I giggled when I read the Entertainment Weekly "Must Watch" write-up on the first episode, which addressed the amusing sight of the oh-so-dry-witted host being forced to read rap lyrics.

Oh god, that was the funniest thing last year. And Pat's the guy who tells us about the morning papers every day!

Has anyone here Crowdgaming?

Huh. I read about that about 12 years ago. Of course, it wasn't called that then. Researchers would run it during lectures - they'd give everyone, say, a red paddle and a blue one. Students would raise the red paddle to, say, move the controller up in a game of Pong, and blue to move it down. The software would average the colors to determine the movement.

I've always wanted to be a part of that.

Jesse, you and I would kick ass on a pop culture trivia team, I think.

Hell yeah, Dana. We could put together an unbeatable team of buffistas, for SURE. Next year!

I've always wanted to be a part of that.

When in a crowd full of people I suspect I'm about to hate (read: at any point in my life) I get resentful of them having more control than I do.

Someone just set off a cap in the next cube over. The cube's resident is rightly pissed, since it was in her ear.

Me?

I have a headache.

I'm currently fascinated by Arduino. Not sure yet if I'm fascinated enough to spend money, though.

Yanno the gaming reminds me of a story Bob told me this weekend after we went to the movies. His friend was at GenCon in the early 1990s, playing some sort of special RPG. They didn't really know what they were supposed to be doing overall, they just had some defined tasks in a small space, like a building. But one person kept messing them up, and keeping them from completing their tasks. They eventually realized that they were the bad guys in Die Hard, and that one person was John McClane. I thought that was cool.

I'm currently fascinated by Arduino.

I have an Arduino controller board. I used it to control servos. It was pretty cheap. (About $35?)

It's fun to play with. A tiny computer that you can program in a limited fashion, and it has numerous analog and digital inputs and outputs so it can be used in all sorts of experiments.

And Pat's the guy who tells us about the morning papers every day!

On a NYC local TV show, I assume?

They eventually realized that they were the bad guys in Die Hard, and that one person was John McClane.

It would have been ubercool if they'd killed him before finding that out.

I have an Arduino controller board.

I am totally unsurprised.

I think an Arduino could be to me what electronics sets and Fischer Technik were not.

20 years later.

Does anyone know much about orgy etiquette?

If its like any other party the host is probably running around making sure the little dishes of condoms are filled and that the astro glide is flowing and "where IS that fucking hand cuff key? Why DO they have to be so damn little..." and barely has a moment of peace nevermind, um, pleasure.