Bill Nye and the Science Lies

Item 145:  A photograph of your team’s recreation of Georges Seurat’s A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte  at Promontory Point, with all participants in costumes from other items on this year’s list. [9 points] View Larger

Item 145:  A photograph of your team’s recreation of Georges Seurat’s A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La

Grande Jatte  at Promontory Point, with all participants in costumes from other items on this year’s

list. [9 points]

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scavjudges: Item 289: Is Jurassic Park about penis envy? Does D2: The Mighty Ducks depict the triumph of objectivism? Is Snakes on a Plane about the plight of the urban immigrant? They say that you can attach a subtext to anything if you look hard enough. So let’s do that!   Judge Tricky’s Subtext Colloquium was fantastic.  It didn’t make for great photographic opportunities, save for this gentleman who used the image drawn on the board behind him to illustrate The Lion King’s exploration of the themes of police brutality.  If I recall correctly, it represents the deformed power structure brought on by Scar’s coup against the animal kingdom.   View Larger

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Item 289: Is Jurassic Park about penis envy? Does D2: The Mighty Ducks depict the triumph of objectivism? Is Snakes on a Plane about the plight of the urban immigrant? They say that you can attach a subtext to anything if you look hard enough. So let’s do that!

 

Judge Tricky’s Subtext Colloquium was fantastic.  It didn’t make for great photographic opportunities, save for this gentleman who used the image drawn on the board behind him to illustrate The Lion King’s exploration of the themes of police brutality.  If I recall correctly, it represents the deformed power structure brought on by Scar’s coup against the animal kingdom.

 

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scavjudges: Scav Olympics 8: 3D printer pens may be available soon, but for now good ol’ cans of shaving cream are the best we’ve got! Send us your finest 3D printing humanoid and a partner. Your “printer” will have four minutes and a single can of shaving cream to convey as many clues as possible to their teammate. scavjudges: Scav Olympics 8: 3D printer pens may be available soon, but for now good ol’ cans of shaving cream are the best we’ve got! Send us your finest 3D printing humanoid and a partner. Your “printer” will have four minutes and a single can of shaving cream to convey as many clues as possible to their teammate.

scavjudges:

Scav Olympics 8: 3D printer pens may be available soon, but for now good ol’ cans of shaving cream are the best we’ve got! Send us your finest 3D printing humanoid and a partner. Your “printer” will have four minutes and a single can of shaving cream to convey as many clues as possible to their teammate.

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grizzleebear: 154. Set up a cheering station along Lakeshore Trail between 53rd and 55th streets from 3:00 p.m. until 3:45 p.m. on Saturday. Root for confused runners and bikers who pass you. (10 points, plus 3.1 points if your team is deemed most enthusiastic]grizzleebear: 154. Set up a cheering station along Lakeshore Trail between 53rd and 55th streets from 3:00 p.m. until 3:45 p.m. on Saturday. Root for confused runners and bikers who pass you. (10 points, plus 3.1 points if your team is deemed most enthusiastic]grizzleebear: 154. Set up a cheering station along Lakeshore Trail between 53rd and 55th streets from 3:00 p.m. until 3:45 p.m. on Saturday. Root for confused runners and bikers who pass you. (10 points, plus 3.1 points if your team is deemed most enthusiastic]

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154. Set up a cheering station along Lakeshore Trail between 53rd and 55th streets from 3:00 p.m. until 3:45 p.m. on Saturday. Root for confused runners and bikers who pass you. (10 points, plus 3.1 points if your team is deemed most enthusiastic]

