Bored Dumb

Nothing new! I'm not going to work on Chess today. Probably not tomorrow either.

Actually, I do have something new. I came up with a killer idea for another novel. And I also came up with a way to tie it in with all my other novels. But I'm not going to give it out here...someone might steal it!

Maybe sometime later I might work on it, but I'm still trying to get the first one done.

Well, not really doing anything else.

So...until next time, remember: All great ideas come from other good ideas, not-so-good ideas, and even-worse-than-purple-ketchup ideas.

---TDM

Monday Slumday

Well, it seems I made it through another Monday alive.

One thing, though: I was in Italian class today, and there's one word that I keep forgetting, so I have to look it up every time I see it. The word is sperare and it means "to hope". So I can quite literally say that "hope" is not in my vocabulary.

Chess, however, is another story. I've made significant progress on the loading section of the game, but it's still not fully functional yet. I suppose I could work on that today, but I might not. I'm not feeling particularly inspired today.

Here's a little word puzzle for you today.

Ph.D. Ph.D. Ph.D.
FREEZING


The answer: 3 degrees above freezing.

So, until next time, remember: Everything we do is a function of t, where t=time, and "do"="procrastinate".

---TDM

Crazy People

Here's something interesting. Take a look at Artful Looter. As an Unhinged card, it contains several jokes that aren't always quite discernible. Here's what I've found so far:

• Its ability is the same as that of Merfolk Looter and it is named "Artful Looter"
• The painting it is stealing is the 7th Edition art of Merfolk Looter
• The windows are broken but the door is open.
• There is glass on the outside of the door, implying that the glass on the door was broken from the inside.

In the flavor text:

• The date of the paper is "Thursday April 1". The next time April 1st falls on a Thursday is 2006. The last time was 2000. (The date of the art was '03)
• The main headline "Priceless Pic Pilfered: Painting Found Abandoned in Graveyard" has alliteration (I don't know why), and the second line alludes to the discard portion of the ability.
• A smaller headline "Merfolk Decry Wizards' Treatment". The "Wizards", as in Wizards of the Coast, decided to remove the Merfolk as the blue race in the Core Set starting with 8th Edition. So the Merfolk are upset.
• The other small headline reads "Local Monster Goes AWOL: Police" and the rest is obscured. AWOL is another Unhinged card.

And that's all that I found.

Furthermore, Chess. I finished the "Save" portion of the program. But it's not worth anything if it can't be loaded, so I'm working on that now. Nothing else new.

Well, until next time, remember: Inside jokes are outside logic.

---TDM

Things you should be aware of

I'm going to open this post by telling you how I'll open this post. There. I did it.

Moving on, the holidays are approaching fast. Well, not really. They're getting closer at a rate of 1 (1 second per second). Never mind.

Anyways, I'm making some more progress on that Chess program. I wrote a few more songs on Punk-o-Matic. And I tried to post some songs on my home page, but that still doesn't work. Grrr.

I really have nothing else to say.

Until next time, remember: Say what you will, but mean what you say.

---TDM

Some More Things

Time for another riddle: You are a farmer. You have a tame wolf, a chicken, and a bag of feed at one side of your farm. It's starting to rain, so you have to bring them to your barn on the other side of the farm. However, you can only carry two things at a time. If you leave the chicken with the feed, it will eat it. If you leave the chicken with the wolf, the wolf will eat it. What do you do?

Sane answer: Take the chicken across the farm and leave it. Go back, then take the wolf and the feed to the barn.

However, by this time the rain has fallen and your feed is spoiled.

Not so sane (but much quicker) answer: Take the feed halfway across the farm, then turn back and pick up the wolf. Bring them to the barn, reach into the wolf's mouth, and pull the chicken out.

I don't know why I just posted that...kinda bored right now...

Until next time, remember: all great men start out "good".

---TDM