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June, 2004

  1. Storytelling Game 3!

    June 8, 2004 by Collin

    Okay, here they are. The same rules as last time, but this time you should write your stories in the forum. It’s in the Open Games forum, so you don’t have to be a member to play. The voting thing that I thought I might be able to use only allows for eight things to be voted on, so I’ll still have to run that the same old way. Start your stories off with your initials and the number of the story, same as before.

    Also, Derek pointed out that he may have been sabotaging himself by writing more than one story, but I feel that by allowing people to vote on four stories instead of just one that offsets any advantage lost by writing more than one.

    Under

    Marry

    Kitten

    Milk

    Meat

    Have fun!

    (And yes, these words were chosen totally at random. Kitten being there is a coincidence.)

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  2. Would you look at that?!

    June 7, 2004 by Collin

    Okay, it seems that the most popular thing I’ve added to this blog is the Storytelling game. I know that the comics and cards were much loved, but let’s face it, the game is seriously less demanding on my creativity and time.

    What’s more, I have other game ideas as well! I know! It’s freaking great! The only problem is they aren’t games that work so well in a comments format.

    So I was kicking around solutions for this problem and finally took the plunge. I added a forum to FnP. It is meant to augment the content that appears on this site, and not replace it. So no fear. I will still be posting the same great stuff I have been for years, it’s just that some of it will carry over to the forum for added enjoyment.

    Currently it is a sad, scrawny little skeleton of a forum. I have some boards set up, just waiting for posts, but as yet only have the welcoming post. It’s such a lonely post.

    Tomorrow I will be posting the third Storytelling game both here and at the forum on the Open Games board. I would like for you wonderful visitors to post your stories on the forum this time, rather than in the comments. This will allow many great new things, not the least of which is more than 1000 characters per story. I felt bad that so many people liked Derek’s 2nd story, but couldn’t vote on it since it got cut off. Well, not next time! This time if his story doesn’t get votes it’s because it sucks!

    I also think that it might be possible to enable a voting system for the posts so it won’t be a big pain in the butt. I’ll check it out in the next 48 hours or so.

    So, there you go. Right now the FnP forum is a pristine wall of blankness. Grab a couple cans of spray paint on your way over and have some fun.

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  3. No Cookie, Just a Fortune

    June 7, 2004 by Collin

    Okay, I’m back at work and happy as a clam. Being baked.

    The first thing I had to do, after catching up on a week’s worth of email, was take a job a coworker started last week since she’s on vacation this week.

    She is, shall we say, organizationally challenged. The Photoshop files were a total mess, the wrong size, there was no Quark file and my boss wanted a printout “soon”. Yet, as I was untangling the mess, I realized that I was actually enjoying it. It’s like doing a puzzle. So it’s not the work I do that I despise. Perhaps it’s the stress of short deadlines.

    Also, this morning about a half hour after I came in I noticed that someone had left this fortune cookie message on my keyboard:

    All I can say is…ummm…okay. I can’t argue with it. The good news is, as long as I can remain idle and foolish, I’m still on vacation! Sweet!

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  4. Burning the 1 a.m. oil.

    June 6, 2004 by Collin

    Hello all, this fine Sunday wee-early-hour morning. I can’t sleep because I crashed earlier Saturday afternoon and slept the sleep of the just (heh). So I figured I would take some time and update my links to include a few more of the interesting places that I like to visit from time to time. I tried this earlier in the week and just when I had finished it up Safari crashed and I lost it all. This time I got smart and did it all in TextEdit. Wee, look at my smartness! It oozes!

    It is going to be VERY hard to go back to work on Monday. I was just beginning to enjoy being a lazy bum around the house. Oh well, all good things must etc.

    What’s going to be the most difficult on Monday (as far as I know) is waking up. I’m a night person by nature and if I’m allowed to I gravitate to that schedule. So now I’m used to being up until 3 am and sleeping until 11 am. or whenever. My daughter is the same way. It’s 1 am and she’s still fighting the sandman. Even with a promise of a trip to the swimming pool tomorrow. Stubborn little monkey.

    I thought there was something else that I wanted to tell everyone, but I can’t think of what it was.

    So I guess that’s it. Nothing terribly exciting, but hey! This is as fun as I get!

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  5. The results are in! Fresh off the interwebthingie!

    June 4, 2004 by Collin

    Okay, I put off lunch for a few minutes. I must love you guys. Here are the results in cut-n-paste order. Heather managed to end Derek’s evil one week reign, and isn’t that always the way. You can’t trust siblings. However Justin pulled in a close second which just goes to show: Don’t underestimate the power of porn!

    HB1: 8 pts.

    Synopsis: It’s bad luck for the bride to see the bride on her wedding day.

    JK1: 6 pts.

    Synopsis: Soft core porn isn’t made, it just happens.

    DK1: 5 pts.

    Synopsis: American Pie 4- That shit stops NOW!

    TW1: 5 pts.

    Synopsis: Childhood memories of unhappy things.

    CB1: 5 pts.

    Synopsis: Get the hell out of my house already, beYOTCH!

    DK3: 5 pts.

    Synopsis: A court case that is a bit too revealing.

    JK2: 4 pts.

    Synopsis: Kahnrad was pwn3d!

    JS1: 3 pts.

