Some of the most dangerous drugs aren't on the streets...

They are under your sink.

Welcome to the Annual Halloween Party Wiki: your one stop shop for photos/videos from previous parties, recipes of some foods served, tee shirt designs, and upcoming plans as well as a FAQ for folks that can't seem to figure out what exactly a multi-day party encompasses.

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If there's something you'd like to know about or see here, let the host and hostess know.

-The Hosts, emeriti.

Dates and Location

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, biatch!

La Calavera Catrina

Baron La Croix

2017 - Wednesday 25 October through Sunday 29 October.

The address is:

 2106 River Rd, Manchester, VT

Accommodations

Please visit https://www.vrbo.com/233674 to get a sense for what the rental location is like.

All overnight guests will be given complimentary earplugs in case they wish to try to sleep through revelry.

DETAILS ON ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE POLICIES TBA

adamf says we are in possession as of 4pm on Wednesday, Oct 25.

Fundraising (a.k.a. How the heck are we paying for this new venue?)

80% (as of 10/29/2017)

At 2013's party, the Hosts announced that, given the inability of everyone to stay at the same house for the length of the party, that it was time for us to move the party to a larger venue.

This does mean that we are asking for donations to help cover the rental cost. Based on some back-of-the-envelope calculations on what people have been paying to rent hotel rooms, rooms at bed-and-breakfasts, and houses, we think renting this location will end up being cheaper overall, AND allow us to all be under one roof for the duration of the party.

Please don’t think this is a pay-to-play situation. The Hosts have been very concerned about that idea for years because we acknowledge financial realities. If you can contribute to this cause, please do, but even if you can't, you should still come! If we have the same number of people attend this year’s party, and if people pay what they paid for hotels at previous H-Parties, we should be able to hit our financial goal.

One-time Payments

User:AdamF has volunteered to be in charge of the financials, and you can donate funds using paypal, cash, or check:

Venmo: @adamfblahblah
Paypal: paypal.me/adamfletcher
Address for checks: TBD

Subscription/Monthly Payments

jwm has volunteered to run a PayPal subscription, so you can contribute Monthly to the hParty fund (as opposed to needing to kick in one big chunk right before the party). Contact him if you have any questions, or you can sign up here.

Words of Wisdom

Little did they know that the punch had already been jammed full of caffeine and modafinil.

'And ye harm none do what thou wilt'

Keep in mind, however, that there might be small children around some of the time. Along those lines:

There are various signs up helping with behavior choices.
No slipping minors candy, alcohol, drugs or even juice (without clearing it past parents).
When in doubt, ask the Hosts or a representative of the Hosts(Moarloks)

Three bowls do I mix for the Temperate:

One to health--which they empty first--the second to love and pleasure, the third to sleep. When this bowl is drunk up, wise guests go home.
The fourth bowl is ours no longer, but belongs to violence,
the fifth to uproar,
the sixth to drunken revel,
the seventh to black eyes,
the eighth is the policeman's,
the ninth belongs to biliousness,
and the tenth to madness and the hurling of furniture.

-Eubulus, 375BCE, writing on wine.

Once more, with feeling..

Shirts

It's not as easy as it seems

Starting with the first halloween party, shirts have been used to help subsidize travel expenses for people. Our HParty Poet Laureate, Basho P. Luddite, has again stepped forward to come up with a design. In an ambitious design, Basho has managed to achieve the long sought Goat-Plane-Twilight Zone iconography.

Based on the penchant for goats to stand on elevated objects, the famous "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" ("There's a man on the wing of the plane!") Twilight Zone episode, the difficulty of travelling with kids, and a terrible pun, we're pretty pleased with the overall obscure result that tries to stay true to the source material--even down to the black and white format.

Based on feedback, we are going to try and have two basic designs: one with the fantastic, value adding text. The other without.

Attention to detail is critical when putting kids on planes	Texted design. Look at those serifs!	Mmmm serif back.
	No text design	No text hoodie

For those interested in pre-ordering shirts please send the size you are interested in--keeping in mind that the print will be on a hoody meant to be worn over other clothing--and whether you would like yours to have text, or be sadly bereft of text.

What are the shirt profits used for?

All proceeds will be going to help finance the travel of our Hosts Emeriti--The Hamter Collective--Traveling from Grand Forks, North Dakota. The exact cost of the tees has not been determined yet, but we expect the cost will be between 25 and 30$. A bit pricy maybe, but it’s for a good cause. And goats on plane wings. Come on. It's funny.

Costs

Projected cost: $35 per shirt. Send $$ to Sean Hammond

RSVP - (Please give projected arrival time and sleeping arrangements)

INVITE STATUS: SENT SeanT (talk) 17:16, 11 September 2017 (EDT)

Please RSVP via email as soon as possible as much planning has to occur to pull this party off.

Halloween Party Invite List 2017.

Slack Backchannel

There is a Slack channel available for communications leading up to and during the party. If you have an ice-nine.org email address, you can sign yourself up for the Imaginary Bridges Slack group here. Otherwise, email grahams and he'll send an invite to whichever email address you prefer.

