Logic Games are addictive!

Everett Kaser writes Logic Games. His website is www.Kaser.com and he has a CD full of WONDERFUL games! Log onto his website and download all of the trial games he has posted and try them out if you enjoy Logic type games.

My thoughts on his new game that is in Beta right now:

I'm going to forget I know you, Everett! Making such addictive fun.

I said the heck with it and read a "little" bit of the help file. That slowed me down, but makes it easier to play the game, dragging the different colors around and making them fit when you see how they go.

FOUR HOURS AND TWENTY MINUTES to play 8A twice. I am going to hide the CD and hide the programs on the computers and try to forget how you make such addictive FUN and turning it lose on the idiots like me who get hooked by the pretty colors and the thrill of making the logic sells (oops, that's for you, for me it is cells) work.

Flipitile wasn't for me...this one, ah, I think I will probably have to purchase KH, excellent time taker, excellent... EXCELLENT.

And put the following link to his website on my www.KenChevy.com website:

Logic and Puzzle games for PC's

Everett's reply:

"Looks like a good link, thanks, Ken!"

Well, Everett, I've been playing your games since 1997 (Sherlock was the "hook" that got me started at a friends house there in Albany), and must say, I don't even want to know how many thousands of hours I have enjoyed them. Lifes pleasures don't need to be kept track of, they just need to be enjoyed.

You're doing good, young boy, you're doing good. It is good clean fun, and anything like your games that tax the mind is GOOD for a person. My kids (the poor little babies, still wet behind the ears) haven't ever seemed to enjoy logic type puzzles. I enjoyed figuring things out when I was a kid (still am, a kid that is!) growing up in the 50s and 60s. The boy who comes around the most, the oldest one who will be 40 in a couple months, is the one I talk to about lots of things. He seems to really be lacking in the common sense department sometimes. What else would be the reason he would watch TV instead of playing one of Everett's Logic Games?
I think, from what I see, IQ isn't as important as common sense in getting by in the world and figuring out logic type puzzles such as yours and Kris'. Common sense doesn't seem to be very common anymore. :( Kris Pixton, a fellow follower of Everett's games, also writes Logic Puzzles. You can find her games on her website at http://www.kpixgames.com/ Kris has free trials of her games too.



Both write wonderful time taking logic games. Click the links, enjoy life!

I am looking for another employee and I think one of my requirements should probably be the fact they enjoy playing logic type games. My oldest employee freaks when a customer brings something in all tore apart that they want fixed and put back together. All it takes is a mind that enjoys logic. Go/no go, such a simple rule.

KH is a simple game (that's why I hear the error sound so much!) that draws me into going faster and faster, thus the errors.(yeah, yeah, yeah, excuses, excuses! LOGIC tells me going too fast makes me have errors, somehow, I just don't listen) And playing hour after hour...as the bookwork doesn't get done. I have to find someone to do some filing for me, a few hundred hours worth, ALL because of YOUR games, Everett!!! that is hasn't been done yet. Bought another file cabinet at Costco and it was delivered today, so I have to put your games aside for a little while and find someone who can use some money more than I want to save the money by doing the filing myself.

See how dangerous your games are, Everett? Need a different bumper sticker than the EAT/FISH/SLEEP. Need a new one that says: EAT/PLAY E-K GAMES/TRY TO GET A FEW MINUTES SLEEP ONCE IN A WHILE.

Good, writing this has kept me away from KH for 10 minutes and now I have to FORCE myself to go to the other end of the house, stopping at the kitchen to get something to eat for dinner and then on into the office to work on the books some more... before I ever think about playing KH again tonight.

I can't be remembering I have it on the computers that are in the office too... no, no, no, Ken. Work, work, work for a while, play later. :)

Thanks for a great game, Everett!

Ken

Lost over $200,000.00 in wages in 19 years of work.

