Book Report: Thursday's Children
It's a "best of" collection of Curtis Chen's 512-words-or-fewer flash fiction. Short storylets, one or two scenes apiece; that's about enough space for some wry witty banter and/or to start noodling ...
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Puzzle Hunts are Everywhere, even Portland
*SPOILERS* Do you plan to play a game with Los Jefes? If so, beware of spoilers. I just posted a write-up about playing with them in the WarTron Game. After reading that write-up, you'll lose the fe...
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WarTron Spoiler: How We Didn't Enter the World of Tron
Once again, I'm writing about something that didn't happen during WarTron, which is the worst kind of spoiler, but sometimes you need to write about things that didn't happen. WarTron was based on t...
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Comment on GFPuzz's WarTron writeup
I tried leaving a comment on GFPuzz's WarTron writeup, but then LiveJournal told me my comment had been automagically marked as Spam. (I dunno why. Maybe because I use an OpenID account on LJ?) Anyho...
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WarTron Photos
I took photos at The WarTron Game. Other folks took photos of the WarTron Game. Please enjoy these photos of the WarTron Game. Special Bonus: also my Portland travelog of the stuff I did before WarTr...
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Pencil Bandolier: Overloaded
The other day I'm walking along and thinking Well it was quite a coincidence running into her here because (1) when am I ever in the Mission and (2) she moved to Switzerland which would normally be e...
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WarTron Spoiler
Warning: this post contains a WarTron spoiler. Actually, it's even worse than that, because this post will spoil the surprise of a puzzle but won't even give you the answer. What this is... This is a...
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Comic Report: Papercutter 15
I was up in Portland for the WarTron Game, but I got into town a couple of days early to visit with relatives and ask them to think of locations that might be used in the WarTron game. I was especial...
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Puzzle Hunts are Everywhere, even Portland
#wartron was pretty superb and Team Los Jefes was a great team to play with. Portland has some great locations, so there was a lot of "wow" as we piled out of the van. (I'm not sure that I recommend ...
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(#wartron) I paused just inside the arcade's front door to let my eyes adjust. Adjust to the low light; adjust to a new intensity of purpose. I was in an arcade. There was an arcade in Tron. GC had t...
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The vacuum museum turned out to be about vacuum cleaners, not vacuum memory. In a search for retro computeriana, this is what the point of diminishing returns looks like. ...
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Link: Robot Apocalypse
http://what-if.xkcd.com/5/ #wartron Randall Munro does not fear our hypothetical robotic overlords. ...
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Tron and WarGames: really thick doors
I'm "researching" for WarTron. I.e., I'm watching movies while waiting for batteries to recharge so that I can bring lots of batteries. I re-watched WarGames and Tron. Looking for elements in common....
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Now that's Tronsta: Identity Disc from Microsoft Puzzle Hunt 11.0. It still lights up! ...
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Now that's Tronsta: Clipped some glo-sticks to the pencil bandolier. Snapping a photo because, uhm, they might not stay attached very well, so I might not be able to run around and have these thin...
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