Archive for Games
May 23, 2007 at 9:28 am · Filed under Games, Geeky
I play Magic: The Gathering. I’m not very good. The people I play with are very good. I get beaten. A lot. I need to fix this.
We all know that the only way to get better at something is to upload the skill from the Matrix practice, practice, practice. So with that in mind, I’m heading out on Sunday night to a Magic tournament so I can test my skills against some different people and maybe pick up a few hints and tricks. Who knows, I might even win.
With a hectic social calendar small and demanding child to look after, getting nights out is difficult, and these things have a nasty habit of clumping together, so I’m actually missing a rum cake party (a rum party may have been irresistible but rum cake I can handle) and another celebratory event just so I can sit in a room full of guys playing cards. Luckily I have a very understanding wife who happens to have a thing for geekiness.
May 10, 2007 at 10:54 am · Filed under Games
Yes it’s that time again. Find the book, report the catch on bookcrossing and tell us here in a comment. In this picture the red square is where I left the book. Go get it!
May 2, 2007 at 10:15 am · Filed under Family+Friends, Montreal, Pubquiz, Toastmasters
Last night after work I headed over to El Diablo Rojo, a tapas bar on Peel for a very pleasant evening with my fellow Toastmasters. There was free beer and free food and good company, what else could I ask for? The food didn’t seem very tapas-like but it was still good. Who knew beef and bananas would be a good combination? The beer was the non-spanish quebecois favourite Maudite and was stronger than I realized. The company had me discussing gaming, the UK, domain names, Facebook and craigslist and made me totally lose track of time until Jen called at 8:05 to ask why I wasn’t at quiz yet.
I dashed over to Hurley’s to arrive midway through round one of the quiz to join Jen and our other teammates, Marie-Jo and her Scottish beau Jonathan. We didn’t win the quiz but we had fun trying, and everyone now knows I want to have John Cusack’s babies.
March 30, 2007 at 7:37 pm · Filed under Games
Yes it’s that time again. I’ve left a book at the location that this photo was taken at (you can even see the book!). Tell us where it is, and go claim the book!
Don’t forget to register the catch on bookcrossing.com when you have the book.
So where is it?
March 13, 2007 at 8:21 am · Filed under Games, Music
Here are some lyrics for 10 of the songs I listened to on the way to work today. Can you identify them? No Googling!
1: But you all know I tried
So forget about it, girl
My head’s like a kite
When such a creature I sight.
2: I seem to recognize your face
Haunting, familiar, yet I cant seem to place it
Cannot find the candle of thought to light your name
Lifetimes are catching up with me - Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town by Pearl Jam
3: You know I didn’t even know her name
But I was never gonna be the same
What a lady, what a night! - December 1963 by The Four Seasons
4: shes crazy about her daddy
Oh she believes in him
She loves her daddy.
5: Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.
It’s getting hard to be someone but it all works out.
It doesn’t matter much to me. (cover version, bonus points for the artist I listened to) - Strawberry Fields, but by whom??
6: I’d bring her gold and frankincense and myrrh
She thought that I was making fun of her
She made me feel I was fourteen again - Jane by The Barenaked Ladies
7: Life is so boring it’s really got me snoring I’m wearing out the flooring in a cheap motel
But I don’t have to work and I might be sinning but I never have to listen to the rings of school bells
8: I dream of a place that’s hedged with roses
With a man in the middle don’t talk in riddles
You get hung on every single word
Some call it high, some call it low
9: tongue tied and a visceral third degree
feel warm center of gravity
wash us all away
body never lies
10: Xylla was an archetype,
the voodoo queen the queen of rap.
Joan thought men were second best
to masturbating in the bath. - 88 Lines about 44 Women - but by whom?
March 9, 2007 at 11:45 am · Filed under Games
Update: The book has gone, but here’s the photo in case you still want to tell me where it is:
It’s time for another Montreal Scavenger Hunt. Sadly the battery died on my camera so I didn’t get a photo of the location, I’ll try to add one later. I left a book behind a small statue of an old lady standing beside a horse. The statue is outside a store somewhere in the area encompassed by Sherbrooke St to the north, de Maisonneuve to the south, Peel to the east and Atwater to the west.
Find the location, grab the book, come back here and leave a comment telling us where it was. And remember to go to bookcrossing.com to register the catch!
