Crud the game

I was recently at a company offsite that really epitomized for my why Amazon is such a great place to work.  The mix of creativity, passion, and fun made for a highlight of the year.  It occurred to me that a great entertainment event for future would be a Crud tournament (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crud_%28game%29 and http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=crud+game&oq=crud+game).  Have others played this, or seen it deployed at a larger scale (150 person) setting?

Ideas:

• Multiple pool tables required.  
• You can have a nice round-robin, and then get into a tournament bracket to establish champions.
• You could imagine using projectors well for the tournament bracket (NCAA March Madness style).

Reasons I'd advocate for Crud:

• Unique - most people haven't played it before.
• Newcomer welcome - anyone can learn to play.
• Good mix of skill, strategy, and luck.  This helps newcomers feel like they can contribute, but also keeps people engaged because there's opportunity to get better.

Stuff About Food

The subject of food has come across my path recently. There's been discussions with my Dad while helping with some small projects for Chuckanut Bay Foods. When hiking Chirripo, the hostel owners shared a lot with me about NAFTA's effects on Costa Rica and Mexico's food production. Amazon's blog had a recent interview with the directors of the new documentary Food, Inc. I suspect this isn't coincidence. What has piqued my interest is realizing that it is a justice issue and that real lives are affected by it. There are the GREEN reasons too, but environmental reasons aren't as engaging as people reasons for me. We'll see what comes of this.