This means: I am playing Literati. I am in the chat room of Fuzzy Warm Feeling at table 10. I am the host of the table. Being host means I can set the table. I choose what the rules of the table are as long as there is not a game already started. This also gives me the power to boot anyone not in game with me from the table.
Left side of the screen we see:
Start Game - It is faded because the game is in play. It is how you start the game once you have an opponent.
Resign - It is lit if a game in progress and faded if game not in progress. Clicking this gives 2 options. You can resign giving the game to your opponent as a win. Or you can ask for a game to be cancelled. A cancelled game just registers as a draw. Either will forcibly remove you from the table.
Stand Up - This button allows you if you have started a game with someone that already had another player to give the seat back to the original player. Yahoo added a new feature that kind of makes that button pointless. Once an original player is at the table either that player or the host can forcibly remove the new opponent from the game to reclaim the seat.
Public - You will notice this has a drop down arrow. You have 3 choices there: Public, Protected and Private. Public means it is an open table. Anyone can sit and play and anyone can come to the table to watch. Protected means only invited players can play but anyone can visit. Private means only people invited may play or join the table. This can be changed at any point in the game.
Invite - It allows you to see a list of every player in the game room and invite one or more to the table. The pop up looks like this:
Timer - This allows you to choose the time frame you wish to allow an opponent to play in with a max of 3min per play. It looks like this:
Kibitz - This is only lit if a game is in session and you are not an opponent. It allows you to view the letters of any of the up to 5 players sitting at the table who have allow kibitz checked.
Sound - If checked it alerts you when it is your turn.
Help - Brings you to FAQ
Quit - resigns the game
Other things you see on this screen are:
Point System - Lets you know how much your colored tiles are worth to be able to make the most points of your play.
Extra - The amount of letter tiles left in the game. The game ends when there are no tiles left there and someone uses all theirs. Sometimes you have to just pass a couple times and the game goes to the highest score.
Submit - After dragging your tiles to the board to form a word you have to click submit to enter the word in to play.
Pass - You get an option to either trade no letters or up to all 7 of your letters. Giving play to the next opponent forfeiting your turn.
As you can see both my opponent and I have 7 letters each.
The blue arrow under my name as well as the "Move your letters to construct a word and then click 'submit'" Both indicate it is my turn to play.
You can see in the chat box that it runs a list of the words played and the adding up of the points.
Far right box will list anyone at that table.
I did win today's game here is the board:
Today's Movie: Mystic Pizza
Definitely a chick flick. Three best friends in a small fishing town. One the smart one who knows everything, fights for what she wants and will be the one to succeed in everything. One afraid to get married. The other the one who catches any man's eye.
The girls while they might fight at times are always there for each other. The three work in a pizza shop called Mystic Pizza. One loves the guy she is with, she is terrified of marriage and children. So much in fact she actually faints at her own wedding. The one with the scholarship to Yale in all her jobs winds up babysitting. She falls in love with the married man who's wife is overseas on business. The one so captivating to the men catches the eye of a wealthy young white boy. The three girls are Portuguese.
Over all it was a fantastic movie for a girls night. The guys would be bored into death with this one. Clean, no raunchy sex scenes though there are a few moments you know that is what they are doing. Even get to see the people in this close knit community pick on each other. I really liked it. Great storyline.
Today's IMVU project speaks for itself:
Appropriate "M" should fall today. I am submitting this on September 11, 2010. It is the 9th anniversary of the day that rocked so many.
Zurab Tsereteli on the waterfront of Bayonne Harbor, New Jersey and publicly dedicated on September 11, 2006. It was, in the words of Vladimir Putin, "a gift from the Russian people."
The monument comprises a 100-foot-tall bronze tower with a jagged split down the middle and a 40-foot-long stainless steel teardrop suspended in the gap. It stands on an 11-sided slab of black marble carved with the names of every person who died in the September 11 attack, as well as the victims of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The brightly lit memorial is visible even at night from the Statue of Liberty, Battery Park, the Staten Island Ferry, and other locations around the Hudson River.
Though not well known in the United States, Zurab Tsereteli is renowned for his work in Russia, as well as public sculptures he has erected all around the world. He reportedly spent $12 million of his own money to complete the Bayonne Harbor monument.
TO MAKE THIS AS BIG AS POSSIBLE IT IS SIDEWAYS.
JUST USE YOUR ROTATE BUTTON (THE ARROW IN A CIRCLE SHAPE) TO FLIP IT.
IF YOU NEED HELP UNDERSTANDING HOW TO CHANGE IT I WILL GLADLY EXPLAIN.
Spencer and I also watched School of Rock with Jack Black last night. I could not wait to see that one. It was well worth the wait. Fantastic inspiring movie. I feel it could possibly teach kids it is ok to be creative. That it is ok to be you.
One of my favorite parts is this young black girl. She is quite possibly the chunkiest in her class. The voice of angels. She is afraid to sing in front of everyone because she is fat. Jack Black reassures her that it does not matter, that they will still love her. Even that she is not alone in not being the smallest performer comparing her to other musicians and even himself. Giving her the confidence she really needed.
I would definitely recommend this one as well.
See you tomorrow with "N".
SIDE NOTE:
Please take a moment to remember today. Say thank you to someone fighting for our freedoms. Thank a Hero. What is a hero? A true hero is a person who typically believes:
"I was just doing my job."
"You would have done it too."
"I was just doing what was right."
Heroes never believe they are a hero. Perhaps this is why they should be thanked. So many every day heroes.
Please also do remember if you are an American. You do not need a reason to fly a flag. Fly it all year round, not just on a holiday, not just on a day of memory. Not just because the calendar you got from supporting a local Veteran Hospital says you should fly your flag today. Men and women die to protect our rights to do as we wish within our constitutional rights. Honor them by flying that flag daily. They don't just have to fight for our freedoms on days we are suggested to show our American pride.
As a former New Yorker, I will never forget. To remember is to honor.
Aylen
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