Saturday Anita had to work, but Phil, Sarah, Jess, and Phil’s friend Tom came over and played Mao 1. It’s a great game – and surprisingly effective at bringing about a represive dictatorial feel in the players (who thought that could be so much fun?).
We played a variant where after winning 3 rounds you could make up your own rule… my personal favorite was (my rule): you have to use rapper hands whenever you call penalty on someone.
Sunday and Monday we went camping at Jess’s Aunt property in the Hocking Hills area of OH. They have 70 acres of undeveloped into fantastic sandstone (mostly) cliff and rock formations, hilly and thick with forrest. It was really only psuedo camping (I couldn’t even get the fire going without combustables due to dampness) but it was still gorgeous and great to get outdoors.
interesting: Some M$ people seem to be a bit touchy about Google
Mr. Ballmer picked up a chair and threw it across the room hitting a table in his office. Mr. Ballmer then said: “Fucking Eric Schmidt is a fucking pussy. I’m going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I’m going to fucking kill Google.”….