Dustings #131

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GLOMM Lodge #1 has finally been established. (See here for how the GLOMM Lodges started.)

Lodges are local chapters of the GLOMM. (See how to start your own chapter here.)

You might ask, “Are these real organizations?” Well, much like true love or Bigfoot, they’re as real as you want them to be. Do they have meetings and dues? Not as far as I know. Unless they want to. People are free to run their Lodges however they like.

We currently have four recognized branches:

GLOMM Lodge #1
West Lafayette, Indiana

GLOMM Lodge #2: The Mastodons
Melbourne, Australia

GLOMM Lodge #3: The Coyotes
Eugene, Oregon

GLOMM Lodge #4: The Otters
Sacramento, California

If you’re in one of those areas and want to “join,” let me know and I’ll connect you with the contact person for that branch.

GLOMM Lodge #1’s mascot is The Does

Doe? A deer? A female deer?

Yes. This name references West Lafayette’s white-tailed deer population.

It’s also a nod to the fact that Lodge #1 currently has two female members and one male, marking the first time in magic history that a magic organization organically had more women than men.

(Not counting the all-female groups that feel suspiciously like they were dreamed up by men to keep women out of the “real” clubs. You know, like the Brilliant Order Of Bewitching Sorceresses. Or the Koven of Illusionists, Thaumaturges, Conjurers, Heroines, Enchantresses & Necromancers, with their telling slogan: “Are you a woman in magic? You belong in the K.I.T.C.H.E.N.”)

Any men in the West Lafayette Lodge will be known as Gentleman Does.

But that doesn’t make any—

Zip it. The South Carolina women’s basketball team was the Lady Gamecocks. There’s precedent here. Plus, the Gentleman Does is a dope name.

From Demian Max:

I’ve updated the Quinta Trainer with some great suggestions:

  1. You can now adjust the difficulty by choosing the timing in Adaptive Settings.

  2. You can also use audio — someone says a number, and you need to identify which side to start from in Speak Number. This makes the training much closer to real-life conditions.

  3. And the best one: instead of clicking in three different places (left, right, basic, or bounce), now you just tap the side you start from — by clicking on 1 or 5 — with the new Fast Tap mode.

Look, I don’t promote my stuff here (or anywhere, for that matter). And I don’t encourage others to do so either.

But, that being said, if you have the Jerx App and you haven’t been using the Echo Sync trick, you’re missing out. I know if you already had the app when this dropped, it might feel like a “freebie” and easy to shrug off. But just imagine you paid $60 for it instead. It’s that strong.

For the past month, I was pairing it as a lead-in to Christian Grace’s excellent SAM app. But I had to stop because Echo Sync was consistently hitting just as hard, if not harder. At a certain point, it didn’t make sense to stack them.

When they can see themselves on video reading your mind, it’s incredibly strong.