{"id":905,"date":"2009-11-17T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T01:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2009\/11\/17\/in-a-crowded-theater\/"},"modified":"2009-11-17T17:35:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T01:35:00","slug":"in-a-crowded-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2009\/11\/17\/in-a-crowded-theater\/","title":{"rendered":"In a Crowded Theater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Thursday night, I&#8217;ll be presenting <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">&#8220;How to Solve Any Puzzle in Less Than 47 Minutes&#8221;<\/span> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.igniteportland.com\/\">Ignite Portland 7<\/a>.  The title is, of course, hugely misleading; I&#8217;ll be discussing puzzle hunts in general and walking through one Clue from the MegaHard Game (2000) at breakneck speed.<\/p>\n<p>For those unfamiliar with the <a href=\"http:\/\/ignite.oreilly.com\/\">Ignite<\/a> format: Each speaker gets exactly five minutes to present.  You submit twenty slides, and each one advances automatically after fifteen seconds.  Topic-wise, pretty much anything goes; this time around there&#8217;ll be talks about DB Cooper, robots, karaoke, hooping (with live demo), and more.<\/p>\n<p>I can neither confirm nor deny the existence of an embedded puzzle in my slides.<\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.igniteportland.com\/2009\/10\/20-reasons-to-attend-ignite-portland-7-the-lineup\/\">the complete lineup<\/a>, and if you&#8217;re not in Portland, visit the web site on Thursday for info on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.igniteportland.com\/watch\/\">live video stream<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/CKL.jpg\" alt=\"CKL\" title=\"CKL\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Thursday night, I&#8217;ll be presenting &#8220;How to Solve Any Puzzle in Less Than 47 Minutes&#8221; at Ignite Portland 7. The title is, of course, hugely misleading; I&#8217;ll be discussing puzzle hunts in general and walking through one Clue from&#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":[67,36,18,27,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gamecontrol","category-games","category-pdx","category-puzzles","category-sci-tech"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905","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=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}