http://sf0.org/ The Paraleisural Game of Freedom and Adventure Playtime Anti-Boredom Society http://sf0.org/SFmedia/rss.gif http://sf0.org/ The Paraleisural Game of Freedom and Adventure http://sf0.org/heathergalaxy/Drive/ This task is the epitome of BRIGHT SHINY... allowing oneself to move to where ever you feel attracted to. I had been eying this task for awhile but it never felt right until today: July 4th. Me being in the United States and residing in DC, where fireworks are totally legal, this provided a perfect opportunity to do this task. What else but BRIGHT SHINY fireworks would lead me wandering around DC? DC for me is more built for the Reversed-Polarity Dérive, as it definitely repels me more than att... Completed Tasks Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:16:42 -0700 http://sf0.org/deathbysteveo/Drive/ Wake Time: 6:00am Breakfast: Egg Salad Sandwiches Ending Time: 2:00pm (approx) Starting Area: 18th St. & Clark St., Chicago, IL Weather: Sunny & Warm Apparel: Improper Clothing & Footwear Lunch: Pizza Survivors: 2/2 (Note: Please watch video in proof files for full effect.) We've been in SF0 for a little while now, and we've always wanted to do the Dérive but never knew where or when. Well, it turned out that Kristin got the 3rd of July off, which she did... Completed Tasks Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:13:42 -0700 http://sf0.org/smedly/Reversed-Polarity-Drive/ Today is Independance Day. Consequently, the library was closed, so instead of finding something nice to read, I decided to embark on this Reversed-Polarity Dérive. Completed Tasks Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:32:42 -0700 http://sf0.org/Amoeb4man/This-Is-Not-The-Task-You-Are-Looking-For/ I had originally planned to do this task on Sponty as revenge for his Personalized Spam task, but his computer came down with a virus and he hasn't been online in a while, so I wasn't really in the mood to wait. Mark my words, Sponty- I'll get you yet. I knew there was no way I could lie to someone in person, I can never keep a straight face. Therefore, I decided I would do it to someone on my Skype contacts list. I logged on, and sure enough, a good pal of mine who goes by the moniker "B... Completed Tasks Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:15:29 -0700 http://sf0.org/DAX/Journey-to-the-End-of-the-Night-DC/ All honors to Spidere for hosting Journey in DC. This was the largest attendance for any SFØ game in the States, run in the nation's capital during a police high-alert, right in front of the White House. His game caused two arrests, a semi-broken leg, and countless sprained ankles. Spidere also single-handedly quelled the impending rain with some ritual involving internet ponchos. He also put me up in his very own bed, and fed me various deliciousnesses. Completed Tasks Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:32:02 -0700 http://sf0.org/freakscout/Document-documentation/ Reading the man page for man(1) To begin, you will need to be at a Unix command prompt. If you are using Unix or a suitable variant, simply log in or, if you're running an X session, drop back to text mode. Mac OS X users will find Terminal.app in Applications --> Utilities. Windows users, you have a few options: One, download and install PuTTY, obtain a free Unix shell account, and log in; or two, download and install Cygwin and double-click cygwin.bat to run bash.exe in a command-prompt wi... Completed Tasks Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:29:22 -0700 http://sf0.org/TheWalrus/Time-and-medical-attention-Heals-All-Wounds/ The injury: A broken bone in my left hand, just below the fourth finger. I went swimming in rough surf, got knocked over, and broke a small but apparently vital bone in my hand. Below the task is documented in picture form. What I Learned (Before I got round to telling anyone I was injured, someone else had a minor medical problem and requested emergency room attention. I ended up escorting the person to the E.R) GETTING MEDICAL ATTENTION 1. It is very hard to explain, during any stage of t... Completed Tasks Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:24:27 -0700 http://sf0.org/Absurdum/Night-Photography/ Well, here I sit preparing to embark on this task... I have to wait til my soup cooks, and cellphone charges. You'd not think that this would be a part of this challenge, but the sad truth is that a near neighbour died last week walking this neighbourhood at night. He turned an ankle while cutting through someone's back garden, and died of hypothermia. The serach the whole neighbourhood and found him 3 days later when the people living there returned home from a short holiday... Thus a belly ful... Completed Tasks Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:33:07 -0700 http://sf0.org/Xaxio/Object-Annotation/ I worked with Brix on this project. The instructions did not say the feelings have to be about the public object, so we described our feelings over the past 2 days. This actually helped us let out a lot of steam about work, and it let Brix see a part of Tampa from a view he hasn't seen before. It let ME see how much the place has changed since I was last there. This picture was actually taken just a few feet from the tall round building that appears in the movie "The Punisher". Completed Tasks Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:03:06 -0700 http://sf0.org/Masoncation/Rephotography/ Stalingrad. Leningrad. Moscow. All famous battles fought by our Soviet allies in the second great war of the 20th century. Russian soldiers were their nations cannon fodder. As Joseph Stalin once said, "In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance." Behind Russian infantry lay officers with machine guns who were more than willing to shoot at their brothers in arms if they were to fall back, even if the opposing forces greatly outnumbered them. We have always been f... Completed Tasks Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:14:57 -0700 http://sf0.org/AnThOnyB925/Escape-to-the-Camera/ When i first saw this task i