And I played "one more" game last night culminating in a 8192-4096-1024 board and a score over 150,000. It took 4 hours, with a break to put the kids to bed, and now I can say I'm officially bored with the game and can stop playing now. It went from interesting to tedious. The board is so tight at the end you do need lots of luck if you want to ( Read more... )

Some games are more addictive than others. http://gabrielecirulli.github.io/2048/

You'd think I'd be able to stop after getting 2048 twice in a row, but no, not even consecutive 4096 games are enough for me.


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The ACLU just sent me a note I'm passing on -- There is now a bill before the senate reclassifying drug possession as a misdemeanor instead of a felony. Prohibition just doesn't work, but the public can't take a wholesale change in one gulp ( Read more... )

I totally fail at social networking. Either that or most people like Daylight Savings a whole lot more than I do. My petition only has 21 signatures (it needs 150 to become public, and 25,000 by April 13th to actually matter). On the plus side, some of the signatures are from people/places I don't recognize. My kids are still adjusting to the ( Read more... )

We the people petition the Obama Administration to:
End Daylight Savings Time Changes.

Click here to sign the Whitehouse.gov petition. It needs 150 signatures to become public, and 25,000 signatures by April 13th, 2012 to get an official response. You will need to create an account if you do not already have one ( Read more... )

I got this from leora. I think so many people could read this and say, "Wow. That's exactly right." that I had to re-post the link.

The post is: How to keep someone with you forever.

It's for both lover relationships and employer relationships. Highly recommended reading if either has ever gone crazy.

--Beth

The government is having a Flu-Prevention Video contest, and I decided to enter. This is a shameless self-promotion asking my friends to rate my video entries well.

They are available here as a 30 sec commercial
And here as a 15 second oneThey both could use more work, especially in the audio department, but I need to finish packing and go to bed ( Read more... )

Linked-in's "People you may know" back end is scary-good. Usually its "people you may know" list has 2 of 3 people I know, sometimes 3 of 3 and usually always at least one I know well. And these aren't all just classmates who happened to attend the same school at the same time (of course I know them, duh, there were only 150 of us) but it ( Read more... )

Having broken my vow of LJ silence with the family illness update, I might as well post a few more. That bakary in NH got its baker back, the letter-writing campaign was successful. Yay!

--Beth

If you have relatives in NH you might be interested in this letter-writing campaign. From ricevermicelli:

Basically, the story is that a woman who was in the country legally, working legally, and operating a business that was an important part of her local economy, is now stranded in France because her application for a renewed visa was denied. As a result, ( Read more... )