In my inbox at work today I found a couple new samples from the game that Eric and Suzie are inventing.
Metal Bull
Fire Tiger
They aren’t exactly as cool as a rat, but I still think that they are pretty cool.
Game Previews
Metal Bull
Fire Tiger
Monthly Archives: February 2008
Metal Bull
Fire Tiger
ISU Football
My grandma is going through the herculean task of downsizing her possessions. She recently gave a bunch of yarn to Teresa. When Teresa was going through the yarn she found our grandpa’s Iowa State football season ticket from 1979.
I started attending Iowa State football games with my grandpa in 1983. I’ve had season tickets ever since. I was very interested in this ticket.
One of the more interesting things to me about this ticket is the price: $36.00. To renew my season tickets this year the price of the ticket is $300.00. For the right to even renew those tickets I have to make a $1,000 donation to the Cyclone Club. I don’t think the term inflation begins to cover it.
Computer Mine Woods
The deer that live in the woods behind the computer mine have become braver in the last few days. Today I actually got a few pretty decent shots of one that was looking for food about 75 feet from the back door of the mine.
The good news about this year’s crop of deer is that it does not appear that any of them have any injuries. They all seem to be able to use all 4 of their legs.
Test Camera
A few months ago Nader gave me a camera to test for his trip to London. I put in a roll of film and took some test shots. Then I put the camera away and forgot about it. I finally finished off the roll and got it developed. I thought I would share some of the images, not because of any of them are particularly interesting, but because maybe they are interesting as a whole. A study of intermittent shots taking over time from a forgotten camera.
Computer Mine Basketball Hoop
Flowers
Flowers
Self Portrait
Fat Jake
Jay Snuggly
Fat Jake
Willy: Keeper of Fat Jake
Fat Jake
Experiment
Vest
Frame
Party in Jesse’s Office
Cory
Deer
Deer through Windows of “The Quad”
Computer Mine Basketball Hoop
Oscars
I hope to have pictures up from the formal Oscar party at some point in the future, but until then, the thing that made me the happiest about the Oscars was a win for
Falling Slowly for Best Original Song. I can’t put into words how much I love the movie Once. I love this movie.
Below are clips of their acceptance speech and a performance of the song by The Swell Season.
12-2010
If you can stand the freezing cold, don’t forget to look up tonight. You’ll get a chance to see something you won’t get to see again until December of 2010.
Moandays
Sitting on the Dock of the Bay
I find myself suddenly surrounded by world travelers. Sara left for Panama on Thursday. Nader is heading to London in a few weeks. Willy is visiting Peru (most likely) in a couple of months. Me? I think Des Moines is the furthest I’ve traveled this year. Wow, that suddenly seems really pathetic.
I got an e-mail from Mark on Monday. He sent me a couple of pictures from his recent trip to Vietnam.
Ha Long Bay
Mark in Vietnam
Mark was in Vietnam putting on a workshop on teaching English. He also got to see some POW camps and Ho Chi Minh’s grave. I’m trying not to be jealous of Mark, but it isn’t working out so well.
Home is not where you live, but where they understand you…
I talked to Nate last night. I had long heard rumors that he was leaving the Tuscon area. His housemate had flaked out and it was time for him to move on. The rumor mill spat out three locations where Nate might be moving. There was Phoenix, there was Minneapolis, and there was Boone. I finally got a hold of Nate last night and it turns out that he chose the most beautiful and exotic of locales and will be returning to Boone as soon as his house in Tuscon gets rented. This might very well be a brief stop as he looks for lucrative employment in his chosen profession, (kicking ass and taking names in the kitchen) but it will be good to have him back in the area for at least a little while.
This is 10% luck, 20% skill; 15% concentrated power of will…
125 145 151
127 140 183
145 139 167
160 143 183
Those numbers represent my bowling scores from the last 4 weeks. I don’t discuss my bowling league much. I don’t take pride in my bowling. I’m probably in the bottom 10 of the bowlers in the league. However, those numbers are respectable by my standards. Yet, despite putting up decent numbers, I was in a horrible slump. I had not earned a single point against human competition since before Christmas.
Then last night I had a breakthrough. I was lined up against Matt Haub. I’ve known Matt for several years. We used to work together. So I felt a little bad that my breakthrough came against him, but I still need to celebrate that I swept him and my nearly two month long streak of futility has come to an end.
I defeated him by scores of:
160-136 (231-217 with handicap)
143-114 (214-195)
183-126 (254-207)
Maybe it was more a product of Matt having a bad night, but after 2 months of wandering in the desert, I’ll take it.
The Future of Gaming
I don’t know anything about the world of gaming, but Eric and Suzie are inventing a new board game. I have no doubt that they will do a bang up job in the creation of this game because it is something that they both hold a passion for and nothing in this world helps you see with more clarity than passion. Not even bifocals. Take that Ben Franklin!
I was privileged to view the initial piece of art from their game. I think it is pretty sweet, check it out:
Suzie even composed a little poem to celebrate my unshackling from the US Department of Education’s oar.
Paying less means spending more.
And sometimes knowledge seekers
can become the debtors’ whore.
It seems as if I am suddenly surrounded by poets and that is a good thing because I admire poets. I only wish I could be one.
Incidentally, anybody that knows a reason why I’m not worthy of a poetic tribute should keep said information to themselves. Things will correct themselves in due course. I will be worthy of poetic tributes in the future.
Valentine’s Day PostSecret Video
Even people that hate Valentine’s Day love this video.
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Love from the RNC
It looks like “true conservatives” took time out from their busy schedule of ripping John McCain (Go Gang of 14!) to design some Valentine’s Day cards for the upcoming holiday. As a guy with a romantic spirit, I thought I would post their Obama Valentine’s cards.
Interestingly enough, it seems like the same people that designed these cards are the same people that write Hillary Clinton’s speeches. It seems like many of them will be looking for work pretty soon. Maybe they can sign on with the RNC.