<Groucho Marx> I don't think he'd be interested in doing a book of them, but I hope he'd be interesting in having ME do a book of them and him publishing them. </Groucho Marx>
But seriously, I'd be all for that, and I'd owe you big time if I walked into a Barnes and Noble and saw my book on their shelf!
I'm really glad you like my two-sets-of-rules presentation. I've found it really helps people get to the heart of matters, and when an interpretation issue between them crops up, it lets me know exactly how I can tweak one or the other to make them better match. I said it in my very first post in this journal, and I'll say it again: disambiguity is one of the noblest purposes one can pursue - it is justice for logic.
I actually didn't see The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters until it came out on DVD, and I only saw Wordplay for the first time a few months ago! There is a lot to compare between the two; perhaps the most striking is the producers' influence on the events. Wordplay gets Merle Reagle to make a crossword for the film; KoK invents an underdog story to make Michael Moore proud. (On a side note, the IMDB "STARmeter" says my popularity is up 81% this week, and my teammate Tyler Hinman's is down 5%. Somehow, though thoroughly unintentional, this pleases me.)
Wes took over for me once I was physically incapable of doing The Cash Corridor anymore (I had been awake over 24 hours and walking all over the place before I started hosting). Actually, Todd Radford, creator and host of Normalville's "Runaround", was one of my contestants! He told me about that past event, and said that his participation in "The Cash Corridor" was poetic justice. It is now an absolute given that ANY Hunt I'm on the constructing team for WILL have a gameshow-style puzzle, and I'll be hosting every episode of it if at all possible. Wes supposedly has a short video of me hosting, and if memory serves, it's of Todd's second (and successful) attempt; I'm hoping he still has it and can get it to me. - ZM
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I don't think he'd be interested in doing a book of them, but I hope he'd be interesting in having ME do a book of them and him publishing them.
</Groucho Marx>
But seriously, I'd be all for that, and I'd owe you big time if I walked into a Barnes and Noble and saw my book on their shelf!
I'm really glad you like my two-sets-of-rules presentation. I've found it really helps people get to the heart of matters, and when an interpretation issue between them crops up, it lets me know exactly how I can tweak one or the other to make them better match. I said it in my very first post in this journal, and I'll say it again: disambiguity is one of the noblest purposes one can pursue - it is justice for logic.
I actually didn't see The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters until it came out on DVD, and I only saw Wordplay for the first time a few months ago! There is a lot to compare between the two; perhaps the most striking is the producers' influence on the events. Wordplay gets Merle Reagle to make a crossword for the film; KoK invents an underdog story to make Michael Moore proud. (On a side note, the IMDB "STARmeter" says my popularity is up 81% this week, and my teammate Tyler Hinman's is down 5%. Somehow, though thoroughly unintentional, this pleases me.)
Wes took over for me once I was physically incapable of doing The Cash Corridor anymore (I had been awake over 24 hours and walking all over the place before I started hosting). Actually, Todd Radford, creator and host of Normalville's "Runaround", was one of my contestants! He told me about that past event, and said that his participation in "The Cash Corridor" was poetic justice. It is now an absolute given that ANY Hunt I'm on the constructing team for WILL have a gameshow-style puzzle, and I'll be hosting every episode of it if at all possible. Wes supposedly has a short video of me hosting, and if memory serves, it's of Todd's second (and successful) attempt; I'm hoping he still has it and can get it to me. - ZM