(Ok...so I spent 10 minutes trying to find where the above lyrics are from! I can't find that particular phrase,
so if you know, email me at
billie@windmillworks.com) Eiiii, no wonder time is so fleeting, I get distracted - what can I say?
So here it is May, another iiiiiii.
(How is one supposed to spell "i" as an exclamation anyway?) Again my excuse for not blogging: busy, busy,
busy.
Pygmalion or Falling In Love With Your Own Creation
The
part that kept us busiest
this time is getting my beloved IQ Presidents Solitaire to be a functioning FREE ONLINE
game. I really LOVE this game I created. I mean, I
really, really like to play it myself. After
playing it several times, I was able to master the order of the last 13 Presidents without looking. I did this just
by playing my own game. So watch, I'm going to type them now without looking: Coolidge, Hoover, Roosevelt,
Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Carter, George Herbert Walker Bush, Clinton, and George W.
Bush! See? Seriously (as they say on Grey's Anatomy) I didn't look! Not that memorizing Presidents in
order is high on Bloom's Taxonomy of intellectual skills (teachers, you know what I'm talking about), but still...
This is a perfect game for college kids and also for baby boomers who want to improve their neurological
skills and increase the dendrites that can make new synaptic connections. (I learned that when interpreting for a deaf
student in an AWESOME study skills class at St. Cloud State University.)
Converting
to Free Online Games
Anyway, since no one seems to want to BUY my great and wonderful IQ Solitaire
creations, we're just going to let people play it free online! So if the traffic comes, then we can advertise and
hopefully our work will at least be enjoyed and hopefully generate advertising income. However, it took Mike (our
top and only ace programmer) a bit of research and tweaking to convert this to an online game. So I had Mike create
one game with each candidate as the last President - a kind of "visualize your favorite candidate in the White House"
thing. So we have
Obama Solitaire,
Hillary Solitaire, and
McCain Solitaire. I discussed with my daughter, Bethany (bethanytherese.com) whether I was selling out by listing all
three candidates and not only just my choice. But she reminded me that, after all, this is a democracy and it's
only right to have all three. I think I should put a counter on each page though and try to find out how many Democrats
vs Republicans we have visiting our site. We will still be selling the
COMPLETE IQ Solitaire Presidents CD which has 4 volumes that include all the Presidents from Washington to GW Bush with a free update after the election.
Send Your Friends - They'll Love It, They'll Love
You for Sending them, We'll Love You Sending Them...You'll Love Us for Loving that You Sent them....You Get the Picture
- It's a Win-Win Situation
So, let's hope this is all worth it. It will be if people
come and play it. This solitaire really is challenging (but there's a help list) and fun and after playing
it, you feel like you've done yourself a favor in exercising your brain.
