February 11, 2012. Got A Telescope! Now What?: How To See More And Do Extra With A Backyard Observatory

First things first: I hate writing hunts. Truly, that may be a bit stronger than I mean it to be. Writing an excellent hunt is numerous work. It may not be too unhealthy for individual members of the setting up staff, who solely must be concerned with writing and testing a few puzzles, however for the people in charge, it’s not less than a month of solid work, maybe two.

Not just that this year set a record for the longest hunt (73 hours long), even with us handing out free solutions like candy and chopping a metapuzzle towards the end. Heck, technically we even lower the runaround, since we declared a winner earlier than the winning workforce accomplished it (lower than an hour before the wrap-up ceremony). But for me (and most Sages), Hunt started long before Friday. Hunt had been distracting me from work for months. The week before the Hunt, all I did was sleep, eat, and work on the Mystery Hunt. I barely noticed the sun.

It was with nice disappointment that when I awoke on Sunday to listen to that the Hunt had been accomplished that morning by Francis Heaney’s crew, no much less. (Astute readers of this web site know him to be one of my mates and puzzle editors.) I had enjoyed what little I was capable of contribute to the team and I suppose I was expecting it to continue effectively into Sunday afternoon.

Codex’s mock, Occupy-model protest at the opening ceremony crammed me with glee. The only thing Codex knew (like each different crew) was that there was a bank involved with this 12 months’s hunt theme. Yet their protest turned out to be tremendous thematic! It was truly a bit *too* real looking–I had to run interference between the security guard at the opening ceremony and Codex to guarantee the previous that it was just a prank, not an actual protest, and plead with the latter to keep away from alarming any cops once they left! Even with that, afterward Lobby 7 had a heavy police presence.

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