Welcome! This page is a grab bag of my personal projects, old games, mostly dead websites,
blog posts, podcasts, and quizbowl packets.
Writing
Articles and other stuff I've written, mostly for Ernie Smith's Tedium, the
dull side of the internet:
- The AI Quizbowl Guide:
a practical look at using AI and large language models in writing, editing, and
playing quizbowl.
- For
Amusement Only: A History of Ticket-Redemption Games
— Tedium, Dec. 9, 2022
- Old Stories,
New Eyes
— Tedium, Dec. 17, 2021
- How
Trivia Took Over the Arcades After the Video Game Crash
— Vice, Sept. 27, 2021
- Retro
Psychology: What Psychologists Thought About Video Games In 1983
— Tedium, May 21, 2021
- 2001:
A Gaming Odyssey
— Tedium, Feb. 3, 2021
- Questions About
Quizbowl History? Find the Answers Here
— Tedium, Aug. 4, 2020
- Crazy Taxi 2 FAQ
- Golden Sun FAQ - GameFAQ's FAQ of the Month for December 2001
- Golden Sun: The Lost Age FAQ
- Frogger 2 (GBC) FAQ
- Review of Mario Tennis (GBC)
Apps
- Buzzur — a small, fast
quizbowl lockout buzzer system for Windows. Turns cheap PlayStation Buzz!
controllers (or arcade buttons) into a buzzer setup with lights, chimes, and spoken
player numbers. Free to download.
- Buzzpoints — a
self-serve quizbowl stats site. Upload your packets and QBJ scoresheets to generate
buzz-point analysis, category breakdowns, and player and team pages for any
tournament. Free and hosted at buzzpoints.buzz.
Podcasts
Quizbowl Packets
A mostly-complete catalog of question sets and packets
I've written or head edited. There's a hanful of things on here not easily found on the other archives.
Games
This domain is called doc-ent.com because (a) I didn't know the word "docent" when I was
in middle school and (b) it was originally home to games that my friend Paul and I made
under the fake company Doc Entertainment, a division of Doc Inc. You can find the games
here. Chances are you're most interested in a fan game I made called
War of the Adepts. The server's been offline for 20 years but parts the game still work
for nostalgia's sake.
Old Websites
Elsewhere
- Wastebin — an old archive of pop-culture quizbowl questions. Mostly superseded by quizbowlpackets.com
- My QBWiki page
some more about my quizbowl career.
- An archive of tournament stat reports
that are hosted on this website because the Tournament Database didn't exist yet. Some day
I will move all of them to the hsquizbowl.org database.
- Historical quizbowl statistics
— stat reports for college tournaments from 1987 to 2011, rebuilt from old results posts and websites.
- Usenet Quizbowl Annals
— an AI-written history of the Usenet newsgroup alt.college.college-bowl (1993–2003), footnoted to the original posts.
- West Chester Rock City - I don't really have anything to do with this website, but in the spirit of the old web, linking to it because this is an awesome website.