Occult Society Hijinx

[undercrypt]

Montague Summers, one of the best regarded authorities of vampire lore of the early 20th century, had some interesting connections, and I wouldn't be surprised to learn that his occasional trips to France and Italy were for purposes other than getting a bit of fresh air in the country

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[asicath]

Lets make a web app, called contemporaries.com or something like that. It can have hooks into wikipedia, etc.

Unrelated, you don't have any experience being a project manager, do you? Anything even remotely close to project management will work. My company is looking to hire a number of developers and project managers.

[undercrypt]

That might be interesting. I don't think the data structure would be terribly complex, it's just displaying it in meaningful ways. Maps animated over time might work. Hmm.

I don't have any name-brand "project manager" experience, but I was in the process of working up to a sort of PM/BA at a company in the past before the management drove it into the ground. Let's talk.

[asicath]

Sounds good enough to me! I'm not the one making the decision though, we're pretty desperate for people though. We're downtown, 800 washington N and have a pretty nice office (with a foosball table). One of the bigger projects we just pushed out is www.reelzchannel.com . A project manager with technical knowledge is basicly a perfect fit for us, basicly what you would be doing is:

1. Keeping track of all the things that need to be done on a project and trying to keep the programmers on task.
2. Working with clients (mostly ad agencies) to organize meetings and requirement gathering, status reports, etc
3. Fighting for reasources. (not like in an RTS, mor eover programmers and qa people)

612-978-0274 is you want to talk about it, you can have an interveiw as early as monday if you'd like.

[undercrypt]

I'll assemble a resume that's something like current and get in touch. Thanks!

[cor_cordivm]

Essentially what you need is Kenneth Hite's brain with a search function. (http://princeofcairo.livejournal.com/) He's gamerdom's acknowledged master of secret history.

Lacking his brain . . . I'm a bit stumped. I know people have experimented with occult wikis, and I'm sure that someone, somewhere has compiled exactly the data you need. But I don't know if anyone has done the research _and_ written the software.

Have you asked this question of any secret history or occult history fora?

[undercrypt]

Essentially what you need is Kenneth Hite's brain with a search function.

There's a wonderful B-grade horror movie in there somewhere.

(browse browse browse) Think I'll add him to the friends list, all sorts of interesting things there. Thanks!

But I don't know if anyone has done the research _and_ written the software.

Sort of what I'm suspecting. The data is scattered all about (online, in biographies, in footnotes, etc.), but nothing is putting it all together.

Have you asked this question of any secret history or occult history fora?

...(blink)... Um, no. That would be far too sensible.

I'll just go do that then.

Right.

[cor_cordivm]

You're welcome. : ) If you ever get the chance to check out Hite's _Suppressed Transmission_ column at www.sjgames.com/pyramid, do. Unfortunately, it's subscription only; but he's brilliant at taking nuggets of secret and conspiratorial history and weaving exciting game ideas out of them.

It's probably just as well he's a muggle, or he'd be terrifying.

[undercrypt]

i'll bet that sourceforge.cia.gov would be a really neat website.

Cannot find server. Or is it only saying that? If I disappear tomorrow, you know why.

whatever the tool is, i don't think it can be static.

No, you're totally right, you need to be able to spin your viewpoint around from people to times to places. Sort of a spacetime pivot table.

have you ever seen the series Connections, by James Burke?

Nope, but that sounds about right.