Weekend Adventures: Gentleman Party

If there is something about my group of friends that I like, it is that all of us jump at the chance to dress up. Whether we are all dressed as characters from some sort of fiction or when we are all dressed to the nines we are down for it. I think this love of putting on costumes is why we get along so well on top of common interests that fuels our heated geek debates.

This weekend I decided that it would be a blast to host a themed costume party in my tiny little apartment. The theme for this small shin dig was that we would all dress as classy Gentlemen and elegant Ladies, which because of who we are it took a little bit of a steampunk edge. Just a hint of the brassy genre was found here and there in the costumes because that is what we all kind of have lying around.

Dressed as such the best thing to do we decided was to bust out a board game and we picked game of Arnhem Horror. This is a very geeky board game based on the universe created by the famous author HP Lovecraft and his Elder Gods. The goal of the game is to work as a team to beat monsters and seal gates to other realms all while trying to maintain your characters health and sanity. I will more than likely do a post later on this week reviewing and evaluating this geek board game.

My apartment gets very hot very fast and the fact that I decided it would be fun if the lighting for the event was candle light did not help. So while we were all reading our character back stories and getting to understand the game I snapped off some pretty cool shots.

Due to the heat of the room and the fire everywhere the costumes didn't last to long after the photos were taken. However seeing the pizza guys face when i went and got the pizza while dressed like this was absolutely priceless.

We had a big crew and two more people than the game suggests that we have but we had fun any way, and we were really close to losing. Maybe next time it will be a traditional game of charades not that I have ever played it before.

Sincerely Urban Yeti

Wow from around the Net: Assassins Creed

Every couple of years there seems to be some sort of new method or fad that comes out of the wood work to help people get fit. Right now Hot Yoga seems to be on its way out and the new one on the way in is a dance craze called Zumba. There is one fitness fad that almost took of but was too intense for just anyone to pick up it has been dubbed the French martial art of running away and it is called Parkour.

My aim is not to be insulting to Parkour by calling it the French martial art of running away, in fact I am a little in awe of it.  I have watched Youtube videos of these urban ninjas and am very jealous of all the crazy skills that they posses. I have one friend, my favorite ginger to be specific, who has actually trained himself to perform these amazing body tricks.

Right now I am kind of pudgy and not in any kind of physical shape to achieve this martial art myself…yet. It is one of my long term fitness goals that one day I will be able to clamber up a vertical wall the way that the Parkour masters do. I am working on building my body to be able to do this and I have set out a series of things that I will accomplish first, this is why I started running to be honest because I believe you must walk before running and run before running up a wall.

As always I have found a geek that has taken something that is not geeky at all and made turned it into something that is fantastically geeky. Ever since the mass Geekization, where the G-Virus spread and infected everyone, the internet has been full of the great geeks who have taken their Geekiness to the next level. I found a Cosplayer who has mastered the martial art of Parkour and dressed as Altair from the popular video game Assassin’s creed and performed both his arts in the streets.

Check it out:

One day I want to be as Ninja as this guy (his name is Ryan) is but everyone has got to get their start somewhere. With the running off of my fitness goal check list as of November my next step is to do the Plyometrics work out from the P90X series and learn how to do yoga. My ultimate goal is to pretty much be like a ninja, speaking of ninjas I found this hilarious Ninja Name Maker Give it a try if you can.

Take each letter from your first and last name to make your new ninja name

A.    Ka
B.    Zu
C.   Mi
D.   Te
E.    Ku
F.    Lu
G.   Ji
H.   Ri
I.      Ki
J.    Zu
K.    Me
L.    Ta
M.   Rin
N.   To
O.   Mo
P.    No
Q.   Ke
R.   Shi
S.    Ari
T.    Chi
U.   Do
V.    Ru
W.  Mei
X.    Na
Y.    Fu 
Z.    Zi
 

My New Ninja Name is Doshizukato Fukuchiki What is yours? Please share it with me in the comments below.

Sincerely Urban Yeti