Friday Flash Fiction: "It's in There"

Those three words were seared into my brain long ago. Allow me to share:



Anyway. If you're a puzzler like me, you already know that pizza can contain data; I had firsthand experience with this in The Goonies Game (2003). Elsewhere, Microsoft Puzzle Hunt A: Atlantis (February 10-11, 2007) also featured a pizza clue.

Finally, WHAT IS THAT I don't even.

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SnoutCast #101: Gamer Profile - TODD ETTER, Boneless Chicken Cabaret

Did you know that all of 2012's "Shinteki Puzzle of the Month" (POTM) puzzles (starting tomorrow, January 25th) will be written by Todd Etter of The Motley Fool? And all solvers can win prizes at the end of the year? It's true! But don't take our word for it--hear it from the man himself, this week on SnoutCast.


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00:58 - "calciferous"
01:24 - behind the scenes of Boneless Chicken Cabaret's WHO Game video
02:29 - Todd's non-evil plans for Shinteki POTM
05:41 - How did you get into puzzle hunts?
09:39 - the_game@yahoogroups is, shall we say, lightly moderated these days
10:23 - assembling the team
13:24 - What's your day job?
17:54 - (actually, it was a Facebook post linking to a PDF of the puzzle)
18:43 - comparing GC experiences from different puzzle events
23:58 - final thoughts on Shinteki POTM
27:58 - The End

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Music: instrumentals from "Code Monkey" and "My Monkey" by Jonathan Coulton

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Friday Flash Fiction: "H is for Horse"

This week's story was brought to you by the motion pictures The Book of Eli and War Horse, the welcome letters for many conventions, and the titles of some books by Ray Bradbury.

(Also, fun fact: searching for "jesus horse" on flickr got me exactly the image I wanted. Thanks, random photographer who tagged her pics!)

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SnoutCast #100: Community?

Please help celebrate our ONE HUNDREDTH PODCAST by leaving a comment. (We're celebrating by not writing up show notes this time.) And thanks for listening!


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00:59 - "patient"
29:55 - The End

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Music: instrumentals from "Code Monkey" and "Mandelbrot Set" by Jonathan Coulton

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Friday Flash Fiction: "Meet Brute"

Happy Friday the 13th, everyone! You know we're going to have three of these in 2012--which is the maximum possible in one year? Crazy! Anyway, here's a thing I wrote.

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Repeat Presenter

There's a blog post, so it must be official: I am one of the twenty people selected to present at Ignite Portland 10 on February 9th!

This will be my second Ignite talk; the first, in 2009, was a précis on puzzle hunts. This one will be a sort of companion piece to DeeAnn's 2010 overview of our 2008 road trip with our cats. (I submitted the original proposal for an earlier Ignite under the title "Travels WITHOUT Our Cats;" this time, I called it "A Homebrew Cat Feeding Robot.") But I'll do my best to make my talk interesting even to people who don't have cats, and I'm looking forward to several of the other talks, myself.

If you're in Portland, stop by and see the show! Otherwise, you'll be able to watch the videos online a few weeks later.

SnoutCast #99: Holiday Movies Recap

And now for something almost, but not entirely, completely different.


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00:59 - "festive"
01:35 - send us your questions for the Black Letter Game creators! (e-mail podcast@snout.org by Friday, January 13th, 2012)
03:51 - inspired by true events: holiday movie marathon
05:12 - A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas
07:22 - Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
09:18 - War Horse
10:39 - The Descendants
11:32 - The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 vs. The Darkest Hour
13:10 - Hugo (3D)
17:27 - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
18:29 - My Week with Marilyn
20:32 - The Artist
22:11 - Young Adult
24:25 - "Unintentional Patton Oswalt Sandwich" is the name of my Kinks cover band.
29:59 - The End

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Music: instrumentals from "Code Monkey" and "A Talk with George" by Jonathan Coulton

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