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2009 Winners!, originally uploaded by expired appliances.

I had a blast January 1st. Thanks for coming to the 2009 New Year's Day Board Game Party that Jim and I hosted. Apples to Apples and Tumblin' Dice saw a lot of time on the tables, as did Scrabble. The fridge is still half filled with beer so if you want to get together this week for some evening gaming, let me know.

(click the above photo for a few more shots from the day)

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• Cake Wrecks: When Gangsters Go "PC"
  This is the best Cake Wreck I've seen in months. And you've got to slow play this one. Take your time reading it and don't, whatever you do, scroll to the payoff until you've built up and imagined what this cake might look like.
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• Five banks approved; one says no thanks - BailoutSleuth
  An interesting note about Evans Bancorp Inc., of Hamburg, NY.
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• Hawaii Winter Baseball Teams - West Oahu Canefires
  Seriously, check out the logo for the West Oahu Canefires. It's like Johnny Storm takes up baseball for 6-year olds. I'm all for these sorts of graphics on Saturday morning cartoons but not when I want to cheer on a baseball team. Where has all the class gone, people?
  (tags: baseball minorleaguebaseball hawaiianwinterleague westoahucanefires logos graphicdesign tshirts)
• Baseball America Prospects Blog » Junior Circuit Likely To Shadow AFL
  Here's a bit more info about the Hawaiian Winter League moving to Arizona. Still no reference to the not so stellar logos. And the way professional baseball as appeared and disappeared in our island state makes me think I'll have a chance to see a game or two there at some point in my life.
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• Baseball Prospectus | Unfiltered - Aloha, Hawaii Winter Baseball
  "It certainly makes sense on a cost control level, but it won’t be nearly as cool." - Kevin Goldstein

  The shutting down of professional baseball in Hawaii is pretty disappointing. I flipped through the league website a few times, hoping to find a decent shirt or ballcap to order but never could find a decent logo. Of course, the lack of good logos doesn't seem to be the reason the league is folding and moving that level of play to Arizona.

  
  
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• Baseball Prospectus | Unfiltered - A Great Idea in Dayton: Dragons Reds & Kids
  I had no idea baseball in Dayton, OH was so popular. The idea of the big club taking on the best of the minors sounds fun and just about perfect to get the season going.
  (tags: baseball minorleaguebaseball cincinnatireds daytondragons dayton)

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• watching expired appliances align: 3 to conclude the series
  Had a nice chuckle when this blog entry from 2004 popped up in my feed reader. Honestly, photoshopping your own image into vacation photos is the best way to describe a trip out of town.
  (tags: photography vacations)

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• Superplexus 3D maze back in production/ - Boing Boing
  This looks like a ball. Buy it for your 5 year old today. My niece (almost 4) isn't getting a ball this Christmas. That's sort of a lie. She's getting a modified ball. While at the MoMA Design Store in SoHo I saw a tiny wooden top with multi-color lines around it. The top is less top-shaped and more ball-shopped. Imagine a ball with the top 5th sliced open and replaced with a handle for spinning. It's close enough to be called a ball.
  (tags: holidays shopping toys gifts)

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• I, Cringely . The Pulpit . Insanely Great | PBS
  Columns like this (What if Steve Jobs took over one of the big 3 US car manufacturers) make me think solutions to some of the country's larger problems are not far off. I guess I continue living in a very deluded state.
  (tags: automobiles manufacturing computers economics creativity)
• Book Club Trouble Often Has Little to Do With Books - NYTimes.com
  Have I been completely oblivious to any drama in my book club during the past year? This article even mentions a splinter book club! Maybe I just don't take things seriously enough. I'm happy enough to read whatever, as long as I'm allowed to miss a meeting or two.
  (tags: reading books bookclub)

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• GeekList: Settlers of Catan Goodies | BoardGameGeek
  This list is amazing! Definitely check out all the Catan cupcakes! Can you imagine trying to play Catan using cupcakes as the base? Every game would be like a Japanese monster movie - with me as Godzilla eating half the island!
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