Here are your numbers - I wish everyone the best of luck.

You can print your own pdf version, if you'd like to taunt your friends and neighbors with inexplicable avatars.

Here are the rules:

1. Pick up to five squares. In the comments, using the letter/number combination to indicate the square. Yes. Just like "Battleship".
2. Offer up your own prize contribution. Here's mine.
3. Once the grid is full, I'll randomly assign actual numbers, using the deck of cards method.
4. Should you win a quarter, you can pick one of the prizes offered by any other participant. First come, first served.

Sysm wishes you the best of luck.



Brooke prompted me to document an annoying kid-anecdote story of one of the Sysmidgets. My memory is for shit these days, and this is what passes for a journal, so here I go:

Scene: Parent/Teacher Conference for Chili (age 9). The teacher is in her late 30's.

Teacher: (Chili) was supposed to come up with an idea for a business. He came up with a restaurant called "The Food Pyramid". On the first floor, you could order breads and grains. On the second floor, you could order fruits or vegetables… I thought this was a great idea, and I said I'd be his first business customer. He said, "And I'll give YOU a senior citizen discount."

Next: If you are on a Mac, are of Polish ancestry, and salivate at the very thought of a sweet delicious Paczki, you can count down the days with your very own Dashboard Paczki Countdown Widget. If you were looking for a reason to buy a Mac, this is it. Plus, you'll get that feeling of smug superiority. Yeah, Vista doesn't totally suck. But, shit, Apple can come up with an OS update every 12-18 months. And the shit just works.

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