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Geeky Gadgets for Halloween Parties?
Neurotoxic666 asks: "Like many others, my friends and I are going to hold a costumed party for Halloween, however we do not want it to be the typical haunt. We have some talent in computers and electronics, but we're short of ideas. Are there any good gadgets and props that the average geek can build to spice up the party? Of course, there will be the usual ambient sounds and decoration, but we're looking for more interactive, dynamic and techie stuff. One idea I've had is to use the living room computer on the TV and have white noise, ghosts and other creepy effects appear throughout the night. Does anyone have some suggestions, ideas we could build, effects that worked well in your parties? Anything from heart-beating books to special lightning to mad science devices is welcome!"
But you could setup a computer running Windows and hook it up to the Internet.
Blue screen of death !! What can be more scary ?
Just undress and let your own bodies do the trick? ;-)
A method free as in beer, showing what's full of beer. Yay!
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
Want your party to be a cut above your average geek party? Get some real live girls to come. Bonus if they're geeks!
Ooh, a third thought: How about a real geek - i.e. someone who bites the heads off live chickens???
Everybody's a libertarian 'till their neighbour's becomes a crack house.
getting some girls there, but since you posted this on slashdot...
dress up as Ballmer or Ellison !!
A lifesize Jack Thompson complete with fangs!
Head in a Jar anyone?
libguestfs - tools for accessing and modifying virtual machine disk images
But you could setup a computer running Windows and hook it up to the Internet.
Every Hallowe'en party needs a zombie.
you could dress as a RIAA lawyer.
Red Bull glows in UV (black lights). :)
-Chris
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Windows ME and AOL 9.0 Super-Dee-Duper Turbocharged Dialup-on-Steroids!!1!eleven
Guaranteed to scare the most seasoned geek:
You: "How are you, Grandmother?"
Your Grandma: "Why do all these nekked women keep popping up? Could I have a phish? 'Cause I read that Bill Gates tries to get everyone sick by adaware-ing that clickety-click-thing."
You: <begin shaking in terror>
Your Grandma: "Oh, and how come my computer doesn't fax? You said it could send faxes, so I jammed what I wanted to fax into the cup holder thingy. Then that little box - ya' know, the one on the ground, connected to the computer? - started making some funny sounds. So I just unplugged it from the wall. Then, the strangest thing happened. My computer went blank! So anyways, I want you to come over here tomorrow and fix that little box thing. Seems I need it for my computer to work."
You: <sobbing>
You don't need gadgets for this. Dress up as Steve Ballmer and do these things:
1. Monkey dance and sweat!
2. Say "Developers, developers, developers, etc.
3. Cuss and throw chairs.
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
I am thinking of dressing up as a chair, and having a cardboard cutout of Steve Ballmer drag behind me. I will lunge at people, and when the cord connecting the cutout to me pulls, it will automatically play "I'm gonna fucking bury you! I have done it before and I will do it again!"
Alternatively, if it detects music it begins jumping up and down screaming "YEAAAH!"
It also doubles as a L'il John costume.
"Teenagers are largely minors" Really? Who would have thought?
Also very cost effective, since you only need 1 cheap suit. (and walk around on your knees in the TC version)
For the perfect anti-Unix, write an OS that thinks it knows what you're doing better than you do and let it be wrong.
I'm doing the same thing - except, the thing I'll be doing differently is I'll be handing them out from my neighbor's house, so he'll be the one cleaning egg off his house and riced-up car.
Mwahaha!
"What do you think?" "I think 'What, do you think?!'"
Halloween for me always means the start of the annual Nethack Tournament! So hook it up to your big screen TV and put on your +5 Amulet of Geekiness!
If your parties are anything like mine, a bathroom with no lights might be a little scary during the party, but will be absolutely horrifying the next day.
Some see the vessel as half full; others see it as half-empty; We pour it out on the floor and laugh
you'll be stuck wearing a "costume" you made from a roll of aluminium foil you scrounged from the pantry and some duct tape.
/. That's everyday wear.
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Oh NO! It's the blue screen... of DEATH!!
"I'm not impatient. I just hate waiting." - My Dad
Well, you can always be the hit of the party with the chicks:
With any luck, they'll say "Oh yeah? Prove it!"
Of course, this being Hallowe'en and all, be careful not to hit on the woman dressed as a hooker - that might be me (you know how crazy we denizens of Kanuckistan can be :-)
Well... you could have a blacklight at the door of one of the back bedrooms so when a chick exit everyone can look and check for "glow in the dark liquids" around around her mouth ;-)
Libertas in infinitum
Oh NO! It's the blue screen... of DEATH!!
Get some poster-board, paint it blue, put some hex on it, tie it to your chest, and go to a party as the BSOD.
Table-ized A.I.