    Synopsis: A loving tale of sweet, chain-wrapped revenge under the big oak tree.

    JS2: 3 pts.

    Synopsis: A three-hour toooour…a three-hour toooour…

    SR1: 3 pts.

    Synopsis: I’m not quite sure but it reads like poetry.

    jack1: 3 pts.

    Synopsis: Puppy love.

    I hope you will all join me next week for another round of storytelling, and bring some friends. The mo’, the mo’ betta. I’m off to enjoy my last official day of vacation and get some eats. I’m hungry!

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  6. It’s time to cast your vote(s)!

    June 3, 2004 by Collin

    Word List was:

    shadow

    chain

    water

    she

    please

    The stories in the order presented, with a one line synopsis.

    JS1: 2 pts.

    Synopsis: A loving tale of sweet, chain-wrapped revenge under the big oak tree.

    DK1: 2 pts.

    Synopsis: American Pie 4- That shit stops NOW!

    TW1: 2 pts.

    Synopsis: Childhood memories of unhappy things.

    JS2: 2 pts.

    Synopsis: A three-hour toooour…a three-hour toooour…

    HB1: 2 pts.

    Synopsis: It’s bad luck for the bride to see the bride on her wedding day.

    SR1: 2pts.

    Synopsis: I’m not quite sure but it reads like poetry.

    jack1: 2 pts.

    Synopsis: Puppy love.

    JK1: 2 pts.

    Synopsis: Soft core porn isn’t made, it just happens.

    CB1: 2 pts.

    Synopsis: Get the hell out of my house already, beYOTCH!

    JK2: 2 pts.

    Synopsis: Kahnrad was pwn3d!

    DK2: too wordy, gets the axe. *chunk*

    DK3: 2 pts.

    Synopsis: A court case that is a bit too revealing.

    24 Hours for voting, up to four stories for each voter. Also, I forgot to mention this in the rules revision but we talked about it Friday night and the voting should be kept to the people who posted stories from now on. The reason being there is no registration required to comment, and it would be easy (but quite silly) to pad the vote. But I do hope that people who didn’t write a story did enjoy reading all of them, and perhaps this will encourage them to write next time.

    Thanks for playing and let the voting begin!

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  7. *dingding* Round Two

    June 2, 2004 by Collin

    Let’s try some rule changes for this one.

    x1: You are allowed to write more than one story.

    x2: If you use all 5 words in a story it gets 2 points, if you don’t it starts off with 0 points.

    x3: Label each story you write at the beginning with your initials and the number story it is, for example: CB1, DK3, HB53.

    x4: When it’s time to vote you can choose up to 4 stories by saying something like, “I vote for HB2, DK1, DK3, JS2.”

    x5: You still can’t vote for yourself, but you can vote for more than one story by the same person. Just not the same story more than once.

    If we somehow get a huge amount of stories this time, we may limit the total number next time to two or three, but for now it’s wide open.

    Good luck, and may the best arrangement of letters win.

    Here are the words for this round:

    shadow

    chain

    water

    she

    please

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  8. My brain is in the cupboard

    June 2, 2004 by Collin

    “Hi. I’m on vacation right now, but if you leave your name and number at the beep I’ll get back to you as soon as possible.”

    Actually, I really needed this vacation. I’m not going anywhere or doing anything of importance. That’s pretty much the way all of my vacations have been since I got out of the Air Force. I use them to try to unwind and recharge so that I can make it to my next vacation.

    Derek gives me crap about it, saying that I really need to go somewhere or do something. Like Las Vegas. Or England. Or anywhere but here. The problem with that is I’m a bit of an obsessive person and when I travel I constantly worry about what may go wrong. Not just wondering if the plane will crash. More like wondering what I will do if I miss the plane, or something’s wrong with the reservation, or I lose my luggage, or my kids, etc. ad nauseam. I will be wound as tight as a watch (explain THAT to a kid these days, “Wind a watch? Are you high?”) for several days before the vacation began until I got home, assuming I got home. So he calls my do nothing, recharging vacations a “Collin vacation.” What can I say? They usually work for me and they don’t break my wallet.

    I say “usually” because this time it doesn’t seem to be working. Technically, this was the first day of the vacation, even though it’s the fourth day I’ve been away from work. I have been able to take my kids to the park to play every day so far, and we went to see ‘Shrek 2′ today, which was a fun movie.

    But tonight my son asked me if I was happy. He said that it seems like I’m never happy and I’m never smiling and it makes him depressed. I really didn’t know what to say at first. I’m not happy. However, I told him that he shouldn’t worry about me. I have a lot of things on my mind these days but it won’t always be like this. then we played “roll the big ball around the living room like lunatics”®™∞ with Jordyn and we were all laughing by the end of it.

    So, I don’t know. We’ll see how it goes as the week rolls on. I have five words that I’ll be posting tomorrow morning-ish, for anyone interested in playing another round of storytelling. Shall we keep it to one story per person, or shall we allow people to post as many as they want and vote on the best one?

    Oh yeah, one thing that did make me smile this morning. One of the local ambulance chasers had a commercial on where the person he “helped” win big cash and prizes led off with the following: “I got injured on the job laying pipe.” Hehehe. I know for a fact that I could not have served on that jury.

    *BEEEEP*

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