If you unscramble that, you'd know that the title of this update is "Text Twist." It's not every day that reading the dictionary pays dividends, but with the help of Craig Getting the top score, CrgKv now sits at the top of the leaderboard on Michelle's computer (61,000+ points!) so congratulations to Craig and myself, and I'd like to reiterate a ( Read more... )

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So, I'm hungry. Real hungry. Innocently enough, I decide to tear myself away from the television (Revealed! with Jules Asaner) and fix myself a snack. What'll it be? What will it be? Some cookies? No, I'm hungrier than that. A frozen pizza? I better not, I'm having an early dinner and don't want to spoil my appetite. Rooting through the ( Read more... )

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I have a lot of free time on my hands, so I'm in the car, getting lost in Philadelphia ("Girard Avenue, where did it go?" asks my dad) and I think to myself, if the Parker Brothers took on Milton Bradley in a fight to the death, who would win? Now of course, to be fair, this would be a tag-team fight, so Milton doesn't have to contend with both ( Read more... )

After being deservedly Monopolied out, we turned our focus to the board game that was envisioned to be the next Monopoly (though, of course, it never was and never will be). A brief history:

In 1860, Mr. Milton Bradley was a successful lithographer whose major product was a portrait of Abraham Lincoln. When Mr. Lincoln grew his trademark beard, ( Read more... )

Mm hmm... the final score of a Monopoly™ game that just refused to die. From 7:30 PM on Sunday to 1:45 AM early Monday (6 hours and 15 minutes), that game was my life - more than a quarter of my day was spent sitting around a Monopoly™ board, throwing out my hip (which is doing better, but still hurts to stand up, sit down, or walk) and listening ( Read more... )

Today's word is "stick-to-itive". It means persevering. And in case you were wondering, "higgledy-piggledy" means confused (confusamente in Spanish).

Now that I've addressed the issue regarding the meaning of the word "gaffer," I've turned my attention to another conundrum.

Flashback: Three or four days ago. Unkie's house. Evan and Unkie are embroiled in a Monopoly game, the second of the evening. (I'm the banker.)

Unkie won the first game quite easily, having monopolized Indiana, Kentucky ( Read more... )

All right... So Michelle and I just finished watching Seabiscuit and were laughing and talking through the closing credits (By the way, if you haven't already, go see Seabiscuit - it's a damn shame that that movie finished 5th in the Box Office behind Tomb Raider, Bad Boys II, and freaking Spy Kids 3D. Now, you already missed your chane to meet ( Read more... )