InterroLoop: Day 34 - Greater Detroit

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 [...]

Luck of the Draw in the Game of Life

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 [...]

Yu-Gi-Oh! vs. Magic Players

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 [...]

Neutral Buoyance: Fail Slowly

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 [...]

ERS Renaissance

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 [...]

NASA to start MMO

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 [...]

NASA to start MMO

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 [...]