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Changing the Castle map

11:54am JST Saturday 10 November 2007 (day 13744)

Talked to Laura this morning and she pointed out that the map I have looks nothing like a medieval castle. Hmmm.

Found a map we might use

4:04pm JST Saturday 10 November 2007 (day 13744)

HI Shawn

Back in the early 1990s, before this here internet fad kicked in, I was on a BBS called The Castle
of Dreams in Houston, Texas. We basically were creating overlapping intertwining stories upon
stories in this text message system to create an imaginary world: The Castle of Dreams, floating on
a cloud over the land of Destria.

I enjoyed writing those stories quite a lot, and would like to capture the essence of it and perhaps
create a new cool thing in the process.

SO, I set up a MediaWiki at http://thunderrabbit.com/castle. In order to give some structure to the
"world," I wrote an extension that takes the name of the wiki page, does a lookup in a hash, and
spits out a list of directions one can travel from the particular room.

(the code is at http://robnugen.com/journal.pl?type=all&date=2007/11/09#Sweet_sweet_navigation)

Currently, we have two floors in our castle. A friend of mine pointed out that it's actually nothing
like a medieval castle, so I'm going to add a floor (in between the current two floors) and I'd like
to base that floor (loosely?) on your Harlech Castle plan.

This requires *zero* additional work on your part, but I'd just like your approval. I will give
credit for the layout in whatever way you'd like.

Again, it will all be pure text; I'm not going to actually post your images on my site.

Thanks!
- Rob

4:24pm JST Saturday 10 November 2007 (day 13744)

Ah, cool. I just found a copyright notice on the bottom left corner of the map I wanted to use. Basically free for non-commercial use.

Reasons to love Ami

10:12pm JST Saturday 10 November 2007 (day 13744)

Before watching the rest of Bourne Supremacy, Ami and I were like, "I gotta pee!" at the same time. Actually I was first, but she had said it a while ago, and then we both jumped up and ran to the toilet. (single room; no room for two people) and both went inside.

She peed while I was standing there and then we switched places carefully (the door doesn't always lock very well and can come open with a bump) and just as I was about to sit down, we heard someone out at the sink! hahahahhahaa shhhhhhhhhh

So we desperately withheld our laughter while I peed, and then waited until the coast seemed clear. I peeked out through the wavy glass window.. All clear, so we ran out gigglishly back to my room.