On Board Games

My favourite thing about getting together at Christmas is that my family always plays ridiculous board games.

Over the years we have developed several favourites: Apples to Apples, Catch Phrase, occasionally Cranium or Pictionary. My favourite is Catch Phrase. It's a frantic blend of Hot Potato and a simple word game. You just try to get your team to say the word on the disc and then pass it on before time runs out. The best part is that the timer is random and accelerates as it gets closer to running out. This inadvertently causes mayhem as teams are throwing the disc back and forth and as people's gestures and descriptions become louder and more grand. The team caught holding the disc when time runs out succumbs to the cheers and jeers of their opponents and team mates. It's ridiculous.

Take my sister for example. I'm not sure what she's doing - but it looks stupid and that's enough for me.

MobileMe (pt 2)

I have started working on my other web page. I'm not sure that I'll continue it. But for now, it's a fun distraction.

You can see it here: Grande Fully Body 2

MobileMe

I think Apple products are over-hyped.

But I'm a sucker for them anyway. My newest obsession is their MobileMe service. I started using it when I needed to post some photos online and wanted my friends and family to be able to download decent sized pictures so they could go out and print them themselves. I started using flickr but got fed-up with it after about 10 mins and signed up for the 60 day free trial of MobileMe.

If you've never heard of it, it takes your computers (desktop/laptop/work computer) and syncs them if you so desire (you even have the choice of selecting what is synced between them. In my case, I have Safari bookmarks, my address book, my email, and some other stuff synced. If you have an iPhone or an iPod touch, it also syncs those with your computers. You also get a bunch of storage space, really awesome photo and video galleries, and the ability to make a website/blog using iWeb.

I realize nobody cares about this stuff as I do but I think it's a super big deal when software developers figure out a way to tie all of your devices together using the same suite of software. It makes life a lot easier. My two complaints right now are that the syncing is sometimes a little glitchy and that it's very expensive. It's about $100 for a year's subscription. Right now I've got my free trial and we'll see whether or not I renew once that's up.

Check out the gallery here.

It's pretty sweet.

on university students

one of my biggest pet peeves is hearing students complain "why do i have to know this anyway? It's not like I'm going to need to know it when i..."

I dont know why it pisses me off. But it does. Shut up and take the class.