English twitter: @kidethnic
KID ETHNIC IS WRITTEN BY:
saleem reshamwla
who is fresh of the boat (that circled the globe).
He makes crazy stuff:
Zombie Rap Videos, Truly Strange Geographic Education Flicks, Micro-Documentaries About Chinese Cell Phone Markets...kidethnic@gmail.com
日本語のtwitter: @masalasoccer
ALSO BY KID ETHNIC:
SEAWEED BREAKFAST
A collection of stories about Japan written while part of the National Geographic Glimpse Correspondents' Training Program.
The Alpaca Song
I wrote and recorded this for you. Because you <em>need</em> a song about alpacas, don’t you?
The Whiteboard Videos
Music+Whiteboard Markers+Friends=Good ways to spend weekends
100JapaneseThings
A collaborative site to help folks (and each other) find Japanese stuff.
Twitter
I twitter infrequently. But hope we can stay friends.
The Annual Kid Ethnic Valentine
Because I love you so much.
An INVENTION: Anti-Twitter (aka The Status Game) · 3 August 09
PERFECT FOR A LAZY DAY!
For 2 or MORE players (who enjoy each other’s company, but are kind of bored)
Object of Anti-Twitter:
Without using a computer or cell phone, contestants attempt to guess what friendly-non-contestants are currently doing.
The person with the most correct guesses is the winner.
BONUS: In doing so, contestants often fish out invitations to do interesting things with people they may not usually do interesting things with.
Required Materials:
Gameplay Phase: Pen and paper, and perhaps a timekeeping device
Scoring Phase: A phone
Game Preparation:
The contestants make a list a list of friendly local folks who are not playing the game (aka Friendly Non-Contestants, henceforth FNCs).
Each player copies the list onto their own paper, leaving a space of, oh I don’t know, approximately 140 characters open to the right of each name.
Game Play:
A timer is set for some reasonable amount of time.
Each player writes in what they think each FNC is currently doing.
When the timer buzzes, players stop writing.
Scoring Phase:
The players go through the list, calling or texting each FNC. Suggested opening line, “Hey, I was just hanging out with [name of most popular other player], and we were wondering what you were up to.”
Each correct written answer receives 1 point. At the end, the person with the most points wins.
VERY IMPORTANT RECOMMENDATION:
If, at any point, an FNC invites you to engage in something other than the Anti-Twitter Game, please do so.
My friend Lloyd and I invented this game by accident. Actual game sheet photographed above. Please let me know if you try it. NOTE: I’m not anti-Twitter, that’s just the name of the game. “Anti-” like “anti-matter,” you know, the opposite of.
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Man, I miss you.
— Jim Ray 914 days ago #
oh – kinda like Twitter…only social.
— ayman 914 days ago #
I just signed up on Twitter and now feel so lame.
— Mel 913 days ago #
I love everybody.
Jim Ray: If you were local, we’d have buzzed you.
Ayman: Try it. Honestly.
Mel: No, no, don’t feel lame. If the internet helps you meet more people to play outside with, then that is a very, very, good thing.
— saleem 912 days ago #
Actually, the only reason I signed up was because I was so fascinated with the use of Twitter in the early days of the Iranian election protests, and other politically motivated movements. It just blows my mind what 140 characters can do in those moments.
My 4th wall hasn’t crumbled yet.
— Mel 912 days ago #