No more Prediction of the Week

Waaaayyy-heeyyyy .. one of those moments when you desperately try to come up with something new and nowt comes to mind and all of a sudden a flash of .. brilliance?!?!?

Well, while that might be a tad exaggerated I've just come up with a new feature that will replace the Prediction of the Week (was tempted to ask a Newcastle question... that's how out of ideas I was..).. but now I've got more than enough for the next 249... and it's gonna be a laugh!!!

Introduced tomorrow, bring your creative hats...

Genetic splicing - the professional way

I know that face-merging feature has become one of the most popular in the picture round but it's still done "by hand" and always takes a rather long time. I have, however, come across a real cool (and sometimes scary) "plaything" while wandering around the interweb thingie.. it's a morphing toy and produces really cool "mutants".. you should actually try it, it's fun (and rather time-consuming :)
Their catalogue of available celebrity pix isn't that great but the "offspring" you can generate are legion..

The website is this one and here's one example



and here another one



I will continue doing it the "hard" way tho - I have way too much fun with Photoshop :)

Any questions?

As promised to Hélène and because I haven't done it in ages - here are some of last night's questions/pictures.. answers you should remember :) (if not, drop me a line, I'll remind you)

• In which two cities would you find these two bridges?

• On 23 July of what year did the Ford Motor Company sells its first car? (+/- 20 years)
• Which of these organisations has the most member states: a) World Trade Organization, b) United Nations or c) FIFA?
• Tsar Peter the Great and Napoleon, nicknamed “the little general” - how tall were these two rulers? (+/- 10 cm)

• In which country would you find Angel Falls, the world’s highest waterfalls? Bonus question: how high are they? (+/- 100m)

• Which “lost city” did archaeologist Hiram Bingham re-discover on 24 July 1911?
• How did the RMS Carpathia become world-famous in 1912?
• On 10 July of what year was the City of Dublin founded? (+/- 200 years)
• Name these 3 - rather weird looking - animals.

alreet, that was round 1.. the other two maybe tomorrow.. but for macro 1+2 and genetic experiments :)

Quiky 248 - Rankings

ever growing numbers... and winning points...

POW - Prediction of the Week 249

The competition is closed, 3 votes in on Thursday night:
Pinkies & Brain: 1. Sastre, 2. Schleck
3 Fragezeichen: 1. Sastre, 2. Schleck
Good Boy Thom: 1. Evans, 2. Sastre (even Hélène says so from afar :)

And 'ere are ze resultats: 1st Sastre, 2nd Evans ... 1 point each for Pinkies & ???...

Fasten your seat belts

or close your eyes



this is the pic I was trying on the big screen on Thursday and it wasn't working.. not sure why, might be the big screen or it only works on computer monitors or.. I dunno - maybe it works here (you'd have to click on it to enlarge it and then stare at it for a minute or so...)

BTW - more stupid stuff like that, exploding whales, Obama is your bicycle & other tosh on my dark site

Quiky 247 - Rankings

All in all a rather surprising but nice turnout (must have been the weather) .. and good fun all night (well, at least I had some for a change) .. It looks as if we might get ourselves some new (semi) regular teams (hey, fresh meat, and not the daftest :) at least when the hols are over.. in the meantime we could go back to games rounds (dunno if paperplane-into-a-bucket-flying would work indoors but..) should attendance be a bit lower next time...

BTW - the "secret" of TSNG's spectacular music round and subsequent victory - one of the lads had a 5 year "Jamba Spar-Abo" ROFLMAO .. never know when ..sh...tuff like that comes in handy in life :)