Banks woke me at the crack of 8:30 and we went to breakfast at one of the chain knock-off restaurants that in this case seemed like the illegitimate stepchild of an IHOP and a Cracker Barrel. All the breakfasts were named after presidents or generals causing me to wonder if the General Sherman was named after [...]
The evening of the first day of Woodbadge we played a game called “Who Me?” where players landed on colored spaces and could choose to answer questions to advance or not to stay in place. There was a spectrum of questions and I was blessed with the following:
What is your biggest regret in life so far?
Give [...]
I’ve never played Magic at Six Feet Under Games and bein’ in God’s country I was walking on egg shells to a certain extent. This was amplified when the store owner issued the following warning to a Yu-Gi-Oh! tournament that was about to start:
Attention Yu-Gi-Oh! players. You are the worst bunch of people that are ever [...]
An activity I enjoy doing in Engineering merit badge is the neutral buoyancy contest. Scouts receive a collection of wires, cork pieces, and washers and attempt to create a device that’s neutrally buoyant, failing that, one that falls the slowest. Today’s youth are quite clever but sometimes fail to grasp how the challenge works, like when [...]
Egyptian Rat Screw is a fast-slapping playing card game I’ve loved for years. I played it at first in elementary school but not until I had hours to kill as a Scout volunteer did I really develop retarded skill at the game. My current streak is 74 games most against Joe Naylor. Some of the persons [...]
For the last year or so I’ve joked that I’m a Level 2 actuary and can cast magic missile. A joke about which I don’t think anyone has yet laughed. What once started as a joke now may become reality with NASA starting an MMO. Besides being quite possibly the dumbest premise for an MMO I’ve [...]
For the last year or so I’ve joked that I’m a Level 2 actuary and can cast magic missile. A joke about which I don’t think anyone has yet laughed. What once started as a joke now may become reality with NASA starting an MMO. Besides being quite possibly the dumbest premise for an MMO I’ve [...]