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uchicagoadmissions: Scav List Item #3: Those sexy Halloween costumes never seem to pander to University of Chicago interests. Create two of the following: Sexy gargoyle, Sexy Ratner, sexy cMore, sexy Simone de Beauvoir, sexy Arley D. Cathey. (5 points each) Item #12: Sorry Windows 95 users, no Stellar Souvenirs for you! The Space Jam website’s downloads only work for Macintoshes running Netscape. Replace the “N” in your Netscape browser logo with a hypercool spinning basketball, using the download from the original website.  (12.95 points) Item #102: Thomas the Tank Engine and Theodore the Tugboat both adequately prepared me for the world of terrestrial and aquatic vehicles but times are changing. Create at 30-second video for today’s preschoolers that literally and figuratively puts a human face on Predator drones. (12 points) Item #127: In his famous essay “Consider the Lobster:, David Foster Wallace investigates lobsters’ capacity to feel pain, but surely the pain of being boiled alive is only secondary to the many indignities of modern life. To that end, prove that lobsters really do feel pan by subjecting a live lobster to: heartbreak, work-related stress, existential dread, civil rights inequality, and sexual objectification. (11 points) Item #150: We know that, as much as we hope they don’t, some Scavvies wear out during the Hunt and start to get a little sad. What if no one is in Headquarters when that happens!?! The solution? A hug machine! Must be platonic, but not cold, firm, but not uncomfortable. (<33 points. 10 more points if your team’s machine hugs another team’s machine before Judgment.) Item #199: They say you eat with your eyes first. have your team’s best food stylists arrange and photograph a meal from a U of C dining hall that makes it look good enough to eat. Fake steam, acrylic ice, food coloring… all the usual tricks of the trade are fair game, but please provide a before photo of what the dish usually looks like for comparison. (12 points) Item #252: Why isn’t there a comprehensive Wild Wild West wiki? Ideally called, “Wiki Wild Wild West”. Wiki wiki wild. Wiki wild. Wiki wild wild west. Like all good wikis, collaboration is encouraged. (3 points) Hilarious Scav item selection from The Maroon, photos by Tom Tian. uchicagoadmissions: Scav List Item #3: Those sexy Halloween costumes never seem to pander to University of Chicago interests. Create two of the following: Sexy gargoyle, Sexy Ratner, sexy cMore, sexy Simone de Beauvoir, sexy Arley D. Cathey. (5 points each) Item #12: Sorry Windows 95 users, no Stellar Souvenirs for you! The Space Jam website’s downloads only work for Macintoshes running Netscape. Replace the “N” in your Netscape browser logo with a hypercool spinning basketball, using the download from the original website.  (12.95 points) Item #102: Thomas the Tank Engine and Theodore the Tugboat both adequately prepared me for the world of terrestrial and aquatic vehicles but times are changing. Create at 30-second video for today’s preschoolers that literally and figuratively puts a human face on Predator drones. (12 points) Item #127: In his famous essay “Consider the Lobster:, David Foster Wallace investigates lobsters’ capacity to feel pain, but surely the pain of being boiled alive is only secondary to the many indignities of modern life. To that end, prove that lobsters really do feel pan by subjecting a live lobster to: heartbreak, work-related stress, existential dread, civil rights inequality, and sexual objectification. (11 points) Item #150: We know that, as much as we hope they don’t, some Scavvies wear out during the Hunt and start to get a little sad. What if no one is in Headquarters when that happens!?! The solution? A hug machine! Must be platonic, but not cold, firm, but not uncomfortable. (<33 points. 10 more points if your team’s machine hugs another team’s machine before Judgment.) Item #199: They say you eat with your eyes first. have your team’s best food stylists arrange and photograph a meal from a U of C dining hall that makes it look good enough to eat. Fake steam, acrylic ice, food coloring… all the usual tricks of the trade are fair game, but please provide a before photo of what the dish usually looks like for comparison. (12 points) Item #252: Why isn’t there a comprehensive Wild Wild West wiki? Ideally called, “Wiki Wild Wild West”. Wiki wiki wild. Wiki wild. Wiki wild wild west. Like all good wikis, collaboration is encouraged. (3 points) Hilarious Scav item selection from The Maroon, photos by Tom Tian. 

uchicagoadmissions:

Scav List

Item #3: Those sexy Halloween costumes never seem to pander to University of Chicago interests. Create two of the following: Sexy gargoyle, Sexy Ratner, sexy cMore, sexy Simone de Beauvoir, sexy Arley D. Cathey. (5 points each)

