I was originally too quick to give the show’s creators, Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, credit for the creation of the game, learning recently that it was actually invented by Sam Kass and Karen Bryla.

For a party this year, I designed an expansion pack of cards to mix things up even more. Each card either trumps one of the rules, or restricts the opponent.

Reversals

Restrictions

*If you have one of these cards, you must tell the opponent before initiating play.

Party Game Rules

1. You get five blank challenge cards, and one of the above special cards upon arrival to the party
2. Over the course of the evening, you (the challenger) can challenge another attendee (the defender) to three consecutive games of RPSLS.
• Either player can use a special card to affect play.
3. If the challenger loses two out of three games, they forfeit one of their challenge cards to the defender.
4. If the challenger wins two out of three games, they collect one of the defender’s challenge cards.
5. The challenger and defender swap special cards at the end of the round.

At the end of the evening, each attendee writes their name on the back of all their collected / remaining challenge cards and submits them for the prize draw.

Download the RPSLS Expansion Pack Cards to cut out and play for yourself.

Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock Expansion Pack by Richard Greenwood is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at www.samkass.com.

Hiking trip to Cathedral Park, July 29-31. Audio shoutout to Vampire Weekend, Bugge Wesseltoft, and Willie Bobo.

Additional photos are on Flickr

Shot on le iPhone.

A straight walk down a ramp zig zagged with red beams leads to a passenger ferry that swerves around barges on its way to North Vancouver.

Giant mechanical cranes hunt for fish in the background.

We basically loop some key frames in the curve editor. The looping technique can be adjusted for many other applications.

If your brother’s name in Nick, I made this just for him.

The video is more easily viewed in fullscreen – click the button in the bottom right of the player controls.

Shout out to Warming Glow via Digg. This is great.

In order to improve my elitist computing, I have adopted the Dvorak Keyboard Layout.

I can’t say that my typing speed has increased, but it feels smoother. Actually, the worst part is trying to use QWERTY again, after the conversion: changing an offending layout over to DVORAK isn’t the issue, it’s just embarrassing having to type so slowly in front of others! It’s a real blow to my elitist computing skills. I am always silently preparing my defence against the didn’t-you-learn-to-type accusation, which most people are too polite to issue.

Final Cut Pro 5 (and 6), however, is the one app that has caused me a modicum of irritation. For keyboard shortcuts, most applications simply use your newly re-mapped layout. FCP, however, does not. And although FCP does let you customize your keyboard layout, there are two issues.

1. There are millions of keyboard shortcuts that have to be manually changed.
2. Some keys are permanently assigned.

For example, aside from the missing existence of a preset DVORAK layout, trying moving the ‘copy’ shortcut from the old QWERTY ‘C’ (now DVORAK ‘J’) to its new location and you get this error:

What?! “It cannot be re-assigned”! Can anyone explain why FCP developers would prohibit specific shortcut re-assignments?

Thankfully, Cody over at stolen films found a workaround via TOOLS > BUTTON LIST. Read his comment below.

So for all you DVORAK FCP users out there in my imaginary elitist video editing circle, here is my best attempt at a DVORAK layout that matches key for key (using Cody’s workaround) the old world QWERTY’s, all zipped up:

Default – US Dvorak

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Courtesy of http://xkcd.com/327/ – whatever you do, don’t laugh.

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The Morbid Pathological Killer Test

Courtesy of some international crime profiler spamming session – whatever you do, don’t get the answer.

So a woman meets tall-dark-handsome-man-of-her-dreams at her own mother’s funeral. After realizing that she has fallen madly in love with this man, she also realizes that in the conflicting emotions of the day, she foolishly neglected to follow the basic steps required when meeting tall-dark-handsome-man-of-her-dreams: she doesn’t have any contact information on this guy. And alas, she has no luck tracking him down.

Several days later, she morbidly and pathologically kills her sister.

So the question is: what is this woman’s motive for killing her sister?

Mouse over for the tool tip answer if you dare.

If you answered both of these questions incorrectly, you can assure yourself of your Faceless Morbid SQL Pathological Geek Killer status.