr;this is a good excuse to get off my butt and take a good look at the alternatives.</p></div></body></html>
diff --git a/an-employee-morale-scale.html b/an-employee-morale-scale.html
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 <!doctype html><html><head><meta charset=utf-8><link rel=stylesheet type=text/css href=/default.css><title>game, game. repeat. | An Employee Morale Scale</title></head><body><h1><a href=/>g</a>ame, g<a href=/about.html>a</a>me. repea<a href=/tags.html>t</a>.</h1><div id=content><h2>An Employee Morale Scale</h2><div id=info>Thu 26 May 2016
-<a href=https://ggr.com/tags/leadership.html>#leadership</a></div><p>The scale goes from low to high morale. My biggest realization of the past five
+<a href=https://ggr.com/tags/leadership.html>#Leadership</a></div><p>The scale goes from low to high morale. My biggest realization of the past five
 years, related to morale, is how weak a tool high comp is for driving morale.
 It can make people very happy for a short time, but after that it doesn&rsquo;t do
 much on its own&ndash;the steady state for high comp (alone) is no better than the

diff --git a/angband-2017-review.html b/angband-2017-review.html
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 <!doctype html><html><head><meta charset=utf-8><link rel=stylesheet type=text/css href=/default.css><title>game, game. repeat. | Angband 2017 Review</title></head><body><h1><a href=/>g</a>ame, g<a href=/about.html>a</a>me. repea<a href=/tags.html>t</a>.</h1><div id=content><h2>Angband 2017 Review</h2><div id=info>Tue 09 January 2018
-<a href=https://ggr.com/tags/games.html>#games</a></div><p><img src=https://quisquous.s3.amazonaws.com/angband.png alt="Angband screenshot"></p><p>A couple months ago my wife got locked out of Steam while trying to remember her
+<a href=https://ggr.com/tags/games.html>#Games</a></div><p><img src=https://quisquous.s3.amazonaws.com/angband.png alt="Angband screenshot"></p><p>A couple months ago my wife got locked out of Steam while trying to remember her
 password and we had to give up on a rare chance to play some Don&rsquo;t Starve
 Together, um, together. It got me thinking&mldr;DRM is a pain in the butt
 sometimes. I wonder what FOSS games are out there.</p><p>Turns out there are some rather good ones available, unless your aim is showing

diff --git a/arugula-salad.html b/arugula-salad.html
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 <!doctype html><html><head><meta charset=utf-8><link rel=stylesheet type=text/css href=/default.css><title>game, game. repeat. | Arugula Salad</title></head><body><h1><a href=/>g</a>ame, g<a href=/about.html>a</a>me. repea<a href=/tags.html>t</a>.</h1><div id=content><h2>Arugula Salad</h2><div id=info>Thu 14 July 2022
-<a href=https://ggr.com/tags/food.html>#food</a>
-<a href=https://ggr.com/tags/recipe.html>#recipe</a></div><p>Makes 2 servings.</p><ul><li>5 ounces baby arugula</li><li>1 cup cherry tomotoes</li><li>1 ripe avocado</li><li>1 tablespoon <a href=https://www.amazon.com/Terrapin-Ridge-Farms-Dressing-Ginger/dp/B00JD7MQ4E/>Terrapin Ridge Farms ginger miso dressing</a></li></ul><p>Add arugula to a large salad bowl.
+<a href=https://ggr.com/tags/food.html>#Food</a>
+<a href=https://ggr.com/tags/recipe.html>#Recipe</a></div><p>Makes 2 servings.</p><ul><li>5 ounces baby arugula</li><li>1 cup cherry tomotoes</li><li>1 ripe avocado</li><li>1 tablespoon <a href=https://www.amazon.com/Terrapin-Ridge-Farms-Dressing-Ginger/dp/B00JD7MQ4E/>Terrapin Ridge Farms ginger miso dressing</a></li></ul><p>Add arugula to a large salad bowl.
 Remove pit from avocado and scoop a tablespoon at a time into bowl.
 Cut tomotoes in half and add to bowl.
 Drizzle dressing over salad.

