{"id":1288,"date":"2002-12-23T15:41:47","date_gmt":"2002-12-23T20:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=33"},"modified":"2002-12-23T15:41:47","modified_gmt":"2002-12-23T20:41:47","slug":"1kbwc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1288","title":{"rendered":"1KBWC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, a friend of mine introduced me to something called &#8220;The Game of a Thousand Blank White Cards&#8221; or 1KBWC for short.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/steaky.dhs.org\/chorus\/cards.html\">story behind the game<\/a> is fairly simple: someone mis-read the label on a box of index cards.  The game itself can be pretty complex.  All of the cards are hand-drawn by the players, and until the cards are created the game itself has no rules.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nNaturally, this had some twisted appeal to us&#8230;  We started creating cards at a fairly large convention and pretty soon we had a 300 some odd card deck.  I&#8217;m the current guardian of the deck, mostly because I have a house to keep it in.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, I&#8217;ve been learning about PHP and MySQL for a couple of projects at work.  Eventually, we&#8217;re going to have a client-accessible database of text and images.  In time, it will be all pretty and have search functions and multi-user authentication and all sorts of nifty things.  In the meantime, I needed to learn how to put together something quick and dirty as a sort of proof-of-concept page&#8230;  And I decided to use our 1KBWC database.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/1kbwc\/1kbwc.php\">It&#8217;s here<\/a> if you want to take a look at it.  Just remember that the cards were created by a bunch of semi-sober gamers during a stressful convention, and the database itself is very much a work in progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, a friend of mine introduced me to something called &#8220;The Game of a Thousand Blank White Cards&#8221; or 1KBWC for short. The story behind the game is fairly simple: someone mis-read the label on a box of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1288\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-1288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-personal-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}