(S)talking...

The thing is about people with a sprinkling of neurodiversity knocking around, and with time on their hands, is that we do tend to have slightly quirky urges:

The urge to list things

The urge to link things

The urge to analyse things

...and for at least one of us in this household...the urge to make use of an API (application programming interface...or something).

We like a bit of code, in our household...BBB is now a nimble, if not 100% efficient, Pythonista.

 A few years ago we did it with our film collection because we always found it impossible to choose a film to watch and we embarked on "The Film Chain" where we listed all our films and determined to watch each one but with the proviso that each film we watched had to be linked in some way back to the last one.

It started on the day Neil Innes died and we watched "The Rutles - All You Need is Cash", we followed it a couple of days later with "Monty Python and the Holy Grail".  You get the gist.

Obviously, because we are who we are, we meticulously recorded each link in the chain.

We found links by looking at IMDB, of course, but it got increasingly harder to do manually.  At this point I think I uttered the words "I wonder if IMDB has an API?" and that, as they say, was most definitely that.

 Right, so you're wondering how this links to beer.

It does so via the medium of games...and the magnificent "Boardgame Geek"website.

In Bristol, we almost always repair to Martha's on a Sunday afternoon because they have be-tabled booths that are the perfect space for playing board games and it's often quietish which means we don't feel bad about taking up a booth.

It turns out we'd seen Ed and Pelin (and Junior) of Little Martha around in pubs pretty much everyday for the last few days and Pelin had stopped for a chat about games they might like to put in the taproom.  Turns out they like playing games too.

So we took a few extra with us to the taproom on Sunday, on the offchance. It was interesting talking to them about the games they like vs the games we do.  We also got chatting about who we buy our games from, etc, etc. 

We all bemoaned games which don't play well with just two as that's clearly our main playing environment.

All in all a jolly Sunday afternoon and now there's a certain determination in this household to catalogue all our games and to make ourselves play them all again.  Of course, someone has already checked whether there's a Boardgame Geek API (of COURSE there is).