I'm going to the Ranger game tomorrow, should I wear a paper bag over my head?

Q.

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Hahahaha. I went to a Nets-Knicks game this year and a Nets fan had a paper bag over his head. It's very funny. He got on the big monitor and made everybody laugh. Definitely go for it and try to get some laughs and picked up by the cameras.

Help with childrens party games?

not2posh

I am having a party for my daughters 3rd birthday and need party game ideas. so far we have:
pass the parcel
musical bumps/statues and chairs
Pin the tail on the donkey
ANY OTHER IDEAS?
THANKS!

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You have a great selection already! I agree with limiting games. I wouldnât have more than 3 or 4 because of their ages. Try and be well organized so that you can move from one thing to the next without any distractions.

I like (at this age) playing games where essentially everyone wins. Pass the Parcel is great for this! Try and monitor it so that every child gets a prize. A variation of this instead of putting a prize in each layer of wrap is to have the final prize where there is enough for every one. The child who opens the final prize (lollypops or small toys) can pass them to each of the children.

I suggest when you play musical bumps/statues chairs, that the child who gets out first gets to be the next person in control of starting and stopping the music. Do this for every round. By doing it this way you are giving the person who is out something to look forward to so they are not feeling like they âlost.â

You can play limbo or freeze dance to music and do the same thing where the child who is out is in charge of the music.

Another fun game for this age is âDoggy doggy whereâs your bone?â. Find a plastic dog bone (or something that resembles a bone). Have the children sit in a circle. Have one child go hide. Have the rest of the children all close their eyes, put the bone into a childâs lap (make sure they are hiding it) and say âDoggy doggy whereâs your bone? Somebody took it far from home. Guess who?â The child hiding comes back to the group and has three guesses to who has the bone. If they find the bone, the child who was holding it gets to hide next. If they donât find it the children get to tell who had it and the child who was hiding gets to hand it off to another child.

You can do a bean bag toss or water balloon toss. You can also get a pull string piñata (much safer than a bat swinging around).

You may want to consider having some activity to do for any children not interested in playing the game.

You can ask a friend to do face painting. They love this at this age! You can also set aside some art activities like Froot loop necklaces or rock painting.

Here is a good party game website. http://www.partygamecentral.com/pgcstandard/cglformstd.htm

Happy planning!

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What do I do to salvage a Dell Dimension 2400 running on Win XP?

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~J.C.

I want to fix up the old PC that my mother and father threw away years ago and just left in the garage under a plastic bag. It is a Dell Dimension 2400, it has 2 disc drives, one diskette, crappy keyboard and monitor. I have a Macbook, but it's just for everyday little things like recording my music and making short movies and stuff. I need a Desktop for gaming and serious work. Please help?

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if its works you can use for desktop. but gaming is out of the question.

I would not bother , but if you must first thing. get a new hard drive.
new fans. and max out the memory. IF you can, put in a video card this will be apg if it has a slot. than you can install xp and run updates and you should be ok

What type of desktop/laptop would suit me best?

Jennifer

Im 17 and I want an iMac really bad and have the money saved up for it but my friends tell me to get a laptop cause it's better and portable? I need a computer cause I haven't owned one since 2005, I want to play games on it ( buy the games and load them to the system), have lots of nice features to mess around with, and schoolwork. Are the Mac laptops good? I want to be able to make Lego stopmotion videos?
Thanks so much in advance!

Answer
I went through a similar dilemna last week and am now a happy owner of a 15" Macbook Pro laptop.

My parents convinced me to buy an iMac due to its enhanced functions and then buy an iPad to take to university. This would mean that I would have a high performance desktop and a very mobile tablet computer.My preferred option was to just buy a Macbook Pro and hook it up to my 24" monitor at home, and then unplug and take it to uni in my messenger bag.

After purchasing the Macbook Pro, I have to say that I am realy happy with it as it has so many strengths that some notebook PCs absolutely lack. I used to own a Lenovo X220t before my Macbook Pro, and the MBP is so better at so many things.

