aliantha wrote:It's a Scrabble-like game on Facebook. Altho I guess you can get it for other platforms, too, because it's the game Alec Baldwin was playing on his phone when he got kicked off that flight awhile back.
To be clear, it was a close game. I only beat Orlion by a few points.
But it shouldn't have happened! I was so far ahead! That'd be like some colonial riff-raff defeating the mighty British Empire!
So you're saying you would be the riff-raff?
EZ Board Survivor
"Dreaming isn't good for you unless you do the things it tells you to." -- Three Dog Night (via the GI)
"The Cheat is GROUNDED! We had that lightswitch installed for you so you could turn the lights on and off, not so you could throw lightswitch raves!"
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- I'm always all right.
- Is all right special Time Lord code for really not all right at all?
- You're all irresponsible fools!
- The Doctor: But we're very experienced irresponsible fools.
I friended a person a couple of weeks ago, an acquaintance. She posts up descriptions of what seems to be every poor shelter dog in New York and Chicago, mostly pit bulls, about to be put down.
Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.
admittedly I do _like_ the idea of taking something like FB and choosing the times you'll break the rules, or "the way things are done"... using the system, the medium to serve your ends...
that said, I'm sure we could all use competence... when most everyone is likely to just lose interest... yeah, that doesn't serve our ends in the long-run.
"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
I'm still debating deleting my Facebook account. I never use it, and just this week it's suddenly started spamming my email with notifications (even after I turned them off). But on the other hand I think about how it's the only real avenue I have should I choose to try to get back in touch with my friends from school and uni. I haven't kept in touch at all the last few years (I'm bad at that), but I'm not sure I want to totally cut off that route.
