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Breaking In a New Buffalo Wild Wings
Tuesday, May 17th, 2005

It has been two weeks since the new Buffalo Wild Wings in Bossier City opened. Tuesday is always a good BW3 night—35 cents wings (I remember when they were a quarter) and NTN’s Showdown national trivia game.
Showdown has five rounds of varying difficulty in strategies. Some rounds give you more points for quicker answers. One [...]

Mathematics of Software Development
Wednesday, February 16th, 2005

For Taynar, who scored 33 points higher than I did on a Nerd Test (link dead). Happy Birthday!

A Good Place and a Bad Place for Trivia
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2005

Visited two NTN Trivia locations tonight. Catbirds in Downtown Houston is another place that regularly posts nationally high rankings. The place though is very small, and unless you like popcorn, there’s nothing to eat there. In order to get their high scores, the three smart people play double consoles. Cheaters. I left before the premium [...]

Shut out of Trivia, yet Still Productive
Tuesday, February 1st, 2005

After a year with an NTN account, I tend to look for new places to play NTN Trivia. Being in Houston this week, I stopped by Sam’s Irish Pub. Because it was a location that consistently listed in the top 20 locations, I had hopes of getting in with a group that collaborated for high [...]

Big Trivia Night
Friday, November 19th, 2004

To mark what could possibly be my last night in Kilgore/Longview — plans call for me to be in Houston for December instead — I went to the Sports Page and played about 4 hours of trivia: 3 hours of ½ hour countdown and 1 hour of Sports Trivia.