Notes for the Needy

The following is an idea I have for a charity. If you would like to assist in its development or comment on how it could be improved, please e-mail me at sleet at ymail.com.
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The Boredom Game

(Created in In-Design, meaning I had to save it as a PDF. Please click the link below to view the file.)
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Embracing Your Inner Statistician

[Disclaimer: I mention a few sites and programs in the course of this article. Rest assured, I'm not trying to advertise any of them, nor do I get any compensation for doing so. They just happen to fit with the subject matter.]

Embracing Your Inner Statistician

9/27/08

Kenneth Burchfiel

 
    
 
    One of man’s great pursuits is to make the daily [...]

The National Typing League

The National Typing League

9/20/08

Kenneth Burchfiel

An Overview of the National Typing League

I: Typing Teams

A: Each team will be made up of no less than five competing typists.

B: Each teammate will be seeded against the other members of that team based on their typing ability.

II: Beginning typing competitions

A: Competitions will be held in a location accepted on [...]

Loathe Flying? Repack.

Loathe flying? Repack.

8/20/08

Kenneth Burchfiel

Sorry, baseball: America’s new national pastime is a game called “Hate air travel.” It starts when you wait in a check-in line for forty minutes and ends when your carrier accidentally sends your bags to Kuwait. The sport can be played at every major city and with any team you wish, [...]

Craft a Movie out of Memories

Craft a Movie out of Memories

8/17/08

Kenneth Burchfiel

(In short: this guide shows you how to take a large, unedited video file, cut it into clips and arrange those clips by category. It’s geared towards those who have plenty of tapes or DVDs of their own filming, but don’t know quite what to do with them.)
To see [...]

Phrazzled

“Phrazzeled”: A game idea

8/12/08

Kenneth Burchfiel

The wonderful thing about the English language is that just about any phrase or expression can have multiple meanings behind it. Some definitions for a phrase might be obvious; others could take a little thinking to arrive at. “Phrazzeled” invites players to try their hand at matching given definitions with a [...]

Postball: A New Sport

Of the three sports that one can find here at Schreiben Depot, this may very well be the simplest of them all. Take a look!
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The Thunderscale

The “Thunderscale”

6/15/08

Kenneth Burchfiel

 
For earthquakes, there’s the Richter scale. Tornadoes, the Fujita scale. Hurricanes? Saffir and Simpson took care of that. To this day, though, there remains no universally accepted scale for measuring the output of thunderstorms. Though the following certainly isn’t scientifically developed, nor is it detailed and researched enough to become a standard, it [...]

How to make your candle hover

[I discovered this trick after a heat wave passed through the Washington area. Come to think of it, that’s probably the only way I would have discovered it.]

The hovering candle
6/9/2008
Kenneth Burchfiel

Ever wondered how you could turn your everyday jar candle into a gravity-defying wonder? (Probably not, but please—don’t stop reading just yet.) Here’s a [...]