Word: capacitor
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While the game largely proceeded without technical difficulties, at one point, the Risk Web site noted that users were accidentally allowed to create multiple accounts. Then around 3:30 p.m., in place of the scoreboard, the Web site announced, “Oops, John Drake broke the flux capacitor...give us a minute or two.” John T. Drake ’06 is the “fun czar...
...heart, he is. A science-fiction fan, he has all the tapes of the original Battlestar Galactica TV show from the '70s. In Iraq, he used his reputation as an auto mechanic to play practical jokes on the unsuspecting. "I'd tell 'em to go get a flux capacitor," he says, laughing that his Guard buddies didn't catch the Back to the Future reference. His favorite game remains Warhammer, a tabletop battlefield game in which real-world strategies are played out with miniature soldiers. He builds his own figures, mixing Warhammer components, like its Imperial Guard ("the National Guard...