The Friday Fillip

A snow day across much of the country today, a day at any event for taking it easy as the holidays approach. So nothing of any moment in the fillip today. In fact today it’s a Friday Flip.

Flip is a game devised to show some of the things that can be done with Adobe Air. But for us, today, it’s simply a game. You can play it online, or you can download it to run on your desktop, if you have Air installed. The idea is simply to cause tiles to flip so that three of a kind lie in a row — and to do that often enough to go from level to level within the time limits. Simple? You betcha. Fun? Sure. Now, if you play it at work you may want to mute the sound, but I love the “plop” noises tiles make as they flip.

So relax. Keep half an eye on the weather, and devote the rest of your attention to the more-or-less mindless business of flipping tiles.