Operation: I’m With the Band
April 17th, 2010

Posted by Tim

Runners operation

As you heard earlier this week, LRR is going to be appearing at w00tstock in Seattle and Portland this May.

We haven’t had an Operation in a little while, and w00tstock got me thinking… Appearing in a show with Wil Wheaton, Paul and Storm, Adam Savage, and lots of other cool people is going to be awesome, but appearing in Woodstock would be awesome, too. That will probably never happen for us, but through the magic of computing technology, we can have the next best thing!

Your challenge, Runners, is to create an image of LoadingReadyRun appearing at Woodstock. You can do custom art, you can photoshop our faces onto Jimmy Hendrix or Led Zeppelin, you can create a promotion poster… Be creative with it.

Submit your image to [email protected] with “Operation: I’m With the Band” in the title by midnight PST on Friday, April 30 for a chance to win one of the following prizes:

The Grand Prize winner will receive their choice of a How To Talk Like A Pirate, WiiPlay, or Desert Bus t-shirt!

The two Runners-Up will receive a free button of their choice with their next purchase from the LoadingReadyRun store. (LRR logo three-button pack not eligible for this offer.)

The best entries will also be showcased on our blog.

If you have any questions, leave a comment. Otherwise, get arting!

Operation: Mark Moonbase Mk. III Results
April 4th, 2010

Posted by Tim

Almost 80 people sent in submissions for Operation: Mark Moonbase Mk. III, which I’m pretty sure is a new record for us. Thank you, everyone who entered!

Many people guessed locations very close to the actual place where we built Moonbase Mk. III, but ultimately only one person was able to pinpoint the correct building site. Before revealing the winner, I’d like to share a couple of the closer attempts. These people are the Runners Up of the operation.

For the results, with images and details, click the link: Read the rest of this entry »

LiveStream: Inside the Moon on April 2
April 1st, 2010

Posted by Tim

The show is over! You can watch the recording of the show here:


http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/5907637

Next time, I’ll try not to blow the levels so much, waste so much time, and fail at sharing a simple image. : )

In the future, if you want to connect to the chat with an IRC client, here are the details:

chat01.ustream.tv
6667
#inside-the-moon

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Several things will be covered during the show. I’ll be revealing the winner of Operation: Mark Moonbase Mk. III before it gets announced on the website, as well as the Runners-up; we’ll play a couple of rounds of a very special game show; and I’ll answer your questions, which you can post in the comments area on this blog post.

I am also going to kick off another LRR contest, one which I’ve designed specifically to provide benefit to me without requiring me to exert any real effort. I think you guys will have fun with it!

I hope everyone tunes in tomorrow and participates in the chat. I plan to record the show on UStream, so if you can’t make it, you’ll still be able to watch it after the fact.

Don’t forget to post your questions for me to answer in the comments on this blog post!

Tim

Loading Time: Moving the Moonbase
March 31st, 2010

Posted by Tim

LRR Behind the Scenes

As promised, here’s the Loading Time for our move into the Moonbase Mk. III. It took longer to get online that I had hoped, due to some strange upload issues with YouTube and our trip to Boston, but exporting with a different codec (and, unfortunately, at only 720p rather than 1080p) seems to have fixed the problem.

We’re really excited to be in this new place, and we’re also very thankful that everyone helped us find it back after we lost it.

Speaking of that Runners Operation, I should have a winner all picked out by the end of the week, and I’ll share some of the entries with you all when I do. Once that piece of business has been dealt with, next week should bring a new challenge for you all to complete. I’m looking forward to it!

-Tim

Operation: Mark Moonbase Mk. III
March 9th, 2010

Posted by Tim

runners operation

As you may have picked up from various Twitter chatter or podcast conversations, we’re in the middle of relocating the LoadingReadyRun office (affectionately known as the “Moonbase”) to a larger, better, warmer location. All of the principal moving is done, along with the painting and shelf-hanging and so on, and you’ll be happy to know that a fair amount of the process was documented in moving audio-pictures. We’re super-excited about the Moonbase Mark Three.

But there’s been one small problem…

We’ve lost it.

Oh! No, no no; we aren’t crazy. We haven’t lost our minds. We’ve just lost our Moonbase!

So we need your help to find it back. Scour the internet, peer through telescopes, pore over Captains’ starlogs, do whatever it takes (legally!) to find a map of the moon and locate our moonbase.

Keep in mind that the actual moonbase itself won’t be visible; after all, it’s an underground orbiting moonbase. But you should be able to discover some of the more likely hiding places, in craters, on the sides of mountains, in the middle of dusty plains… We’ll check the most likely locations and reward whoever finds it!

So, in summary, your task is to find a map of the moon somehow (I hear Google Earth has shots of the moon, as a starting point) and mark a location where you think the Moonbase Mk. III might be hidden. Send a screenshot (and, if possible, a link) to me by midnight PST on March 19, 2010. We’ll pick the best location from the submissions.

If you have any questions, leave a comment or send an email.

Good hunting!