Oh Wow!
This game is addicting.
http://FantasticContraption.com/

It’s called Fantastic Contraption and the idea is to move an object into the goal area. You can use any method you desire. Simple, Complex, Wheel Powered, Gravity Powered, Pulling, Pushing, Dragging, Throwing, Tossing, Slinging, etc… You’re given powered wheels that can turn either way, wheels with no power, rigid rods, semi-flexible rods, a space to build your contraption, and the piece to move to the goal.

I’ve had TONS of fun doing this. I’ve planned out the simplest contraptions, to some pretty elaborate catapults.

Before you look at my solutions below, you really should try out a few for yourself. I went through all of them before I started looking up other people’s solutions. (Hit the Forum link at the top of the game’s page to see some other people’s solutions).

The cool thing about this game is that it allows you to save your designs. Below are some of my designs that I’ve had fun creating.

Handling
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=942760
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1292089

Awash
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=942027

Down Under
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=910361

Tube
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=946349
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1043307

Four Balls (Silly Conveyor Belt)
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1042811

U-Turn (Slinging)
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=961383
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1042335

Big Ball
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=961976

Unpossible (By far the hardest to get right!!! Endless tweaking to get this to happen)
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=990527
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1044354

Back and Forth (My favorite machine so far… I love watching it go!)
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=948173

Reach Up (My First walker!)
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1038982
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1049643

Junkyard (Simple Tank/ Crawler)
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1039197

I’ve always known that there are a TON of references from one place in the Bible to another… (Like how Jesus would quote scripture & prophecies from the Old Testament).

Anyhow, I ran across this REALLY cool site that has a bunch of Bible Reference Visualizations showing the links between verses, people & places…

Fair warning though… If you try to open the “High Resolution” files, it may take a while… The first image’s High Resolution image was over 100MBs!!!

Anyhow, go check it out!!!

Bible Visualization Arcs

Random entertainment for the day…

Haha… I read an article this morning about a teacher who thinks it would be a better idea to accept “common misspellings” as correct, than to actually teach his students proper English.

At the end of the article a playwright (George Bernard Shaw) made the following comment:

“ghoti” could just as well be pronounced “fish” if you followed common pronunciation: ‘gh’ as in “tough,” ‘o’ as in “women” and ‘ti’ as in “nation.”