March 15, 2012 scottcjones

[It’s day 75 of my grand “Man Vs. Donkey Kong” experiment. Only 26 more days to go. Why am I playing a level of Donkey Kong (Game Boy, 1994) each day for 101 days? Find out by starting back at the beginning.] One afternoon while watching television with my father, a nature show came on describing the plight of baby sea turtles. The mother turtle, the show explained, buried her eggs in the sand on a beach. Cue footage of a mother turtle, looking slow and mopey, burying her eggs with her fat flippers. When the babies hatched, they emerged from the sand,…