Gaming for the greater good - Superstruct

Tyren -

I heard about this multiplayer forcasting game on CBC - where you project what your real self will be doing in 2019 and how you will deal with various issues - like climate change, food shortage, a pandemic, power struggles and major security breaches. "Your mission is to come up to real solutions to those problems by doing things like blogging, making videos and uploading photos online. You play the role of yourself, but 11 years in the future." (CBC website)

One of the cool things is that they are going to use this information to project what people really will do when faced with these challenges and in order to get people to share ideas about how to actually deal with these issues.

I've created a profile and thought you might enjoy this too. You can earn " badges" by writing stories about yourself in the future, making vidoes.. it looks super cool. Check it our here:

http://www.superstructgame.org/

On getting things done

I'm tired today - see last nights post -- I just couldn't sleep, I've been reading a bit online about parenting to shore me up and spoil myself a bit. I found this quote, and it made me feel better about not getting much done today:

“Cleaning and scrubbing can wait ‘til tomorrow, because babies grow up, I’ve learned to my sorrow. So hush-a-bye cobwebs, dust go to sleep. I’m rocking my baby and babies don’t keep!” Author Unknown.

Little bug is sleeping right now - all chubby writs curled under apple cheeks - and watching her chubbiest chubbiness sleep is a limited time offer. One day she'll be a tall whirling dervish like another girl I love and she may not sit still long enough to stare at!

Jelly beans for breakfast ..

I can't sleep, and this song keeps running through my head - it's by Dusted and is simply beautiful.

Well if I had a child
What a child it would be
Never have to bathe
Have sweets every meal
Wear their favourite clothes everyday
And go to bed when they want to
Have jelly beans for breakfast
And run free wherever they please

If I had a child
What a child it would be
To see them play in the flowers' shade
Pick apples off the trees
If I had a child
It would be the child God made


It is so gorgeous and rich and simple - just like a child.