Today I was searching for the name of a word game that a friend of mine came up with. I assumed that she wasn't the first to come up with it, so I did comprehensive search of the internet. But I didn't find it! Is it possible that no one else has played this game before? Still unlikely, because the internet does not reflect everything that happens in the world, but still...it should be on the internet. And it should have a name.
The game goes like this: try to find a sentence for which you can remove all of the spaces and then put them back in different places while still having all of the new groups of letters really be words. Bonus: the new sentence actually makes sense, preferably with a different meaning than the first one.
Similar games to this are called constrained writing games or constrained writing techniques, like palindromes and lipograms. So I looked on a few different list of constrained writing techniques, but this technique wasn't there. Then I tried to search for it based on its characteristics, like "word divider game," "scriptio continua game," etc. There were some interesting articles, but nothing about the game/technique we were talking about.
As a participant in the discovery of the game, therefore, I proudly choose the game's name: space rearrangement. To me, this name makes the most sense, because your taking the spaces in a sentence, leaving all the rest of the characters the same, and rearranging them.
Adam Kauk writes about books, teaching, and unusual self-improvement ideas
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Thursday, December 27, 2012
How to turn off the iPhone display while talking on the phone
I love to turn off my iPhone display when my iPhone is doing something that doesn't require my fingers to input anything. First of all, because it saves battery; and second, because then you can't accidentally mess something up by accidentally pressing something. For most tasks (e.g. playing music), all that is required is to press the button on the top of the iPhone. The iPhone keeps on doing it's thing (like playing music) and the battery isn't wasted. This would also be nice when you're talking on the phone, especially if you're using a head-set. However, for talking on the phone, if you press the top button, it will end the conversation. That being said, you can still turn off the display. It just takes a couple more steps.
0. Phone call is already happening.
1. Press iPhone home button (the button on the face of the phone). This takes you to the home-screen and leaves a bar at the top of the display to indicate that there is a phone call happening.
2. Press the iPhone sleep button (the button on the top of the phone which usually turns the display off). This will lock the phone, but the phone call is still happening.
3. Press the iPhone sleep button again. This turns off the display, but the phone call is, as before, still happening.
4. If you want to end the call, mute yourself, etc, press the home button or the sleep button and you will go back to the lock screen.
5. Talk away.
0. Phone call is already happening.
1. Press iPhone home button (the button on the face of the phone). This takes you to the home-screen and leaves a bar at the top of the display to indicate that there is a phone call happening.
2. Press the iPhone sleep button (the button on the top of the phone which usually turns the display off). This will lock the phone, but the phone call is still happening.
3. Press the iPhone sleep button again. This turns off the display, but the phone call is, as before, still happening.
4. If you want to end the call, mute yourself, etc, press the home button or the sleep button and you will go back to the lock screen.
5. Talk away.
Thursday, July 19, 2012
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