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TIL: About Exploding Kittens!

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Image links to Amazon.

Sounds like an awesome game!

 

from the website:

What is this?

This is the card game that made Kickstarter history.

 

Created by Elan Lee (Xbox, ARGs), Matthew Inman (The Oatmeal), and Shane Small (Xbox, Marvel), Exploding Kittens made history when it became the most-backed game in Kickstarter history and the campaign with the most number of backers, ever.

It is a highly-strategic, kitty-powered version of Russian Roulette. Players draw cards until someone draws an exploding kitten, at which point they explode, they are dead, and they are out of the game — unless that player has a defuse card, which can defuse the kitten using things like laser pointers, belly rubs, and catnip sandwiches. All of the other cards in the deck are used to move, mitigate, or avoid the exploding kittens.

 

check it out

http://www.explodingkittens.com/

or head straight to amazon

TIL: How To Rotate Video Recorded on your Smart Phone.

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I recorded my kids learning to ride their bikes sans training wheels. They were very proud of themselves and wanted a video saved to USB for morning talk at school.
The video orientation was great on the phone… But on the PC it was sideways!

Today I learned to fix this problem by using Windows Movie Maker, formerly Windows Live Movie Maker [citation needed].
It is part of the “Essentials” bundle which is not included in windows 7, 8 or 10 but a separate download from Microsoft.com

Download it from here
Windows Movie Maker, from Microsoft.com

 

And some step by steps to help you out.

Click images to embiggen.

 

movie maker step1

movie maker step2

movie maker step3

 

Enjoy!

TIL: About the Princess Bride

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“My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”

I didn’t know where this was from.

I feel really bad about admitting this.

I had a feeling it had something to do with an imminent sword fight, and assumed it was from something like the 3 musketeers.

Anyway I listened to The Princess bride audiobook through the Overdrive app on my android phone. great app by the way.

But it was such a great listen, I’m gonna find a real life paper book copy to read to the kids. And probably watch it on Netflix with them too 😀

TIL: About Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein

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So Today I learned that Frankenstein is not the name of the Monster on which the book Frankenstein is centred, instead, it is the name of the scientist who created him – Victor Frankenstein.
I feel like an idiot for not knowing that, Everyone I’ve spoken to seems to have known this.

I listened to the audiobook through the Overdrive App. It was a great listen, it seemed like every word was finely crafted to fit each sentence.

The version I listened to was read by three voice actors. Anthony Heald, Stefan Rudnicki and Simon Templeman. It was really well done.

My favourite part of the book was probably Victors quotes of the monster’s first-person narrative.

I like this quote about the book.
Many critics have described the novel itself as monstrous, a stitched-together combination of different voices, texts, and tenses.