Chicken Missile

• Charles — @Chicken_Missile
• Cat — @LadyAiluros 
• Mark
• Kay — @KaySavetz

H is for Hack and the hacking hackers who hack them.

In the traditional sense, a “Hack” is a particularly clever, effective, or elegant solution to a problem. The problem and/or solution can involve technology (hardware, software), the laws of physics, even social constructs. 

• What do you consider your most epic hack?
• What is the greatest hack of all time?

https://github.com/savetz/Renderific

https://archive.org/details/EmulatorDetectionIn6502AssemblyKansasfest2014Presentation

The Story of Money:
https://digital.hagley.org/Pam_2017_0814#page/1/mode/1up

Oh, those wicked games we play.

• Charles — @Chicken_Missile
• Cat — @LadyAiluros 
• Mark
• Ken — @KGagne
• Earl
• Carrington — @carrington

G is for Games.

We play games of all sorts, even if you don’t consider yourself a “gamer”, or even are actually any good at them. But what makes a good game? What makes it a classic, and what will condemn it to the next rummage’s sale fifty cents bin?

In which we do our best to avoid the F word. (Spoiler: We fail. Fully.)

• Charles — @Chicken_Missile
• Cat — @LadyAiluros 
• Mark
• Kay — @KaySavetz
• Quinn — @QuinnDunki

F is for Fffffffffuuuuuuuuuuundamentals.

What are some skills or knowledge that you have found essential to what you do each day (for work, relationships, adulting)?

The epic ending to our extended episode of exploration and escapades. (see Episode D: Dungeons and/or Dragons)

• Charles — @Chicken_Missile (Atrios the Rogue)
• Cat — @LadyAiluros  (Agartha the Amazon)
• Matthew — (our DM)
• Chris —@CT6502 (Grim the Barbarian)
• Mark —(Duino the Wizard)
• Wesley —(Sting the Skirmisher)
• Paul — @yesterbits (Zkezza the Lizard Man)
• Earl — (Skolsun the Dwarven Artificer)
• Carrington — @Carrington (Vaté the Atlantean Duelist)

E is for the Epic Ending to our Earlier Endeavors.

In our quest for all things rare and elusive, our intrepid band stumbles upon a stranger in the wilderness. He calls himself Matthew, and he offers to lead us in a game of Dungeons and Dragons… for a price!

• Charles — @Chicken_Missile (Atrios the Rogue)
• Cat — @LadyAiluros  (Agartha the Amazon)
• Matthew — (our DM)
• Chris —@CT6502 (Grim the Barbarian)
• Mark —(Duino the Wizard)
• Wesley —(Sting the Skirmisher)
• Paul — @yesterbits (Zkezza the Lizard Man)
• Earl — (Skolsun the Dwarven Artificer)

D is for Dungeons, but also Dragons.

In which the Scooby Gang solves the case of the cunning codes, learns how the Apple II mini-assembler works, and Carrington is suspiciously quiet.

• Charles — @Chicken_Missile
• Mark
• Paul — @yesterbits
• Carrington — @carrington
• Kay — @KaySavetz

C is for Codes, Cyphers and Cryptograms

Today, we will watch, or listen, while our steely-eyed missile men decode a secret message of my devising. Individual points will be awarded for intuitive leaps and making progress toward the goal. The group will receive points for solving the two cryptograms in the allotted sixty minutes.

To assist toward the goal, I will give a hint or answer a specific question once every ten minutes, provided the group all agree that they need the help. Each hint will reduce your final score.

See if you can play along at home, and solve the following puzzles before our coven of collaborators:

In which we put butts on nuns and murder invisible old women.

• Charles — @Chicken_Missile
• Mark
• Cat — @ladyailuros
• Ken — @kgagne
• Paul — @yesterbits
• Carrington — @carrington
• Kay — @KaySavetz

B is for Books. I assume you’re all readers. What is the last book you read for pleasure? How do you consume your books – dead tree, e-reader, audiobook?

App suggestion: Libby https://www.overdrive.com/apps/libby/

• Ken —
  •  Leave Only Footprints
• Cat —
  • Consider Phlebas by Iain Banks 
• Mark — 
  • Butts on Things https://www.briancook.net/portfolio/projects/butts-on-things/
• Paul — 
  • Humpty Dumpty Lived Near a Wall (Derek Hughes)
  • The Thursday Murder Club (Richard Osman) 
  • Richard Osman’s House of Games
  • Pointless 
  • Omnibus podcast
• Kay — 
  • A Very Punchable Face by Colin Jost
  • Dear Girls by Ali Wong 
  • The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life by Alex Trebek
• Carrington — 
  • The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, by V. E. Schwab 
  • When We Cease to Understand the World, by Benjamin Labatut 

• Charles
• Cat https://twitch.tv/ladyailuros
• Paul
• Carrington
• Chris
• Quinn
• Mark
• Kay

• Desert Bus for Hope https://desertbus.org/
• National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) https://nanowrimo.org/
• Scutoids are a geometrical solution to three-dimensional packing of epithelia: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05376-1

A is for Apple, Atari, Amiga, and so on… 

A is also for Ambitions. What is something you have never yet done, but you hope to, either retro tech related, or otherwise?

“The Limited Wisdom of Small Crowds” 

In which we discover that our Canadian friends have no concept of “miles” or “pounds” and nobody on the panel knows the speed of light, or about how big an acre is.

Is this thing on?

• Charles
• Kay
• Paul
• Mark
• Cat
• Quinn

• KansasFest http://KansasFest.org 
• Cat twitch stream: https://www.twitch.tv/ladyailuros
• Open Apple: http://www.open-apple.net/
• RCR: http://Rcrpodcast.com
• Blondihacks: http://blondihacks.com/
• Eaten by a Grue: http://monsterfeet.com/grue/ 
• Antic: http://ataripodcast.libsyn.com
• Great British Bake-off: https://www.reddit.com/r/UKTVLAND/ for an extra slice
• @appleIIbot
• http://twitter.com/atari8bitbot
• www.Atari8BitBot.com

We’ve been locked inside and barely ventured out of the house in six months or more. What long-neglected items on your to-do list have you finally gotten around to doing, now that there’s literally nothing else to do?