Ryan 140 points
Nicole 132 points
Aubrey 122 points
Marla 107 points

The finals points for each player were as follows:

Todd 44 points
Jean-Robert 35 points
Amanda 33 points
James 33 points
Frosti 30 points
Courtney 29 points
Erik 28 points
Jaime 24 points
Sherea 20 points
Ashley 18 points
Denise 17 points
Aaron 14 points
Chicken 11 points

And Aubrey came the closest to picking the winner when she picked Amanda.

Surivors and their points:

Only survivors who are on RyeBlog teams are included in this list.

RyeBlog leaderboard:

Surivors and their points:

Only survivors who are on RyeBlog teams are included in this list.

RyeBlog leaderboard:

Survivor China is here!

Survivor starts tonight, and as always RyeBlog has some competitions based on it. This year, Survivor the show will be slightly different - and understanding these differences may influence how you play the games on RyeBlog.

According to Mark Burnett:

We got rid of exile island. We still have a hidden immunity idol but it is right under their noses.

According to the wikipedia:

In lieu of Exile Island, the game gives the tribes the ability to kidnap a player from the opposing tribe as part of winning a reward challenge; the kidnapped player remains with that team through the next immunity challenge and will receive a clue to the location of an immunity idol at that camp.

Competition #1 - Pick winner based on pictures alone

How to compete:

1. Go to http://www.cbs.com/survivor/
2. Use your mouse to learn the names of the different faces on the top of the page.
3. Use your intuition to pick a winner based on their picture.
4. Post your winner here in the comments.

Tiebreaker:

• Pick the 2nd place person based on a picture alone

Competition #2 - FANTASY SURVIVOR

For this competition, you pick five people and you get points based on what happens to those five people throughout the show. You can look over the scoring categories before picking the five people, or you can just pick five random people. Sure, it might come down to 99% luck - but so does Fantasy Football and people still like playing that!

Scoring:

1. Each vote cast against a member of your team gives you 2 points.
2. If the team your survivor is on wins immunity, you receive 1 point.
3. Each week your survivor is on the show, you get 1 point.
4. If a survivor wins individual immunity, you receive 5 points.
5. If a survivor is “kidnapped” by the other tribe, you receive 1 point.
6. If a survivor goes home for a self-inflicted injury, you receive 5 points.
7. If a survivor goes home for a pre-existing medical condition, you lose 5 points.
8. If a survivor goes home because another survivor attacked him and mortally wounded him, you receive 15 points. The survivor who does the wounding receives 20 points.
9. Any survivor who takes home a car as a prize loses 2 points
10. Being in the final vote gives you 5 points
11. Each vote cast FOR your survivor in the final vote gives you 1 point
12. The overall winner of survivor receives 10 points

To Compete:

1. Pick a team of FIVE survivors.
2. Post your “team” here in the comments.

Strategy:

You should notice that votes cast against your survivor gain you points. So factor that into your team. A valuable player would be one that gets you the most points over the course of the show. Someone who gets votes against him every week but manages to hang on regardless is valuable… Also, someone who is stupid and cuts their leg off will get you a lot of points - so they will also be valuable - BUT - a fat slob who goes home because he can’t hack it will lose you a ton of point.

Your team of 5 must be unique. If someone else has already picked those 5 survivors, you MUST pick at least one different person. This will avoid any potential ties.

Make your predictions / picks now!

We’re on our way to Mexico, and are currenty in Phoenix. Traveling on a plane with a baby is certainly easier before they can move, say “dat dat dat” while pointing to things they want, and have the strength to pull the window shade out of its track.

Aubrey’s brother and his wife got bumped last night off of their flight, so they are on the same flight as us to El Paso. Party time.

I don’t even want to consider what the PayPal fees on this thing will be - but right now a 225 - acre Island is on sale on eBay. The island is part of the Fiji archipelligo, and is surrounded by a huge lagoon.

The island is valued at approximately $25 million - and apparently will be worth $40 million if someone finishes the resort that is being built on it.

