Frisbee Season is Upon Us

The 2007 Anacortes Parks & Rec Ultimate Frisbee season is upon us! 'Round about March every year, I start getting excited to run around in the luscious green grass fields of Smiley's Bottom while throwing around the frisbee like the hippie I am. Then 'round about June, the weather starts to cooperate. This year, I've been designated as the facilitator which I suppose is only right because I've been participating for so many years now. In addition to running the P&R game, I've been helping out with the high school team. It has been great to get some extra playing time in as well as feel like I am making the world a better place by helping to train tomorrow's frisbee players. So if you are in the Anacortes area, set aside Tuesday nights to come join us for a game. Smiley's Bottom at 6 pm. All skill levels welcome. (Spectators and cheering squads welcome as well.) Hope to see you there! Oh, and for those of you who don't know what Ultimate Frisbee is, www.whatisultimate.com has this to say: Ultimate is an exciting, non-contact team sport, played by thousands the world over. It mixes the best features of sports such as Soccer, Basketball, American Football and Netball into an elegantly simple yet fascinating and demanding game.

Wednesday June 6 2007

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on Wed 06th Jun, 2007 01:26 pm PDT cardboard said: swiiiirly haha pcu ************************ on Wed 06th Jun, 2007 04:44 pm PDT Emily said: Hmmm, we're talking about "luscious green grass" AND swiiiirly frisbees...??? ************************ on Wed 06th Jun, 2007 07:49 pm PDT Jule said: Nice work Wren! Coaching the high school ultimate team will be fun, but I bet they don't have as many keggers as the college team, but that can change... ************************ on Thu 07th Jun, 2007 10:55 am PDT Sean said: Bee bit my bottom, now my bottom's big. ************************ on Thu 07th Jun, 2007 11:03 am PDT Sean said: Don't take your cool crappy weather for granted. I long for the spring days that were less than 110F. And with boots, thick ol' cammie pants and longsleeve cammie shirt and a weapon, there's 20lbs right there. And then throw 50 pounds of helmet and flak jacket on top of that and lots of running around and some adrenaline, you've got a Sean who desperately needs a Flav-Or Ice. ************************ on Thu 07th Jun, 2007 02:08 pm PDT Wren said: Freeze n eat or drink it chilled! ************************ on Thu 07th Jun, 2007 05:22 pm PDT cardboard said: no no sean you need a chilly willy! ************************ on Thu 07th Jun, 2007 08:22 pm PDT Wilbur said: ULTIMATE!!!! ************************

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More Word Games

Speaking of word-nerdiness, working on Another Word Game started me on a slippery slope of word games, both playing them and creating them. The two latest games are offshoots of AWG, but different enough to be fun in their own right. BUNGLE: Essentially, this combines Boggle game play, Scrabble scoring, and the tile replacement of Another Word Game. Oh, and it's timed. Like AWG, this is written in Java. WORDOMANIA Based on the popular (and addictive) clickomania game, this is a puzzle word game similar to AWG. The object is to use as many of the initial tiles as possible. When one is used, it disappears and everything above it drops down. Once an entire column is used, everything to the right of it will slide left. This is written in Javascript, so even if Bungle and AWG didn't work, this should (although with a slightly higher chance for browser non-compatibility). Check out the screen shot. Thanks again to those folks that helped work the kinks out by taking the time to test these. If you have any questions or encounter any bugs, let me know.

