All rules would be the same with one addition: for each move, each player must make a list of what their next move will be depending on the opponent's upcoming move. This would obviously be easiest for postal/email chess ( Read more... )

While reading Civil Procedure homework today it occurred to me that someone really should make a collectible card game based on a lawsuit ( Read more... )

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Those who missed game day missed fun. Those who were at game day had fun (I hope).

Sascha, Kaye (chaleur23), and I started the day by pulling out Hexagon (New Science Game!), a three player chess game whose instructions were entirely in Spanish. To make it even more fun, the pieces weren't called "knight", "rook", "queen", etc. - as if there was some sort ( Read more... )

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More Crap I've MadeHeather plays mah jong regularly with a group of friends. She has a rather nice set of pieces and four 1950s vintage bakelite racks, but the problem was that the pieces came in a cheap cloth-and-cardboard case that didn't stay shut, and the racks had nothing to carry them in other than a paper bag - very awkward all around ( Read more... )

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Call it another Game Day, call it a 4th of July party, but mark your calendar to spend the 4th on Treasure Island. Bring a guest or two amd join us for games and a great view of the fireworks ( Read more... )

Looks like Paddy Power (British chain of betting parlours) agrees with me that Arinze is the most likely choice for pope. Their popebetting.com is giving him 3:1 while Torquemada Ratzinger is at 12:2. But then, Wojtyla wasn't the frontrunner either, so who knows.

Yesterday was a day of great material gain. First, there was the Gift From Heaven.

At work, I walked by Victor's cube to ask him a question about something or other and he said, "Hey, want to learn how to provision [set up for work email access] a Treo?" This is something our department has to do every time an exec gets a Treo (cellphone/PDA/ ( Read more... )

• went crazy with the OCR software, as you've probably noticed.
• swept and mopped downstairs.
• cleaned out and vacuumed the car.
• fixed some rattling molding in the car (yay power drill!).
• fixed a broken lever in the car (yay power drill!).