And here's the other one...

( And all that jazz. )

Catching up on posting these.

( Cut for those spooked by spoilers and length. )

This isn't my recap of the 2011 Hunt. I don't know that I'll have the energy to do a really good full-length one like I did for 2009. For what it's worth, it was definitely an A++ Would Do This Team's Hunts Again sort of Hunt, even more so than S.P.I.E.S. was.

My one major gripe with this Hunt was with two of Zelda's three metas. I may write a post ( Read more... )

Shortly after our team won the 2009 MIT Mystery Hunt, as we were deciding what our theme should be, I proposed a structure whose explanation required a kinda-sorta taxonomy of metapuzzles. (The theme we eventually chose wound up being one that didn't really fit that sort of structure, but it had its own structural niftinesses.) jedusor recently asked me ( Read more... )

This one was my first attempt at logging; been sitting on it until the answers were published.
( Spoilery, spoilery stuff. )

Inspired by Veep's Solving Really Hard Puzzles, I've recently started logging my solves on multipuzzle extravaganzas. Now that the answers for zebraboy3 's outstanding Labor Day set Wishful Thinking are online, here's my log.

( Very, very spoilery. )

Hey, all.

So. Um. Been a while since I've posted.

I've meant to, certainly, but I haven't, and I'm not 100% sure why. I've particularly meant to post about the 2010 MIT Mystery Hunt and my role in it, but I suspect it's well past the point where I can post any sort of recap without raising eyebrows. Others (devjoe in particular) have done a great job of ( Read more... )

Posting this from Julia's computer ( Read more... )

Had a wonderful time at the @Cavewarming on Saturday night. We were expecting La Do La Li/Ti, ucaoimhu , and maybe Aleph and dalryaug ; we wound up with not only all four of them, but Sue++, devjoe , and a classmate of Julia's. Uc brought an excellent cryptic, Dal brought some excellent vegetables, and the others brought a variety of other excellent foodstuffs. Games ( Read more... )

This is where, if I had the energy, I'd write an LJ post about my move tomorrow morning. Likely topics would include: the packing process, the various hoops I've had to jump through (and still am jumping through) to get my money somewhere where I can actually use it, the goodbyes I've made to various people and places, all the things I'm going to ( Read more... )