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Cookie Brigade Thank You
chibidani
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All I have to say is WOW! I want to thank all you forumites (and all the other attendees too) for making our fundraising efforts worth it. In total, we raised almost $5400 for Child's Play.
$5400!!!
So, thank you all again, lets beat this next year
$5400!!!
So, thank you all again, lets beat this next year
We are now gluten, dairy and corn free gamers!
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HELL FREAKING YES!
PunkJr
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Yes, my middle name really is MEGATRON
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Somewhere between 1800 and 2000, I think.
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I gave $1 on day one (all I had in cash) and $10 on day 2. easiest and tastiest way to donate EVAR!
thanks
On an unrelated note, I think the most generous donation I received was from a man just outside of the BYOC, who gave $40 in exchange for a cookie.
For those who read this consider this a challenge for next year: generosity one-upmanship!
Good work to all of you, and thank you to all who donated generously!
I got a chocolate cookie shooter from VT on Saturday (I had the WTB [Cookie] x2 sign) and it was great!
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I will definitely be baking again, and much much more, next year.
Was the cookie shooter good? Hopefully it was enjoyable!
And indeed jonxp, you definitely helped out at a most critical moment. There was no way I was going to handle that large crowd with the big non-strapped box on my own, you definitely saved my butt doing the money collection
I'm the king of wasting my money on good causes. I WILL CRUSH YOU ALL.
Woot!
But yeah, agreed! This was a whole lot of fun, and I can see I'll need a few more cookies next year. Here's hoping I'll be driving up. Taking a plane really limited what I could bring.
She got the great idea to buy some dixie cups, so people could just scoop them in the cup and eat them... and I decided to call them Cookie Shooters so that they had a positive spin.
And people did indeed shoot them! I had some video footage (that I'll likely get back from BioWare sometime soon to post it) of a group of like 5 guys buying the shooters, and then downing them at the same time like a drinking contest.
Genius. Good lord, you guys made me proud out there. There are no words.
On a related note, there's been a small spike in membership since PAX. I encourage anyone interested to sign up, and get on early for next year. That way, you'll be on the mailing list for anything that starts up, nice and early. Joining the group does not require you to participate if your circumstances are different next year, but it does mean you'll be in the info loop.
Having a website (with all the cookie brigade recipies, how-tos for building brigade boxes/printing brigade posters, info/meetup hosting etc...), organizing covert meetings during PAX, having "work shifts", resupply runs/meet-ups, some organized form of communication like walkie-talkies, etc... could be really really useful this next year, and would help immensely. I've got to get over there and mention this stuff after work, and I've got to decipher the enforcer's E-Mail address. =( (I can't make a few letters out... if you're out there listening, we met in front of the Wil Wheaton panel. Who are you? Can you send me a PM?)
We could try communicating via text message. I know I used Danielle's phone list several times to get in touch with people. It worked out fairly well.
The one thing I would like is to partner up with someone, much like some of you guys did, to help me collect cash. It was rough trying to manage numerous types of cookies/caramels, cash, and buttons.
Aye, shifts could be optional, I think (though they might be useful just so that we knew where/when people were doing it, for the restocking purposes... but maybe an alternative system could work too?). The one thing that would REALLY be useful is some way to get restocks of cookies/product quickly and efficiently. Not having product when I needed it was the biggest problem I ran into... indeed, at the main line to come in on the first day, dozens and dozens of people asked me for cookies but I had to turn them down because I was empty. =(
A good phone list would be useful too, definitely... any way to communicate with those who have cookies that need distributing.
Well, in theory I guess... I don't know how it'd work in practice, but I'll throw the idea out there.
I had a chat with one of the guys doing the quests--there were four (I think) of them with giant yellow exclamation points over their heads. Like the Brigade, they are home-grown and much in the same vein; they wanted to make a fun thing more fun. If they do that next year, it might be nice to have them as a fellow platoon in the army of fun.
As cool as it would be, I don't think it'd be possible to make ti that official. The expo hall apparently has strict rules about food and drink and who can sell it.
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I think a little refinement, perhaps a dash more stealth, and we're good to go. (Walking the line room and BYOC seemed to require no stealth.)
One soul, coming up.
I'm glad you enjoyed the orange poppyseed cookies (there was some lemon in there too). I only had perhaps 40 of them, due to the fact that I had to bake twice as many cookies to get one "piece". Nevertheless, they went like crazy! I call them sandwich cookies, because of the orange buttercream in the center. I'll PM you with the recipe link and my modifications.
Cheers,
Katherine
True! Aye, I think that's the BIG thing... if we had one place where EVERYONE could drop off their cookies and they'd be stored safely, we'd be money. As it was, I restocked over and over from your supplies because it was the only place that I knew I could consistently find cookies.
As to getting the cookies to Seattle safely, what I did is I bought some cheap tupperware and packed them in there, then into a pretty sturdy suitcase, padded with shirts, towels, even my mattress pad in between each container. Needless to say 100% of my cookies made it. I was happy
Walkie talkies or something of the sort would be an awesome idea. I was the annoying guy that sent texts to everyone on the list, just trying to locate everyone because I had missed the first meeting due to the Carcassonne tournament. I eventually did find someone, it just took a lot longer... and took my friends and me holding up signs reading "Looking for the Cookie Brigade". After several hours, someone told me they had just seen VT in the main line room, so I bolted over.
As nice as it would be to be official, I rather enjoy the idea of being somewhat underground... as if we're rogue cookie peddlers. It sounds so deliciously devious... or something. Maybe it's just me.
I think going out in pairs is really the best way to do it. For me anyway... I'm super nervous about peddling cookies to a bunch of strangers. Many thanks to Katherine for helping me out in line with that.
I do think we should choose a quieter place for our two meetings next year.
VT, any ideas on where we might store the cookies? I assume we'd need help from the enforcers in that respect. Otherwise, it's whomever has the closest hotel room, I think.
Aye, I think I have an idea for how we can improve on the cookie brigade box rig this coming year. Right now it's just a dream, but we've got a year to make it a reality.
But these are all just fanciful ideas right now... I don't know how we'd do it... yet. I'm thinking of asking the people over at Make to help us figure out how we'd do it.
I think DJ has a great idea for the central location, again if the Enforcers allow it. We could also use it as a centralized place to store money too (?), as one of my biggest concerns was that one or more of us would get mugged/accosted as we were taking the money back to our hotel room (which, this year at least, we had to do before we all put it together in one pile).
And indeed, the buddy system will be great! I can see that working quite well. Ack, I've got to post these ideas all over to the Yahoo Group, see what everyone thinks of them. I'll have to do that in a bit, maybe if I can get these ideas a bit more organized in my head right now.
Honestly, after Tycho announced the total, I think if I'd seen a Brigadier on my way out of the theatre, I'd have either tackled hugged them, started crying, or both. Five thousand dollars can buy a lot of toys, and because it was all cash, no getting hit for stupid paypal fees!
I mentioned in the group that my mother died unexpectedly a week before PAX--she was big into charity work, and I strongly feel that she'd have been so so so very impressed with what the group accomplished.
I'm basing ideas off of my experience with running catering events (I was not a part of the great work you guys did this year, aside from a bit on the consumption end), so it's also entirely possible that I'm off base.
I never would have guessed I'd get the mission impossible theme stuck in my head while thinking about cookie distribution. Can't wait for next year.