hen  ߱                         ߱            ۲   ۲    ۲            ۲          t h e  ޲۱         e r     ޲      ޲  ܲ۱        ۱                                                 the blender. ߰  welcome one and all to yet another HENNIFER- BRAND(tM) infofile.    with additions and changes by the eve r so silly warpus the electron   g e n e r a l c  r a p       in the tradition of the very successful joint and swap(tM) irc a ctivities, comesa third, ultimate idea. y es, if you can read (?!) you've guessed by now..   THE BLENDER!!!!!!!!!    p r o c e d u r  e s        quickly!  before time runs out, this how a blender(tM) event will be run: 1 - everyone will gather in  #blender (on EFnet) 2 - at precisely 7:00pm EST,  warpus, the host of this event w ill explain  how the blender works. 3 - each person will come up wit h ONE idea. it can be in one of three  categories: thing (ie. horse), acti on (ie. fishing), and place (ie. wh ite house). 4 - everyone will submit  their ONE idea to the organizer, who will make a  list. this organizer currently is warpus . /msg your words to him. writing down of the words might take up to 5 mi nutes, so please be patient. 5 - the organizer will rando mly pick THREE of the ideas (one  thing, one action, and one place). these three ideas will be announce d, and put in the topic.   6 - your mission is to creat e a masterpiece about the three picked ideas.  thereare a couple restrictions:       - no sumbission may be bigger than 150k zipped . - no more than four people may work on o ne joint. - a person may submit no more than three entries (solo or joint). your masterpiece may be pretty much anything . ansi/ascii/music/lit/vga/etc. everything is allowed, as long as the r ules are followed.   7 - the funpo ends at 9:30pm  EST, and that's when all the work is collecte d.    warpus usually collects  all of it, unless his dcc fucks up (which happens   a lot:). you *may* submit ea rly if you wish. check the topic line to see who is collecting, just to be sure.   8 - a winner is picked, but th at is usually not announced sunday night. the  group that the winner is representing receives a point, and the winner(s)  is/are placed on the "artist(s) of the week" list. 9 - the pack is then released so that it can be downloaded by hordes of eager blendeners, blender supporters, fans, fanatics, den tists, and communists.    a d v a n t a g  e s        hopefully you get an idea of the fun involved here. bu t along with that,  blender(tM) has numerous advantages  over the other irc events. INFINITE PLAYERS - yes, this mea ns never having to turn eager blendeners a way. PREFAB INSPIRATION - for those of you tha t can't think of anything to draw, here other people will do most of the work for you!  ORIGINALITY - finally something other to draw than breasts =) just imagin e a  pack with 20 different interpretations of a horse fishing!! NO QUALITY CONTROL - it doesn't matter how well you do, how silly or serious you are, because you won't be messing up anyone 's work except your own =) EASY TO RUN - no messy file exch anges + no hard-to-enforce rules = a sm ooth- running operation with no annoying delays . COOL ORGANIZERS - yes, finally a compo th at is ran by really cool people. :)     w h o ' s b e h i n  d w h a t ? ! ?       people seem to be confused as to who does what during t hese blenders. well... warpus - runs blender, writes nfo files, releases packs, judges. hennifer - invented the blender,  helps out, sometimes judges. tsk - provides us with the bots. sagittarius - the southeastern european b lender pack distribution coordinator. nitemare - set up my page. lopy - hosts the ftp site. we also have couriers spreading the packs all over the planet. consult blender.sup to find out who they are.   m o r e g e n e r a  l c r a p       now that you know what the blender is, and how it works , i'll let you in on a  little secret:  the 37th blender will be held:   the 38th blender will  be held:    wednesday, august 6th      wednesday,  august 13th   7:00pm - 9:30pm (est)  7:00pm - 9:30pm (est )  #blender (on EFnet ) #blender (on EFnet) please join us.  - hennifer & warpus SAUCE00general info hen/warp blender 199707291P