Sunday March 18 2007

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on Mon 19th Mar, 2007 06:32 am PST cardboard said: openttd wren openttd ************************ on Mon 19th Mar, 2007 09:23 am PST Saxtor said: FOR SERIOUS! ************************ on Mon 19th Mar, 2007 09:25 am PST Chris said: Seriously, I care about you Wren, you need help. I think you should try going for a full day without using any words over three syllables before it's too late. Although, I guess that's just another word game challange for you. It may be too late. At least spend some quality time with Jule or Andrew, that oughtta help a little. ************************ on Mon 19th Mar, 2007 05:11 pm PST Andrew said: dude. words are for nerds. ************************ on Mon 19th Mar, 2007 07:06 pm PST Jule said: Hey, I recent you're complement! ************************ on Wed 21st Mar, 2007 01:38 pm PST amanda said: wordomania doesn't rank high scores, it ranks low scores. ************************ on Fri 23rd Mar, 2007 07:38 am PST Wren said: Thanks to everyone who has played these games. It has been so much fun watching the high score list. Almost too fun, some might say. ************************ on Fri 23rd Mar, 2007 07:33 pm PST Mom said: Hey, Wren, wait just a minute. Are you out there watching us closet Bungle players? How do you know about those high scores? I didn't post mine because I didn't want to discourage any of you young'uns. ************************

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Another Word Game

What happens when you leave a computer programmer to his own devices? Well, first he watches a lot of movies. Then he recodes his blog. But soon, he feels the call of those sweet sweet algorithms, with their object orientated logic and structured syntax, and he can't handle it. He must write something. Well, this is my something: Another Word Game. Inspired by boggle, Word Racer, and Wordy, the premise of this game struck me while lying in bed one morning. The object is to use up all the initial letters once while reusing letters as infrequently as possible. Points are awarded on length of word and number of reused squares. To play, you need to have java installed. If you don't have it installed already, it is kind of a pain. Sorry about that. Also, it might not work on some Macs (I don't have a Mac to test it on.) Thanks to Andrew, gretch, marg, Saxtor, rus, Sara, Amanda, and Deanna for help with the testing. If you come up with any bugs, let me know. Enjoy!

Saturday March 10 2007

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on Sat 10th Mar, 2007 09:17 pm PST Jule said: I relly suk at this gaim. I canot figur out why. I thenk you may hav a bug in it, caus it wont acept any whord I put in. ************************ on Sat 10th Mar, 2007 10:49 pm PST Sarah F said: GEEZ!!! Who is ~the man~ anyway??? He accepted HWIG as a word but not "hee", as in 'hee hee, that was funny'. But, ~the man~ aside, one of my favorite posts since you left Asia. Nice work! ************************ on Sun 11th Mar, 2007 09:04 am PST Andrew said: Hwig are you talking about? ************************ on Sun 11th Mar, 2007 10:28 am PST Wren said: Sarah, the real question is what are you doing trying "HWIG"? I borrowed the dictionary (at least for the 3, 4, and 5 letter words) for Another Word Game from here. (Miriam-Webster and Dictionary.com don't like the word "hee" either) ************************ on Sun 11th Mar, 2007 05:04 pm PST Nesbitt said: It seems to work on my mac, really cool. One question, why does it change the letters in the squares of words I find? Does that make sense the way I worded it? When I find a word and submit it the letters change in those squares. Maybe I'm just an idiot and it is self evident. Only other suggestion it is a cool game worthy of a more distinguished name then another word game. ************************ on Mon 12th Mar, 2007 12:22 am PST Horge said: How is "doo" not a word?! But otherwise, good times, buddy. But how about naming it something cooler, like "Wren's Word Game" or "Wrenggle" or "Wrebble" or "Wrentionary". Maybe "Thesaurschultz"... ************************ on Mon 12th Mar, 2007 01:53 am PST Horge said: Otherwise, any way to work in some sort of a list for the longest words found, in addition to the high scores? I've only finished it once so far, with a 14. Damn Qs and Xs... ************************ on Mon 12th Mar, 2007 08:53 am PST me said: it's not working... or am i doing something wrong? how am i supposed to spend my little work breaks? ************************ on Mon 12th Mar, 2007 01:15 pm PST Saxtor said: I can't speak for Wren, but as a beta tester on this, I believe that until a dictionary accommodating long words is implemented, the "Longest Words" list will likely be made up of words such as "PBBTSIQuVVNRLHSYUI." No, really, try it. ************************ on Mon 12th Mar, 2007 01:20 pm PST Wren said: Dude, that was supposed to be an easter egg. Now that everyone knows, the high scores mean nothing. ************************ on Tue 13th Mar, 2007 12:09 am PST Horge said: Cheater, cheater, pumpkin eater! ************************ on Tue 13th Mar, 2007 11:27 am PST Wren said: Just so you know, I got my score without cheating one bit, thank you very much. But more excitingly, I've updated the game to 1)Now spell check 6-letter words (I'll prolly never get around to 7-letter words, because there are a lot of them) and 2)Now sort the high scores correctly and display more of them, for your viewing pleasure. To be sure you are playing the latest version, check for the version updated date in the instructions panel. If you don't have it, you can close all instance of your browser and try again, or open the java console and clear the cache (by pressing "x"). ************************ on Tue 13th Mar, 2007 07:56 pm PST Caleb said: I don't know what your current high score is, but I got my high score of 22 without cheating. Whew. Also, it works fine on my Mac laptop. Cheers for that. ************************

