Posts Tagged ‘games’

March Madness Cake vs Pie Bracket

March 22nd, 2010 by Manda | 10 Comments | Filed in Entertainment, Food

Meg posted her bracket in the March Madness Cake vs Pie Tournament, so of course I wanted to fill out a bracket too.

It was a lot easier to decide the cake half of the bracket than the pie, which probably means that I enjoy eating more kinds of pie than I do cake. Wedding and birthday cake confused me because there are so many kinds; in the end I interpreted wedding to be white cake and birthday to be yellow. I had a very hard time picking between pound and bundt and went with pound in the end only because I’ve eaten it more than I have bundt.

In the pie side of things, it was difficult because my favorite pies were pitted against my all-time favorite: apple. Lemon meringue is my second favorite kind, so it was very sad to see it go down against apple. I would have liked to put blueberry and cherry against each other, but cheesecake beat out cherry. As much as I love cherry pie, it can be kind of a hit-or-miss depending on the cherries used.

I am very pleased with my Final Four and the results of my bracket. Obviously apple and red velvet would face each other in the end (anyone who knows my dessert eating habits well would have known that from the start). As much as I love apple, there’s just something about red velvet that gives it a little edge over apple. It’s probably because I’ve never had a bad slice of red velvet in my life, whereas I have encountered some mediocre apple pie before.

Go team Red Velvet!

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iPhone Game Apps

October 30th, 2009 by Manda | 2 Comments | Filed in Technology

This blog entry about free iPhone game apps is my follow-up post to iPhone Apps. Since none of the apps I listed in the other post were games, I thought I would do an entry related solely to (free) iPhone games!

  • Solitaire Free
    I’ve always been a solitaire fan, and Solitaire Free is a great app for every solitaire geek. Not only does it has the traditional solitaire game with the option of drawing one card or three (Klondike Deal 1 or Klondike Deal 3), but you can also choose from variations of solitaire like Baker’s Game, Baker’s Game Easy, Demon, or Spiderette. My personal favorite is Demon.
  • FarmFrenzy
    While the full version of FarmFrenzy is a paid app, the lite version is really good and I’m not even sure I would bother with the paid app since the lite one pretty much has all of the game’s features! It’s the quintessential farming game, where you raise geese and collect the eggs and send the eggs to refineries and cart off your goods to earn money. Along the way, you have to plant grass for geese to feed on, capture attacking bears that will eat your livestock, and raise other animals like sheep, cats, dogs, or even cows!
  • Tetris
    I’m pretty sure this one needs no explanation. ;)
  • Lemonade Tycoon
    This, as far as I can tell, is exactly like the computer game version of Lemonade Tycoon. You set up a stand, order lemons, water, sugar, cups, and ice, and every day you sell lemonade to try and make a profit. When I first downloaded this app, I couldn’t believe that it was a free full version rather than a lite version because it seems like all games only give you a free lite trial!
  • Falling Gems
    Falling Gems is quite similar to Bejeweled. You slide the gems so that you make a combination of 3 or more same-colored gems, but unlike Bejeweled, the combination doesn’t have to be in a straight line. It’s incredibly addictive and you can save all of your scores to create a high score scoreboard.

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Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator

October 19th, 2009 by Manda | 7 Comments | Filed in Online, Politics

Sarah Palin’s kids have pretty unusual names. Trig, Willow, Bristol, Piper, Track… they’re not exactly your run-of-the-mill names. The Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator can “translate” your name into a name that Palin would use to name you!

Since I was Sarah Palin last year for Halloween, I was curious as to what my name would be. (That and the fact that I wanted to see what types of names the generator came up with anyway.) I typed “Manda” into the name generator and my name was Filter Skate Palin.

Huh. Filter Skate. Somehow, I still prefer the name Manda ;)

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