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U of Chicago Scavenger Hunt List - 2004
nightsweat writes "The list of items and tasks for the 2004 version of the infamous University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt (or scavhunt for short) is up as a PDF. As a veteran of the first hunt in 1985, I'm glad to see the youngsters carrying on the madness. Some of the highlight items - the URLs of the blogs of the judges, five pages of Queer Eye for Doctor Doom, A McDonald's Sad Meal, Mrs Potatohead giving Mr. Potato head, Eudaemonia (300 points!), and a permanent tattoo that says 'Sorry about the syphilis, can we still be cousins?'"
A PDF viewer for Windows that doesn't suck up more resources Doom III. Good luck on that!
If Mrs Potato wants to give me head.
cheers
Happiness derived from a life of living according to reason. Shouldn't be *too* hard to find *that* at a Uni.
if the answer isn't violence, neither is your silence / freedom of expression doesn't make it alright
Some of the kids successfully built a working breeder reactor...
the last time the reactor was seen, it was in the back of one of the "idiot twins" cars. The idiot twins were genius physics students, one of which went on to work at los alamos...
makes you think.
~dijjnn
This event truly sucks. Teams must provide a giant straw which reaches from the ground to Ratner's upper deck. The team who can suck up a litre of water the fastest wins. You provide the bucket.
Anyone know the distance of this? It might be impossible if it's greater than 33 ft.
"Nature doesn't care how smart you are. You can still be wrong." - Richard Feynman
"A demonstration of the edible electric pickle."
I have attached a pickle to an electric cord to make it (the pickle) glow. But I'm not sure if it was edible in that state. First of all, it was emitting burnt-pickle smoke. Second of all, the eater probably would have been electrocuted.
Then again, that's a small price to pay for science.
Maybe the first item on the list should have been "Another Web Server"
Really, it means "Well-demoned". It can be lucky, happy, prosperous, or a couple of other things.
1) SCO's Case
-- http://www.vle.org
Yeah, but you guys surrender as soon as it looks like the hunt is getting difficult.
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
Note that it didn't say Mr. Potatohead.
Geez, the Scavenger hunt is getting more expensive every year. And now the contestants have to add to their expenses a return bus ticket from Illinois to Alabama?
I have that tatoo already, and for five dolars, you can use me in your game.
http://www.unixauthority.com/~fiskeja/list2004.pdf
Comeon. They're married. Really, what are the odds of this hunt taking place on Mr. Potatohead's birthday?
-Peter
10. Mayor Daley the First
9. An effective WinXP security patch CD
8. 11,000 Bush vote ballots brought home early in 2001 by Bill "Lex Luthor" Daley and hidden in a landfill.
7. My car keys!
6. (still missing)
5. The Beagle
4. 8,700 ballots from 1960 election marked as votes for Nixon.
3. WMD's
2. Meigs Field
1. Jimmy Hoffa
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
There is probably a college student dumb enough to get the tattoo.
They better post a picture.
My first thought was that it had something to do with the mania involved with the (now old) exchange:
:-)
You-da-man! No You-da-man!, etc..
Eu-dae-man-ia
Guess not.
Rhymes that keep their secrets will unfold behind the clouds.There upon the rainbow is the answer to a neverending story
No one can pump their own gas in New Jersey.
"Have a computer combust through nothing but its own internal workings" Ok, there has to be some /.'ers here who can and have already done this!
Was it a UC prank or part of the hunt, when several UC students stole a Chicago Police Department cruiser (maybe stole is the wrong word), dismantled it, and reassembled it on the roof of the Museum of Science and Industry?
The story goes they started the lights and siren up before leaving, thus insuring attention, as if people might not notice a cop car on the roof otherwise.
Is this an urban legend or did it happen? I'm not having much luck with trying to Google it.
Really, it means "Well-demoned". It can be lucky, happy, prosperous, or a couple of other things.
In other words it means "I run FreeBSD".
-- If god wanted me to have a sig, he'd have given me a sense of humor.
All I saw of the site before it was Slashdotted was the index page with all the butterflys.
But I have to ask all of you...were they really butterflies?? I think not! They were all Death Head Moths from Silence of the Lambs
"...I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner. Bye..."
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. -- Hunter S. Thompson
I win :)
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A good one form the 2002 list was: A CT scan of a Furby (206 points; 75 bonus points for visible tumors or hemorrhages)
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Here's an example from the Greek: (Plato's Gorgias) Sôkratês: ou gar tout' ên eudaimonia, hôs eoike, kakou apallagê, alla tên archên mêde ktêsis. "Yes, for what we regarded as happiness, it seems, was not this relief from evil, but its non-acquisition at any time." So it seems then, that even Socrates knows that it's better to have never installed Windows at all then to have it and switch.