From the pictures at the bottom, I learn two things. First - the roofs of the existing structures likely leak. Second - the island has been abandoned.

I was about to put in a $15 million bid, but Aubrey pointed out something important: The internet service there would probably be slow. That - I’m afraid - is a deal breaker for me.

View the island at eBay, and place your bids

• Moved into a new house
• Rhett turned 1, started walking
• Got a new job, am going to start next Tuesday doing Web & Application development for a company called “You Take Control” (Porter works there now)

Since moving into the new place, we’ve done a bunch of work already:

• Replaced handles on all the cabinets
• Installed new kitchen sink / garbage disposal / kitchen faucet
• Installed under-cabinet lighting and up-lighting above cabinets
• Removed strange light above sink, installed new light above sink
• Removed the crooked and uneven tile from under the “dining room area”
• Installed laminate flooring in the upstairs area
• Picked paint colors, and started painting
• Started running a quad-shielded coax wire to get a better signal to my MythTV box
• Fixed leaking drain on one of the faucets in a bathroom
• Fixed various sprinklers

Since it’s been so long, I figured I’d better at least put something cool to watch:

[quicktime width=”320″ height=”256″]http://www.ryebrye.com/blog/bigfiles/BirdsEyeTimeLapseSmall.mov[/quicktime]

My record is seven or eight cones, I can’t remember. I don’t think I will be going for a new record this year as I actually have a job and a family now - but if anyone here beats my record let me know. (I wont require proof - but you must be able to list off the flavors you ate and the order you ate them in.)

It’s pretty easy. Just go to the above website and register your PayPal email with them (it’s a PayPal site, don’t worry) and then you are eligible for the rebate. That’s all you have to do.

Fortunately, you can download a Dharma Initiative PDF label that will help you make your own rations out of store-bought materials. I can’t think of a better use of time than this.

It’s that time of year again

Survivor is about to kick off a new season. Mark Burnett appears to have his mind fixated on this “Have’s versus have-nots” theme that he is using on The Apprentice: LA, and now the same theme will carry over to Survivor.

To be honest, I couldn’t be more bored of a show than Survivor. Sure, I’ll watch it - but I sincerely hope they change something about that immunity idol. Yul and Becky were about as exciting as wheat bread and unsalted crackers. Thanks to that idol, they were on way too long.

Gameplay aside, it’s time to make two predictions for this season…

1. Based on Pictures Alone, predict the winner.

Go to http://www.cbs.com/primetime/survivor14 and look at that flash thing - or you can save yourself time and go to the un-official survivor site at http://www.survivor.com/ and they have them all posted on one page. Come back here, and in the comments, predict who you think will win in the comments.

2. Based on Pictures Alone, predict who has the personality closest to your own.

This is the interesting one. Sure, nobody who is entirely sane will volunteer to leave their job and go live on an island for a month or so with other crazy people for an insignificant chance to win a lot of money. If you are reading this blog, it’s obvious that nobody on Survivor is exactly like you - but of all of the ‘castaways’ there is probably one who has a personality closest to your own.

Maybe it’s only one aspect of their personality, so you can qualify it:

For instance, lets pretend your name is Pace and you see the picture of Boo and think he has the same intellectual prowess as you. You could say in the comments “For personality, I think Boo and I think alike. I don’t think he has the same moral constraints as me, but I think he’s just as smart.”

This last category will make for some interesting viewing as, inevitably, we will pick people who we think have “personalities closest to our own” that end up to be total loons.

From now on, whenever I sell computer equipment, I’ll be sure to list it in both the:
Collectibles > Arcade, Jukeboxes & Pinball > Pinball > Paper, Manuals
section, and also the:
Dolls & Bears > Dolls > Barbie Contemporary (1973-Now) > Pets & Animals

To clarify, I did ask the seller:

What specifically about this iMac makes it a paper pinball manual or a contemporary barbie pet?

The seller has not yet responded. I’ll be sure to let you know when he does.

Here’s where to get it: http://www.alittlebitofnothingleft.net/snowfall/ - Enjoy!

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