I'm a bit tired so all I read when going through your post for the first time was "tiger, leopard, panther, voodoo" and I was like what on Earth is snowkatt talking about... did you go on a safari or what??


That just about made my day :D


The good old days before emulators, cable salad guaranteed!


That's an old school method, I remember doing the same but most of my constructions didn't have good stabilization so I usually stuck to making paper airplanes. We lived on a slope so on a good day I could watch some of my planes fly far down into the village.


Well, that's more MacGyver than me. At the most, I managed to use a copy machine to duplicate the Monkey Island copy protection wheel.

Hm, I can't remember that, must be from one of the newer Hitman games. Need to play all those at some point, I'm far behind!


Growing up with MacGyver was the best preparation for point & click adventure game puzzles. Unfortunately, we didn't have cable TV at home (my parents didn't want one) so I couldn't watch any series regularly, only when I was over at friend's homes or at my grandma's.
Maybe that's why I routinely get stuck in those adventure games despite having otherwise decent education. On the other hand, growing up with very limited access to TV is something I must thank my parents for and spending time reading, drawing, playing outside or going to museums arguably made more sense.
In the unlikely case I'll ever have kids, I'll let them grow up without TV as well, perhaps even without computer games. Unless it's a TV series like MacGyver or smart computer games like adventure, puzzle and strategy games.

Educational programming is a wonderful thing. I knew my alphabet and how to write my letters before I hit kindergarten because of Sesame Street, and there's a lot of hate for Barney the Dinosaur, but it teaches a lot of wonderful values.

If this is still open I would love to be IN!!

I love point and click games and can not get enough of them!

My most MacGyver time was recently. I took over running (work) a used car business while our main man was out with bronchitis for two weeks. Day one I had no idea what I was getting myself into. I figured how hard will this be. I am around it anyway. Nah I was wrong. My first take after opening the front business... was to open the back garage for the mechanic. But the lock has long been destroyed and no key longer works in it. I was told "John opens it with a credit card." Hmm well if he can do it so can I =P So into my purse I go a looking. I find a old Spencers card. *You used to be a better store*
So I use my card to slide the lock open. So Day 1 of running the show I added breaking and entering to my resume. =)
*edit to add my moms MacGyver moment* =) Another B and E

When I was about 5 or 6 we got home from Karate to our new house to find out Mom let the house keys inside. She had her purse with her credit cards in it. My brother and I had a pen that you could pick the color and the pen top would pop out the top. Will link pic. So Super mom after trying her credit cards - breaking them -tried our pen and after about 5 minutes she broke into the house with a kids toy pen...we changed the locks the next day <-- Dad insisted. =)

I do not remember much from being young but boy do I remember this.. and one time on the way home from Karate again...she HAD to pull over to watch a baby cow being born. At the time my brother and I though ewww gross and she done lost her mind. But being older now I can understand why she had to pull over and watch. =)

EDIT: oh and she ruined the pen and told us she would get us another and I don't thinks he ever kept up her side of the bargain... brb I need to have a conversation with mom.. =P

an apple safari
and apple named their versions of mac os X after big cats
puma cheeta panther tiger leopard and snow leopard

tiger is 10.4
panther is 10.3

my imac cant boot off or install 10.3 only tiger or later
i dont have leopard but i do have snow leopard however my snow leopard disc is intel only

so i had to kludge things it boot off my tiger disc

Actually you couldn't do that in either game. There was an ad for Blood Money with this theme, though.

I love Sesame Street, although I'm even more fascinated with the Fraggles. Can't imagine why anyone would hate Barney the Dinosaur, those people must be real sour grouches.



Of course you can be in, think I'm gonna draw the winners tomorrow (Tuesday)

The credit card trick is a classic, did this with two colleagues back in senior high to get inside the teacher's prep room. In that room, there was one computer that contained all the stuff that teachers want to keep secret from the students. My colleagues stood guard at specific positions in the hallway so they could intercept any approaching teachers and warn me while I was inside the room. I just wanted to take a peek, I didn't manipulate anything on that computer. It was all about the subversive excitement, none of us had any criminal energy. I couldn't bare to stay in the room for very long, the mental pressure builds up to insane levels and one gets incredibly paranoid.

You did karate when you were 5-6 ?! When I was that age, all I did was scribbling spaceships on paper and playing LEGO :)
Need to get one of those kids toy pens, only had one of those once in my life but it didn't work anymore when I got my hands on it, only one of the colors would faintly create a line.


I thought only car and weapon manufacturers used big cat names, it's rather cliché. Think I prefer the pastry names Android uses, even if they sound awfully hipsterish.


That rubber ducky gives me the creeps, even more than Agent 47 himself!

Definitely THE MOST MacGyverish thing!!!
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Since I've already entered the "most MacGyverish" thing, I thought I'd share some of these others, but to be fair they should not be considered part of the giveaway:

1) Made a 5.25" floppy diskette double-sided with a hole puncher. Anyone remember doing that "hack"?
2) Bypassed erasing protection on audio and vcr cassettes with tape =P
3) Fixed toilet with paperclip: lever corroded and chain connecting it to flapper wouldn't stay attached. Used a paperclip to connect the two, but had to replace paperclip every so often because it too would rust away.

4) When I was a kid, I wanted to copy a VCR tape, but was too lazy to disconnect one VCR from the second floor, and bring it down to the first floor's VCR (plus the VCR on first floor was in an entertainment unit, so it was hard to get to in the back. We had cable (coaxial) wired throughout the house (in case we wanted TVs in every room...we did not, btw.) So, I switched the input/output coaxial's on my upstairs VCR, went down to the basement where the cable splitter was and reversed some of the wires. That made the upstairs VCR act as the broadcasting signal for the house. Then, it was just a matter of pressing Record on the downstairs VCR and madly running upstairs to hit Play on the second floor VCR!

I loved MacGyver and I guess its the same with how I like to do problem solving with non-conventional methods.

they stopped with lion and moved to natural environments
yosemite and mavericks so far

Plot twist: it's not a rubber duck, it's the target's heavily disfigured penis!

Anyone else think of fowl play when they read that?

Thank you very much! I'm looking forward to playing this one!

Haven't played Fowl Play but I was tainted by the Moorhuhn craze back in the day.

You're welcome!

Thank you very much awalterj! That was a really fun giveaway, and i enjoyed learning everyone's creative problem-solving techniques. Thanks for the game, and be sure you defrost your freezer, lol!

You're welcome! And I will defrost the fridge as "soon" as I take care of that thing I have store in there that must remain frozen (again, no human parts), I think it's been 8 years already...