Yessir, work gets pretty boring sometimes. This time I started randomly thinking about word alchemy, a game from elementary school. The idea is that you start with the word lead, and turn it into the word gold. You can only change one letter at a time, and every time you change a letter, the new word that the previous word changes into has to be a word that can be found in the dictionairy. The classic solution for turning lead into gold is:

lead
load
goad
gold

But this conclusion was found for me, so I'd never bothered to come up with my own. ( Here's a whole bunch of stuff I did up while the machine was running (contains profanity, for those of you who mind such things). )

Well, I've decided to make a contest out of it. Whoever has the longest or shortest transformation sequence for each pair of words will get their own personal beer set aside for them at the Labour Day TBQ on Sept 3rd. If anyone submits the same transformation sequence that I have already made at this point, I'll give out an extra prize. If one is the same, Jenn and I will rent the movie of your choice to watch with you. If two are the same, we'll rent the movie of your choice to watch with you and prepare you a four course meal. If all three are the same, we'll do all of the above and provide wine as well.

The idea is to make Luke Skywaker into less of a wimp (I'm sorry, did you expect it to not be geeky?). This means giving him a role model to emulate, and who better than Captain Kirk? Although first we'll have to prove that Star Wars and Star Trek are compatable. And just in case all those over-the-head-double-hammer-fists that Luke's going to start throwing tempt him over to the dark side, we'd better be sure we can turn a sith into a jedi. In other words:

1: Turn "trek" into "wars"
2: Turn "luke" into "kirk"
3: Turn "sith" into "jedi"

Post your entries as responses to this blog entry. Change only one letter at a time, all words used except ones I've given have to be real words. You aren't allowed to use people's names (like Cedric), non-english words (like vache), fictional words (like ewok), or acronyms of any type (like CRA), but you CAN use the names of places (like Ghana), currencies (like schilling), languages (like gaelic) or items (like sushi), which might all be found in at least an online dictionairy. And, obviously, no made up words like "xquj". Contest closes when the TBQ starts.