List of Activities and Things to Expect

Dr. Sean T. Hammond's Companion

Wednesday Events

Thursday Events

Friday Events

Saturday Events

Intermittent Events

Basho P Luddite plans on making red currant cheesecake SeanT (talk) 10:39, 4 August 2017 (EDT)
A new game! "Bread wine, burn wine, or just wine." Hosted by the Honest Madman SeanT (talk) 10:39, 4 August 2017 (EDT)
Is there interest in making Progressive Screwdrivers? SeanT (talk) 10:39, 4 August 2017 (EDT)
Making "Stravinsky Concerts" for your gastronomic ~~riots~~ delight SeanT (talk) 10:39, 4 August 2017 (EDT)

Going SOMEWHERE in the area of the rental

Halloween Party Music

If you play an instrument that is roughly portable, people will want to make music with you. For song ideas and suggestions you should see at:

The HParty Music Page
The Noble Rot Songbook (PDF) (also available on github, ping AdamF for access)

Food

Important note: Sophus is on a special diet. If you want him to be able to eat something, foods must comply with what is found on dropbox.

Public:Hparty Meal Prep Signups

The management would like to better arrange the food situation for the party. The set up will be the following. If you are interested in fixing a particular dish or even a whole meal, you sign up for a particular time slot. We will need main chefs for meals and helper bees. No one person will be allowed to be a main chef for more than one full day of cooking, or more than three meals. When you sign up for service, you can declare a bunch of dishes you choose to cook, or you can wing it with local produce you find and choose to use. So sign up and give as much info or as little as you choose. If you plan to cook certain dishes, food may be purchased ahead of time if you tell us what you'll need.

Recipes We Liked

Good Eats Fried Chicken
Cook's Country Ultimate Cinnamon Buns; note we use King Arthur All Purpose Flour at 120g to the cup (conversion per their chart)

Needful Things

For 2018

bluetooth speakers for the kitchen & other rooms
a bluetooth to 1/8" audio jack adaptor
maybe cat5 to run in the walls
an 8 or more port ethernet switch
unifi pro access point(s)
A label maker that people know about
a few power strips for the rooms
move a TV into the ballroom?
lights for the ballroom
more people hanging out in the ballroom when the live music is on
a call to action that by one hour before checkout all the food/beer/etc is up for grabs
signups for post-meal cleanup and late-night cleanup in addition to meal prep signup
current records: ping pong: 3-way consecutive hits: 12 (adamf, jesstess, rory), 2-way: 33 (rory, grahams) basketball: consecutive shots hit any distance: 7 (sophus) consecutive 3 pointers: 1 (grahams) consecutive foul shots: 4 (rory)
A tracking mount for astrophotography
HDMI switcher to ease TV/the-one-cable issues
2 or 4 oven thermometers
2 sets of measuring cups
2 sets of measuring spoons
An accusharp
A scale
Putting some butcher paper up in a central location to write times on for dinner/other events

Merit Badges

We started playing with the idea of eventually having hparty merit badges. Want to contribute to ideas?

Things We Needed More of at This Year's (2017) Party

actual maple syrup, sophus friendly
Some non-terrible pots and pans, especially frying pans
We seemed to run short on eating utensils, especially forks. So perhaps some plastic utensils (of the durable, reusable variety preferably)

Pack Lists

John:

2 PS Move controllers
Baking supplies (flour, sugar, leavening, cocoa, spices, etc.)
Good sharp knives, random kitchen utensils
Stand mixer (maybe)
Raspberry Pi 1B, to try with https://github.com/adangert/JoustMania
Extra bath towels for out-of-towners

Adam

Laundry detergent (plenty of it)
Dryer sheets
Dishwashing detergent (those pods + some palmolive shit and two sponges)
Various candies
2 capos
Lots of guitar picks
A pack of acoustic guitar strings

grahams:

Tech/Gaming
- 2 PS Move Controllers
- Bluetooth Dongle
- Raspberry Pi 2
- Steam Link
Tabletop
- Crokinole
- Pucket
- Ticket To Ride
- Poker Supplies
Kitchen
- Baking Steel
- Crock Pot
- Kitchen Spoons/Spatulas
- Measuring Cups/Spoons
- Knives and Sharpeners
- 3 Half-Sheet Baking Pans
- Joule Sous Vide Circulator
- Cooler (for Sous Vide or normal Cooler shit)
Music/Radio
- Acoustic/Electric Guitar
- Capo
- Tuner
- Noble Rot (dated)
- Radio Gear (Mixer, cables, etc).

ryan mw:

Tech/Gaming
- Wii U + Super Mario Maker
- GearVR + Keep Talking

Past is Prologue

Love

hold up (I'm comin') hold on (I'm comin')

u got it

Post Party Wrap up

What worked? What didn't? Help plan for the next one!

Previous Parties

Media from previous parties

Each year, the party generates an a diverse array of images, music and video. You can look at previous year's media here.

unTEDs: wat?

Public:Halloween Party 2017

Contents

Some of the most dangerous drugs aren't on the streets...

Dates and Location

Accommodations