Friend-of finder

This is quite interesting I think, it's an inversion of the PageRanked friend finder I posted about a little while ago. If you cross-reference it with your own friends list, it becomes "who really should have friended you back, but hasn't". Bastards!

secondhand_rick triumphant

Well done secondhand_rick on winning the World Cup predictions league! -- just edging out Felix NOLJ. Thanks to everyone who took part!

It was pretty good fun, although the game's design meant that the life kind of got sucked out of it a bit in the later stages when it was no longer possible for most of the players to score any more points. Much like the real thing in some ways, then...

I'm as big an admirer of quality defending as anyone, but seeing so many matches in which a lone striker is efficiently snuffed out time after time until someone gets lucky at a set-piece / tired enough to make a mistake / it goes to penalties is not really much of a spectacle. Am I right to think that Germany were the only team in the last eight who played two up front?

Sounds about right!

You scored as Storyteller. You're more inclined toward the role playing side of the equation and less interested in numbers or experience points. You're quick to compromise if you can help move the story forward, and get bored when the game slows down for a long planning session. You want to play out a story that moves like it's orchestrated by a skilled novelist or film director. Storyteller 92% Method Actor 67% Casual Gamer 42% Tactician 42% Specialist 33% Power Gamer 17% Butt-Kicker 17% Law's Game Style created with QuizFarm.com

(from rotwang)

Weekend(s)

Nice sociable weekend! Friday evening we went to dinner with some of T's old friends in Woolpit, not as exciting a village as it sounds (although it does have a very interesting and appealing church).

Saturday to Cambridge, to the Cambridge Blue in fact, where ginger_ratbag and Al were having their 10th anniversary celebrations. Lovely pub, lovely weather, lovely people, including cuthebertcross and the very smiley babysaxon (who had come to visit us in Ips the previous weekend, together with dr_bob, fresh from being Anglo-Saxons at Sutton Hoo).

Then yesterday there was an afternoon garden party at our book group friend Roy's -- he has a garden that is even longer than ours, and backs onto a piece of wild woodland that sed to be a quarry. More nice food, nice people etc.

This is all rather low-key and domesticated, I know, but that's my life just at the moment. Next week's journey into the wilds of Northumbria with a gang of crazed role-players will be a bit different, I suspect.