The Boston Diaries

The ongoing saga of a programmer who doesn't live in Boston, nor does he even like Boston, but yet named his weblog/journal “The Boston Diaries.”

Go figure.

Thursday, February 20, 2003

A parking spot for my Kit Porsche

From: <cars@dubster.com>
To: <sean@conman.org>
Subject: parking spot entry
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 21:18:50 -0500

Hi sean

I found your site via http://blogdex.media.mit.edu looks like you had problems sending a picture in. please send it again. don't worry about the depth of field.

sincerely Dubi Kaufmann

Wow. This I didn't expect at all, but I guess memes now travel fast in this Internet-enabled age of ours. So I resubmitted my entry and this morning received the following:

From: <cars@dubster.com>
To: Sean “Captain Napalm” Conner <sean@conman.org>
Subject: Re: A picture of my Porsche
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 10:05:01 -0500

Hello Sean
you are in!
check it out at
http://www.dubster.com/cars/index.asp?id=100
thank you for taking part in parking spots.
Sincerely Dubi Kaufmann

Neat!


1000 Blank White Cards

Spring, Gregory and I played our very first game of 1000 Blank White Cards today. I've been interested in the game for quite some time, but it wasn't until Spring found a reference to the game and bought a box of 1000 blank white cards that we got a chance to try out this game.

I suspect that not only is this the first deck in South Florida, but the first deck to actually use official 1000 Blank White Cards, at a very narrow dimension of 3½″×1½″.

[Surf ARKANSAS / +100 points (GP)] [This is the title / your arms are wavy +200 (SLS)] [STEAL THIS CARD / +100 FOR PLAYING CARD / +200 FOR STEALING FROM DISCARD PILE (SPC)]

There are no real “official” rules to 1000 Blank White Cards (1KBWC); in fact, Spring and I have found three different sets of rules, so we adapted what we liked, and discarded what we didn't like. We played by the following rules (more or less):

The game is actually fun, despite how it might sound in the rules presented above. And now I need to scan cards and create webpages for the “Blank Cards—1000-Count Deck” (although naming it the “Surf Arkansas Deck” is appealing to me … )

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