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I Support #SportsNight2014

Curtis Chen
October 8, 2014
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Something wonderful happened on Twitter last Friday night. That something was #SportsNight2014. If you follow my writer persona, you may have noticed me retweeting some of my favorites: Natalie gets really into Call of Duty #SportsNight2014 — Alice has a…

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SnoutCast #200: What’s Next

Curtis Chen
December 17, 2013
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In which we reveal our podcasting plans for 2014, and look back on some great interviews from our first four years. [ Download mp3 – 25 MB ] 01:10 – “bicentennial”01:34 – Listener Mail: it’s pronounced LEHD-beet-ur02:56 – you, too,…

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Friday Flash Fiction: “My Least Favorite Martian”

Curtis Chen
August 16, 2013
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Read “My Least Favorite Martian” at 512 Words or Fewer According to Wikipedia: My Favorite Martian was produced at the same time as other situation comedies that featured characters who could do extraordinary things, as a parody of the standard…

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This is My Enterprise

Curtis Chen
October 11, 2012
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Image from Wikipedia United Federation of Planets, Starfleet, Constitution-class heavy cruiser refit, launched in 2273. This is the first starship I truly loved. This is my Enterprise.* I was born four years after TOS went off the air (personal trivia:…

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Snout Games FTW (Part 4 of 4)

Curtis Chen
May 10, 2012
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Last week, Mike Selinker‘s Wired article on “The 10 Greatest ‘Games’ Ever Played” mentioned 4 different Team Snout productions. Let me show you them. Previous: Police Detectives! 8. FoBiK coffin Here’s the coffin being inspected on location, inside a self-storage…

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Snout Games FTW (Part 3 of 4)

Curtis Chen
May 9, 2012
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Last week, Mike Selinker‘s Wired article on “The 10 Greatest ‘Games’ Ever Played” mentioned 4 different Team Snout productions. Let me show you them. Previous: Superheroes! 6. Homicide: Life on the Farm Nitinol I don’t have any photos of the…

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Snout Games FTW (Part 2 of 4)

Curtis Chen
May 8, 2012
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Last week, Mike Selinker‘s Wired article on “The 10 Greatest ‘Games’ Ever Played” mentioned 4 different Team Snout productions. Let me show you them. Previous: Wizards! 2. Justice Unlimited petitions After a purposefully chaotic icebreaker activity at the start location,…

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Snout Games FTW (Part 1 of 4)

Curtis Chen
May 7, 2012
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Last week, Mike Selinker‘s Wired post on “The 10 Greatest ‘Games’ Ever Played” made a bit of a splash within the Game community. (I was personally quite chuffed that 40% of the events he called out were Team Snout productions.)…

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Yes, Mom, That IS Me

Curtis Chen
February 11, 2012
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Herewith, an excerpt from I’m Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59 by Douglas Edwards, page 354: (I’m pretty sure this is the first time my name has appeared in an actual book from a major publisher. Top…

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SnoutCast #64: “Homicide: Life on the Farm – 10 Years Later”

Curtis Chen
May 9, 2011
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Team Snout ran our first weekend-long puzzle hunt a full decade ago, in May of 2001. This week, we have an extra-long chat with Sean Gugler about some of his contributions to that event and what we’ve learned (or not)…

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