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Getting Lost In SF

April 12, 2011 Archives / Friends / Games / Pictures / Post-A-Day 2011 / Stories / Videos
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So Thu H and I headed back to 580 Cal­i­for­nia for our 2:40 appoint­ment for induc­tion at the Jejune Insti­tute. Like I said before, it was a busy day for them. In fact, Sat­ur­day was sup­pos­edly the last day the induc­tion would be held, so there were six other peo­ple wait­ing in the recep­tion area for us to come back — they wanted to join us in the induc­tion! (We let them join us for the intro­duc­tion and agreed we would split up for the hunt portion.)

Be warned, the rest of this post details our adven­ture, com­plete with pho­tos. I don’t think I’m spoil­ing any­thing at this point since Act 1 has closed, but just in case you want to unof­fi­cially run the game, like some peo­ple are doing now.

If you want to con­tinue, click on the link imme­di­ately below for Page 2.

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Extremes

April 11, 2011 Friends / Games / Pictures / Post-A-Day 2011 / Quote of the Day
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My lack of updates over the week­end was due to two extremes in activ­ity lev­els. On Sat­ur­day, I was out of the house all day, and on Sun­day, I was in bed all day reading.

First, Sat­ur­day — Chris­tine L and Jon K warned me that the Games of Non­cha­lance were shut­ting down, so I made plans with Thu H to check out Act 1 at noon. Ran some errands in the morn­ing and caught the 1 line down there, since nei­ther of us felt like fight­ing for park­ing in that part of town on a weekend.

It turned out, though, that word had really spread about the Games clos­ing up shop, so we couldn’t just drop in. Made a reser­va­tion for 2:40 and wan­dered over to the Ferry Build­ing to kill time.

We had lunch at Hog Island Oys­ter Bar, despite Thu H not being sure if she liked oys­ters or not. Turns out, she does.

“I like the Naked Cow­boy best.“
 – Thu H.

(That’s a type of oys­ter, by the way.)

Then we wan­dered around the farmer’s mar­ket for a while. There were a lot of things I wanted to get, but I didn’t think they would sur­vive run­ning around town with me on a scav­enger hunt and then a bus ride home. Not to worry, though, I added them all to my men­tal checklist.

Stack Overflow

April 6, 2011 Books / Friends / Post-A-Day 2011
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As I wind down on A Game of Thrones (should be done with the re-​read tonight or tomor­row), I’m not sure which book I want to pick up next.

The obvi­ous choice would be A Clash of Kings. I could go dig it up, I think it’s down in one of my boxes in the base­ment. I could pick it up in ebook form, but I’m not sure I want to pay $8.99 for the ebook ver­sion. That’s more than I had paid for my paper­back, and I still enjoy read­ing paper­backs more.

I could also restart David Wingrove’s Chung Kuo series. Thanks to a con­ver­sa­tion I had with Thu H last night about sci­ence fic­tion and fan­tasy books, I found out that his series was orig­i­nally meant to be nine books, but was cut off at eight because of pres­sure from the orig­i­nal pub­lisher. (No won­der I hated the end­ing.) How­ever, a new pub­lisher has picked up the series, and they will be re-​releasing it, along with over 500,000 new words in mate­r­ial, in a 20 book (!) series.

The series will be get­ting two pre­quel books, which cover the rise of power of the Chi­nese gov­ern­ment. (The series is set on a future Earth where China has taken over the world.) The first pre­quel, Son of Heaven, actu­ally was released in Feb­ru­ary and I picked up the Kin­dle edi­tion for $1.59.

Oh, and Isaac L, I haven’t for­got­ten about your sug­ges­tion that I pick up Hunger Games. Do you think I should buy it, or just bor­row a copy?

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