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Happy Birthday, Scrabble!

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Today is the birthday of Alfred M. Butts, the man who invented the game Scrabble.
Butts was born on this day in 1899, in Poughkeepsie, New York. He trademarked the game in 1949, but his game didn’t sell very well. Only a few thousand copies of the game were sold, until 1950s when the president of [...]

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How Many Points For “Birthday”?

Friday, April 13, 2007

Today is the birthday of Alfred M. Butts, the man who invented the game Scrabble.
Butts was born on this day in 1899, in Poughkeepsie, New York. He trademarked the game in 1949, but his game didn’t sell very well. Only a few thousand copies of the game were sold, until 1950s when the president of [...]

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New Year’s Resolution Generator

Friday, December 29, 2006

Recycling old fun links.
Last year, two pretty ladies I knew on-line were having a rough time of it, so, to make them smile, I programmed up the New Year’s Resolution Generator. I based it, in part, on some ideas from the Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Holidays, but I have to admit, I [...]

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Characterization Made EZ

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Building characters is as easy as writing their biography.
Okay, so maybe that’s not quite as easy as it sounds at first. The first step to knowing about what your character is going to do is knowing who they are and where they’ve been. What was their start in life? How has that shaped their desires, [...]

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Dale Reckoning Plugin

Friday, June 9, 2006

So, I upgraded to the latest version of WordPress not too long ago so I could test a little project of mine.  Way back in the early days of blogging, when all these fancy programs were new and not so user friendly, I concieved of a beautiful way to present fiction to a large audience [...]

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Creative Plush Toys

Friday, May 19, 2006

Hey, it’s not too early to get this for Christmas!
Last week, I was talking about a little “hair of the dog”, so it seems like an appropriate time to mention the coolest stuffed toy I have seen in a long time: The Transforming Werewolf Plush. I mean, a toy that turns inside-out and [...]

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Friday Fun Four-Pack

Friday, April 28, 2006

Look, kids, it’s been a brutal week for your Uncle Jim, so we need us some fun.
I won’t go into the gorey details, but it seems like anything that didn’t go wrong in my life this week either went wrong in someone else’s life I know or is about to go wrong, so it’s just [...]

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Geek Fantasies

Friday, March 24, 2006

Well, I think the title says it all.
This isn’t quite safe for work, or if your parents are watching, but it is funny. Yes, I can remember a time when this would have been everything I was looking for in chicks. Oh, yeah, everything.
Hey, it’s Friday, you’re presumably an adult with a sense [...]

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