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Attention


Some loose ends I wanted to post about.

First Congrats to Stephan for getting engaged! He even beat McGowan.

Second, a group of us are playing Ultimate on Saturday (24th) morning at the intermural fields on the corner of university and university, please come and bring any friends you can. We are meeting at 9:45AM and starting to play at 10.

Third, Don’t miss game SEVEN of the stanley cup finals tonight at 8pm eastern on NBC. Winner takes the cup, and to be honest the Hurricanes really need to turn around their gameplay if they are going to win.

Fourth, there are some new pictures in the random album on the mcphotos page.

Fifth, Ryan and Aubrey had their baby, Rhett, on Cotton’s bday! Yeah Aubrey endured 12 hours at the hospital in labor. Read the whole story.

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McBalderdash Personal

McBalderdash score


The results are in. Everyone did so wonderful with this word. I especially liked the canadian ones. Mainly b/c Canadians are fun to hit around, but secondly b/c a candian team is draging out the stanely cup finals. Also for that reason no Canadian is going to win this Balderdash. But instead Cotton wins it for giving me the mental image of Batman throwing a batarang at the Oilers goalie… well he didn’t really say that, but he mentioned a fat ugly canadian, so…. anyway here is the score break down that doesn’t really matter.
Ryan:300,000 points for slapping canadians, but minus 200,000 for not having an avatar. Brad: 17 points for trying to squeeze out pity. Cotton :1 Million points for the imagery you created in my brain. Steph:700,000 for making me think of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on a day other than Sat morning. Tmom: Lots of points for trying to use something from history, but you lost them all b/c you don’t have an avatar. Rachel:-200 points for not having the huge punch in the face be to a canadian. Joy:900,000 points for using your definition in a sentence.

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Personal

HAPPY FATHERS DAY!


HAPPY FATHERS DAY DADS! Our dad’s have done a lot to help us out this year and the rest of our lives. Take time this week to honor your dad, they are good guys. Chase you should buy your dad an HD TV… he’d like that. Thanks for always being there dads. We love you, and we hope Chase’s handprints were somewhat recognizable. He’ll prob do a lot better next year 🙂

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Personal

HAPPY BIRTHDAY COTTON!


Cotton grew older today, along with the rest of the world… but he gets to say he’s a whole number older. And yes, I forgot that today was the 16th, but I remembered that Cotton’s birthday was coming up this month… so thank you mom for reminding me that today is the 16th. And happy birthday Cotton.

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McBalderdash

McBalderdash


WORD = SPLACKNUCK
Balderdash rules (for those who’ve never played): “The main objective is to make up answers that will bluff or entertain other players, as well as for choosing the real and often unbelievable answer getting the most made up points. ONE answer per person. Save discussions for the scoring post.

WORDS- What is the definition?

PEOPLE – What is the person known for?

INITIALS- What do they stand for?

MOVIES- What is this movie about?

DATES- What happend on this day?”

P.S. That was the worst defensive pass I’ve ever seen! Carolina in 6!!

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McBlog

McAvatars!!

Update on the avatar situation. After considering the responses, we have installed the avatar system. HOW TO GET AN AVATAR: Step 1: make at least 2 comments using the same email. Step 2: After you make the comment, click the link below the comment box that says “As a frequent comment author you are allowed to register your own avatar.” Step 3: Choose an avatar. DONE. IF you want to pick an avatar you made, you need to email it to me and I will add it to the choices. Good luck, let me know if that is confusing.

Instructions on how to make your own avatar with the avatar maker: Pick your options, when you get it the way you want it you need to capture your screen. On the PC hit the print screen key on your keyboard, open a photo editor/email editor and paste your screen shot. Send it to me. On a mac hit shift-open apple-3 to capture the screen, a .jpg will show up on your desktop, email me that file.

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McBlog

To avatar or not

I’m still playing with the idea of having avatars for the site. First, for those with no idea what I’m talking about, an avatar is an 80px x 80px (or anysize) picture that appears next to your name when posting, or commenting (an example). I’ve found a cool plugin that allows for each comment to be assigned an avatar set by us, then when the person commenting makes a certain number of comments they can pick their own avatar, and that picture stays with all of your comments thereafter, each person having their own. The concerns I have are, ONE: too many pictures on the blog. We’ve had some posts with 40 plus comments, if a small picture was on each of those.. sheesh. TWO: I can’t seem to motivate the dozens of readers of McBlog who don’t comment, to comment.. so I’m scared if avatars were displayed it would scare away anyone on the verge of commenting to never comment…Aunt Melissa! On the flip side, I think it would be fun to have them.. and that’s about it, b/c they don’t serve any purpose beisdes fun, oh and it might get a few more people to register…?

So I want to hear from you, the faithful readers of McBlog, what would having a small picture next to your name as your id badge do/or not do for you? Increase/Decrease Comments? Scare/Entertain?

P.S. Check out this avatar maker to see some of the options you will have if we do avatars.

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Personal

Symbolism of Color

There is one boy in our class who picks a favorite topic and talks about it for two months till he moves onto the next thing. These days it’s pirates. During our lesson today, we taught about the words of Jesus being a treasure map that leads back to Heaven. Of course Ben (the pirate kid, whose name may or may not have ben changed to protect the innocent) was very interested as soon as he heard the word treasure. During the coloring part of the class, Ben was coloring his tresure chest and explained to me why he picked the colors he did: “brown is for treasure chest, black is for evil, and red is for bloodyyyyyyyy!” And yes, he did hold out the -ie- sound of bloody. It was funny.

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Chase

Requests

We like to fill requests, so here is a video trying to capture the elusive Chase making noise, quicktime 2.5MB

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T.V. Thoughts from Ty

Lost. Not just a Show


Even while showing re-runs the show Lost on ABC continues to amaze me. As i mentioned before, about once every show (recently) a commercial has come on for the “hanso foundation” talking about improving the human race or something, then at the end, it has a different thing every time. Once it was a phone number (1-877-hansorg[still working]) or websites (www.hansorg.com (no longer working) and www.hansocareers.com) Last night as i was watching a previous episode from the season that I hadn’t seen yet, the commercial came on, and at the end gave a new website. www.retrieversoftruth.com I went to it last night and although doesnt tell me much, its fun to watch each week and go to the “secret website” sometimes websites like www.hansorg.com while it was still functioning gave many clues. Sometimes the websites like retrivers of truth leave you with questions. I just found it interesting that a show can provide you with entertainment during the show, and afterwards.

P.S. Dont forget a chase update below this vv