U of Chicago Scavenger Hunt List - 2004 268
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?'"
#1 on the list (Score:5, Funny)
Re:#1 on the list (Score:2, Informative)
Re:#1 on the list (Score:5, Informative)
Solution:
Don't use Adobe Reader 6.x.
Stick with Adobe Reader 5.x.
If you already have 6.x installed and you're pissed off with the startup time and resources used (I was), uninstall it and reinstall 5.x
To download 5.x, go to the Adobe site, and pick Windows 98 as your platform, regardless if you actually have WinXP, 2k or whatever. If you REALLY want a small Adobe Reader, pick the Win 3.1 platform, to give you Adobe Reader 3.x.
If you're using Linux, you're in luck, Adobe won't try to forcefeed you with 6.x... yet.
One stop Acrobat shopping... (Score:2, Informative)
All of the software, less of the HTML insanity.
That being said, I prefer XPDF [foolabs.com]. 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.
Re:#1 on the list (Score:5, Informative)
Re:#1 on the list (Score:3, Informative)
Adobe Reader Speed Up
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail.php3?fid=106
I'm over here! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I'm over here! (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:I'm over here! (Score:5, Informative)
I take it back! (Score:2)
Re:I'm over here! (Score:2, Funny)
Imposter (Score:3, Funny)
a couple years ago... (Score:5, Interesting)
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.
Re:a couple years ago... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:a couple years ago... (Score:5, Informative)
As a result of my experience building nuclear reactors for fun, I was a science advisor for a BBC show, "The Nuclear Boyscout." [eagletv.co.uk] I have had to answer questions about this a thousand times, and it has been /.-ed before (second down) [slashdot.org].
Also, I don't work for Los Alamos. I worked for Fermi National Accelerator Lab, but now I am at General Dynamics.
And by way of reference, the Scav Hunt rocks. We had a great time every year. Too bad I can't be there as an honorary judge this year. I would, but I can't make it... (Sorry Matt Kellard)
-Fred
My Webpage [umich.edu]
Re:a couple years ago... (Score:5, Funny)
I hate the fucking Internet. It's taken all the fun out of a well-crafted lie.
Re:a couple years ago... (Score:4, Interesting)
-F
Hope it's less than 33 ft... (Score:5, Insightful)
Anyone know the distance of this? It might be impossible if it's greater than 33 ft.
Re:Hope it's less than 33 ft... (Score:2)
Re:Hope it's less than 33 ft... (Score:2, Insightful)
A real tall bucket.
Several places to sip from.
A sealed bucket, pressurized.
A straw that goes all the way to the top then back to the bottom. Suck from the bottom and bleed it out at the top.
How about an old fashion pneuatic tube that sucks a whole liter bottle up from the bottom?
Numerous ways to do it depending on how you
Re:Hope it's less than 33 ft... (Score:2)
I wonder if a hydraulic ram pump would be in keeping with the spirit of the challenge, or if they expect creative use of vacuum around the whole aparatus.
If tree method employed, is there a limit on the number of straws?
Re:Hope it's less than 33 ft... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Hope it's less than 33 ft... (Score:3, Insightful)
To Clarify... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:To Clarify... (Score:2)
Great way to beat the pants off anyone sucking on a straw.
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Re:actually (Score:2)
Let's say Ratner's upper deck is 50 ft (MORE than the 33 ft or so limit everyone is talking about).
Make a straw 50 ft tall.
Make a bucket 49 ft tall.
Fill bucket to the top with water.
Easily bring up a liter of water helped by the pressure of those 50 ft. of water ABOVE the end of the straw!
Re:actually (Score:2, Insightful)
Gog
Re:Hope it's less than 33 ft... (Score:2, Informative)
Extrapolating from the size of the human figure in the model, I would say about 40 feet.
Ratner looks like a boat stuck inland.
Re:Hope it's less than 33 ft... (Score:2)
That is, unfortunately, kind of the point...
Re:Hope it's less than 33 ft... (Score:2)
Or for fun, pressurize the 'bucket' such that the liquid surface is a few inches below the top of the straw (probably difficult because the fluctuations will be too large). Then one can drink just like it's a normal sized cup w/ straw.
Re:Hope it's less than 33 ft... (Score:2)
So...the solution:
electric pickle (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:electric pickle (Score:2)
~D
Slashdotted... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Slashdotted... (Score:2)
The Real #1 on the list is... (Score:5, Funny)
Who is Mr. Potato? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Who is Mr. Potato? (Score:2)
Rising Costs (Score:5, Funny)
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?
Re:Rising Costs (Score:2)
To anybody competing (Score:4, Funny)
mirror here (Score:5, Informative)
Re:mirror here (Score:4, Informative)
Unrealistic Item (Score:5, Funny)
Comeon. They're married. Really, what are the odds of this hunt taking place on Mr. Potatohead's birthday?
