Ballpoint Wren » Procrastination

Badda bing, badda BLOONS

Bonnie Wren — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 07:01:02 +0000

This game is driving me crazy! I CAN’T GET PAST LEVEL 15!!!

Somebody tell me how to wipe out most of the balloons with the boomerang, please, please, please?

Lovely side effects: a most satisfying popping noise that will pacify any bubble wrap addict. Yes. Bloons is fun.

BUT HOW DO YOU GET PAST LEVEL 15???

At least you can go back to the main menu at any time and replay a fun episode. I like this one best:

BUT SOMEBODY MUST KNOW HOW TO GET PAST LEVEL 15.

Tone Memory Game

Bonnie Wren — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 02:38:45 +0000

I figure the years and years of waiting for piano lessons to finish have given me an edge on this game. Or maybe it’s the ton of money we poured into piano lessons. Or maybe it’s because I’m sticking with the simple 4 x 3 version.

Either way, it’s kind of like “Concentration”, only you try to match up notes rather than images.

Yowza, I just tried the Super Hard version. Somebody tell me they can’t do it, either!

Yaaay, DAD!

Bonnie Wren — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 01:35:02 +0000

I thought this was so sweet and cool.

My four year old son and I have a Saturday morning ritual where the two of us go our for a “special” breakfast at a local restaurant. While we are waiting for our food, Owen always draws a very exciting battle scene on the back of the paper placemat using the crayons provided by our server. This week’s battle scene was that of an army battle that involved a very large spaceship and a tank and some helicopters. Once he was done drawing, he asked “Dad, can we turn this into a video game?”. I answered of course I could!

The object is to have your tank blast the helicopters. Move the tank with the arrows on your keyboard and aim with your mouse. Click to shoot.

Stuff like this just melts me into a puddle.

The Idiot Test 3

Bonnie Wren — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 03:23:34 +0000

I guess I missed Idiot Tests 1 and 2. No worries, though, because I’m NOT AN IDIOT. Hooray. I’m “almost average,” a step up from “dumber than dirt,” which is what I was really expecting.

It’s a tricky, tricky test, though. I got lost trying to remember if I was supposed to click the yellow button once or twice—which just goes to show you I can’t keep more than one thought in my head at the same time.

The brain likes me, and if that isn’t Twilight Zone I don’t know what is

Bonnie Wren — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 02:59:03 +0000

Meet the brain. The brain is running the Like Better Game. The brain wants you to pick which pictures you like better.

If you play with the brain, it will reward you by guessing something about you. If you decide not to play, the brain will climb out of your computer screen and EAT YOU.

Okay, so I lied. It’s just when the brain goes all pink and pulsating, it reminds me of an old movie where a pulsating brain tries to eat a 1950s starlet, but she screams and faints and then the leading man has to beat it off with a stick.

But in this case a pink and pulsating brain really means you’ve picked enough pictures that the brain wants to guess something about you, like “You study/work better with music playing in the background.” or “If someone said you were an entrepreneur, you’d say: no I’m not.”

Give it a try and let us know what the brain guessed about you.