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ARGs

Last weekend’s DASH puzzle hunt

September 18, 2009

Some­thing that I men­tioned to a num­ber of peo­ple in real life, but I do not think I blogged or tweeted about much was the DASH puz­zle hunt that I attended last week­end.  DASH stands for “Dif­fer­ent Area, Same Hunt.”  As the name some­what implies, a num­ber of dif­fer­ent cities around the coun­try par­tic­i­pated in […]

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ARGfest-o-con 2009

August 9, 2009

ARGfest was a few week­ends ago.  For those not in the know, this is a con­ven­tion for peo­ple who design (both pro­fes­sion­ally and as a hobby) and play Alter­nate Real­ity Games (ARGs).  The most notable ARGs are mar­ket­ing cam­paigns for video games, movies, and TV shows and are played out over medi­ums like web­sites, telephones, […]

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My Portland Event Calendar

July 11, 2009

Here are a few things I am inter­ested in around Portland:

Thurs­day July 16: Ignite Port­land 6 — “If you had five min­utes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated auto­mat­i­cally after 15 sec­onds? Around the world geeks have been putting together Ignite nights to show their […]

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Gunnerkrigg Court

April 5, 2009

I think I have come to the con­clu­sion that any rec­om­men­da­tion by Andrea Phillips is going to be some­thing I like.  This con­clu­sion is wildly drawn from exactly two dat­a­points, but I stand by it for now.  Sev­eral months back, she men­tioned Escape Pod, a pod­cast of sci­ence fic­tion short sto­ries, and I have been […]

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Dharma Wants You!  Yes, you–over there, with the hidden video camera.

July 29, 2008

For those that may have missed out, there seems to be a new game for the LOST tele­vi­sion show!  Those that saw the sea­son finale may remem­ber the com­mer­cial for Octa­gon Global Recruit­ing.  This hinted at something-or-other hap­pen­ing at Comi­con.  If you signed up to be on the mail­ing list, one of the emails you […]

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Non-ARG, Bellydance Weekend!

July 21, 2008

As I’ve lamented in var­i­ous other places, this week­end was not ARGfest for me (despite con­flict­ing pho­to­graphic “evi­dence”.) In fact, until recently, I was expect­ing to fol­low it from home and help out where I could with Fes­tQuest puz­zles and/or other tasks that might pop up.  Unfor­tu­nately, Kim’s help at her event this previous […]

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ARGfest

July 13, 2008

ARGfest (and the accom­pa­ny­ing Dark Knight screen­ing) is about a week away.  I’d really like to be with the rest of you in Boston, but with the new house and bud­gets being what they are, Kim and I need to be up in Seat­tle at a bel­ly­dance event, not tak­ing a sec­ond vaca­tion.  (As you […]

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Harvey Dent believes in me

March 15, 2008

In a time where we are con­stantly get­ting bar­raged by polit­i­cal mes­sages about pres­i­den­tial can­di­dates, it is refresh­ing to receive a pack­age from a can­di­date run­ning for a less lofty posi­tion.  In this case, it is Har­vey Dent run­ning for Dis­trict Attor­ney of Gotham.  I am not entirely sure that I live in the correct […]

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The Lost String

March 2, 2008

A curi­ous pack­age arrived yes­ter­day while I was out.  I did not hear about it until later in the after­noon, and by that time the house was begin­ning to get over­run with bel­ly­dancers, so the pho­to­set had to wait until today.  It was sent from 1920 Olympic Way in San Francisco–a fic­tional address, but one […]

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Professor Layton

February 16, 2008

I picked up Pro­fes­sor Lay­ton and the Curi­ous Vil­lage the other day for the Nin­tendo DS.  It is a great game that I am really enjoy­ing.  I almost hate to admit it, but Penny Arcade’s comic com­men­tary on the game is pretty darn accu­rate.  As much as I love puz­zles, a good major­ity of them […]

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You Suck At Photoshop 6

February 15, 2008

There’s a new You Suck at Pho­to­shop, the Liquify tool.  Unfor­tu­nately, I feel they’re get­ting a lit­tle less funny over time.  There also seems to be some kind of game or Chaotic Fic­tion wrapped in with the videos (see also: this Unfic­tion thread for more detail.)

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A real-life ARG

January 26, 2008

This story of the search for the owner of a dig­i­tal cam­era left in a taxi reads like a real-life ARG.  The fam­ily who found the cam­era poured through hun­dreds of pho­tos and sev­eral videos in a search for clues about the peo­ple in the pho­tos and the places they vis­ited.  Using just those clues, […]

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