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Saturday, November 22, 2008

Daughters and Their FriendsThe eldest came home from the army dog sick. The army wouldn't give her anti-biotics, so we're ensuring that she gets some tonight, before she goes back to the army tomorrow.She still arranged to have a group of her friends over for the third meal; a lovelier and stronger group of young women you have never met in your life.The youngest had two friends over for shabbat. She has written 18 complete songs, including lyrics and music, and one of the two friends is a guitar player who is learning to play them. I hear they may even get some studio time at some point. They sang us one of the songs before shabbat started, and it's pretty good. I've been encouraging her to continue her voice lessons and put stuff up on Youtube. She will eventually. Right now, she sometimes busks on the midrachov.She taught her friends how to play It's Alive. When I first saw them playing, I thought that the friends were going to turn out to be non-gamers, but in the end they liked it enough to play four games.0comments DiggIt! | Del.icio.us | Stumble It!Labels:its alive,personal

Friday, November 21, 2008

Roundup: Three Years of Forty Seventh Week Postsd6 or not d6: That is the question in this poem parody of you know whatMy usual travel woes returning from a BGG.con. And pictures from the 2007 con.50 things even a dumb board game like Monopoly can teach youConveying the sense of eating peaches through 6 peach gamesThe first post of the first two parts of the US Armed Forces Code, in verse. Second post. Third. Fourth.0comments DiggIt! | Del.icio.us | Stumble It!Labels:blogging

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Food and TheaterRachel and I had a lovely dinner out. I acquired a deeply discounted coupon for Little Eucalyptus, an expensive restaurant in Jerusalem.They are very original. They start the meal with a lecture about all the spices they hand pick from around Jerusalem and the traditional methods of cooking they employ. Then they infuse dozens of small dishes with elegant arrays of each of these spices, each presented with a mini-lecture and an assortment of drinks.Earlier this week we went to see Henry V presented by a new company calling itself the Jerusalem Shakespeare theater group. Seven people did the entire play, each one playing a dozen roles.There goes our culture budget for a few months. but if you're going to do it, you may as well do it right.0comments DiggIt! | Del.icio.us | Stumble It!Labels:israel,personalSession Report, in which I love Trias and no one else doesThe latest Jerusalem Strategy Gaming Club session report is up. Games played: Trias, Year of the Dragon, Race for the Galaxy.I love Trias. My fellow players don't, for some reason.0comments DiggIt! | Del.icio.us | Stumble It!Labels:game group,games played,gaming

Monday, November 17, 2008

I'm Planning to Play a Game at BGG.conWith no entrance fee. Or travel or hotel fees, for that matter.My good friend Chris Brooks who is going to BGG.con has kindly agreed to set up his Macbook in such a way and at such a time that I can play a game with him while he's at the con. Wheee!Probably play Agricola, or whatever he wants to play. And I may twitter the game as I play. Haven't found much else use for twitter until now.Too bad I can't pick up a free game from the yellow prize table.Yehuda4comments DiggIt! | Del.icio.us | Stumble It!Labels:conventions,gaming,technology

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Friday Night TidbitsI found Braille text on the labels of my Golan Heights Hermon Red and Hermon White bottles. Pretty freaky. Here's a source I turned up. Guess that's where they get the expression "blind drunk".Walked up to a random friend at synagogue and told her, "You know what you were saying last night at dinner? I completely disagree with you." Got a laugh, as we were not at dinner together. Took her a few seconds to realize that, though.Walked up to another random friend at synagogue and told him, "I like you. I want you to remember that this week. If you're feeling depressed or upset for whatever reason, just remember that you've got enough going for you to have made at least one person think you're great."Our synagogue held an "older members host the newer members for dinner, and we all meet together for dessert" event. Worked nicely. We're also planning another synagogue weekend away for the first weekend of December. We're pretty together (in some ways) for a synagogue.0comments DiggIt! | Del.icio.us | Stumble It!Labels:israel,Judaism,personal

Friday, November 14, 2008

Roundup: Three Years of Forty Sixth Week PostsEarly science-fiction themed gamesRules are made to be brokenDividing games into typesOn my way to BGG.con 3 (somewhat of a ramble)Reviewing A Theory of Fun by Raph Koster. Which leads into how games reduce to math when you add scores to them.0comments DiggIt! | Del.icio.us | Stumble It!Labels:blogging

Thursday, November 13, 2008

The Whining Kids Game, or how to survive your childrenThe Whining Kids GameComponentsA way to list people in order in the kitchen: a whiteboard, a bulletin board with figures or papers representing each child, etc.A way to track bonuses: a whiteboard, gold stars, whatever.PlayEach child gets three stars at the beginning of the week.When one child wants something, and the parent is able to respond, carry on.When one child wants something at the same time that another child is being attended to, arrange both the children's names on the list. The second child is attended to after the first one is removed from the list by the parent. If two children come to the parent at the same time, the parent decides on the order.A child can opt to pay a star to move up in the order at any time. If a child no longer has any stars, he or she cannot use this option.At the end of the week, a child gets one "X" for each star he or she possesses, where X is a dollar, a cookie, or whatever.You can accumulate stars from week to week. You can trade 10 stars for a "Y": a doll, or bowling. Or 50 stars for a "Z": an Ipod, or whatever. And so on. The parent can make prizes that can be bought by the children pooling stars together.NoteProposed benefits of the game:1) less arguments over not getting attention; once a name goes onto the list, the child knows that they've been heard and have to wait.2) the realization that will dawn within the child as to how much attention they actually demand.0comments DiggIt! | Del.icio.us | Stumble It!Labels:gaming,parenting,party games,personalBarack Obama Can't Do it Without YouChange isn't going to happen by watching the president to see if change happens. The change we wanted was change within ourselves. No president can do that. We have to do it. You have to do it.Want politics to be different? Stop creating and listening to attacks on politicians.Stop giving support to those that create unending steams of trash talk: from The Daily Kos on the left to Michelle Malkin on the right. They have many important and intelligent things to say, but they are hidden amid an endless stream of attacks on their opponents.Want media to be different? Stop creating, watching, and passing around cruelty, pranks, bad taste, and embarrassment. Turn off those channels. Vote with your ear and eyes.Want people to be different? Be different. Be kinder, listen more, help more. If Obama's government is going to make a difference, it needs 250,000,000 volunteers to make it different. Obama's not going to make the world different while you're sitting back to watch to see if it happens. You're the difference that you were voting for. He can't do it; you have to do it.Clean your street up. Fix your leaky faucets. Walk or bike more. Buy less processed foods. Smile. Make charity a habit. Volunteer. Reduce, recycle, reuse, resell. Learn. Teach.Be the example you've been waiting for.1 comments DiggIt! | Del.icio.us | Stumble It!Labels:philosophy,politicsSession Report, in which we love Agricola and are not sure about MexicaThe latest Jerusalem Strategy Gaming Club session report is up. Games played: Agricola, Mexica.Everyone loved Agricola. I loved Mexica.This week I also played a Scrabble game with Rachel. I won by 30 points or so. In included my extending ELOPED to ENVELOPED onto a triple word score. And I ended the game with a bingo. But Rachel took most of the other triple word scores, as well as the Z, J, and X.I also played several hands of Gin Rummy with Tal. She won a few, but I won a few more, some of them on my second draw (with knocking). 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