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I did Santarchy for the first time in several years last night.

It's tripled in scale since I last did it... there were close to 1000 Santas rampaging around the city, getting drunk, being merry, and otherwise messing with the heads of people new to the city.


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Last weekend I had about 10 people over to try out the flavor tripping tablets that remap your taste buds so that sour things taste sweet, alcohol tastes milder, and bitter things taste weird.

We tried at least 40 different foods and drinks.  I had the guests rate each edible item based on how much of a change there was from before to after taking ( Read more... )

First flavor tripping experiments:

(I've already tried lemon, lime, grapefruit, orange, gin, pickles, olives, vanilla vodka, gin)

Here's how things have been transformed
- Tomatoes (I *hate* tomatoes) -- tasted like candy for 5 seconds, then the familiar disgusting flavor hit.
- Broccoli -- much milder and sweeter
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The Halloweaster party came off really well, and by some definitions is still going on.  The decorations, drinks, and food were all fantastic.  Thanks to K for coming over and putting all the food and the rabbit-blood martinis together.  I had loads of fun creating laser-cut decorations.


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My pictures from the ABL party are online.
People are getting older and having kids. Not that it's stopping them.


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