{"id":427,"date":"2012-04-24T23:55:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T06:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2012\/04\/24\/yeah-mom-thats-me-too\/"},"modified":"2012-04-24T23:55:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T06:55:00","slug":"yeah-mom-thats-me-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2012\/04\/24\/yeah-mom-thats-me-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, Mom, That&#8217;s Me Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On page 146 of this month&#8217;s (May 2012) <i>WIRED Magazine<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-M9Ze16rwyX0\/T5erWjQc-AI\/AAAAAAABaKE\/mw-sQAngo7w\/s1600\/wired_whogame_bowtie.jpg\" style=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"206\" width=\"337\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-M9Ze16rwyX0\/T5erWjQc-AI\/AAAAAAABaKE\/mw-sQAngo7w\/s400\/wired_whogame_bowtie.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I believe I was the only Bay Area WHO helper costumed in a bow tie, as shown below.  (The &#8220;Chen&#8221; mentioned in the next sentence is <a href=\"http:\/\/xenon.stanford.edu\/~crystal\/\">Crystal<\/a>.  No relation.  I know, it&#8217;s a bit confusing.  You&#8217;ll get over it.)<\/p>\n<table style=\"width:auto;\">\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/k3S4Y53oXedKOw0TOWa3s9MTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=embedwebsite\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-kHb3jFX6LlE\/Tro1yjuXmTI\/AAAAAAABTM4\/d8MF5Ivk9tg\/s400\/P1040593.JPG\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:right\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/116737692309729475506\/WHOGameBayAreaReCast?authuser=0&amp;feat=embedwebsite\">WHO Game Bay Area re-cast<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>You can read more about the actual, not-so-brief berating in <a href=\"http:\/\/lahosken.san-francisco.ca.us\/anecdotal\/hunt\/42\/part4.html\">Larry Hosken&#8217;s WHO Game write-up<\/a> (skip down to &#8220;What the Yelling was About&#8221;).  Good times.<\/p>\n<p>The <i>WIRED<\/i> article should be online soon.  It&#8217;s a decent &#8220;highlight reel&#8221; of the WHO Game Bay Area re-cast, mostly written from a player&#8217;s perspective.  I&#8217;m not sure it fully captures the spirit of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Game_(treasure_hunt)\">The Game<\/a>, but I&#8217;m still happy to see our peculiar little hobby getting more mainstream exposure.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE:<\/b> You can now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/playbook\/2012\/04\/mf_puzzlehunter\/all\/1\">read the complete <i>Wired<\/i> article online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/CKL.jpg\" alt=\"Curtis\" title=\"Curtis\" border=\"0\" height=\"32\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On page 146 of this month&#8217;s (May 2012) WIRED Magazine: I believe I was the only Bay Area WHO helper costumed in a bow tie, as shown below. (The &#8220;Chen&#8221; mentioned in the next sentence is Crystal. No relation. I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[67,40,12,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gamecontrol","category-photography","category-thisbusinesswecallshow","category-waitforit"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}