!! Car Games !! Car Games !!

Okay I've been meaning to post this one for a while now. I've been doing a fair it of driving in the last 6months to a year. Most importantly (I expect), I've had company. There fore car games!! car games!!

The first one, I kind of did at the start by my self, but with someone else to do it with the process gets so much more formalised.

Game One: The TLA game
This game is an I.T. geek game. :-D. The main part of the game is to come across car and recognise Three Letter Acronyms in the license plate number. Having said that, the game kind of .. expanded. The easiest thing to do is to show you how to score.

Scoring
There are two scoring planes, the real plane and the imaginary plane... You can get 1-5 points in wach plane.

Scoring in the Real Plane

1. A non-I.T. related acronym is a single point (like VCR)


2. A non-I.T. related word is worth 2 points (like PEN, TOO, CAT, BAT, RAT)


3. An I.T. related acronym is worth 3 points (i.e. PPP - Point to Point Protocol)


4. An I.T. related word is 4 point (TUX, FAN, ALT are all fine)


5. A car with the Letters 'TLA' (being the name of the game scores 5 real points)
   

Scoring in the Imaginary Plane

1. An acronym spelt backwards is 1 point


2. A word spelt backwards is 2 points


3. An I.T. abreviation like CTL or TAB or INT (control, tabulate, interrupt) is 3 imaginary points


4. A -- I've forgotten i'll get back to ya


5. The Letters 'TLA' backwards (ALT) can either be 5 imaginary points, or 4 real points (being the I.T. word ALT)

Game Two: The Vowel game
This game is not in the geek only realm as the first was. So naturally I suck at it. This game is scored by inserting vowels in to a license plate that you come across to make words, or common phases that everyone else in the car agrees with is a common phrase.
You can insert consanants as well but at the cose of 1 point per consanant.

Scoring

Each vowel that you have to introduce in to the license plate number is 1 point

Each consanant that you have to introduce in to the license plate number is -1 point

Existing letters in the numer plate are not scored

Thats it My car games blog !!

Cheat is the Ladybug of Knowledge Base programs

Cheat
It was one of the things I wanted to do by the time I was 30. I started 1^1/2 weeks after I turned 30, close enugh as far as I'm concerned, I was more worried that it would nerver happen and it did. Tell me you say? The suspense is killing me you say? Well. . . . I started my first sourceforge project!!! Oo yeah!
I'm going to skip the conversation (albeit more a speech, passage or ravings if you will) about whether or not this is really exciting. I can create a usefull thing people find out about it start using it and I just gave them a free present. I like that, I've used enough free software, I'd like to be part of the overall thing not just the receiving end. (Okay maybe I wont skip it)

I could have contributed to an existing proect etc. etc. etc. but a friend at work came to me, wanting to install a cost free knowledge base program and he'd not found anything that was really impressive (or particuarly easy to install either, grrr). I did some more searching for these things and found more programs but only one was in the realm of flexible and feature full. So since I was past my dead line and really, I don't think it'll be the hardest thing out there to write, I made the call. That night registered the project to sorceforge.

CHEAT stands for Comprehensive Heirarchical Environment for Answering Things. I've created the prototype database, I've done a very quick and nasty home page, and now I'm painfully trying to sortout how to drive CVS. I've always avioded CVS as my attempts to understand it have always been feeble. I managed to upload things to it but unfortunately I uploaded the parent directory rather than the directory I really wanted up there. one day I'll write some code :-)