I'm getting increasing amounts of spam here lately ( Read more... )

I found an hour to do this today. I was going to have our hero pouring coffee on some dude's lap on an airplane, but I had things to do. If you don't know who it's supposed to be, try shuffling around the letters in the caption.


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I went to Nationals for the time off work more than anything else. I was simply due for a vacation. I'm really happy with how things turned out. I got to hang out with a lot of different groups of people at lunchtime, dinner, try out some craft beers, get some walking in, a dip in the pool, and even shot some footage of a new Scrabble variant- ( Read more... )

I'm starting to really look forward to just being at Nationals. If nothing else, just to finally get a week off work, and to be steeped in something I'd rather be doing. I'm hoping to spend some time after hours having dinner and/or drinks with the Scrabble friends I don't get to see every day from both sides of the CSW/TWL divide. I'm rooming ( Read more... )

I woke up this morning with a really sore eye. My upper right eyelid felt like someone punched me in the face. It still feels like that, though there is no visible bruise or swelling. The first thing I thought as I sat up in bed, was some incarnation of Marlon must have punched me in the face at night.

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pffff. I just got this in my email ( Read more... )

I had a strange Scrabble dream that there were other pieces included in my tile bag at a tournament. They were squared up with the other tiles in a geometric pattern. 4 red squares that sat a bit higher than the letter tiles, 4 yellow tiles that were beveled on the edges with no letter on them, 4 grey pieces about 1/4 the size of a letter tile, ( Read more... )

Montreal vs Ottawa used to have an annual closed Scrabble® tournament, in which the winning city was presented with a highly coveted prize, the Ulu Cup. Why the Ulu Cup? Because ulu is a common weird word in Scrabble, and it is a bit of Canadiana in our Scrabble dictionary. I don't know who originally had the trophy piece made. Maybe Joel ( Read more... )