Well, I’ll get around to blogging for reals shortly.
Every so often, I will get around to recommending a non-professional game that I found fun. Marvin the Hat Explorerer was not innovative and has terrible graphics. But it was fun!
(You could play Plinge, but it’s not nearly as good…)
Also, thanks to Windows Movie Maker, I was able to make a simple trailer for Eggs vs. Humans. In a few days, I will attempt to trick someone into paying me a few bucks for it. Yay!
You know those kinds of jokes that are clever only the first time you hear them? Then everyone repeats them and the humor value erodes very quickly. They just don’t hold up.
My two candidates:
What about you, dear readers? Any jokes you hated hearing more than once or twice?
You might have heard this one before, but I just ran across it today. Changed slightly to entertain myself.
There are 5 houses in five different colors
In each house lives a different species.
These 5 owners drink a certain poison, smoke a certain brand of cigar and keep a certain pet.
No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar, or drink the same poison.
The CLUES:
The Mummy lives next to the Blue House.
The Mantis drinks cyanide.
The one who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks mercury.
The Green House is on the left of the White House.
The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks gasoline.
The one who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
The one in the center house drinks bleach.
The Egg lives in the Red house.
The Mummy lives in the left-most house.
The Human keeps dogs as pets.
The one who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
The Green House’s owner drinks hydrochloric acid.
The one who keeps horses lives next to the one who smokes Dunhill.
The Bacon smokes Prince.
The QUESTION:
Who owns the fish?
There was this interview Fox News did with Bill Clinton about 5 years ago. It went about as smoothly as you’d expect.
I guess the first 4 minutes were relatively tame.
Perhaps I’m not up on my Bible reading. But if anyone can remind me what part of the Bible involved getting attacked by carrots, french fries, and salad dressing, that would be much appreciated.
There’s no way around it: Slay is a great game.
On the website you can download a demo…although the map available is actually one of the more difficult ones.
The AI’s respectable, but you should outclass fairly quickly. It presents the most problems in the chaotic opening. Even if you seem way behind after everyone consolidates territory, the computer plays the endgame poorly, and can be goaded into unfavorable situations.
The main challenge is in the map configurations; despite the roughly even hex count, difficulty varies widely.
I’d recommend changing the default color scheme, as some colors are too close together.
Secondly, there’s Minecraft. I’ll bet a few of you have already given this a shot. I’d be half-tempted to set up my own server and invite peeps to play if it were worth the money to have my own server.
You go around the world digging up cubes of materials, like stone and wood, combining them in various ways to get more and better stuff. (You can also beat up animals for their riches; cows give leather, etc.) In the beginning, you just have your fists. Once you have some basic materials, you play around with the crafting screen figuring out exactly what you can make with your stuff. Like picks, shovels, and axes to improve your cube-chopping ability.
During the day, you’re relatively safe, but at night baddies come out. So your first day will be spent creating a basic shelter to hide at night. Later, you’ll be able to create weapons and armor to help yourself, too.
It’s vaguely addicting, but don’t have so much free time to play around with it.
Click on the image for the larger size to check out a bit of my cave-home. Note this is with the “fancy” quality graphics option.
Thanks to everyone who entered this year’s Liquid Egg Product NCAA bracket! This year, I was the winner, correctly predicting UConn to win it all and ending up in the top 1% of all ESPN entries. Woot.
The Mascot and I had a bet…the loser would take a picture in drag and post it to the site. Just a little something to look forward to.
Hey, people, it’s that time of year again!
We’re having our annual March Madness bracket over at espn.com. I think you can also sign in with Facebook if you don’t have an account already.
The winner gets glory and honor among the 25 or so regular readers of LEP. Isn’t that swell?
So there was this skit on some German comedy show called “Bernie und Ert”.
It’s twisted (and certainly not for the kids) but strangely entertaining. There are a handful of episodes that were translated into English, including the following:
In this month’s issue…
Paranormal investigators reveal…Carlsen cheats with help from Elvis!
“You can clearly see the ghost of Elvis with our special Spirit Cameras. No wonder he didn’t want to compete for the World Championship…he would have been caught!” — Paranormal investigator
“We’re clearly starting to run out of ideas.” — Chess Enquirer Editor
Taliban member kicked out for admitting women can play chess too. “I guess I won’t be getting those virgins…”
Prior Chess Enquirers:
