Stalemate

Mr. Maze, my own very stale mate, and I have recently been locked in a epic battle of Scrabulous, approaching a stalemate. Yes, that's how it's spelled, though it looks weird. I think it indicates something about the subconscious tendency to make words in a certain direction, but either way it has eerily crop-circled it's way into the formation of an E!

Time waster

Check out this addicting typing game where you compete against other people across the interweb to race your cars to the finish by typing movie quotes and music lyrics without errors. If they had this game in my high school computer class I wouldn't have had to switch keyboard plugs with my friend so we could discretely have conversations about the girls in class.

Yes, that means that me and my friend pioneered IM chatting prior to the internet, but really our keyboards just typed messages on each others computers, we couldn't see what we had written or if there were typos. Considering everyone was in this class to learn to type, it was tough. I would almost say I learned more about cryptography, deciphering my friends messages, than I did about typing. But you have to understand, there we a lot of cute older girls in the class.

As a result of this game I realize for all the time I spend typing on the keyboard, I'm a slow, inaccurate typer (36 wpm).

Friday Fun - the Periodic Table of Elements

Call it flashback Friday, I just took a quiz to see how many of the elements on the periodic table I could name - from scratch. I pretty much exhausted my brain (and patience) after 6 minutes. I remembered more than I thought i would, but missed some major ones (high school was a long time ago). How many can you remember?

Take the periodic table challenge and find out! I posted my score in the comments.

Where in the World??

If anybody reads this I'm sorry for your time, because it will soon be gone once you play the game I played today. If you dare play, you will be immediately transported back to 4th grade when you were coloring maps and playing "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego" (or however it's spelled). I loved that game and loved geography. Sadly not near enough of it stayed with me. What's up memory loss due to aging? nice to know ya.

In fact, as recently as college (well, recently when compared to 4th grade) I learned every country in Africa and could literally fill them in one by one on a map. Trust me, I had to pass the test.

Anyway, I got to level 8. Can anybody do better? I imagine my buddy Ryan could knock this out based on his massive amounts of world travels. I'd also like to see how Holmie aka 'Mr. Capital City' would do.

UPDATE: the code doesnt fit in the template, so if you want to play, go here. And don't say i didn't warn you (but i can give you a hint - speed is valuable).

scrabutastic

ok, so its a little blurry, but that does not take away the fact that i got 367 points. im sure its nowhere near a record, but thats without a doubt the best game i've ever played. ryan, in the first of many scrabulous battles, got killed.