Tales from the N.E.R.D.

So, when you arrived at the Annabel Scheme launch party on Sat­ur­day, you were pre­sented with a piece of evi­dence from Scheme’s col­lec­tion. They were all dated and tagged in ziploc bags; they were all very strange.

Your mis­sion: come up with the story behind the evi­dence! There was a Nar­ra­tive Evi­dence Research Data­base col­lec­tion sta­tion set up, off to one side of the party, to cap­ture these sto­ries. Here’s just a taste of what peo­ple recorded:

(Note to par­ty­go­ers: My Mac­Book seems to have become some kind of unsta­ble quan­tum com­puter, because the sound on sev­eral of the clips got zapped. So there were some truly excel­lent stories—well, they looked excellent—that I couldn’t include. Argh!)

Huge thanks to N.E.R.D. col­lab­o­ra­tor Dan Bouk, who helped gather, pre­pare, and dis­trib­ute the evidence.