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Game Night - Laughs, Fun, and Extremely Poor Drawings

In honor of the McCool troop (no pun intended) being in town, we all got together for another edition of the world famous game night. We had many of the usual players in attendence as well as some first timers. Many thanks to all who made it, some on very short notice. Highlights included [baby] Max, plates of spectacular food (thanks Keith!), mozzarella cheese (thanks Tyler!), a house full of laughs and smiles (thanks everyone!), Chantiel Krav, and an artistic rendering of Katy (thanks Sean!) (Note: artistic rendering not posted by request) A little on-the-fly javascripting (courtesy of moi) and you can check out some of the drawings from the draw your friends game! Also, here are some examples of pictionary telephone done well and, well, interesting.

Sunday February 11 2007

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on Sun 11th Feb, 2007 08:23 pm UTC Andrew said: first. ************************ on Mon 12th Feb, 2007 02:51 am UTC amanda said: so glad the mozzarella didn't go to waste! loved the singing, wait, screaming snail of the Great Salt Lake. i still cry when i laugh about it. had fun, except for the Take Two introduction/tragedy that almost traumatized me forever. and was that one pic, amanda, erik's ex girlfriend? are you sure? by the way, i hope you sent a digital camera with your mom on her trip! ************************ on Mon 12th Feb, 2007 11:37 pm UTC Amanda said: you read my blog! i've been keeping up with yours... i have been in the city too long. today i imagined myself at adrift with nothing to do but drink asian pear wine. sigh. ************************ on Tue 13th Feb, 2007 02:43 am UTC Baby Max said: I want to see the drawing of Auntie Katy! ************************ on Tue 13th Feb, 2007 03:28 pm UTC Chris said: Hmmmm, I don't know if I approve of the infinity symbol being used in pictionary, it's only a matter of time before you start allowing people to just spell words out. ************************

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Another Successful Game Night

Well, it was another successful game night at the Studer/Schultz household. As always, it was a great mix of people, food, games, laughs, humiliation, and socializing. A big thanks to everyone who made it. As for games, we played some of the tried and true games (take two (pictured), the name game, the portait drawing game (can you name these folks? 1, 2, 3, 4), and the drawing telephone game (whether for good or bad (or worse)). We also tried out a new version of the name game which takes a page from the charades book that was a huge success. Many thanks to the Fates for introducing that one to us. For those of you that missed it this year, you have always have the next one to look forward to. Until then, keep you eyes peeled for any new additions. Now I am going to go play some tiddly winks.

Friday December 29 2006

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on Fri 29th Dec, 2006 10:49 pm UTC Andrew said: Lollypop punchmail squiggly! ************************ on Sun 31st Dec, 2006 06:12 pm UTC nathan said: one more addition to your portraits. ************************ on Sat 06th Jan, 2007 06:42 pm PST wren said: Game idea for next time: Blind Man's Bluff (3rd version: feeling face) ************************

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