[coffeegirl18]

So I've been on and off lately as you can see but I've started taking pictures of gas prices here in Ontario. I figured that I'd put my new camera phone to good use....I just have to find my adapter and I'll post all the pics to the WWO flickr and my blog. I'm going to start a bit of a vlog (video blog) as well on YouTube. I'm filming it right now so it'll be up in a bit. I can put my YouTube account to good use.

I'm yalie_news_coffee18 on flickr and I'm coffeegirl18 on YouTube. I'll post links later.

PS Is anyone on here from B.C., gas prices are crazy there....

Edit: Phone chip isn't working with the adapter USB....Grr. I'll get pics with my camera though.

[teh_lisa]

so i totally love when this happens. i was driving home from work and thinking about what i was going to blog about for today and i noticed that gas is now $3.19 a gallon. it was $2.79 a day ago! i did a double take and went and checked another station to make sure it wasn't someone playing a joke

tinag right?

[Rekidk]

OMG!

I <3 geocaching. I'm very bad at it, but it's very fun.

Er, that's all I had to add. XD

[cissmiace]

RedHatty wrote:

yes. mpathy's entry is kinda vague, but I think it was meant to be to leave the door wide open for ideas, rather than limiting them. Geocaching is an entertaining adventure game for gps users. Participating in a cache hunt is a good way to take advantage of the wonderful features and capability of a gps unit. The basic idea is to have individuals and organizations set up caches all over the world and share the locations of these caches on the internet. GPS users can then use the location coordinates to find the caches. Once found, a cache may provide the visitor with a wide variety of rewards. All the visitor is asked to do is if they get something they should try to leave something for the cache.

Wow! Sounds like a hell of alot of fun! I stumbled onto the site a while ago, but as usual, got myself terribley confused and gave up

[RedHatty]

yes. mpathy's entry is kinda vague, but I think it was meant to be to leave the door wide open for ideas, rather than limiting them.

Geocaching is an entertaining adventure game for gps users. Participating in a cache hunt is a good way to take advantage of the wonderful features and capability of a gps unit. The basic idea is to have individuals and organizations set up caches all over the world and share the locations of these caches on the internet. GPS users can then use the location coordinates to find the caches. Once found, a cache may provide the visitor with a wide variety of rewards. All the visitor is asked to do is if they get something they should try to leave something for the cache.

[cissmiace]

Re: A CHALLENGE

[RedHatty]

Quote:

P.S. Emil is working on some special honors for folks who take up this challenge. I think he's going to announce it soon! In the meantime, he and I are planning something special for people out in his area, the Bay Area. A little urban drop spotting and geocaching adventure to save the world, anyone? Stay tuned! (And if you make your own drop spots or geocaches for other netizen heroes to go out and find, tell us!)

So who is into a little geocaching? I am looking into buying up the rest of this trackable coin and setting out at least 1 cache in my area, if I can get 3-4 of these coins (they are almost out) I have 4 on the way, I will gladly send them to other geographical regions (pacific coast, new england, plains states) to be cached, but I need some help - my creativity is drawing a blank here, we need to have some WWO awareness task involved with the finding of the coin.

So if you know what geocaching is, and you are willing to do the leg work to place a cache & log it (I can log it for you if necessary, I have accts on geocaching.com & lageocaching.com) & have a great idea let me know - best ideas will get a coin - I just need to see how many are left

[Slyfox]

Extract from wikipedia September 2005 fuel protests

[RedHatty]

A CHALLENGE

[RedHatty]

ararejul wrote:

wow i had no clue this was oinly going to last a month. well that sucks for me because i'll be gone this weekend and then the 11 through 18. That's around 10 weeks I'm missing out on. Any ideas for how to handle that IG?

Hmmm, Rolling power outages, unsafe travel due to rioting. On the road to someplace that would take 4 days to get to by bicycle (family emergency), I'd say kinda play it by ear & see where the PMs lead us for those "weeks" and run with a scenario. Safe travels!

[KSG]

Yeah, it does suck. Though apparently, there are people who consider blogging and writing fiction to be homework, so for them it doesn't. As for characters and plot, I still think they are completely beside the point of the game. I've seen short games with good casts/plots, though.

[ararejul]

KSG wrote:

Sorry for going back a couple pages with this reply, but the comments can't have been more than a day old, and I don't see another thread for it. Once again, I support the PMs over popular complaints. A week a day is a bit fast, since sometimes there is a day when real life demands too much attention, yes. They really needed to speed it up a lot, though. When I finally realized that this was going to be a month-long thing, I thought, how the crap are we supposed to fit a proper crisis into that?

wow i had no clue this was oinly going to last a month. well that sucks for me because i'll be gone this weekend and then the 11 through 18. That's around 10 weeks I'm missing out on. Any ideas for how to handle that IG?

:/

and i don't see how we can have any really good character plot movement when the game is moving this fast...

[KSG]

Sorry for going back a couple pages with this reply, but the comments can't have been more than a day old, and I don't see another thread for it.


Once again, I support the PMs over popular complaints. A week a day is a bit fast, since sometimes there is a day when real life demands too much attention, yes. They really needed to speed it up a lot, though. When I finally realized that this was going to be a month-long thing, I thought, how the crap are we supposed to fit a proper crisis into that?

The way I picture it, it would take a while for an oil shortage to set in. There wouldn't be looting until there were actual shortages of supplies, and then some more delay would occur as the government implemented and overstated its oil reserves, and possibly solicited a little help from more oil-rich nations. Then the chaos settles in...and then the game is over? How does that let us find solutions?

Rushing through a week a day (though I'll agree that a week every two or three days might be better) lets them get past the lag, and then into and even through the crisis. 31 days or whatever are more than half of a year, if a week passes during each of them. In a real oil crisis, I would imagine that the first month would be pretty useless as far as lifestyle and societal changes. All our entries would just be, 'good thing I fueled up on Sunday' for the first week and then 'oh crap, the power's out and my local grocery store was looted by someone other than me' for the next three. Now, most of them can be about adapting instead of preparing.

[xnera]

I figured it was programming issues that that made into an in-game story... and hey, it might still be that. Wouldn't be surprised if it's an actual puzzle, though. i suck at ARG puzzles, so I have no clue where to even start with this, if it IS a puzzle.

[tim7168]

I like the way this is going, any ARG (especially one with this much hype) that convince many of its players that it is actually 'not-a-game' in the first couple of days is doing pretty well in my opinion!