Treasure hunts are now a main menu item. Probably static content.
I'm getting close to flicking the switch to "serious" with Thesaurus Canada treasure hunt book. There is a dedicated website being constructed here. Time to learn some cascading style sheets. Making great progress. You can look at it on a PC, then shrink the browser. Making that menu stable is harder than you think it is.
On a Tuesday I'll think this is normal. People do this. I was born for this project. On a Thursday I'll think .. what have I got myself into?
All rather odd. It's ambitious; the multidesigner thing has never been done before. Would things actually come together as I want them to?
Tobago
In my
This is nice little explanation. And it's about a treasure hunt.
When I started this project, I made a treasure hunt, zzzip, surprisingly quickly. I'm working on a second hunt, and it's more swimming upstream, as though I already used up my A material. I do happily come up with prizes, themes, key words, structure, titles, and locations. But the clues are now a problem. We'll see.
The second hunt is making good progress. Wonderful twist.
Prizes don't have to be expensive (and hunts don't have to be impenetrable). What could be in a cosy cabin prize? Various items. That board game ;-). That other board game. Books. I would toss in
one or two wire puzzles. A gift card or two for ordering food. A consumable. Some money. What would you put in? Something decorative?
Canadian curling with a new twist: N.B. club holds 'Human Bonspiel'
Some New Brunswick action.
You know, I had in the past recommended moving away from making board games in China. Mind you, that's easy for me to say.
The board game industry in the states is in chaos. People in publishing are losing their jobs.
New Angeles
Eila and Something Shiny
What is the completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart?
The new television show The Studio is as good as they say.
The show is about the chaos and shallowness of modern movie production. It's about a movie producer played by Seth Rogen. The character genuinely respects classic movies. In the first episode he enjoys his new position but has to make a movie based on the Jello product. He is frantic. The show is about Hollywood, and has Hollywood people, for example Martin Scorsese. There are Hollywood things, jokes. My moviemaking vocabulary is failing me, and I'm sure a lot of goes unnoticed by me. There is foreshadowing, payoff whatever. The new show had three episodes.
I went to a friend's house and decided to watch more recent episodes. They had three remote controls plus one keyboard to somehow get their system to work. There was nobody around as it was too late at night. If I asked how to do it, it would be yanked away from me and I would be shown how to press the shlimph button, talking down to me. These are the people in my life. I had some trouble getting things to load. Typing wouldn't work easily; I had to type hard which sometimes led to double letters. When I type a certain way a keyboard would take up half the screen and wouldn't go away. That requires the shlimph button, whatever that is. When I clicked to get the fourth episode a couple of times, it just showed black.
The fifth episode, "The War", was about a vicious office politics fight between two people under the producer. It was neat to see the Seth Rogen character looking relaxed. I don't know why he looked relaxed, maybe to show he was clueless about the war.
The next day I had my friend take a run at the missing fourth episode. It just showed black. However, some fast
forwarding to the end of the episode showed a studio logo at the end. The episode was called
"Missing Reel". It looks like there was something boldly surreal going on.
What is Norwegian humour like?
Tenet is pronounced tenet (even backwards). Not
tenant, as this tired lady said.
tenets of fantasy fiction
Friendly neighbourhood bagpiper heralds spring in Fredericton.
Whatever blows your bagpipes. New Brunswick, in the maritimes.
Canada will get as many as twelve new submarines.
To get your submarine fix, watch this.
You can watch "Inside Canada's Hunter-Killer Attack Submarine HMCS Corner Brook on Path to High Readiness | Go Bold" to find out what Canadian submarines do, achieve.
Canada does not have Poseidon aircraft - this is a rendering - but will get them right away. These don't get the attention that other military tools get.
Welcome on board a US NAVY P8 'POSEIDON' Patrol Aircraft
Boeing P-8 Poseidon: America's Most Advanced Submarine Hunter
Why Russia and China Fear $220 Million America's P-8 Poseidon Submarine Hunter
Does it have a magnetic anomaly detector? Some fancy physics there.
The Earth's magnetic field slightly magnetises the metals on submarines, which alters the magnetic field around them.
This is similar to how electric guitars work!
Canadian Army in Afghanistan.
What Alexander Graham Bell Did When He Put Down the Phone?
That Scottish fellow should work on his English.
Getting more engineering.
Let's add some final material for Your Trump Era Film, then pull the plug. Again. This first term stuff is being overtaken by the second term.
I think television is a good candidate as a character to focus on. Picture some of these scenes in a film.
I used to watch a lot of MSNBC, particularly Rachel Maddow. She did a good job of presenting how the two Americas lived in two different worlds in terms of perception. Television was very much part of that, with Fox News doing something other than journalism. The new government started on a weird note, as Press Secretary Sean Spicer testily insisted that the crowd size at the inauguration was misreported by journalists, even though the photographs shown on television showed smaller crowds. "This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period." On the Meet The Press television show, Kellyanne Conway claimed Mr. Spicer was using "alternative facts".
There was one dramatic shock or revelation after another - Bam! Bam! Bam! - which made it hard to focus. Rachel Maddow used to have a whole show planned out, only to toss it in the trash because of some news event that happened. At the time I was impressed by how it was all about information, and the spread and perception of information. The scandal. The Steele dossier. The other scandal. The Robert Mueller investigation. The thing revealed on the Rachel Maddow show. The latest crazy statement or policy. The inside scoop.
After getting an inheritance from his rich father, Mr. Trump, who had questionable business skills, experienced a series of bankruptcies, famously losing money running a casino. He got a job as a game show host on NBC The Apprentice Opening (there's Omarosa). This was a scripted reality television show. At the same time he got money doing sleazy deals with sleazy Russians. People in America (maybe not New York) got the impression that Mr. Trump was a successful businessman.
Omarosa and, briefly, Anthony Scaramucci wound up on the Big Brother reality television show.
Mr. Trump had a thing about "ratings" during his time as president. That was something he valued. He thought like a television producer. People on television joked that he should be given his own show playing president and make him think he is president.
Mr. Trump spent much of his time as president watching television (and phoning, and posting, and eating hamburgers). He watched Fox to make himself feel good, and other channels to get the news. He marvelled at how he could post something controversial on Twitter, then see it on the news. He was also a big leaker.
President Trump was superficial. He chose members of his administration based on seeing them on television. William Barr for example. Somebody might have a look from "central casting". John Bolton's mustache was questionable.
The White House was chaotic. Various people in the role of chief of staff could not control access to the president. As a result, when members of the administration wanted to get something communicated to the president, they would go on Fox News and communicate to President Trump - through the television!
Joe Scarborough used to regularly complain about Mr. Trump on his Morning Joe show. Mr. Trump watched this show. At one point Mr. Scarborough was going on about some scandalous Trump issue. He stopped, and took off his glasses. He talked to the camera about the issue, directly and explicitly talking to Mr. Trump himself.
Donald Trump did a great job of controlling the attention of the media, going back decades, which was no doubt good for his ego. He had a love/hate relationship with the media. Like any politician he didn't like the criticism and perspectives of the media, but he liked the attention. He also thought he was his best representative.
On January 6 January 6 happened. A mob, egged on by the president and others, attacked the Capitol. This iconic event was just one of a number of schemes to illegally keep Mr. Trump as president.
The mob attack happened live on television. The MSNBC people were frazzled. One could speculate about the reasons why. Joe Scarborough was swearing away. Ali Velshi, with a lot of work and little sleep,
was perilously close to saying something regrettable. He said he was ordered not to call the insurrection an insurrection.