Into the Void

A somber tactician who keeps emotional flares in check, you bravely refuse to back down when fighting for matters of honor.

Perhaps today is a good day to die!

My new 20 Questions game correctly guessed “anteater.” I told it that it was wrong and after another five questions it guessed “echidna.” What the heck is an echidna?

The answer is: a prickly australian version of an anteater. You must buy this game. It is uncanny.

Picture from the Australian National Botanic Gardens.

TigerDirect.com Best Deals - Computer Parts, PC Components, Desktop Computers, Laptops, Notebooks

I buy a lot of computer stuff from TigerDirect because their prices are good and they often have kick-ass deals on computer items I need. I am continually tweaking the hardware configuration of my home computer. (This one at work is pretty much a lost cause.)

So when I went there today looking for after-Black-Friday specials I noticed that they are giving away five - count ‘em! - five PlayStation 3 Entertainment Centers in a sweepstakes. If you are interested in getting emails from TigerDirect, click the TigerDirect link above then look for the PS3 banner.

Best of luck to you!

I’d review the PS3 here - maybe even tear it apart and take pictures of its innards - but I don’t have it in me to camp out in front of a toy store. I really want to try out Tony Hawk’s Project 8, too. If you haven’t tried any of the Tony Hawk games, the scenery tilts as you skate up and down walls. It gave me that “warm thrill of confusion” in a way that Altera Quartus II just doesn’t. Unfortunately I had to fight my nephew to play the game, and he has youth and skill on his side.

YouTube - Line Rider - Jagged Peak Adventure

A new game. If I did drugs I might waste a year or two playing this game.

Ho Hee Harrr! Musta got me parrot!

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I’m not so sure about this. I hung out at the computer lab, all right, but I was definitely not an A scholar. I didn’t do homework, I cut just about every class to go to the computer lab. This was 1973-74, btw. There weren’t any home computers yet.

Brainy Kid

In high school, you were acing AP classes or hanging out in the computer lab. You may have been a bit of a geek back then, but now you’re a total success!

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Created with Wink and Photoshop. Yeah, I guess I’ve avoided Photoshop for long enough.
Here’s a rather bizarre version of the game on learn4good.com.

I see from my access logs that someone found me by searching the web for “Missionaries and Cannibals”. So:
Missionaries & Cannibals. This is a bar game we used to play. The rules are simple, the solution isn’t, especially when you’re in Jay’s Elbow Room getting hammered.
The story is that there are three missionaries want to use a rowboat to cross a river with three newly-converted cannibal friends. There are six people but the boat only holds two, so they’ll have to row back and forth in singles and pairs.
However, there are two gotchas. First, although all three missionaries know how to row the boat, only one cannibal does. Second, if cannibals outnumber missionaries on either shore they will give in to temptation and eat the missionaries. Got that?
Great.
Start by drawing a couple of lines down the center of a placemat - this is the river. If there’s no placemat, draw on the table.
Now put three dimes on one side of the river. These are the three missionaries. And put two pennies and a nickel down with the quarters. These are the two cannibals who can’t row, and the one cannibal who can. [UK: use 5p, 2p and 10p. EU: you're on your own.]
Now move coins across the river and back in singles and pairs until all six are on the other side.

Click for solution.

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