I just love these types of stories. Underpaid over $200,000.00 in 19 years of work. Let's do the math.
One million dollars in 19 years is $52,631.58 every year.
So her wages were only (on an average) $42,105.26 for every one of those 19 years.

Why don't they write articles about MOST of the working people who only make $20-$25,000.00 a year?

Now what is going to happen is fewer women will get management positions since the companies are going to be paying what they could hire a man for, they will hire a man for the job.

Hummm, I wonder how even the pay is in women owned companies right now? That would be an interesting datum! Wonder how many multimillion dollar companies owned by women have equal pay for equal work right now?
Anybody comment?

Obama signs bill making equal-pay lawsuits easier
By PHILIP ELLIOTT, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama signed an equal-pay bill into law Thursday before cheering labor and women leaders who fought hard for it and the woman whose history-making lawsuit gave impetus to the cause.

Obama, choosing the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act as the first bill to sign as president, called it a "wonderful day" and declared that ending pay disparities between men and woman an issue not just for women, but for all workers.

With Ledbetter standing by his side, Obama said she lost more than $200,000 in salary, and even more in pension and Social Security benefits that she "still feels today." He then signed the measure that effectively nullifies a 2007 Supreme Court decision and makes it easier for workers to sue for discrimination by allowing them more time to do so.

"Making our economy work means making sure it works for everyone," Obama said. "That there are no second-class citizens in our workplaces, and that it's not just unfair and illegal — but bad for business — to pay someone less because of their gender, age, race, ethnicity, religion or disability."

Ledbetter said she didn't become aware of the large discrepancy in her pay until she neared the end of her 19-year career at a Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. plant in Gadsden, Ala, and she filed a lawsuit. But the high court held in a 5-4 decision that she missed her chance to bring the action.

First lady Michelle Obama, in a separate reception with Ledbetter in the State Dining Room, praised her courage and principles. "She knew unfairness when she saw it, and was willing to do something about it because it was the right thing to do — plain and simple," Mrs. Obama said.

Ledbetter said the richest reward is that because of the new law, the nation's daughters and granddaughters will have a better deal.

"That's what makes this fight worth fighting," Ledbetter said. "That's what made this fight one we had to win."

Earlier, the president appeared in a jammed East Room, and his entrance and many lines of his brief remarks were met with happy applause and yells.

He paid special tribute to Ledbetter, who fought for the bill even though it won't allow her to recover any money for herself.

And in the room were the living symbols of this fight: Nancy Pelosi, first woman speaker of the House, and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who took her pursuit of the presidency further than any other woman, even though she ultimately lost to Obama in the Democratic primary.

Of Ledbetter, Obama exclaimed: "This grandmother from Alabama kept on fighting, because she was thinking about the next generation."

Ledbetter became a regular feature in Obama's campaign for the White House, addressing the Democratic National Convention in Denver last year and traveling to Washington aboard Obama's train for the inauguration ceremonies. Obama spoke strongly in support of legislation to change the Supreme Court decision during his campaign and the Democratic-controlled Congress moved it to the top of the agenda for the new session that opened this month.

The high court said a person must file a claim of discrimination within 180 days of a company's initial decision to pay a worker less than it pays another worker doing the same job. Under the new bill, given final passage in Congress this week, every new discriminatory paycheck would extend the statute of limitations for another 180 days.

Congress attempted to update the law to extend the time, but the Bush White House and Senate Republicans blocked the legislation in the last session of Congress

Obama cited Census Bureau figures that women still receive only about 78 cents for every dollar that men get for doing equivalent jobs — "women of color even less," he said.

The measure, which amends the 1964 Civil Rights Act, also applies to discrimination based on factors such as race, religion, national origin, disability or age.

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Every once in a while I will fill in one of those "save billions of dollars by buying car insurance from us" places.

WOW, $539.30 for 6 months of coverage. I think I will stick with State Farm. For the SAME amount of coverage State Farm charges me $405.90... for the WHOLE year. That's right: $202.95 for SIX months.
$100,000/300,000
$100 deductible Comprehensive
$500 deductible Collision
2002 S-10 4x4 Extended cab - loaded.

