Insofar as we're next door to you, we may need to talk next year about a Blue Ribbon/Indian food exchange program.
(And maybe a less distracting door sign...though the more I think about it, the more confused I am about how my lecture notes ended up as your team's sign, because now I'm thinking the person I lent those notes to is actually on the team one down from you, and not your team after all. OK, so where did that sign come from?)
As for our sign, it was thrown together quickly a few hours into our first ever hunt when we realized that without signage of some sort people were just going to keep wandering in thinking that we were their team's second room.
One day I hope to acquire a real team logo, in the meantime it serves its purposes.
But it...it's...so slides 8-9 from my lecture notes on ciphers are here-same illustration of Caesar shifting, same font, same use of red to mark the relevant line...
I suppose it's probably just a coincidence, but you can understand how extraordinarily jarring it is to walk past.
Incidentally, if I recall correctly, II&F didn't really have a logo until we had to make a flag for some puzzle or another. (It's visible in the background of this user icon.) But it's stuck with us.
Thanks so much for the wedding present! It caused much amusement in our HQ. We definitely weren't anticipating that teams would bring gifts.
And it's interesting to get the perspective of small teams. We're very large, but we tried to write something that small teams would enjoy, so I like seeing how it turned out.
I understand completely. I actually started this team four years ago because I wanted to play and it apparently didn't occur to me to inquire as to whether or not an established team would take me in. Nobody on our team has ever hunted with anyone else so as a result, we're making everything up as we go along. As you can imagine the end result is that I love getting a peak into what life is like on a "real team" and when I'm struggling with team logistical issues I always wish I knew just a little bit more about how some of the other teams are organized.
Hunt was fabulous! Many, many thanks to you and your team for all your hard work.
In the interest of being neighborly-and no Indian food exchange required for this-I'm happy to talk about the way our team runs (which works out to "pretty well, in the end". I'm reachable by email (this username, at suberic.net), if you feel inclined.
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(And maybe a less distracting door sign...though the more I think about it, the more confused I am about how my lecture notes ended up as your team's sign, because now I'm thinking the person I lent those notes to is actually on the team one down from you, and not your team after all. OK, so where did that sign come from?)
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"Fork over the ribs and nobody dies!"
As for our sign, it was thrown together quickly a few hours into our first ever hunt when we realized that without signage of some sort people were just going to keep wandering in thinking that we were their team's second room.
One day I hope to acquire a real team logo, in the meantime it serves its purposes.
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I suppose it's probably just a coincidence, but you can understand how extraordinarily jarring it is to walk past.
Incidentally, if I recall correctly, II&F didn't really have a logo until we had to make a flag for some puzzle or another. (It's visible in the background of this user icon.) But it's stuck with us.
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I am amused by that animated gif, particularly the suggestion that a real duck might make things simpler!
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And it's interesting to get the perspective of small teams. We're very large, but we tried to write something that small teams would enjoy, so I like seeing how it turned out.
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Hunt was fabulous! Many, many thanks to you and your team for all your hard work.
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