diff --git a/baby-back-ribs.html b/baby-back-ribs.html
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 <!doctype html><html><head><meta charset=utf-8><link rel=stylesheet type=text/css href=/default.css><title>game, game. repeat. | Baby Back Ribs</title></head><body><h1><a href=/>g</a>ame, g<a href=/about.html>a</a>me. repea<a href=/tags.html>t</a>.</h1><div id=content><h2>Baby Back Ribs</h2><div id=info>Sat 16 July 2022
-<a href=https://ggr.com/tags/food.html>#food</a>
-<a href=https://ggr.com/tags/recipe.html>#recipe</a></div><p>Makes 4 servings.</p><ul><li>1 rinsed, frozen, halved, rack of <a href=https://www.instacart.com/products/31943-swift-premium-pork-back-ribs-each>Swift Premium Pork Loin Backribs</a> from Costco</li><li>water</li><li>BBQ sauce</li></ul><p>Place ribs in Instant Pot.
+<a href=https://ggr.com/tags/food.html>#Food</a>
+<a href=https://ggr.com/tags/recipe.html>#Recipe</a></div><p>Makes 4 servings.</p><ul><li>1 rinsed, frozen, halved, rack of <a href=https://www.instacart.com/products/31943-swift-premium-pork-back-ribs-each>Swift Premium Pork Loin Backribs</a> from Costco</li><li>water</li><li>BBQ sauce</li></ul><p>Place ribs in Instant Pot.
 Fill with water until ribs are covered.
 Set Instant Pot to &lsquo;Meat&rsquo; setting, 25 minutes, and press start.
 Release pressure, open pot, and transfer ribs to a baking sheet with a rack.

diff --git a/background-processes-on-the-brain.html b/background-processes-on-the-brain.html
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 <!doctype html><html><head><meta charset=utf-8><link rel=stylesheet type=text/css href=/default.css><title>game, game. repeat. | Background Processes On the Brain</title></head><body><h1><a href=/>g</a>ame, g<a href=/about.html>a</a>me. repea<a href=/tags.html>t</a>.</h1><div id=content><h2>Background Processes On the Brain</h2><div id=info>Thu 20 November 2014
-<a href=https://ggr.com/tags/misc.html>#misc</a></div><p>When I&rsquo;m in the middle of a hard thought problem (i.e. coding) and I
+<a href=https://ggr.com/tags/misc.html>#Misc</a></div><p>When I&rsquo;m in the middle of a hard thought problem (i.e. coding) and I
 interrupt my work on the thought problem to do something else, I find it
 difficult to concentrate on the something else. I think my brain is
 still working on the hard thought problem in the background, sort of

diff --git a/barley-soup.html b/barley-soup.html
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 <!doctype html><html><head><meta charset=utf-8><link rel=stylesheet type=text/css href=/default.css><title>game, game. repeat. | Barley Soup</title></head><body><h1><a href=/>g</a>ame, g<a href=/about.html>a</a>me. repea<a href=/tags.html>t</a>.</h1><div id=content><h2>Barley Soup</h2><div id=info>Tue 10 January 2006
-<a href=https://ggr.com/tags/food.html>#food</a>
-<a href=https://ggr.com/tags/recipe.html>#recipe</a></div><p><img src=https://ggr_com.s3.amazonaws.com/images/barley-soup.jpg alt=1></p><p>Makes about 8 servings.</p><ul><li>3 leg-and-thighs of chicken</li><li>1.5 cups pearl barley</li><li>2 carrots</li><li>2 stalks of celery</li><li>0.5 white onion</li><li>salt</li><li>pepper</li></ul><p>Wash chicken.
+<a href=https://ggr.com/tags/food.html>#Food</a>
+<a href=https://ggr.com/tags/recipe.html>#Recipe</a></div><p><img src=https://ggr_com.s3.amazonaws.com/images/barley-soup.jpg alt=1></p><p>Makes about 8 servings.</p><ul><li>3 leg-and-thighs of chicken</li><li>1.5 cups pearl barley</li><li>2 carrots</li><li>2 stalks of celery</li><li>0.5 white onion</li><li>salt</li><li>pepper</li></ul><p>Wash chicken.
 Put chicken into a large pot.
 Add water to pot until chicken is covered.
 Wash barley and add to pot.