-Peter
Top 10 Accidentally Found Scavenger Items (Score:5, Funny)
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 [uwosh.edu] 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
Re:Top 10 Accidentally Found Scavenger Items (Score:2)
the scary thing is... (Score:5, Funny)
There is probably a college student dumb enough to get the tattoo.
They better post a picture.
Re:the scary thing is... (Score:3, Insightful)
I bet you can find legions of them dumb enough to get the tat. I'm willing to bet that the winner will be the person willing to devote the most square footage for it.
myke
Re:the scary thing is... (Score:2)
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Item #183 is impossible. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Item #183 is impossible. (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Item #183 is impossible. (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Item #183 is impossible. (Score:2)
Never specified *which* gas. (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Another idea... (Score:2)
In this case, you will have definitely "pumped your own damn gas." The gas will be damned, the gas will be your own, and you will have pumped it. In New Jersey.
Or you could just get a motorcycle, or possibly a small can of gasoline and a small handheld pump. But where's the spirit in that?
Re:Item #183 is impossible. (Score:2, Informative)
Think harder (Score:2)
Re:Item #183 is impossible. (Score:3, Interesting)
Same thing in Oregon, illegal to pump your own gasoline.
I suspect that if I gave a guy 50bucks, he would be elseware while I pumped my own gas. Perhaps I could just grab the handle real quick when someone snaps a picture.
Im sure some folks here can do this one (Score:3, Interesting)
That's too easy. (Score:3, Informative)
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.
Re:Im sure some folks here can do this one (Score:2)
Done it. (Score:5, Informative)
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.
Re:Done it. (Score:2)
Or maybe there really was burnt plastic in my underwear, and I've just forgotten. I was probably too busy trying to beat Zelda 64 between engineering exams to notice.
Re:Im sure some folks here can do this one (Score:2)
Re:Im sure some folks here can do this one (Score:2)
Mnemonic for 'Halt and Catch Fire', any of several undocumented and semi-mythical machine instructions with destructive side-effects, supposedly included for test purposes on several well-known architectures going as far back as the IBM 360. The MC6800 microprocessor was the first for which an HCF opcode became widely known. This instruction caused the processor to toggle a subset of the bus lines as rapidly as it could; in some configurations this could actually cause lines to burn up. Compare killer
UC Prank or scavenger hunt? (Score:4, Interesting)
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.
They did it the hard way (Score:2)
Re:UC Prank or scavenger hunt? (Score:5, Informative)
http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/1994/cp_car/
Re:UC Prank or scavenger hunt? (Score:2)
Death Head Moths (Score:2, Funny)
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 [imdb.com]
"...I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner. Bye..."
The 2002 Hunt (Score:4, Interesting)
Now's the time... (Score:3, Funny)
Broodwich (Score:2)
Too bad all they'll be able to find is the sun dried tomatoes.
Re:Broodwich (Score:2)
Re:Broodwich (Score:2)
http://www.aquateencentral.com/images/broodwich
Heh. Scav hunt. (Score:2, Interesting)
Raw egg absorber (Score:2, Interesting)
A really big, loosely packed feather pillow.
Re:Raw egg absorber (Score:3, Interesting)
He was dubious, so I offered to sit behind the egg catcher when the egg was thrown.
Then he missed the freaking catcher and hit me with the egg. Second throw worked, though.
Re:Raw egg absorber (Score:2)
#157 (Score:2)
Dang! (Score:2, Funny)
My other sig is a starship
This brings back memories (Score:3, Funny)
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?
Re:This brings back memories (Score:3, Interesting)
An Entry-Level IT Job In The Continental U.S. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Eudaemonia means (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Eudaemonia means (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Eudaemonia means (Score:2)
So what they really want is Happy Product [happyproduct.com]!
Re:Eudaemonia means (Score:3, Funny)
In other words it means "I run FreeBSD".
Re:Eudaemonia means (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Eudaemonia means (Score:2)
Re:Eudaemonia means (Score:2, Funny)
You-da-man! No You-da-man!, etc..
Eu-dae-man-ia
Guess not.
Re:Eudaemonia means (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Eudaemonia means (Score:5, Interesting)
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.
Re:Hunts in France (Score:3, Funny)
Re:First year was actually 1986 err 1987 (Score:2)
Re:Queef??? (Score:3, Informative)
See http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Que ef [urbandictionary.com]
Re:They forgot number 283, a non slashdotable serv (Score:2)
Is that at a keg in your pants, 'cause I wanna tap that ass. No really, I do. Must be fully functional as both pants and as a keg holder. [54 points]
Re:They forgot number 283, a non slashdotable serv (Score:5, Funny)