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University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt Returns
mresolver writes "We've discussed it in previous years, and now the world's largest scavenger hunt at the University of Chicago has returned. The event may be best known for the working breeder reactor students built for the 1999 hunt. This year, some of the 330 list items (PDF) include 3-D (and 4-D) Twister, a hand-built Theremin, a recreation of the Moon landing, the world's largest Newton's Cradle, and hyperbolic crocheting."
What is up with PDF documents? (In this case, the list of items.) Why can't people just use normal hypertext? It makes it harder for people like me to view.
Hypertext doesn't print friendly from your browser.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
...because Scavhunt often has extensive typographic needs. Consider the 2006 list--upside-down text, non-roman scripts, fractions and greek letters aplenty. TeX is clearly the tool of choice.
The document properties say it was created with dvips and ghostscript. Plus, it sure looks like Computer Modern font to me.
While I found most of the comments here funny, this one frightens me.
Because I live in Germany.
Because as my grandparents told me, the Germans ca. 1936-39 spoke jokingly about the GESTAPO.
Assorted stuff I do sometimes: Lemuria.org