I just finished my fourth game of Quadradius. The basic premise seems to be “checkers with power-ups” (though that’s slightly misleading). Sounds kind of dumb, right? I thought so too, but after struggling through a couple games, reading the tips, and watching the video instructions, I changed my mind; if you give it a chance it can be extremely fun. Guests can play games just fine as much as they like, but members get a few perks: Access to new power-ups, scoreboard placement, and a ranking system (which creates a disincentive for people to leave games or resign early). Lifetime membership is only $14.95 — I might get one if I still enjoy the it after a couple dozen more rounds.

It occurred to me that this game would be pretty cool as a real life board game. A few things wouldn’t translate well (the Snake Tunnelling ability, for example), but with a few tweaks it could work. Three- and four-player versions would be interesting.

I heard a really catchy song on NPR today. All I could remember was that it was a cover of a song from The Godfather and it was by some jazz/blues/soul guy. After a little googling, I found the title and artist: Love Theme from The Godfather by Chuck Brown. And OiNK, serendipitously enough, had the track’s album in FLAC format. Good thing µTorrent lets you download only parts of torrents — FLACs are huge. (Why does anyone need lossless audio anyway? Can anyone really hear the imperfections in 320 kbps MP3s?)

I started reading Chuck Palahniuk’s Rant last night. Really liking it so far. The “oral biography” style is a little rougher to read through, but I assume he used it for a good reason. I don’t quite see the (non-obvious) significance of the day/night icons yet.

I got a new high score in Wii Sports bowling this afternoon. Check it out:

Oh yeah, and here’s that ghetto circuit board I mentioned (the one Jake and I made for the X-ray machine a couple weeks ago):

I still can’t believe it worked.

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