Cookie Rolling

October 23, 2009 5:46 AM

Cookie Rolling
posted by yegga (14 comments total)

Don't like Mystery Meat MeFi posts... Don't like Meat in my Cookies... Cookie Monster is MetaFilter blue, and he might like bacon & yegga for breakfast...
posted by evilmidnightbomberwhatbombsatmidnight at 6:01 AM on October 23

The project seems a little weird, but her blog is very interesting. Her latest post is about how she got a bad concussion, which lead to an idea for a game:

SuperBetter is a superhero-themed game that turns getting better in multi-player adventure. It’s designed to help anyone recovering from an injury, or coping with a chronic condition, get better, sooner – with more fun, and with less pain and misery, along the way.

posted by DU at 6:07 AM on October 23

Kind of reminds me of another social experiment/stunt.

Anyway very good post.
posted by Taft at 6:16 AM on October 23 [1 favorite]

Jane is an awesome lady. If you ever hear about her hosting one of her games in your town, run, do not walk, and join up.
posted by GameDesignerBen at 6:48 AM on October 23 [1 favorite]

And the only thing I could think to do was to imagine Sisyphus happy.

At least the rock was spherical. This damn cookie keeps falling over. Do you have any idea how hard it is to get a 6 foot cookie up on its edge when you're on a slope like this?
posted by InfidelZombie at 7:03 AM on October 23 [1 favorite]

I too like eating cookies. But I guess the transubstatiation from cookie to rock, and that cookie-rock being on teh ground makes me sad. Because, now, I can't eat that cookie.

I guess I'll never understand art, and its destruction of pastry.
posted by LD Feral at 7:09 AM on October 23

"At that subtle moment when man glances backward over his life, Sisyphus returning toward his rock, in that slight pivoting he contemplates that series of unrelated actions which become his fate, created by him, combined under his memory's eye and soon sealed by his death. Thus, convinced of the wholly human origin of all that is human, a blind man eager to see who knows that the night has no end, he is still on the go. The rock is still rolling."

all is well.
posted by pwally at 7:10 AM on October 23

god, even pictures of stroopwaffel make me anxious that i am not stuffing my face with them.
posted by sexyrobot at 8:26 AM on October 23 [1 favorite]

Picture me cookie rolling.
posted by box at 8:39 AM on October 23 [1 favorite]

How can you do the whole essay word by word, each word in a local language? Different languages will have different word orders, or even different numbers of words in each sentence. Single words in one language may be multiple words in others. Most importantly, though, this is a waste of good cookies.
posted by Philosopher Dirtbike at 9:06 AM on October 23 [1 favorite]

The "Moorestown" one looks like it was made with Tastykakes. Kandy Kakes, namely.
posted by Toothless Willy at 10:04 AM on October 23

Philosopher Dirtbike: "Most importantly, though, this is a waste of good cookies."

This is handily resolved by using ersatz Bauplatzen a German iteration of the French bescuit used to construct e.g. the Chateau d'St. Honore. The bescuit in turn was based on the hardy Roman bis coctus, which as I'm sure you're aware, was the foundation of their well known road system, the viae. Whether it was hardy barley quickbreads or tender morsels made from fine Egyptian flours, the ancient Romans devised a staggering array of baked goods that survive right down to this day.

That their roads also survive in many places is testament to both their engineering and their baking prowess. The overlap between engineering and baking was best seen in one of the first highways, the Via Appia that connected Rome to the southern provinces. Traders who worked along this road were in a state of near starvation from constantly traveling its length were said to "work the road as though they were threshing wheat (for eating)", thus the Latin phrase "Appia tritico", from which comes via corrupted French the english word "appetite".

Now you know.
posted by boo_radley at 10:43 AM on October 23 [1 favorite]

Let me tell you a story about cookie rolling.

Jane called me: her birthday was going to happen when she was speaking at a conference in Orlando. She needed entertainment stat. When I picked her, I asked her what she wanted to do first.

Because she was feeling a little, she had to imagine Sisyphus happy ... and next thing I know I'm helping her cookie roll the word "thought" at Disney with little pink princess cookies.

Don't even get me started on the brilliance of her "Top Secret Dance Off" project ... I allowed myself to have way too much fun with that too.

Jane's an inspiration to many of us.
posted by bclark at 11:53 AM on October 23 [1 favorite]

I need to preview better :)
posted by bclark at 11:54 AM on October 23