One time I called Costco since they are always saying how much I can save. I talked to a woman there and we discussed it and she said with all of the discounts and the very best driving record and everything, that the best she could do was within a dollar of so of what I am paying now.

So, the question is: Why are people paying so much for car insurance that they can save HUNDREDS of dollars by switching to one of these other companies?

Don't you feel bad, paying 2 or 3 times what you should be able to get insurance for? Ah, maybe you are just rich and don't care. That must be it.




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What in the world is the problem with people and the word "bring"? Why so much misuse of it? Example:
A worker brings carts back into a Walmart store in Westminster, Colorado in this August 14, 2008 file photograph. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)

We can see the employee is NOT in the store, that he is TAKING the carts back to the store. Are people really so stupid they don't know the difference between "bring" and "take"?
"Bring" things TO ME.
"Take" things TO SOMEWHERE ELSE.

Go and take go together.
Come and bring go together.

If we are at home, talking about you going to the store, a correct conversation would be:

Honey, TAKE the car to Wal-Mart and remember to TAKE enough money. BRING me back some Fugi apples if they are on sale. TAKE some to Sally too, if you drive by her house on the way home. Suzi said she wanted us to BRING her some cat food the next time we went to the store, so don't forget to TAKE some cat food to her.

The bank wanted us to BRING in our copy of the contract for the car, so don't forget to TAKE that with you too.

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Looking at photos I see one of the inhaler I had just bought at my local Bi-Mart pharmacy in Salem here. But I paid $19.00 using my insurance. And I see:

Environmentally-friendly HFA asthma rescue inhalers hit shelves this week to replace CFC-based inhalers, which will not be available after Dec. 31 per an FDA mandate. Walmart's HFA rescue inhalers start at $9.

(PRNewsFoto/Wal-Mart Stores, Inc)

I will have to check that out. Always someway us poor people are paying too much, it seems. I don't know if the box he is holding is the $9 one or not. It IS showing a box like the one I bought for $19. I'll have to TAKE that up with them the next time I go to the pharmacy, can't forget to BRING it to their attention.

Recession time...

And I am ready for it to be over and done with. I never got a paycheck last month. In fact, all the bills still aren't posted and I was <$884> in the negative. :( And I've been wheezing like a steam engine... need to start taking massive doses of prednisone again. Isn't life just f...ing grand. Maybe it will be better this evening.

Where I stand on issues...

Well, I joined another forum. It is called "where I stand" and it allows anyone to give their opinion on/about local or world affairs. You want to see how others think about things? That is the place to do it. My link to there is:

Go register and give YOUR opinions on how messed up the world is and what should be done.

What a stoopid quiz to take.

Just took one of those stupid quizes. So funny. They told me:

Your Score Summary

Overall, you scored as follows:

99% scored higher (more stupid),
1% scored the same, and
0% scored lower (less stupid).

You are 0% stupid. This means...

You use your mind a lot, you find the world interesting. You must meet a lot of stupid people. Doesn't that get boring? Wow! Maybe you should take a stupid pill so you could fit in with most of the other test takers!

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At least 99% scored higher than I did. Yahoo!

Has lots of easy questions like:

What is the total of 1-19? Well, that is really simple, just add a zero and get the answer of 190. Or 1-199 would be add 2 zero's and get 19,900 as the answer. Smaller than 1-30=?? questions are easy to do in your head. Don't know how to do them in your head? Ask me how I do them in my head.

Or how many states of the 48 US states border the Pacific Ocean? Three of course.

They don't ask you to name the fourteen states that border the Atlantic Ocean.

Or things like:is the top color of a rainbow red? Yes.

Click the Icon, take the test. It is a fun little test. Only takes a couple minutes to take it. The questions will make you smile, they are so simple.