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Hashing

January 27, 2012 Drink / Exercise / Games
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Thanks to Fitoc­racy, I just found out about hash­ing today.

Hash­ing, which is short for Hash House Har­ri­ers. It’s an old British colo­nial game the red­coats would play to get over hang­overs. Basi­cally, one per­son is a “hare” and has a head start on a race. The hare leaves scraps of paper (or chalk marks) as a trail for the “hounds” (other play­ers) to fol­low. It used to be trail run­ning but some groups do urban courses now. There is no fit­ness require­ment because the fast hounds have to slow down to check the trail and so every­one has a fair chance. The best part is that these events usu­ally stop at a pub for the mid­point and always end at one for the fin­ish line.

So it’s a children’s game with beer as a prize. How can you not be excited about that? I don’t think I can do the one tomor­row, but who’s down to check out an upcom­ing hash with me?

Or find one in your area with this site.

The Short Leg

April 21, 2011 Friends / Games / Pictures / Post-A-Day 2011 / Videos
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After fin­ish­ing Act I, Thu H and I were pretty proud of our­selves and pumped to con­tinue, so last Mon­day, we met up with Jon K at Dolores Park to try to do Act II of the Games of Non­cha­lance. He and Chris­tine L had already done most of Act II, but were miss­ing one component.

Again, I’m split­ting up this post in case you feel like try­ing to com­plete Act II on your own.

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Racketeer

April 21, 2011 Cars / Family / Games / Internet / Pictures / Post-A-Day 2011 / Travel / Video Games / Videos
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A few years ago, my mom’s side of the fam­ily had a larger than usual fam­ily reunion in order to cel­e­brate my great-uncle’s 80th birth­day. The older cousins (of which I am the youngest) planned a cousins-​only out­ing so the adults could have a week­end with­out kids underfoot.

Orig­i­nally, the plan was to bor­row some cars and car­a­van to Wis­con­sin Dells, a resort town about four hours away known for its many water parks. While research­ing places to stay, I found out about Great Wolf Lodge, which has a game called Mag­iQuest. The web­site and reviews made me think of an extended “Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters” type of Dis­ney ride, but fantasy-​themed. Penny Arcade just described it as “if they had RFID at Hog­warts.” My cousins would have loved it. (Hell, I’d prob­a­bly get a kick out of it as well.)

How­ever, Penny Arcade went on to reveal a darker side to this game:

Appar­ently, the peo­ple who run Mag­iQuest have been play­ing some Recettear. I have noth­ing against them try­ing to turn a lit­tle more profit, but I really hope they aren’t push­ing upsales on kids like this.

Any­way, we ended up not going because of time con­straints, and went to Water Park of Amer­ica (so named because of its prox­im­ity to the Mall of Amer­ica) for a sigle day instead. Still a lot of fun, though! I got to try FlowRider, their indoor surf­ing thing:

Maybe we’ll try for Mag­iQuest again this sum­mer. This year won’t be quite as big, but a good num­ber of the cousins will find them­selves in Min­nesota again.

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