...to put that Willie Nelson doll from Super Bowl XXXVIII you've been hiding away up on eBay...
Block all exhaust ports, stop all of the fans, and put in a 15k RPM drive or overclocked CPU.
Depending on the exact strictness of the 'nothing but', you can either place something inside that's likely to combust, or at the very least, use an old system that's filled with dust.
Build it, and they will come^Hplain.
Say the distance to the top is 40 feet. Bring a 39 foot tall bucket and fill it to the top. Stick your 40 foot straw into it (thus reaching the ground). The water level in the straw will be (approximately) the same as the water level in the bucket. Just suck it the remaining foot.
Life is short: void the warranty.
As a side note, I'm pretty sure I first encountered the term a few years ago, prior to reading any serious philosophy, while playing Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri- it's on the tech tree, as a matter of fact, and comes complete with a quote from the Nicomachean Ethics. You could even designate that your society act in accordance with the aims of achieving eudaimonia, though cruel and unjust leader that I am, I generally preferred the Cybernetic or Thought Control options.
"FDA staff reviewers expressed concern about the number of patients who were left out of the study because they died."
The straw must be able to reach that height. There is nothing that mentions the height of the drinker. Or of the bucket...
Gog
Note that the item doesn't say "gasoline" specifically, either. It says "pump your own damn gas in new jersey."
The solution is as simple as:
1. Go to new jersey
2. Acquire pump
3. Use it to pump a damn gas of your choice. (Air is handy)
Hell, just breathing there probably counts as "pumping a gas."
I'd be more worried about fulfilling the "damn" part of the requirement-- you may have to curse the gas, or coerce the gas into comitting a sin before pumping it.
Find an AT machine. (ATX PSUs probably won't do this). Connect any one of the case LED jumpers to the power switch connector with the polarity right.
Plug in machine. What you have done, essentially, is used the LED as a dead short across the power switch. The tiny wire on that connector will not handle the high current, and the insulation will be on fire before you can say "hey, I made it through POST!"
I can confirm it works, having done it on accident once. Computer was fine, but it stunk in my room for days. The PSU fan moves that nasty plastic smoke into your room very effectively.
Try the alternate Adobe Reader Download Page
All of the software, less of the HTML insanity.
That being said, I prefer XPDF. On many occasions I've found it can open PDFs that Acrobat (even Professional) can't, due to file corruption or strange PDF generation techniques. Highly recommended.
Whoever designed level 61 in Frozen Bubble is a sadistic bastard.
I still remember the "6-inch oe larger statue of Sadam Hussein made entirely of chewed gum" that Rich made for scav hunt in 1991. I have pictures. I also remember getting married for scav hunt in... um... 1998. Yeah, I think it was '98. Ahhh. 48 hours of wedded... -ness. I saw a guy get a tattoo for scav hunt in like '95. And around that time I saw my (not yet) friend (and /.er) Molly get her head shaved.
Heh. Molly rules.
A really big, loosely packed feather pillow.
I've found that my posts don't format quite right w/o a sig.
Dan Quayle, that disguise is fooling no-one.
See http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Que ef
My other sig is a starship
During the U of C scavenger hunt in the spring of 1991, one of the items that I was responsible for finding was one of the (many) decorative banners that covered a construction area outside the Ohio State Building in Columbus.
My girlfriend and I were spotted by police during the heist, which resulted in a short and successful chase through some of the parking lots and streets of downtown Columbus. Well, sort of successful. I clipped the bumper of a box truck during the getaway and staved in the door of the car I was driving.
But since I was going to be scavenger hunting in Ohio for the next 48 hours, I didn't want to keep worrying about being pulled over for evading arrest by some cop who thought I might be a terrorist or something. So I went to the nearest police station and turned myself in.
The desk sargeant there listened to my story (completely nonplussed I might add), and asked, "Is this some sort of sorority thing?" What a deflating question for a 19 year-old guy.
Nonetheless, after a $50 fine (which I am pretty sure went into his beer fund, but I wasn't going to argue because I had just talked my way out of a much more serious problem) he let me keep the banner. And because I told the police that other people would be coming to steal more stuff from the state house, I don't believe that anyone else got one of those banners.
Now who says the U of C isn't a fun place?
That would be a great hard to find item.
Haws are a kind of fruit, I think. I remember eating haws on a stick in Beijing. Haw flakes should be easy to make, if you can find the haws.
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