March 6, 2007 at 11:12 am · Filed under Montreal, Pubquiz
It’s the first Tuesday of the month, which means it’s Quiz Night at Hurley’s Irish Pub.
Every month we have someone different hosting the quiz, and tonight that someone is me! I have eight categories of challenging trivia for you to enjoy with your beer and bar snacks.
Here’s a sneak peek at my categories:
- S is for Science
- M is for Music
- G is for Geography
- F is for Film
- H is for History (I can hear the groans already)
- L is for Literature
- T is for TV
- The Mystery Category
I will also be setting a challenge at the start of the quiz, to be completed by the end of the quiz.
So come join us tonight at 8pm, upstairs at Hurley’s on Crescent below St Catherine. Don’t worry if you don’t have a team, we can always find a team for you to join.
February 19, 2007 at 9:45 am · Filed under Games
You know the rules by now. Find where this photo was taken, grab the free book, come back here and tell us where it was, go to bookcrossing.com and register the catch.
So where is it (click to enbiggen)?
February 7, 2007 at 9:30 am · Filed under Games
UPDATE 3: The book is gone! And so, interestingly enough, is the tree… It was outside the restaurant on the corner of Sherbrooke and University, next to the Canadian institution Tim Hortons.
UPDATE 2: The book is still there, so it’s time for another clue. The tree is at the entrance to an independant restaurant, next door to a Canadian institution.
UPDATE: The book is still there this morning. Maybe you need an extra clue: The tree is at the bottom of a small flight of steps off the street close to a major intersection.
It’s been a while, but the Montreal Scavenger Hunt is back. Identify the location of the photo below, go there and claim the book I’ve hidden there. Tell us all about it in a comment, and register the catch at BookCrossing.com.
I was feeling festive for some reason, so the book is hidden under this tree. The tree is outside, but only just. It is somewhere between McGill Campus to the north, de Maisonneuve to the south, McGill College to the west and Parc (yes, it’s still Parc) to the east. So where is it?
(Click to enbiggen)
December 23, 2006 at 11:04 am · Filed under Games
Day 1: The Bay - de Maisonneuve side
Day 2: Crescent, outside a chocolate shop
Day 3: Burnside Hall, McGill Campus
Day 4: The back of the Screaming Eagle boot store on St Laurent
Day 5: Place Montreal Trust, first floor, outside Omer De Serres.
December 22, 2006 at 12:59 pm · Filed under Games
For the last scavenger hunt of 2006 I went indoors, and I went Xmassy.
Identify the location of this photo and let us know in a comment. To find the book I left nearby, walk north (well, Montreal north) from the spot this photo was taken from until you come to a small chair on it’s own overlooking the floor below. In front of the chair is some festiveness. The book is under the festiveness.
I’ll post all of the week’s locations tomorrow.
December 21, 2006 at 1:07 pm · Filed under Games
The week of scavenger hunting continues. Today I have two photos for you. The book has been left behind a metal plate against the wall between the two buildings shown.
Identify the location and tell us about it in a comment. And if you find the book, don’t forget to register the catch at bookcrossing.com.
This one should give you a big clue:
And this one probably won’t:
December 20, 2006 at 8:31 am · Filed under Games
It’s all scavenger hunting all week long. Identify the location of the photo below. Tell us about it in a comment. Go get the book I left there (you can even see the book in the photo today!)
December 19, 2006 at 10:44 am · Filed under Games
I left home this morning, got on the train, then realised I’d forgotten to put a book in my bag. Luckily I had a bag of random goodies in my bag instead which I’ve left at the location below.
Identify the location, tell us all about it in a comment, go there and look under the first of the steps to the left of the Totem for the bag of goodies.
This photo was taken east of Guy, south of Sherbrooke, north of St Catherine and west of Peel.
December 18, 2006 at 1:06 pm · Filed under WTF?
I’ve decided to have a week full of scavenger hunts leading up to xmas, so this is the first. Identify the location of the photo below, go there, retrieve the book from the xmas tree under the wreath. Leave a comment here to tell everyone where it is.
There is one slight problem. The big black pot that the xmas tree is sitting in is more hollow than I expected it to be, and the book fell in. You may need very long arms or a small act of vandalism to retrieve the book.
So, where is this?
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