Mini-golf

Tom and I used to have silly competitions in college about who could get the high score in the latest stupid flash game and stuff like that. (Had we competed in something important, clearly he would have won 100% of the time.) One day some fraternity members got hooked on this flash mini-golf game.

The game was not without its bugs, such as the possibility of hitting impossibly strong shots, and soon the challenge became to get a hole in one on every single hole. Tom and I lived next to each other, and for a week or two we were back and forth between rooms wasting time with stupid stuff like "On Hole 8, if you put the cursor on the third square from the left, then move it down two pixels and click, the ball will bounce off the walls 6 times and go right in the cup."

This continued until we both could score 19 with regularity. But Hole 17, our nemesis, proved elusive. Eventually I gave up and moved on to other time-wasting activities. But Tom, in true Tom fashion, kept trying. One day I came into his room and there it was - he had scored 18, taken a screenshot of the scorecard, and had made it his desktop wallpaper. I don't know how long that wallpaper stayed there (I think at least until the end of the school year), but it taunted me the whole time...

- Joe