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In the near future, a soldier who needs a quick look over the next hill will be able to aim his rifle skyward, fire a grenade-sized reconnaissance device and instantly receive imagery on his pocket computer link via
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On my bike ride this morning, I noticed something very weird. I mean like X-files weird. Someone placed the heads of four dead catfish on fence posts of the barbed wire fence running along the road. Why?? What is this supposed to prevent?? Very bizzare!
We started out the night with all seven people playing one game. Ed brought out a rerealease of an older game called Saboteur. In this game there are dwarves trying to find gold in a mine. However, some dwarves are trying to sabotage the mission. We played three rounds and in each one I was the good dwarf. I was successful twice and was stoped once. And I also proved to be the best dwarf there!
The key to this game is to be the person who connects our route to the gold. If you do that then you get the best pick of the victory points and you will also get another victory point card if there are extras. I was unable to do that but at least I was sitting next to the person who did.
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Doug completely ruined this game for me. He was quiet when I had rolled exactly his number (but I was trying to get a higher number). However, when Roxana was rolling he shouted that she had rolled my number. He also made sure to emphasise that point and convice her to stop rolling and take my number. Gah! I should have just gotten up and let them finish the game without me.
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Another game of Palazzo where I sucked badly. Sigh! Still willing to play it though…
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We noticed that the Rio Grand version had slightly different rules, so we used the their version for a change. In this game, I was really lucky. I kept turning up sevens! What hurt me though was I only was able to put out one set. I needed to turn up a 2 or a 3 for another set.
The Christian paradox link via
How many punch cards would it take for a 3 minute MP3? link via
For fun, you can launch up to 20 balloons at once with less distance. All our models will disassemble at the barrel for maximum portability even on aircraft link via
Amazon offers the 1,802 titles in the Penguin Classics Complete Library for $7,989.99 link via
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Golden Numbers is a sound installation consisting of 32 gigantic military speakers removed from the DMZ link via
Microsoft makes $471 profit/second link1, Google makes $44 profit/second link2 via
Cows dyed and used as advertising link via
As tempting as it is to picture a blood-spattered Canadarm flinging goat carcasses into the void, we know that the Shuttle is the fruit of what was supposed to be a rational decision making process link via
Well, after investing all this effort into searching for a terrestrial (although very spacey looking) craft, I’m pretty skeptical that any remnants of an actual saucer crash (assuming one really occurred) could be found. I was dealing here with an event I knew had occurred, which had a reasonable amount of documentation, was in favorable, open terrain, and proved nearly impossible to find. link via
On my bike ride this morning, I came across these words spray painted on the road.
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I think it has something to do with the two holes on both sides of the road. Perhaps they are laying pipe underneath the road? Which is a shame actually. This is a brand new road! You would think that they would get everything correct the first time! Sigh… Our tax dollars at work.
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While we were waiting for Jon to show up, we chose this quick game as a filler. And, indeed, Jon showed up after the first round. So, he just joined in the game essentially one turn behind. I haven’t played this game in a while since it is played at Russcon a lot and I was burned out on it. The dice loved me tonight and I easily won the game.
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Mike brought two new Shadow games tonight and we chose this one to play. I had played this game once before so I knew a little of what to do for the strategy. After a fustrating rules explination, we started the game. I chose to go after a district that Mike controlled but, unfortunately, Mike decided to defend it. Mike soon learned later on in the game that you need to go after new districts for points rather than defending old districts for no points. What was fustrating was the end of the game. Jon was in last place and he controlled who was going to win the Papal election. I needed the extra point for going with Jon’s decision. But he chose randomly and I had to chose randomly as well by fliping my card. Unfortunately, the card fell on the wrong outcome. I lost that point and was tied for second with Mike. Gah!
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To end the night, we resurrected an old but good game. The first game went rather poorly for me.
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But the second game went much better!
