December 2009
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Ending the decade with a flash-bang
On Sunday 27 December, the day after the day after Christmas, LA’s Wise Guys (Myles and Greg) returned to their home town of Berkeley CA and invited friends and family to participate in their newest real-life adventure game, Camera Assassins. 23 teams of 2 swarmed around the North Gate of UC Berkeley’s campus and attempted to complete a photo scavenger hunt while evading their killers...
Wwish Hunt →
Seems we’ve been linked to on this blog that’s about… hunting? We’re not quit sure. Maybe you can tell us. Tthanks Wwish Hunt!
Games around the world
You are reading, to my knowledge, the only (non-video) games themed blog in LA. Bravo you! If there are others, please let me know so I can start reading and linking to them!
We have no more games scheduled in LA for the rest of the year, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t start planning which games to play in 2010. And while you’ll want to be sure to play as many Wise Guys...
Red bikini briefs
“If you’re in your underwear, it’s a nightmare. If you’re clothed, it’s PowerPoint Karaoke.”
That’s the log line. I took them very seriously. Why do anything the easy way?
In a PowerPoint Karaoke competition, you make a presentation on slides you have never seen before. Sounded easy, so I decided to make the challenge extra difficult.
It must have...
2 giant balls and loads of fun
I have posted before about the badly typed, passive-aggressive notifications I occasionally receive from one particular meet-up group’s facilitator. I do enjoy them so. Here is the newest one from over the weekend:
Hey Everyone. Tomorrow is Super Soccer. Are you telling me you do not want to play a game of soccer with 6 balls, 2 giant balls and loads of fun. This is game is not about...
CBS invited all 301 Survivor cast plus crew to... →
I’m getting ready to watch the first new episode in 2 weeks. What will Russell do with immunity idol #3? Extra special treat for me: I get to watch when it airs instead of seeing it tomorrow on the CBS web site. T minus 22 minutes!
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I'm a winner!
Last year I wanted to try my hand at the annual National Novel Writing Month, observed in November, but I was planning a pesky December wedding and my attention was divided. For the record, I can now say with some hindsight that my priorities were in order.
But that was November of 2008. In November of 2009, I set my hand to writing a novel in 30 days. The expectation I set, as I said to more...
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Up In the Air
Excited as we are about Jason Reitman’s new movie starring George Clooney, that’s actually not what we’re talking about. We’re talking about 10 red weather balloons hidden around the country on Saturday December 5th. My birthday.
Call it crowd sourcing, call it hive mind, call it a government attempt to test the capacity of its Big Brother style surveillance, any way you...
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Holiday parties are a waste of money
That’s a controversial statement, perhaps worthy of Scrooge. Personally, I don’t buy it.
But if I were to play devil’s advocate, I could make a case defending that thesis— no problem.
The best reason to throw a holiday party for your office is because people expect it. Your team works hard all year long. By throwing a party for the office, you give them a little...