Category — Microblog Mondays

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I have no memory of how I found this site, but it pulls up the most popular page on Wikipedia the day before. It’s interesting to try to figure out why everyone was searching for it. Sometimes it’s easy — it’s the World Cup, and it’s a football player — but other times it feels sort of random. And then strange when you see that 300,000+ people all had the same thought.

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts connected to businesses or sponsored posts.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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Landmarkr has become a new joy because it’s not only a fun game, but it has given me travel ideas. The idea is that you’re given a picture of a landmark, and you need to name the country or city (it tells you which one). If you guess the correct continent but the wrong country, it will tell you that you’re at least in the correct general space. And then it gives you another landmark and another until you guess correctly.

The landmarks get increasingly obvious as you move through guesses. For instance, if the city were Paris, they may show you an obscure statue for your first guess, but by the time you get to your sixth guess, they’re showing you the Eiffel Tower. Landmarks can be buildings or items or natural formations.

Enjoy!

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Last weekend, we were out and about, and I needed something for lunch. I commented that, ideally, we’d run into a grocery store and I would get a yogurt. But as we were walking around, we found a cafe that advertised Greek yogurt parfaits in its window. It was kind of perfect, except that the fruit-to-yogurt ratio was way off. Why didn’t we eat yogurt parfaits at home? Why did we eat boring fruit-flavoured Greek yogurt when we could build gorgeous yogurt concoctions in glass jars?

Our newly-discovered parfait lifestyle lasted for two days. I think I’m just not that fancy. But I’ve been enjoying eating through the rest of the bag of granola.

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I found a game called Birdigo that promised to be a cross between Balatro and birding. Perfect. The problem was that I didn’t really understand how to play, even after watching a tutorial video.

I’m happy to play a game with many moving parts, but I need to wait for the Wolvog to play it first and then explain it to me. I find I really only have fun when someone teaches me a game vs. reading/watching a tutorial. It occurred to me that this should be a profession. Professional game teacher. You tell them the game you want to learn, and they meet up with you and teach you how to play it. That’s worth at least $25 – $50/hour, in my opinion.

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I’ve always thought that I’m decent at guesstimating size. Distances? I’m dreadful. But if you ask me to make a 16 cm x 9 cm square, I can usually get pretty close.

But now I have proof because there is a game (of course there is a game) where you have to try to create a shape and then see how close you are to correct. On my first try, I got 89.34%, which is a B in 501st place. Once I knew how to play the game, on the second try, I got 91.05%, which is an A in 396th place. I’m moving on up.

How do you do?

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