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      August 21st, 2006 by mike d. in A Day In The Life...

      currently eating: ribs

      All entries for the MSPaint competition for “REVENGE OF THE TREES” are due WEDNESDAY at NOON, New York time. We have a bunch o’ entries so far. don’t miss out on the fun!

      Authored by: mike d.

      HAPPY BIRTHDAY FATTY!

      August 21st, 2006 by mike d. in Quickthoughts

      It’s Sander’s Birthday! Woo!
      Our company has rewarded him with a round trip ticket to Tennessee!!
      He leaves in 10 minutes!

      It’s Sander’s Birthday! Woo!

      Our company has rewarded him with a round trip ticket to Tennessee!!
      He leaves in 10 minutes!

      Authored by: mike d.

      SHUT THE BOX!

      August 21st, 2006 by mike d. in A Day In The Life...

      currently eating: breakfast

      My folks picked up a sweet board game in Cape Cod. It’s called SHUT THE BOX! It’s essentially a box with 9 tiles inside numbered 1 through 9. The tiles are attached to a dowel and can be flipped up or down.

      SHUT THE BOX! The player rolls two die and then has to flip down a number of tiles whose sumation is equal to the sumation of the dice roll.

      Example: if I roll two sixes, I could flip the 9 and 3, or a 6, 3,2,1 or a 7,5… etc

      You keep rolling until you either can not flip down the total sum of the dice, or you run out of tiles. When you don’t flip down all the tiles, your score is read across the tiles left to right. So if your end tiles were 1 - 3 4 5 6 - - 9, your score would be 134,569. If you completely run out of tiles you shout SHUT THE BOX! then you Shut the box! and the game is over. Apparently this originates from a betting game where people would throw money in the box. The person who successfully “SHUT THE BOX!” would then close the box, win all the money, and take it home.

      So Ryan Schenk played this game, and like any human being fell in love with it immediately. But unlike the rest of us mortals, he then decided to program the game. So here it is, Ryan’s first draft of SHUT THE BOX!

      SHUT THE BOX!

      Authored by: mike d.

      SKYLINE ELEVEN!

      August 21st, 2006 by mike d. in skyline, Features

      Skyline!

      Congratulations to Becky, who not only beat last week’s skyline by identifying it as Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, but did so quickly and efficiently. Indeed, both satellite and skyline were of the same location.

      Well done becky! I thought for sure I’d have you stumped last week!

      This week, we have the same rules as usual.

      #1. Identify the SKYLINE.
      #2. Determine if it is the same location as THE SATELLITE IMAGE.
      #3. If it isn’t the same location, identify the location of the satellite image.

      Good luck!

      WARNING: THE ANSWER MAY BE IN THE COMMENTS BELOW!

      Authored by: mike d.
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