Liars Dice

Thanks to the Pirates of the Caribbean I’ve been introduced to this game that uses dice and a wager component, with the movie using “years of service” as it was the only thing the pirates aboard the Flying Dutchmen had as currency. As a young 20-something I used to Play 7’s and 11’s, where if you rolled 7, 11, or a pair you’d get to tell someone to drink. A simple game that I don’t want to pass to my youth just yet, and I feel a simple gambling game is better to pass along.

Liars dice is easy:

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Flyleaf – Fully Alive / Down the Rabbit Hole

Oddly in my list of Youtube videos that are recommended to me on a daily basis happened to be an old song from a band called Flyleaf called “Fully Alive”. This was one of many songs from my youth that I had forgotten about and was overly ambitious to listen to the second I had seen it.

After enjoying the 2.5 minutes of high-pitched vocals and hard rock I had a brief epiphany: “Fly + Leaf = Flyleaf” How difficult would it be to attach an insect and a plant together and create a new band name? Whipping out the programmings I had found 3 solid references and let the computers do their workings and posted the results up on github, and further hosted it here for maximum clickability.

Alas, my curiosity of this song and the immediate conception of the “band name” program did not stop there. The lyrics needed a bit of attention to as they seemed unusually specific:

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Wikipathia / American Made

Wikpathia: Traversing wikipedia, from link to link, until your starting link is in no way related to your ending link.

From the “American Made” trailer to an Muslim Archaeologist who was believed to be exchanged for an airplane hijacker that tortured killed a Navy Seabee.

Thanks to: http://www.fark.com/vidplayer/9615942

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Seal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_World_Airlines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_New_Afrika
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Flight_841_(1974)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Stethem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Ali_Hammadi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanne_Osthoff