Logged three tapes today....



Why is mrmorse wearing that hat? Why is rikchik poking northern France? All will be revealed...

This is a curious image of a reporter writing in shorthand, found by dougo.

My whole life I understood the word "shorthand" as a synonym for "abbreviation", not a complete and formal writing system that looks like alien script to the uninitiated. But the commenters on that photograph say it's so, and Wikipedia agrees, with yet more graphic evidence. Very interesting!

I just blew the dust off my Flickr account (unused since the Carcacookies Incident) to upload a bunch of stuff from my iPhone. It may be a crappy, unadjustable camera, but it's nonetheless an internet-aware digicam with effectively unlimited storage that is always in my pocket, so I've been taking lots of photos since last July. I waited this long because of a photo-swapping email thread on our Hunt team mailing list where someone proposed a group Flickr tag.

I have been throwing photos onto Facebook in the interim, but it's not the same. As far as I can tell, those photos aren't public, and you can't tag them as freely as Flickr allows.

Went through my "FlickrMail" and back-added everyone who added me as a contact over the years (and who didn't appear to be a 419 scammer), and then plugged their feeds into my RSS reader, a bit of technology I've only really started to use in the last year. So yeah, feel free to add zendonut as a contact, if you'd like.

I had some fun reading comments that I didn't know about, since I'd never set Flickr to alert me by email when my photos got comments. (I just rectified this.) Amused that a 2000 photo whose caption references Randal Schwartz's in-airplane photos got a comment from Randal Schwartz saying exactly what I was thinking, as I sat here reading that caption again in 2009.

Unsurprisingly, the Carcacookies got lots of comments. This one is my favorite. Fans of cthulhia's work should not miss the Memoir 35 cake that she and classicaljunkie constructed, and unveiled at the hunt.

Do I know http://www.flickr.com/photos/vampirefriends/? They seem to be a fellow Somervillain.

Several photos from the debut of cthulhia's crazy art project last week: an entire Carcassonne set made out of gingerbread! http://flickr.com/photos/zendonut/tags/gingerbread/

As the photo descriptions note, we played with the set twice, once at dougo's house and again at the House of Roses, and then it got et.

If any of the folks depicted in the photographs want me to take those ones down, just say the word. I think the shot of the artist herself is great but the other people-shots didn't turn out as good. I kept them because I wanted to show that people actually were playing the game!

I plan on sharing a couple of these on Board Game Geek, as well as the next Gameshelf.

What is this person doing?

"I'm casting magic missile! At the darkness!"
Getting ready to roleplay his PC's Bigby's Gripping Hand spell
Preparing to lay down the law for a particularly bad katsu
Trying to implode the Magic players across the room via telepathy
Making the Rubber Snakes

What is this person doing?

Questioning the virility of his Zendo opponents
"I'm crushing your head! Kcch! Kcch!"
Masking feelings of shame at failure to make an "Anubis" hand-puppet
Trying to explode the Warhammer players across the room via telepathy
Showing off new Looney Labs super-clear Icehouse piece color (a 3-pointer)