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I find myself dumping most of my one-offs on Facebook, but I have some things I wanted to capture, in case I want to refer back to them for gifts/jne later.

Misc:

• Acoustic chords for the duck song.  Note the notes because they help.  D G A with a capo on the third fret.  Strum pattern dduududdud.  If you haven't heard the duck song before, you can listen to it here .  There is a duck song 2 and 3 that Eryn also likes, as well as The Gummy Bear Song which wedges itself in your brain.
• An article I really enjoyed that I found when looking up why everyone in Bollywood movies called women "Aunty" - http://www.indiacurrents.com/articles/2010/01/06/please-dont-call-me-aunty
• Danger 5 on YouTube - Attack of the Show says I should watch it.  The title, I Danced for Hitler, is intriguing.  It looks like it should be full of puppets after only 30 seconds.

Tech:

• Titanium vs. Phonegap for native iOS development - I still think it's easier just to program in XCode.
• Creating your own standing desk for $22.
• Indie Game The Movie - I want to watch it.  I may have to pony up the $9.99.  But it got me to thinking.  If I were to buy a physical copy, I'd really only watch it once.  Seems like there should be a RedBox for sharing videos between people in a neighborhood.  Then again, that's probably the library and garage sales.

Games:

• Goblins Drool, Fairies Rule.  Probably a good game for my nieces for a birthday or Christmas.
• Defenders of the Realm - looks like fun, but mostly it reminds me that the new 3D printer for plastic pieces might be really fun to own just to create your own board games (e.g. the Solidoodle 2)
• 5 Bad Scrabble Habits Learned From Words With Friends - I knew it.
• Toc Toc Woodman - another possible gift game for the nieces.  Logan never has invited me to play Pitchcar.
• Discworld the Game - I didn't realize it's out.
• There's a whole site dedicated to Dominion Strategy - I should have known.

Movies, Games and Plays...oh my

After going to The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe at the Children's Theatre today (which was ok, but not great. I liked the movie better, and I wasn't a big fan of the movie. But the stage isn't particularly conducive to battle scenes. And Aslan looses a bit in translation when he's really just some guy in a loin cloth and head dress, ala the stage production of The Lion King. I found myself spending more time worrying about whether there's some message about racism embedded in the story, rather than the traditional Christian motiff C.S. Lewis intended, then thinking about the story) we watched Journey to the Center of the Earth (which needed the 3D, or at least a big, widescreen t.v.) before shipping Eryn off to bed.

Then I broke out all the presents Kyle bought me for my 40th birthday. That included Dominion, a card-based game that's currently riding the top of the board game charts, and a snifter of Buffalo Trace Kentucky Straight Bourbon whiskey. The Buffalo Trace was better than the Bulliet Erik (the Hairy Swede) put me onto. It had a slightly sweeter taste to it. And although I don't usually prefer sweeter, that aspect of it was part of a more complicated taste, which made it much more interesting.

As for Dominion, I played with myself for an hour before I got it right. And then I showed Pooteewheet what I'd learned. Yeah...you heard me right. I served up three hands and pretended I was playing a few rounds to see if I could figure out the finer points. Given how easy it was to learn it, and the variety involved in only playing with a limited set of cards, and the replayability aspect of being able to change up the cards the table is playing with from game to game, I give it a thumbs up. The fact that you share the same cards instead of each player trying to formulate a deck from scratch, as in most collectible card games, makes it just a bit more about the strategy and less about who can collect the most, or read the most about card combos. It only took me about ten minutes to demonstrate the basic gameplay to Pooteewheet, so it's also an easy game for someone to learn, especially with a teacher. Tomorrow I'm going to see if Eryn can get the hang of it. That's usually my test for whether a game is in my favorites list.