A Day at the MCTC Book Festival - Wrap-Up
October 15th, 2007
Another Saturday has come and gone, which means the latest round of Least Dangerous Game is in the bag. Winners were crowned, losers were probably sitting at home in their choice of pants or bare bottoms, and the weather was beautiful.
My hiding spot was the Rain Taxi Twin Cities Book Festival which was held at the Minneapolis Community and Technical College. There were readings by authors, men with tobacco stained mustaches, and ladies in upper class looking ponchos eating grilled cheese and wearing Crocs. It was an eclectic mix to say the least.
The pictures clues were mostly close ups of structural oddities around the MCTC. Stoops, street lights, skyways, and similar items starting with the letter “S” clued LDGers to my hiding location.
Actually, no one figured out where I was until the “Book Festival Today” picture popped up. That picture was sent right before the final picture. The final picture was big sign that says “Minneapolis Community and Technical College.” Steve Wyman finally picked up on my location, bringing along multi-super-winner Alan Wyman.
Steve won $15 to be spent at this one day festival of books. He decided to pick up Smax by the insane looking Alan Moore. Now Alan Moore can continue to buy the meds he certainly needs.
We’ll be back to riddles and such for the next round of Least Dangerous Game, so don’t expect another round of picture clues just yet. See you then, hopefully!
A Picture is Worth a Bunch of Words - Today’s Game
October 13th, 2007
Today’s game starts at noon! All clues will be pictures updated from RIGHT HERE. Check to Flickr account for Least Dangerous Game to find my hiding spot and win handily!
Bring your glasses
October 12th, 2007
Tomorrow (for real this time) will be another experiment for Least Dangerous Game.
Rather than getting clues via Twitter, pictures of the hiding location will be updated at the Least Dangerous Game Flickr page.
No more playing blind and letting the computer read my Tweets to you. It is time for some visual stimulation. Ummm, the G rated kind.
Short Notice
October 5th, 2007
You may have read that the next Least Dangerous Game was on October 6th. You may have even heard it from me. And to that I say, you are crazy and I deny everything. The second Saturday of the month is the 13th, clearly. And I never ever make mistakes.
Rambling denial aside, the next Least Dangerous Game is October 14th, not the 6th. You should go to the Zombie Pub Crawl on the 6th. That’s where I’ll be!
Mill Ruins Park - Wrap-Up
October 4th, 2007
It was a perfectly beautiful day to play Least Dangerous Game on September 22nd. It was a sunny day, and many people were out enjoying the weather like myself. But, unlike myself, they were not hiding from technophiles.
My hiding spot this week was at Mill Ruins Park, which I didn’t even know existed. I was delighted to visit someplace with “ruins” in its name. Other blogs might make a joke about Britney Spears here. I am not those blogs. Let’s go through the clues that were given.
10101
The park officially opened on October 1st, 2001. And you thought it was binary code. I am not a computer! Yet.
Side note, I hate the Steve Miller Band
Mill is in the name, and I do hate the Steve Miller Band. Abracadabra is the worst song there ever was and ever will be.
Rumps kill rain
Here is your anagram for the day. This is the clue that solved it for the winners. But I guess they were lazy, as they didn’t find me for another hour and a half. What’s the deal?
Why Minneapolis was born like a phoenix
The mill industry along the Mississippi created the booming town of Minneapolis. But it was booming in other ways as well. Flour mills were very explosive. They would explode, taking other mills with them. And new mills would simply be put up over their ruins.
Ozymandias
Ozymandias is a poem about ruins found in an ancient land. While Minnesota isn’t exactly ancient, we have our ruins. And that bunk Kensington Runestone doesn’t count.
Another City Pages 2007 Best Of.
The Mill Ruins Park is the Best Place To Take Out-Of-Town Guests. According to the City Pages, at least. I’d have to agree, in so much that it’s better than showing them the spoon bridge.
Not the Khmer temples of Angkor Wat.
Straight from the City Pages article, Mill Ruins Park aren’t the greatest ruins left standing the world over. But they are impressive in their own way. A Google search should reveal everything pretty quickly at this point.
44.980358-93.257822
GPS coordinates of my exact locations. It can’t get much easier than that. Also, Mill Ruins Park doesn’t have much of an address.
At this point, my friend Joe Bozic and his wife found me after taking their damn time. They won a wonderful set of books from James Lileks.
Then, on my way back across the Stone Arch Bridge to my free parking, I met Graham Lampa who found me by the GPS coordinates.
It was a great day to relax in a park reading The Stand and waiting for people to find me. Let’s do it again in two days, yeah?
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