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[austin_dern]

Today is Friday, February 21, unless you are reading this on the wrong day. Go back and re-wind your calendar if this has happened. It is the 52nd day of the year, which is why most people don't think it worth gathering in monstrously huge crowds in Times Square to ring the day in, but that doesn't mean it isn't still a pretty good day if it's your birthday or if you're celebrating the birth of John Rawls or something.

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Everything else about the coming day is over on my humor blog. Other stuff appears over there. Since Our Rabbit's Cold Demands last week the humor blog has also featured:

• Unintentional Laughs, my immature giggling about a Mary Worth and a vintage Flash Gordon comic.
• Cool Comparisons, my discovery of what some really harsh winters were like.
• Mathematics Comics, Over That Way, just pointing over to my mathematics blog and mentioning Working Daze some.
• Everything I Understand About Cribbage, which isn't much.
• Statistics Saturday: Hi, Dad, a weekly statistical posting with special focus on my father.
• An Embarrassing Clarification, about a dream warning from earlier in the week.

Trivia: At the 1928 St Moritz Winter Olympics, Jacob Tullin Thams made a ski jump of a world record 73 meters. His record-setting leap earned him only 28th place, however, as judging was made on distance and style, and Thams lost his balance at the finish line and crashed beyond the slope of the hill's run-out. He spent the rest of the games in hospital. Source: Encyclopedia of the Modern Olympic Movement, Editors John E Findling, Kimberly D Pelle. (Thams would go on to win a silve medal in yachting in the 1936 Summer Olympics.)

Currently Reading: A Splintered History of Wood, Spike Carlsen. It's a fun book, but awfully casually written. I keep finding stuff I know that maybe isn't exactly wrong but I don't agree with the context exactly, and the typos are bugging me even if it's just a couple apostrophe errors.

Comments

[moxie_man]

Everything I Understand About Cribbage

With your background, I'm rather surprised you have a hard time grasping it. But yes, it would be easier to understand in person.

Basically, it's like Fisbin (or however it's spelt--the made-up game Capt. Kirk used in one episode of the original Star Trek). My theory is that it was invented by some really bored people cooped up in a cabin while a blizzard was roaring outside. All they had for entertainment was a bottle of strong booze and a deck of cards and they were nearly out of booze. The rules of the game work, but aren't really logical.

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

It's possible that I just got taught it badly, since liking a game doesn't have much to do with being able to explain it. I did go to Wikipedia for guidance, but that's a terrible, terrible thing to do, because the text gets lost in a swamp of people trying to explain every conceivable variation and fine point rather than laying down the basic objectives and procedures, and giving an outline of how normal play might go, and then laying down what the special cases and variations are.

[mondhasen.livejournal.com]

I love cribbage, and learned the basic game from my grandfather. The rules are straightforward enough, but the whole "his nibs / his nobs" debate can degrade a fun evening into a mucky battle of terms rather quickly... ;o)

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

I'm very glad I don't have to think about the scoring, since the computer does that for me, but it's also a lot of stuff that seems to be interacting in different ways.