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Heat Forecast for Annual U of Iowa Psychiatry Dept Kickball-Play Cribbage Instead!
OK, a reminder that the University of Iowa Psychiatry Dept. Annual Kickball game is on for this coming Monday, June 29 and the heat forecast from the National Weather Service is for temperatures to be in the 90s with heat indices in the 100s. The announcement about the kickball game is: “What: Psychiatry department annual…
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New Top Ten YouTubes Reblog!
Reblog Time! It’s been a while since I published my Top Ten blog posts in 2019, so here’s the new list. I’ve relisted the top ten from the most views to less views with highest being number 1. Pseudobulbar Affect Top Ten is still the most popular and I think I got the wrong number…
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Thoughts on the Cribbage 29 Hand, Ghosts, UFOs, and Bigfoot
Just so you know, I’m aware of the difference between the 29-hand in cribbage, ghosts, UFOs and extraterrestrials, and Bigfoot and all that. This is an update on my reblog below of my blog post from a year ago, “Thoughts on the Elusive 29 Hand Score in Cribbage.” It’s about how to verify that you…
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What You Need to Know About The Cow Cribbage Curriculum Conspiracy
This is National Dairy Month and the extraterrestrials know all about it. In fact, the one thing Agents Mulder and Scully didn’t know about was the Cow Cribbage Curriculum Conspiracy (CCCC) that has been under way since before the ETs crashed in Roswell, New Mexico. As Deep Throat put it on the X-Files, “They’ve been…
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How Cribbage Tournaments Deal with Slow Players
Remember that cribbage game Sena and I filmed a while ago to show we could finish a cribbage game in 15 minutes if we really tried? Well, we just managed, although truth to tell, our games typically run 20 minutes or so. Well, today I looked at the American Cribbage Congress (ACC) monthly newsletter called…
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Who is Stupider in Cribbage: AI or You?
I read this article today about how more and more students are using ChatGPT or some kind of AI to write term papers. The title gives you a clue what the author’s opinion of it: “AI Chatbots could be making you stupider.” For about the last 3 years I’ve been writing about how AI is…
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9 Card Cribbage Wars Game Highlights
We’ve got a YouTube video of our 9 card cribbage wars game yesterday. I think it took at least half a dozen tries because the counts were so high. We used the skunked.club computer scorer, but it still took 70 minutes to finish the game. The skunked.club scorer helped a lot but it doesn’t work…
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Upcoming 9 Card Cribbage Wars Mashup!
Hey, this is an announcement of our forthcoming marathon 9 card cribbage wars mashup YouTube video. We played 9 card cribbage on our Cribbage Wars board. We made liberal use of the skunked.club computer scoring program, which is why I had the laptop computer on the table. We had a fun, albeit at times confusing…
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Our 1st Game on Our New Cribbage Board
Hey, we played our first game on our brand-new jumbo cribbage board from Michaud Toys in Canada! It looks great! The numbers are easy to see and it seems easier to peg on. We also got two new batteries for our Nikon camera and it supports recording an entire game which keeps us from fretting…
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Let’s Rumble in Cribbage!
Well, by some miracle we got through a Cribbage Rumble game yesterday and we recorded the whole 75-minute event for posterity. We reviewed it several times and it looked pretty good this morning although we were so delirious by the time we finished the marathon, there might be a few bloopers. I also reviewed our…
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