NewsMemento is the movie to see, I'm telling you! Saw it a second time and it was quite good and interesting. Clever little references that make more sense the second time. My printmaking class is almost over, which makes me sad since I'm enjoying it so much. I spent Saturday making 20 prints, 18 of them from a 2-plate relief project (the class is all exchanging self portrait prints), and that was fun. I also made a cool 2-plate portrait of Lincoln (one relief, one etching). I'll scan all this and put it up on the web. I've been very busy lately, not just with work but also with printmaking, comics, etc., and I recently wrangled two different webcomic events, coordinating and creating links pages for Shakespeare's Birthday and Webcomics Awareness events. I'm now suffering event burnout.... |
| 6Nimmt | 8 | RussW 7 Alfred 5 Clay 3 Clayton 0 JP 0 BobR -3 Daniel -5 Marty -7 |
| Carcassonne | 3 | Clayton 2 RussW 0 WendyWhe -2 |
| LostCities | 2 | JP 1 Daniel -1 |
| Evo | 3 | Daniel 2 JP 0 Clay -2 |
| Frank'sZoo | 4 | Steve 3 Tim 1 WendyWhe -1 Clayton -3 |
| Zero | 3 | Daniel 2 Clay 0 JP -2 |
| UndTschuess | 4 | Steve 3 Tim 1 Daniel -1 WendyWhe -3 |
| Carcassonne | 3 | RussD 2 RussW 0 JonathanC -2 |
| DieHaendler | 4 | BobR 3 Jeffles 1 WendyWhi -1 Marty -3 |
| UndTschuess | 6 | Tim 5 Jeffles 3 WendyWhi 1 Marty -1 Steve -3 Daniel -5 |
| HoneyBears | 3 | JeffF 2 Alfred 0 Carly -2 |
| Settlers | 4 | Kara 3 Alfred 1 Carly -1 JeffF -3 |
| Entdecker | 4 | JP 3 JonathanC 1 RussW -1 RussD -3 |
| HowMuchForTheCamel | 4 | Marty 3 Steve 1 Tim -1 Jeffles -3 |
| WebOfPower | 5 | JeffF 4 Alfred 2 Marty 0 RussW -2 Tim -4 |
| Bluff | 4 | Alfred 3 Tim 1 RussW -1 JeffF -3 |
| Evo | 5 | Jeffles 4 Steve 2 JP 0 JonathanC -2 Carly -4 |
Starting the evening with 6 Nimmt seems to be an entrenched tradition now!
I got to play Carcassonne twice this evening. Rarely does life get so good. This was followed by the Carcassonnesque Entdecker, one of the earliest of my German game purchases. JP demolished us with a huge lead.
The new game Evo got several plays and is clearly popular.
Meta Party Game ResultsI was the Meta Party Devil. Here is the Meta Party Game I emailed out: Daniel got the honors of opening the mystery box. (And he made the most entertaining, but inaccurate, guess about the contents: shattered dreams.) It turns out William sent RussCon a box full of weird Japanese candies of various types! Most of them seemed to taste, um, not good, but they were cute and funny! Of the various guesses, 3 of them contained some accurate information (e.g. fruity candy); of those only one used the word "cute", so that pretty clearly broke the tie for me. WendyWhe is the Meta Party Devil next week. I'll be emailing out her meta party game at her request; she's already designed it but is going on a trip all next week. |
I'm in a New York state of mind...
Rank ratings: 1.0000 Kara (1) 0.5789 Alfred (5) 0.3333 Steve (5) 0.3333 Jeffles (4) 0.1429 RussW (6) 0.1429 Tim (6) 0.1053 JP (6) 0.0909 Clay (3) 0.0000 JeffF (4) 0.0000 BobR (2) 0.0000 WendyWhi (2) -0.0833 Clayton (3) -0.2000 RussD (2) -0.3333 JonathanC (3) -0.3636 Marty (5) -0.4000 Daniel (6) -0.7500 WendyWhe (3) -0.7778 Carly (3) New Win ratings: 1.0000 Kara (1) 0.3333 JeffF (4) 0.2000 BobR (2) 0.2000 RussD (2) 0.1667 Steve (5) 0.0952 RussW (6) 0.0667 Jeffles (4) 0.0000 Tim (6) 0.0000 JP (6) 0.0000 Clayton (3) 0.0000 Daniel (6) -0.0455 Marty (5) -0.0526 Alfred (5) -0.2500 WendyWhi (2) -0.2727 Clay (3) -0.3333 JonathanC (3) -0.3333 Carly (3) -0.3750 WendyWhe (3)Kara pulled a Brady Maneuver; you must play more than 1 game to be eligible as Devil. Steve is the Devil! JeffF is Vice-Devil.
Dan Becker's Hursley Trip Pages. Also Dan says he plans to visit all these Winchester pubs.
Soap - the game of completely illogical emotional pain and suffering.
There's one of those clever subversive publicity campaigns for the movie AI.
It's so CUUUUUUUUUUUUTE!
Russ
