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Woody Thrower's Blog. Banqi (AKA Ban Chi, pronounced BAHN-CHEE) is a two player game of strategy and luck. This page is about Banqi as played by me and my friends. The Wikipedia Banqi article. Has a lot of additional information (variants, strategies/tactics, differing translations for piece names, etc.), but it is not an ideal resource for learning to play. How to Play Banqi. You will need a set of Xiangqi (AKA Chinese Chess). Before moving and capturing pieces, it is important to understand rank. W...
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Woodpress » 2011 » November
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Woody Thrower's Blog. Archive for November, 2011. November 6th, 2011. I brightened up my self-portrait and added a few more highlights, and completely reworked the color version. I’m happier with them now (although there are some pretty rough areas in the highlights if you look closely). November 6th, 2011. Tonight I drew a picture of a beaver for my daughter to color. I think he’s casting a spell on that tree. I have no other explanation for the position of his paws.
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Woodpress » 2011 » December
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Woody Thrower's Blog. Archive for December, 2011. December 25th, 2011. Grandma’s New Christmas CD. This Christmas my brother-in-law came up with a fun joke to play on my Mom. He gave her a Christmas CD of David Archuleta singing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and he asked me to create a fake cover of Lady Gaga singing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. He recorded her reaction.
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Woodpress » 2013 » May
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Woody Thrower's Blog. Archive for May, 2013. May 23rd, 2013. My Vader skills improved. May 13th, 2013.
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Woodpress » 2012 » February
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Woody Thrower's Blog. Archive for February, 2012. February 15th, 2012. I’m a grandfather? My 20-year-old daughter is a mother, which apparently makes me a grandfather. The cool part of becoming a grandfather is that it comes with a grandchild–a grandson in this case. Here is some photographic evidence.
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Woodpress » 2013 » November
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Woody Thrower's Blog. Archive for November, 2013. November 6th, 2013. Well this is an awkward silence.
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Woodpress » 2014 » July
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Woody Thrower's Blog. Archive for July, 2014. July 16th, 2014. Ubuntu 12.04 initramfs dependency nonsense. In managing Linux servers, and I’ve encountered the following situation many times: $ sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree Reading state information… Done You might want to run ‘apt-get -f install’ to correct these. The following packages have unmet dependencies: initramfs-tools : Depends: initramfs-tools-bin (.
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Woodpress » 2013 » January
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Woody Thrower's Blog. Archive for January, 2013. January 30th, 2013. I’ve been playing Draw Something on my mobile devices lately. I’m gonna share some of my drawings. I’m posting from my phone, or I’d blur out the words. I think I’ve improved over time, so I’m going to put them in chronological order. That’s all for now. I’ll post more later.
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Woodpress » 2011 » October
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Woody Thrower's Blog. Archive for October, 2011. October 17th, 2011. Mostly for my own entertainment I’ve come up with an alternative set of numeric digits. Instead of using base 10 (decimal one’s place, ten’s place, hundred’s place, etc.) I chose base 16 (hexadecimal one’s place, sixteen’s place, two-hundred-fifty-six’s place, etc.). Hexadecimal works out well because I used four base symbols to represent 1, 2, 4, and 8. […]. October 3rd, 2011.
