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Dérive by teucer, Haberley Mead

May 29th, 2008 9:22 PM

INSTRUCTIONS: Among the various situationist methods is the dérive [literally: 'drifting'], a technique of transient passage through varied ambiances. In a dérive one or more persons during a certain period drop their usual motives for movement and action, their relations, their work and leisure activities, and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there.

One can dérive alone, but all indications are that the most fruitful numerical arrangement consists of several small groups of two or three people who have reached the same awakening of consciousness, since the cross-checking of these different groups' impressions makes it possible to arrive at objective conclusions.

The full text...

Undertake a dérive, and report your objective conclusions to your fellow players.

Minch Niddle

I have a head flu. Possible fever.

My brain feels drunk and utterly detached from my body and though I tried to work today, that turned out to be a terrible idea... and so my boss sent me home after finding me resting my head on an ice cold water bottle. While enjoying my surrealistic ride home on the bus I started rambling through thoughts in my head and realized.... as I've wanted to Dérive for quite some time and currently find myself fairly bedridden...

A mental Dérive is in order...

This may be a bit like Alice falling down the rabbit hole...

So for starters. I get home. Start up my computer. Skype starts up... and low and behold my computer is taken over by a sfø chat room that then turns into a conference call bombarded by internet strangers. Chaos. Mass Chaos. Or rather, as I like to name it, a cluster f*ck of voices

only one of which I can recognize (Lincoln).

I had planned to go on an intellectual journey... but the skype thing happened and well... I went where it took me.

As far as wandering without purpose or plan goes... I'd say this chat room is pretty much the best you can do with that, without leaving one's bed.


Best Sick Day Ever.

What I discovered in my derive:
1) Lincoln sort of owns the chat world - I mean, he DID interview Bob Marely...

(I couldn't stop laughing, I was in tears at one point)


2) Singers from Bangladesh are pretty friendly (we're welcome to visit anytime)


3) Bruce Wayne is real and frequents skype.


4) We are all pretty much nerds...
who find sex sex jokes funny


and like to torment one another (Ben, apparently I am not as nice as you think, since I did load this, but I kept the full clip, which means you look silly with company)



5) We even worked in a plug for lowteck


Listening to a Dali painting for the win. So hard to get the full picture when one's furniture is melting. This is making my brain fever worse. While I am listening to (aww there was Ben's voice, so sweet) all this chaos the only thing I want to do is place cold hands palm down across my face, neck and back. Anyone, right, that's a normal fever response. Desire for cold hands.



Do not worry if you are confused. It is all confusion. And fear. Like a nightmare I can't wake up from. It was over 2 hours of audio -- yes 2 hours. You can hear me typing madly in some spots. I had a google chat gong too, Interweb derive at it's best.

I am sick + Derive = 2+hours of skypecast insanity.

I then proceeded to remain delirious for a few more hours before realizing that what I needed was to eat pizza....
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...while taking a bath
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fever, what can I say - at least it turned out to be a good idea.


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I added some collaborators from the chat to share in my glory, unfortunately, they can't hear the clips, so they have - or rather - Doktor has chosen to trust my judgment. Let's hope I don't disappoint...

**EDIT**
So, obviously there were many many more people involved in my mental derive... but it seems I can only add two collaborators. So, I would like to say: GYØ Ben was there, and he was wonderful... and since he thinks Minch = Heart, well, I pretty much adore him

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posted by Minch on May 29th, 2008 9:32 PM

This is what happens when I am sick...

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posted by Tøm on May 29th, 2008 9:39 PM

There was oh so much more Bruce Wayne.

So much more...

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posted by Minch on May 29th, 2008 9:42 PM

yes. i know. but editing through 2+ hours was starting to give me a head ache...

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posted by Tøm on May 29th, 2008 9:48 PM

It's a good thing that it was not all released onto the public.

Various heads may have imploded from sheer levels of oddity.

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posted by Minch on May 30th, 2008 12:04 PM

all heads would have exploded at full exposure to BW

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posted by Tøm on May 30th, 2008 12:15 PM

We were lucky, the terrible connections we have must have shielded us slightly.

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posted by Minch on May 30th, 2008 12:27 PM

delays were the only thing keeping us alive i think.

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posted by Lincøln on May 30th, 2008 1:15 PM

My connection was great. I got a full exposure.



I had to go outside and take a walk right in the middle of one of his rants.

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posted by Minch on May 30th, 2008 2:04 PM

i know. i should have included that clip.

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posted by Burn Unit on May 30th, 2008 5:36 PM

BW? Batwoman? I think his voice was familiar...

almost... senatorial...

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posted by Minch on May 30th, 2008 5:43 PM

Burn Unit -- I thought that too... many many times.... but unless said senator admits to shenanigans... well, we will just have to speculate.

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posted by Burn Unit on May 30th, 2008 5:44 PM

Shoot, well he's, like, the papa of all shenaniganery, right?

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posted by Minch on May 30th, 2008 6:12 PM

speaking of shenanigans... plotting tasks while figuring out a way to incorporate my bath tub = pretty awesome.

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posted by Lincøln on May 29th, 2008 9:41 PM

Wow, just as surreal as when it happened...

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posted by teucer on May 29th, 2008 9:48 PM

Not entirely.

I mean, we don't have the clip about broccoli hills.

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posted by Jellybean of Thark on May 29th, 2008 10:24 PM

Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb!

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posted by GYØ Ben on May 30th, 2008 11:43 AM

Oh Minch, you are such a flirt :)

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posted by Minch on May 30th, 2008 11:46 AM

Perhaps... but it is always sincere flirt-ery that comes from the sweetest place inside my gushy heart.

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posted by Non Players on June 1st, 2008 10:26 AM

We are a big part of some tasks.

Remember, Bruce Wayne is a player, he just doesn't know it yet.

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posted by Not Here No More on June 9th, 2008 9:51 PM

That batman picture always makes me laugh.