Author Archives: Patrick

Jan 17

Spam Bombed

Hey everyone.  I wanted to take a minute to post a quick maintenance note to alert everyone to an issue with the website.

Apparently, the recent website relaunch has inspired major search engines to reclassify the site with a bit …  [read more]

Posted at 1:59 pm by Patrick in website · 49 Comments » · tags:
Jan 09

Only One (fah kat)

It’s been a while since I’ve posted. It’s been a while since I’ve helped to develop puzzles for this site. I must say that it’s an extreme pleasure now to be doing both.

The hard work and logic bombs that …  [read more]

Posted at 8:30 pm by Patrick in collaborators, planning, puzzles, website · 89 Comments »
Jun 06

Changing Homes

Just wanted to post a quick shout-out to let everyone know that over the past several days, the mystmovie.com website has been in the process of migrating to a new website hosting server.  This move has been in planning for …  [read more]

Posted at 6:20 pm by Patrick in life, website · 25 Comments »
Dec 09

Deeper Magic

The wind whips with the first real winter storm of the season and as I feel the cold burn being let in by the drafty windows, I find myself struggling for something to say.  Something to help crown it all.  …  [read more]

Posted at 8:31 pm by Patrick in collaborators, communications, life, planning · 139 Comments » · tags: , , ,
Aug 30

Watch the Guild

A little over a year ago, Adrian came to me one evening to show me something he had heard about on NPR’s Fresh Air earlier that day.  It was something that I was very skeptical about when he first told …  [read more]

Posted at 4:28 pm by Patrick in life · 50 Comments »
Aug 24

Growing

Today, my little boy had his first day of kindergarten.  For a parent (give or take) this is a moment of realizing how much your child as grown, and how much he’s now on his own in the world.  For …  [read more]

Posted at 11:31 pm by Patrick in life · 35 Comments » · tags:
Aug 22

Cue the Brachiosaur

I’ve been living in a perpetual state of anxiety for the last several days.  The pattern of my life has been reduced to (or enhanced to, I’m not entirely sure) waking after limited hours of sleep, going to work, coming …  [read more]

Posted at 6:48 pm by Patrick in collaborators, life, script · 17 Comments »
Jul 07

Things Blowing Up

Like fireworks, and family, and major motion pictures — or: My Summer Vacation, and how I forgot to water the plant but it grew anyway.

The last weeks have been full of wonder and frustration.  The group is salivating to …  [read more]

Posted at 12:37 pm by Patrick in collaborators, communications, life · 100 Comments » · tags: , , , , ,
Jun 06

Kings of Spam

I think I’ve mentioned it before — one of the things I do at regular interval is search the net for ourselves.  When readership grows, and it has recently (welcome new readers!) it usually is due to some reference another …  [read more]

Posted at 2:18 am by Patrick in website · 23 Comments » · tags: , , ,