diff --git a/bean-dip.html b/bean-dip.html
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 <!doctype html><html><head><meta charset=utf-8><link rel=stylesheet type=text/css href=/default.css><title>game, game. repeat. | Bean Dip</title></head><body><h1><a href=/>g</a>ame, g<a href=/about.html>a</a>me. repea<a href=/tags.html>t</a>.</h1><div id=content><h2>Bean Dip</h2><div id=info>Tue 19 July 2022
-<a href=https://ggr.com/tags/food.html>#food</a>
-<a href=https://ggr.com/tags/recipe.html>#recipe</a></div><p>Makes 8 servings.</p><ul><li>16 ounces (1 can) Rosarita Traditional refried beans</li><li>0.5 cup Knudsen sour cream (full fat)</li><li>1 cup Tillamook medium cheddar cheese</li><li>0.5 cup Pace Picante (original, mild) salsa</li><li>14 ounces (1 bag) Casa Sanchez tortilla chips (thick & crispy)</li></ul><p>Spread beans across the bottom of a 9" pie plate.
+<a href=https://ggr.com/tags/food.html>#Food</a>
+<a href=https://ggr.com/tags/recipe.html>#Recipe</a></div><p>Makes 8 servings.</p><ul><li>16 ounces (1 can) Rosarita Traditional refried beans</li><li>0.5 cup Knudsen sour cream (full fat)</li><li>1 cup Tillamook medium cheddar cheese</li><li>0.5 cup Pace Picante (original, mild) salsa</li><li>14 ounces (1 bag) Casa Sanchez tortilla chips (thick & crispy)</li></ul><p>Spread beans across the bottom of a 9" pie plate.
 Layer sour cream on top, then layer on salsa, then cheese.
 Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until ready to eat.
 Serve with tortilla chips.</p></div></body></html>
diff --git a/best-burrito.html b/best-burrito.html
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 <!doctype html><html><head><meta charset=utf-8><link rel=stylesheet type=text/css href=/default.css><title>game, game. repeat. | Best Burrito</title></head><body><h1><a href=/>g</a>ame, g<a href=/about.html>a</a>me. repea<a href=/tags.html>t</a>.</h1><div id=content><h2>Best Burrito</h2><div id=info>Thu 21 May 2009
-<a href=https://ggr.com/tags/food.html>#food</a></div><p><img src=https://ggr_com.s3.amazonaws.com/images/burrito.jpg alt=3></p><p>They won&rsquo;t be serving these at the <a href=http://www.ritzcarlton.com/en/Properties/SanFrancisco/Dining/TheDiningRoom/Default.htm>Ritz Carlton</a> any time soon, but don&rsquo;t let it&rsquo;s commonplace appearance fool you. &ndash;<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;time=&amp;date=&amp;ttype=&amp;q=Chavez+Supermarket&amp;sll=37.486846,-122.119904&amp;sspn=0.475107,0.925598&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=37.624021,-122.119904&amp;spn=0.474234,0.925598&amp;z=10&amp;iwloc=D&amp;om=1">Chavez Supermarket</a> makes a&ndash;tasty&ndash;<em>Super Carnitas Burrito</em> packed with lots of pork and other burrito essentials. &ndash;But if that&rsquo;s not fancy enough for you, you can always ask for it &lsquo;Au Jus&rsquo;.</p></div></body></html>
+<a href=https://ggr.com/tags/food.html>#Food</a></div><p><img src=https://ggr_com.s3.amazonaws.com/images/burrito.jpg alt=3></p><p>They won&rsquo;t be serving these at the <a href=http://www.ritzcarlton.com/en/Properties/SanFrancisco/Dining/TheDiningRoom/Default.htm>Ritz Carlton</a> any time soon, but don&rsquo;t let it&rsquo;s commonplace appearance fool you. &ndash;<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;time=&amp;date=&amp;ttype=&amp;q=Chavez+Supermarket&amp;sll=37.486846,-122.119904&amp;sspn=0.475107,0.925598&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=37.624021,-122.119904&amp;spn=0.474234,0.925598&amp;z=10&amp;iwloc=D&amp;om=1">Chavez Supermarket</a> makes a&ndash;tasty&ndash;<em>Super Carnitas Burrito</em> packed with lots of pork and other burrito essentials. &ndash;But if that&rsquo;s not fancy enough for you, you can always ask for it &lsquo;Au Jus&rsquo;.</p></div></body></html>