May 21, 2008

So Slate has published an article today about the world's most popular (computer) game of all time. 

(I confess, when I saw the Yahoo! teaser, it said "world's most popular game of all time" and so I was dying to find out what it was. Chess? Dominoes? Monopoly? Trivial Pursuit? But, alas, they meant computer game. Which lessened my curiosity factor significantly. Yet, I did carry on and read some of the article.)

Anyway, according to Michael Smith, the most popular game of all time is: computer Solitaire. Big time waster, for sure. But it's on every office computer (heck, it's on every computer as far as I know), and so that makes sense.

But I'm not a Solitaire fan, on the computer or even, all that often, in person. I have, however, been known to get a bit addicted to certain computer games. I use them for, ah, relaxation or to clear my mind before I write. I never use them to procrastinate. Never never never.

My latest favorite is Rainforest Adventure (for the Mac; when I had a PC I did Jewel Quest. I like Rainforest Adventure better.) and WordSlinger.

WordSlinger is great because it's like a speed-Scrabble game you play alone. (I play the "speed" side.) You get a pile of words you have to drag over onto a Scrabble-like board and make them fit before the time runs out.

Speaking of which, my favorite thing about Facebook is the Scrabulous games that I have going on all the time. Actually, I misspoke above. I think Scrabulous on Facebook is my current fave, because I haven't played those other two for awhile.

So if you're on Facebook, find me and start a game of Scrabulous with me. I can never have too many, and the nice thing about Scrabulous is you can't waste hours playing it, since you have to wait for the next person to move.

So what are your favorite computer games? Any that you claim addiction (past or present) to? 

April 30, 2008

Napping is coming back!

By coming back, I mean, back now that I'm an adult, but not a senior citizen, and no longer pregnant. (Those seem to be the only times napping is acceptable).

But not any more!  Check this out. (I'm too lazy and under too much of a deadline to summarize; you're going to have to click over and read. Sorry.)

I like my afternoon naps. Thirty to forty-five minutes in the mid-afternoon (right before the kiddies get home from school)…what a treat.

And now, I can legitimately call it "brain food."

Life is good. 

April 8, 2008

A new study has found that shopping in a bad mood makes you spend more.

Uh, of course it does. Haven't they ever heard of "retail therapy"?

Who pays for studies like this anyway???? 

March 11, 2008

Yeah. Makes sense to me.

February 8, 2008

It always seems to come in threes, doesn't it? But this time….four public shootings in the last week.

First, the shooting at the Lane Bryant over the weekend near Chicago.

A man barges into his wife's classroom and shoots her in front of her students. 

Then last night's shooting at the city council meeting near St. Louis.

And this morning…a woman just shot two students and then herself at a small college in Louisiana.

Does the first one kick off the rest of them? Or have they always been perking, and for some other reason, they explode?

My prayers and thoughts are with the victims and their families.