A Little Good News
For those helping with The Virtual Race Across Texas to help raise money for the Democratic ballot by mail program in Texas, I have good news. We Won!
Good Afternoon Mr. Maxey,
Thank you for your participation in TSHA’s Virtual Race Across Texas. We appreciate your tremendous efforts in sharing the game with your friends on Facebook and promoting Texas history along the way. Additionally, we wanted to thank you for your membership with TSHA.
We are also happy to announce that you were the Top Scorer and Top Recruiter for the first week of the game! As such, you have won the San Antonio Prize Package and the YETI Cooler Prize package.
Additionally, you were selected as a Top 8 Texas Expert for week one and will be awarded a Virtual Race Across Texas T-Shirt.
Please note that you may only be selected as a Weekly Top Scorer, Top Recruiter, and Top 8 Texas Expert once during the race period. You are still eligible to win the Grand Prize and a Top 10 Player Prize, so be sure to keep playing!
So, thank you, thank you, thank you, but don’t quit, guys! This very cool stuff will be auctioned off and I figure we’ll raise at least $1,500 for it, maybe $2,000. The grand prize will be another $1,500 or more, so keep answering those questions!
Thank you again for your help, guys. Glen and I both really appreciate it.
I’m doing it, and it’s really interesting. It’s nice to know there’s a lot more to Texas than being overrun with vile, greedy Republican politicians. My view was getting pretty narrow.
1Great fun and learning Texas facts at the same time!
2I wish I could figure out how to play. I registered, but that’s all I’ve been able to do. Anyone have a tutorial?
3Playing along. Very easy open book. Only Trump could blow it.
4@larry from Colorado
5Check your email. You should be receiving (almost) daily questions from Brian Bollinger at TSHA. And it is open book! Youngest god-daugher “helped” me answer questions on Sunday.
I won a t-shirt!
6I was not aware that Yetis needed help keeping their beer cold.
7Yippie! I’m finding it a lot of fun as a relative newcomer to Texas.
8slipstream –
Yeah, but they need to be able to carry it.
Can a Yeti open a can or bottle? I’m unclear on their opposable thumb status.
9Lunargent . . .
Well, if they are primates (which seems likely) then, yes they do have opposable thumbs, however, they may not be fully functional . . .
A distinct characteristic of primates is their opposable thumbs. Opposable thumbs mean that the thumb is able to rotate and move independently of the other four fingers on the hand and helps in grabbing and manipulating objects. . . .
However, not all primates have fully opposable thumbs.
We can divide the primates into four groups based on their thumbs.
Tarsiers and marmosets have non-opposable thumbs.
The sub-order Strepsirrhini have pseudo-opposable thumbs and include lemurs, lorises, and galagos. The family Cebidae , also having pseudo-opposable thumbs, is a family of monkeys found in Central and South America, including capuchin and squirrel monkeys.
Primates with fully opposable thumbs include the Great apes (humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans) and Old World monkeys (those native to Asia and Africa) such as baboons and Colobus monkeys.
A fourth group of monkeys have comparatively long opposable thumbs. These are the gibbons, also referred to as lesser apes.
http://www.untamedscience.com/order/primates/
10I’m in and playing every day! Tons of fun!
11Marc Davis –
Uhh, okay. Thanks.
12Still not sure this applies in cryptozoology. But I’m going with Yes.