Booting up for the holiday season involves decorating, shopping for gifts, and for some, finding the perfect ugly sweater. Michael and Michael have found three good ones for Games At Work audience to consider, featuring themes from Microsoft MS Paint, Windows XP and Windows 95. While there’s not a boot up sound to go with these sweaters, we’re sure that an enterprising listener can find a solution. And part of the purchase price of these sweaters will go to support Girls Who Code.
Moving from MS Paint, the cohosts turn their attention to a painting from 1770, entitled “The Death of General Wolfe”. The New York times does a fantastic job walking through the many details of the painting in their interactive article, reminding Michael R of the Prezi presentation software.
A perfect place to wear your favorite ugly sweater could be on your next video conference. Michael and Michael discuss how AI can provide significant benefits to such online meetings, whether taking notes & summarizing the discussion, to improving engagement by better reacting to the meeting attendees. The Ars Technica article is worth exploring.
Several tweets introduce some fun discussion – on playing a flight simulation game while on a flight, using LEGO bricks to learn braille and a StoryBundle with 95 books available for purchase. The cohosts wrap up this episode with a discussion on TRON Legacy, and how DeepFake technology improves the young Jeff Bridges.
The next episode will be the big three-oh-oh! Share your finds with the Games At Work team by dropping them a line on Twitter to @gamesatwork_biz and be part of this historic milestone!
Selected Links
The Verge article: Microsoft is selling ugly Windows sweaters, and part of the proceeds benefit Girls Who Code — https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/1/21779499/microsoft-windows-ugly-sweater-paint-xp-95-girls-who-code
XBOX Gear Shop — https://gear.xbox.com/pages/windows?ocid=Evergreen_soc_omc_xbo_tw_Photo_buy_HolidaySweater
Girls Who Code — https://girlswhocode.com
New York Times interactive article: The Myth of North America in One Painting — https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/25/arts/benjamin-west-general-wolfe.html
Prezi — https://prezi.com
Ars Technica article: AI can run your work meetings now — https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/11/ai-can-run-your-work-meetings-now/
Folks, I am incredibly, incredibly excited to finally try this. It’s time to play Flight Simulator aboard a flight.
— Rami Ismail (رامي) (@tha_rami) December 1, 2020
Airplane Mode game — https://store.steampowered.com/app/931310/Airplane_Mode/
Bravo @LEGOfoundation
— June LK (@lk_june) November 25, 2020
an #accessible site for an #inclusive toy & learning tool https://t.co/EDk3QFONxJ
presented at today’s #SaferInternetForum
LEGO Braille Bricks — https://www.legobraillebricks.com
95 books on video games in one mightily impressive bundle: https://t.co/0yNMjOepej
— Konstantinos Dimopoulos (@gnomeslair) December 4, 2020
StoryBundle — https://storybundle.com/games
Slashfilm article: The Morning Watch: ‘TRON Legacy’ Updated with DeepFake, Looking Back at ‘Small Soldiers’ & More — https://www.slashfilm.com/morning-watch-tron-legacy-deepfake-looking-back-at-small-soldiers-and-more/
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Such a fun episode, Michael & Andy! Loved your discussion on Life by You.