Sometimes the universe smiles upon you...

My brother sent this to me. At first I thought it was taken by him at our local movie theater, but then I noticed the German writing on the posters. Probably indicates that the photo is more Berlin than Bronx-based, but a treasure nonetheless.

More word warping

Clearly they were just taunting me because of my losing streak. I started a new game and the word was already there. Unwarped. Jerks.

Because Dame Maggie Smith is my own personal brand of heroine.

You know you've got sleep issues when you use Excel to count sheep

Well, this will help certainly help me rest easy...

http://jezebel.com/5886667/sleeplessness-will-make-your-brain-explode

So, how've you been?

Haven't posted in a while. Yes, I know the purpose of a blog is to actually post and share interesting thoughts with potential readers. Not posting on a blog is like having a computer you never use to do anything, like word processing, listening to music, or dare I say, posting on a blog. But blogs don't exist in the real tangible world, so you can't even say, hang your sweater up on the monitor or have a pile of mail, a book, and the second season of Justified balanced precariously on the hard drive as you could an otherwise-useless computer. So there's even less of a point to having a blog to which you never post. Just sayin'.

I'm trying to motivate myself to post more, and I think I found said motivation. The game Word Warp, which I play on my phone pretty much constantly when underground on the subway, has been a source of amusement for me for about a year and a half now. It's basically a word scramble game where you get 6 letters and have to beat the clock to make as many words as possible, but you can only advance to the next round if you get at least one of the possible 6 letter words. In my desperation to beat the clock, however, sometimes I end up making words that don't really exist, but potentially should.

So I've started screen-capturing the best fake words/ accidental portmanteaus / actual words that stupid word-warp doesn't recognize and want to share them with all three of you who follow this blog.

It did not accept Legos. What the hell? (Apparently proper nouns and names don't count. Whatever, Word Warp.)

A Snuggly that can also rally the troops to battle. Or morning physical training.

You mean to tell me that Word Warp doesn't acknowledge the existence of coke-addled rock and roll clowns?

Of course none of this compares to the near-total breakdown I had circa 125th street on the 6 when I had reached my high score of over 34,000 points and couldn't get the 6 letter word "Adorns" for the win (I was too dejected to capture the image). My thumbs flew feverishly, as I practically screamed aloud "Whaddya mean it isn't SNOARD?!?!?! That's totally a word!"

I mean, clearly it's a board you use to hit someone who has awoken you from your slumber by snoring too loudly.

How long could YOU survive?

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