The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

If anyone out there, like me, loves word games (Boggle in particular) and has had issues with Zynga's Scramble With Friends, I'd give Ruzzle a gander. It's very similar to Scramble With Friends, in that it's just like the game Boggle. Unlike Scramble With Friends, however, which allows players to use power-ups and gives the option of paying money for an extra minute of time in a round, Ruzzle doesn't offer such things. This is a good thing in my mind, because it seemed kind of unfair for some players to use a different number of power-ups than their opponents - especially if they doled out money for an extra minute's time in a round. In Ruzzle, it's comprised of three two-minute rounds, where two opponents, void of power-ups, attempt to find the most words on the grid. Anyway, as long time readers of mine will know - I love word games - so, given the issues I've reported playing Scramble With Friends, I thought I'd pass this word around. If you ha...

This poem can be found on pages 121-122 of "Seasons Come, People Grow: A Poetic Journey". Held by the strings, Never in place, Our head and arms dangling, At their mercy, Guided on the stage, Directed where to go, How to act, What to wear, With each repetition, Performance becomes easier, Practice pays dividends, To a sense of mastery, Held by the strings, Just a puppet in life, How it's time to break free, To find my own path, The strings have broken, My head looking forward, The door is wide open, The master in control.

E-Cards used to be free all over the place. What happened? They used to be funny as well. Again, what happened? Hallmark is one of the only sites that allows one to send a free E-Card to another anymore. I can't even go to Hallmark.com anymore. The cards are lame. I'd have better luck going to a random store and buying a card. Anymore, they're (the cards) free for a reason. They're not worth squat. There's a Mother's Day card available on Hallmark.com where these two little critters say "Thanks a million mom" and they go on saying thank you a million times. I kid you not. They run their mouths off saying thank you 1,000,000 times and there's a tally board up above the two guys that keeps track of where they're at. I made it to 15,000 before I finally said heck with it. It goes to a million. Whoop-de-doo. It has to be the longest interactive E-Card in recorded history. Thank God there are a few free AOL greeting cards available. I found one ...