thought that i needed a cool location to do this in. As i pondered the task it came too me that it dosent matter where u do this its how u do this. so i went out to my backyard and thought about all the diferent running drills you can do. I tried quite a few and snaped away pictures. i came back to my room hopeing for the best. most of the pictures didnt turn out very good but i got a few. runing in reverse i got my dog draged her behind the camera and let he... Completed Tasks Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:59:32 -0700 http://sf0.org/Voo/Trespassing/ This is a resubmission. I unsubmitted my first praxis after Harry Lee called me out for using one proof for two praxes. He's totally right, it was completely lame of me. So I've lost the 5 votes I had prior to unsubmission. In the spirit of true SF0 adventuring, I present to you the following. You should read my praxis for Trespassing The Future first. If you already have, you know that there is a huge apartment complex undergoing erection right across the street from my apartment complex. You... Completed Tasks Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:13:06 -0700 http://sf0.org/somestrangeflea/Exquisite-Drive/ Payback is a Bitch26th May 2008, 08:30I step off a bus into the centre of Ballymena, and begin a fifteen minute or so walk to a place called Ballykeel. On my way, I walk past the Tower Centre. I told Kyle I'd meet him there at 10:30. This was a lie.26th May 2008, 08:45I arrive in Ballykeel, and go to a bus stop near to the entrance of the housing estate Kyle resides in. My plan is simple. Draw arrows from here to wherever my Dérive takes me, then return to the bus stop and draw backwards arrows... Completed Tasks Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:41:35 -0700 http://sf0.org/mercurious/Left-Handed-Screwdriver/ ive wanyterfd tto mfdop tyhi9sd tassk as "noo-handed svcrewfdriver" asnfd topi9daaqy i fiinaqlly7 di8d ithyuiu., rtqeweelve ho09ursad wi95th nio handws!@QW To save you from having to interpret further, I wrote the rest of this praxis after I gained access to my hands again. Seeing as I am ambidextrous, disabling my dominant hand was going to be a problem, so I did what any self-respecting ambidextrous player would do: I spent the day without the use of either hand. Disabling my han... Completed Tasks Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:55:57 -0700 http://sf0.org/Voo/Not-The-intended-Use/ Yesterday I got new shoes! Brown maryjane Crocs. They are made of some space age polymer plasticstuff and are quite neat. I've had this task on my to-do list for awhile now. I have thought of plenty of ways to do it, but I wanted to wait for the perfect idea. And then it came to me! In order to christen a new boat, they douse it with a smashed bottle of champagne. To christen my new shoes, I would get ultra-classy and super-fancy and drink champagne out of my new "slipper." As y... Completed Tasks Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:52:50 -0700 http://sf0.org/Loki/Drop-Outs-Have-More-Fun/ Special Guest Burn Unit came to SF and met up with Loki, anna one, Lank, and Surprise Special Guest - Spidere! We gathered downtown on a lovely Sunday evening, and decided to do some off-the-cuff tasking that night. While a number of suggestions were presented (apparently Burn Unit and Spidere would have met up at Sutro Tower for an Arbitrary Rendezvous, while Bex and Loki would have been at Doorhenge; Spidere had a variety of Maps which could be Misused over San Francisco, including Disneyland... Completed Tasks Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:23:04 -0700 http://sf0.org/tachaberdash/Drive/ Good Fences and a Bad Neighbor Or: How I Found Religion and a Tiny Porcelain Polar Bear Things have been a bit slow at the agency lately. I've got fewer clients than Jack Thompson, and less to do than Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer on the other 364 days of the year. As a result, I've been amusing myself as best I can. So this morning (read: afternoon) I was lying in bed, fully clothed, playing with a collection of multicolored superballs when it hit me. I needed to get out. I leapt out of bed, ... Completed Tasks Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:03:05 -0700 http://sf0.org/Voo/Trespassing-the-Future/ (This praxis is combined with my praxis for Trespassing.) We moved into our apartment complex in February 2007. When we moved in, there was a row of houses across the street (Aldrich Ave) from us, and a parking lot on the corner of Lake and Aldrich. In summer '07, they knocked all the houses down. While that was delightfully fun to watch (who doesn't like watching a wrecking ball take out a 3BR/2BA house?) we wouldn't have enjoyed it as much if we'd realized what was to come. They immediatel... Completed Tasks Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:30:48 -0700 http://sf0.org/kristingish/Rephotography/ Dairy & Flax Seed: The History of Schaumburg, IL Following the Blackhawk War, through the period of 1835-1850, large numbers of immigrants began arriving in the Schaumburg Township. The lay of the land was good as well as the lay of the women, no I'm kidding. Schaumburg's resident farmers came mostly from Schaumburg-Lippe Germany. There was only a slight English presence in the beginning which made it a bit of a struggle for English settlers, especially because the main language at t... Completed Tasks Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:15:15 -0700 http://sf0.org/lauxthefox/Trespassing-the-Future/ Today my friend Andy and I went to a very large and fantastically famous cemetery in North St. Louis (near where Minxy and I did the Night Photography task). According the the lovely brochure, Bellefontaine Cemetery is: -Recognized as an arboretum as well as a sculptural museum. -The very first "rural" cemetery west of the Mississippi River. -Designed by noted 19th century landscape architect Almerin Hotchkiss. -Final resting place for 86,000 souls and ... Completed Tasks Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:53:06 -0700