Events
July 31st, 2010 @ 9:00pm
The city spreads out before you. Rushing from point to point, lit by the slow strobe of fluorescent buses in dark streets. Stumbling into situations for a stranger's signature. Fleeing unknown pursuers, breathing hard, admiring the landscape and the multitude of worlds hidden in it.
For one night, drop your relations, your work and leisure activities, and all your usual motives for movement and action, and let yourself be drawn by the attractions of the chase and the encounters you find there.
Are you ready for adrenalin rushing through your veins?
For the most exciting run ever?
For an adventure you won’t forget for a long time???
Munich city spreads out before you!
Feel the excitement! Don’t trust anybody!
Are you full of curiosity by now??
Then check out our web site for more information:
http://www.journeymunich.com/
We will email you the meeting point after registration.
The event is limited to 260 people, so hurry up!
Please spread the word to others
and bring your friends, family and/or enemies on the:
July 31rd, 2010 at 9 PM
JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE NIGHT – MUNICH 2010
August 7th, 2010 @ 2:00pm
Lots of information at http://ctfwsinthepark.com/index.html .
Stuff is an important concept in game design. Arkanoid is Pong with stuff. Starcraft is Chess with stuff. Settlers of Catan is Monopoly with stuff. Well, many years ago some folk over at Carnegie Mellon University decided to make Capture the Flag with Stuff (CTFWS, pronounced cut-uh-fwus).
It's like traditional CTF, there are two teams with their own territories in which they place and protect flags, but there are items you can use to have abilities you wouldn't otherwise. Examples include a wand that lets you capture enemies in their own territory, and a belt that makes everyone who is linked arms with you, and is currently skipping and singing "yankee doodle" at the top of their lungs immune to capture.
Go check out http://ctfwsinthepark.com/index.html for full rules, directions, and for information updates as the date progresses.
February 7th, 2011 @ 5:00pm
This event originated in the spell-checker of my friend's cell phone. He had entered "Super Bowl," but the phrase was auto-corrected to Superb Owl. When my friend reported this, I knew that a Superb Owl party was in my future. And now I wish to share this delight with others.
A Superb Owl party is expected to spend at least fifteen minutes in your living room, but it is permitted to continue, or to begin, in other places of your choosing. The Superb Owl, that fine-feathered object of admiration, is to be fêted in all ways that seem appropriate in the moment. Participants may practice the Silent Swoop or may learn owl calls on the Cornell Ornithology site; the Barred Owl is one of the more challenging.
The only forbidden activity is watching the television, EXCEPT for the kickoff of the Super Bowl and the five (5) minutes following. It is conventional in some households to include this as part of the party, but others feel this is an appalling breach of taste; you are expected to follow the lead of your host in this respect.
Much to the dismay of more devout practitioners, some Superb Owl celebrants actually never bring up the owl at all in their festivities, but are content to use the occasion as a random excuse for a party.
Participation in a Superb Owl party in the Era of Everyday Life fulfills the task Puns of the Navarone.
February 29th, 2012 @ 12:00am to 11:59pm
February 29th, Leap Day, is an extra day. In most years, it doesn't exist.
But this year, it does.
Let us, then, take advantage of this nonexistant day, and, in the words of a co-worker of famous Japanese novelist/copy-writer/game-designer Shigesato Itoi...
Let's pretend this day never existed and try out stuff with a freedom from what we normally do.
Skip work! Ignore your responsibilities! Everyone reading this - skip work and enjoy it! Wander around town aimlessly and for no good reason!
Go to the movies! Eat fatty foods! Bother people! Break promises! Buy weird clothes and put it on! Throw out important stuff to you! Say stuff you shouldn't!
Let's use this extra day of Feb. 29th to do lots of stuff we never do!
Today is a good day to task.
You have your orders.
