I have an urge lurking in the back of my head to write and run another larp some time in the not-so-distant future. I had suggested before running a pirate based larp, specifically so I could use the coins from Pieces of Eight (which incidentally is a very fun game, though rather expensive if you don't get the steep discount I had ( Read more... )

I've posted all the textual data for the Larp online, though that doesn't include Amber's last minute proofreadings and edits. Still, you can see everything that went on "behind the scenes" and run the game yourself, if you want ( Read more... )

That larp I'd been working on? Awesome. The game worked out really, really well. So very many awesome bits happened in the game ( Read more... )

the LARP we're having Saturday was planned to be more audio-visually ambitious than our previous games. Part of the point, as you may recall, was to make use of my new LCD projector. Now it looks like I can't hook the projector up to a laptop (it has some crazy proprietary hookup instead of a VGA port, and the cable is missing). So the ( Read more... )

Either August 4th or August 11th, in the evening, Amber and I will host an Orwellian/dystopian/totalitarian LARP game. If you're free one or both those weekends, let me know, so we can schedule it more fully. Full official invitation will be forthcoming.

On Sunday, our household acquired a new temporary roommate, Pat. He's staying until the beginning of August because his old apartment's lease ran out before he was able to find a new one ( Read more... )

When I got into work today, my only assigned task was to figure out why my coworker was unable to make his homemade infrared camera filter work. Not because the Media Center actually needed an IR filter for a digital camera; just because my coworker and manager thought it was neat ( Read more... )

In the last hour, I have become the owner of an aging LCD projector. Specifically, it's a InFocus LitePro 580, if that matters. It is kinda dim, though, so the room it is in will likely need to be otherwise dark for it to be visible. (Or could I use the dimness to my advantage, like projecting an image on the wall which is invisible with the ( Read more... )