Mac laptops in general offer great speeds, great design, great durability, GREAT battery life (>5hours) and great mobility (my 15' MBP is surprisingly easy to carry around). So I would recommend that you take a look at the 15"MBPs, as they boast all the above and have great high-performance graphics chips which can handle the most recent games such as Skyrim on high settings.

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What extras should I consider getting on my Macbook for College?

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I will be purchasing a macbook for college in a few months. Do you suggest a macbook, or a macbook pro? What about the amount of memory I need? Extra programs? Basically, if you were to buy a new macbook, and could customize it to be the perfect college tool, what would you suggest getting? Thanks for your help in advance!

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Let's do a comparison of the Macbook versus the Macbook Pro.

CPU
Core 2 Duo 2.26 Mhz (Macbook)
Core 2 Duo 2.53 Mhz (Macbook Pro)
The Pro edition has a CPU that is a little bit faster but the 2.26 Mhz CPU should be sufficient for running the most demanding software unless it you are working with a large amount of data like in video editing applications.

SCREEN
13.3 inch, 1280 X 800 (Macbook)
13.3 inch, 1280 X 800 (Macbook Pro)
Large enough to work comfortably but not so heavy so that it is a pain to lug it around campus.

HARD DRIVE
250 GB (Macbook)
250 GB (Macbook Pro)
Plenty of storage for all your software. It can store a lot of data too. Unless you have a massive collection of MP3 music, high resolution pictures or video files, this is more then sufficient. If you need more storage, you can always use an external hard drive or USB flash drive.

MEMORY
2 GB (Macbook)
2 GB or 4 GB (Macbook Pro)
The base 2 gigabytes is sufficient to run all Mac OS 10.6 applications I can think of unless once again you are working with very large files or doing a lot of multi tasking. Then you can go with the Pro and opt for the extra memory.

GRAPHICS
nVidia GeForce 9400 (Macbook)
nVidia GeForce 9400 (Macbook Pro)
Good mobile GPU for most games at a 13" monitor resolution. Capable with video & graphics editing. Insufficient for some games which demand a powerful GPU. Games like Crysis for example.

PORTS
2 - USB 2.0 (Macbook)
2 - USB 2.0, 1 - Firewire 800, 1 - SD card slot (Macbook Pro)
The SD card slot comes in handy when you want to take your memory card out of your digital camera and view it right away with the Macbook Pro. If you do not work a lot with digital photos, the Macbook is fine. You can also purchase external memory card readers.


The two systems are very similar as you can see. If you are on a budget, go with the Macbook as the drawbacks are very few. If you want to splurge on a faster system to last longer, go with the Macbook Pro. Both are great choices.


ACCESSORIES
Wireless mouse (does not have to be a Mac mouse)
Laptop bag (get padding + handles + shoulder strap)

SOFTWARE

Microsoft Office (pay)
- includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Entourage
- has a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation & organizer/e-mail software
- very powerful
- very popular with Mac & PC users

Apple iWork (pay)
- includes Pages, Numbers, Keynote
- has a word processor, spreadsheet & presentation software
- fairly powerful
- compatible with MS Office formats

OpenOffice (free)
- includes Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Base
- has a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, illustration & database software
- http://www.openoffice.org

Miro (free)
- it can play almost any video format
- very popular video player
- http://www.getmiro.com/

iTunes (free)
- listening to music
- syncing with your iPod/iTouch/iPhone

Burn (free)
- write movies to VCD or DVD
- copy data to CD or DVD
- http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html

Seashore (free)
- user friendly graphics software
- ability to edit, fix, manipulate photos or graphics
- http://seashore.sourceforge.net/

Pencil (free)
- draw on your computer like you draw on paper
- animate your own cartoons
- http://www.pencil-animation.org/

Drawberry (free)
- powerful vector graphics drawing software
- very popular, has lots of downloadable clipart
- http://raphaelbost.free.fr/DrawBerry.html

Xee (free)
- picture viewer & organizer
- http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/19978

Skype (free)
- instant message
- free voice chat for computer to computer talk

Adobe Photoshop (pay)
- powerful graphics editor
- many filters and effects

Xtorrent (free)
- bit torrent client for you to share and download files

Dreamweaver (pay)
- powerful web design & creation software
- supports HTML, CSS, javascript, php, flash

Flash (pay)
- create multimedia content for the web
- animation, steaming audio, video
- supports actionscript

Games
- The Sims 3
- Spore
- Civilizations IV
- SimCity 4
- Second Life
- Age of Empires III
- Guitar Hero World Tour

Could you tell me what day when I get to finish watching the game?

