A smattering of opinions on technology, books, business, and culture. Now in its 4th technology iteration.
01 November 2004
Great weather! Near full moon, clear and crisp, no rain, very little wind. Perfect for fog creation and fog persistence…
Had our first visitors saturday nite – friends. Plus a lot of drivebys that evening.
Sunday the traffic started early – 4pm – some friends, and parents bringing children who were too scared to come at night.
Crush started at 6. Last visitors at 9:20. We had a shopping cart and a half of candy, and had to start rationing at 8:00. We ended up with just a dozen pieces of candy left.
Lots of ?scream? masks. Lots of teenagers with the slightest attempts at costumes. Princesses, witches. Martial arts.
Best props – fog as always, kids love fog. My demented disfigured monk costume, a lot of people thought I was a prop. Lots of tombstones and skeletons. Our haunted talking tree – popular with all ages.
Bugs: Pneumatics good but finicky. Need to invest a lot more in the offseason on testing and construction of pneumatics. Audio – sound quality great but inflexible – discrete sound sources hardwired via speakerwire to outdoor speakers. Really need a virtual soundboard and retargetable delivery over ip, but weather and power present issues.
Pix later this week.