Author Archives: Scott Blomquist

Tonight only: Blues Brothers back on the big screen

Somehow this evening I ended up on Fandango’s web site (I think I was checking to see if The Island was still playing in my area) and I noticed that The Blues Brothers was back on the big screen in celebration of the release of its DVD special edition. The start time for this one-time [...]

We’ll go with this one for today…

http://oos.moxiecode.com/examples/cubeoban/

Save Chasmton’s Beer!

http://www.abc.net.au/gameon/chasm/chasmgame.htm

Puzzle season ends this weekend

Obligatory puzzle/game/thing to keep Shawn from yelling at me: http://www.planarity.net/ I’m headed up to Bellingham tonight with five of my puzzle-solvingest friends for the release party for the 42nd printing of The Mooncurser’s Handbook. Something will "go terribly wrong" either at the party or at the hotel the next morning, and we’ll be off on [...]

Hotmail/Weather integration

A friend of mine sent a party invitation to my Hotmail address, but work is where I keep my master calendar. So I went hunting through my Hotmail calendar to find and forward the invitation to my work address. Unfortunately, I can’t find a way in Hotmail to forward calendar entries. However, I did stumble [...]

Slytherin!

When I was down in Los Angeles for the National Puzzlers’ League convention, I went on the Warner Brothers Studios Tour. In the WB Museum that they took us to at the end of the tour, they had the real live Sorting Hat. He was actually alive and everything. I sat up on a stool, [...]

Microsoft gets a monorail?

http://www.cities21.org/MS.wmv

Amazing a capella performance!

http://video.msn.com/video/p.htm?t=1&i=da274bdc-8f0b-49c1-b0c4-d5b2031f07d6

Today’s puzzle

http://gprime.net/game.php/puzzledsheep

Movie review: A Murder of Crows

Fantastic thriller–almost totally believable, but not so predictable that it feels thin. 4.5/5 stars.