John

I was watching game 5 of the MLB World series and the game was suspended do to rain. Could you tell me what day when they will resume the game?

thanks for your help and and answers!!!!!!

Answer
No World Series tonight; Game 5 may resume tomorrow
20 minutes ago

PHILADELPHIA (AP) â The World Series won't resume until Wednesday night at the earliest. With rain still falling in Philadelphia, Major League Baseball decided not to attempt to complete Game 5 between the Phillies and Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday night. The completion of the game tentatively was scheduled for 8:37 p.m. Wednesday.

"While obviously we want to finish Game 5 as soon as possible, the forecast for today does not allow for us to continue the game this evening," commissioner Bud Selig said. "We are closely monitoring tomorrow's forecast and will continue to monitor the weather on an hourly basis. We will advise fans as soon as we are able to make any final decisions with respect to tomorrow's schedule."

The game, played in increasingly heavy rain, was suspended Monday following a 30-minute delay with the Phillies and Rays tied 2-2 after 5 1/2 innings. It was the first time a World Series game that began wasn't played to completion on the same day.

Philadelphia leads the Series 3-1 and is hoping to close out its second title, its first since 1980.

Carlos Pena hit a tying, two-out single in the sixth for the Rays, and the umpires called it moments later. By then, every ball and every pitch had become an adventure because of the miserable conditions.

"The infield was tough. The ball would do funny things," Phillies second baseman Chase Utley said. "It was in bad shape. It was not playable."

If Pena had not tied it, Selig said he would not have let the Phillies win with a game that was called after six innings.

"It's not a way to end a World Series," he said. "I would not have allowed a World Series to end this way."

MLB changed its rules on suspended games in November 2006, adding a provision to resume them rather than replay them. In either case, this would have been a suspension because the visiting team tied it in the top of an inning and the home team never got to bat in the bottom half.

"It was terrible. The field wasn't bad, but it was the worst conditions I've ever played in," Tampa Bay third baseman Evan Longoria said.

The delay forced the Rays to find a hotel in Wilmington, Del., about 25 miles away.

About 10 minutes after the game was officially suspended, an announcement was made at Citizens Bank Park telling fans wrapped in plastic sheets they were done for the night.

By then, many had left their seats and streamed into the concourses. They crowded six or seven deep, trying to see any of the game before the umps signaled for the tarp.

Because it was only lightly raining when the game started, MLB hoped it could play a full nine innings. Quickly, however, the showers turned to a steady downpour and the field became a quagmire.

By the middle innings, the grounds crew was running shuttles onto the field, carrying bags of a drying agent â baseball's version of cat litter â to absorb the water.

No luck.

A puddle formed on home plate and umpire Jeff Kellogg resorted to using a towel rather than the usual whisk broom to wipe it clean.

Batters kept blinking back the rain drops and pitchers struggled with their footing. Strong gusts dropped the wind-chill factor into the 30s, and fielders covered their bare hands between pitches.

All-Star shortstop Jimmy Rollins of the Phillies chased a popup all over and dropped it for a tough error in the fifth. There were pools of water at every base and the Phillie Phanatic wore a rain slicker for his routine.

B.J. Upton beat out an infield hit with two outs in the sixth on a ball that Rollins bobbled. Upton stole second and hustled home on Pena's hit, with left fielder Pat Burrell's throw home plopping into a puddle in the grass.

Fans showed up hoping they'd be witnesses to a World Series championship. Shane Victorino got them cheering with bases-loaded single in the first for a 2-0 lead off Scott Kazmir.

Rays manager Joe Maddon tinkered with his lineup, dropping the slumping Pena and Longoria one spot each â they were a combined 0-for-29 with 15 strikeouts after four games.

The Tampa Bay stars ended their hitless ruts in the fourth when Pena doubled off the right-field wall and Longoria followed with an RBI single up the middle that made it 2-1.

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