Item #12: Sorry Windows 95 users, no Stellar Souvenirs for you! The Space Jam website’s downloads only work for Macintoshes running Netscape. Replace the “N” in your Netscape browser logo with a hypercool spinning basketball, using the download from the original website.  (12.95 points)

Item #102: Thomas the Tank Engine and Theodore the Tugboat both adequately prepared me for the world of terrestrial and aquatic vehicles but times are changing. Create at 30-second video for today’s preschoolers that literally and figuratively puts a human face on Predator drones. (12 points)

Item #127: In his famous essay “Consider the Lobster:, David Foster Wallace investigates lobsters’ capacity to feel pain, but surely the pain of being boiled alive is only secondary to the many indignities of modern life. To that end, prove that lobsters really do feel pan by subjecting a live lobster to: heartbreak, work-related stress, existential dread, civil rights inequality, and sexual objectification. (11 points)

Item #150: We know that, as much as we hope they don’t, some Scavvies wear out during the Hunt and start to get a little sad. What if no one is in Headquarters when that happens!?! The solution? A hug machine! Must be platonic, but not cold, firm, but not uncomfortable. (<33 points. 10 more points if your team’s machine hugs another team’s machine before Judgment.)

Item #199: They say you eat with your eyes first. have your team’s best food stylists arrange and photograph a meal from a U of C dining hall that makes it look good enough to eat. Fake steam, acrylic ice, food coloring… all the usual tricks of the trade are fair game, but please provide a before photo of what the dish usually looks like for comparison. (12 points)

Item #252: Why isn’t there a comprehensive Wild Wild West wiki? Ideally called, “Wiki Wild Wild West”. Wiki wiki wild. Wiki wild. Wiki wild wild west. Like all good wikis, collaboration is encouraged. (3 points)

Hilarious Scav item selection from The Maroon, photos by Tom Tian. 

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grizzleebear: 223. This year, the Voodoo Krewe may be going to New Orleans, but why should they have all the fun? Starting at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, station your Float-Like Ornamental Attraction/Team Sta- tions (F.L.O.A.T.S.) on the main quads for a Vendredi Gras celebration! Your F.L.O.A.T.S. must be “pedestrian” in the sense that the quads are a pedestrian zone (so no motors!), but they should be far from pedestrian in their garish decoration and creative theming. Be sure to bring along a troupe of costumed street performers ready to get the party started by 8:00. Also bring a delicious king cake complete with baby, and of course, fistfuls of beads and distinctive team swag for distribution from atop your F.L.O.A.T.S. [⇠ points]grizzleebear: 223. This year, the Voodoo Krewe may be going to New Orleans, but why should they have all the fun? Starting at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, station your Float-Like Ornamental Attraction/Team Sta- tions (F.L.O.A.T.S.) on the main quads for a Vendredi Gras celebration! Your F.L.O.A.T.S. must be “pedestrian” in the sense that the quads are a pedestrian zone (so no motors!), but they should be far from pedestrian in their garish decoration and creative theming. Be sure to bring along a troupe of costumed street performers ready to get the party started by 8:00. Also bring a delicious king cake complete with baby, and of course, fistfuls of beads and distinctive team swag for distribution from atop your F.L.O.A.T.S. [⇠ points]grizzleebear: 223. This year, the Voodoo Krewe may be going to New Orleans, but why should they have all the fun? Starting at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, station your Float-Like Ornamental Attraction/Team Sta- tions (F.L.O.A.T.S.) on the main quads for a Vendredi Gras celebration! Your F.L.O.A.T.S. must be “pedestrian” in the sense that the quads are a pedestrian zone (so no motors!), but they should be far from pedestrian in their garish decoration and creative theming. Be sure to bring along a troupe of costumed street performers ready to get the party started by 8:00. Also bring a delicious king cake complete with baby, and of course, fistfuls of beads and distinctive team swag for distribution from atop your F.L.O.A.T.S. [⇠ points]grizzleebear: 223. This year, the Voodoo Krewe may be going to New Orleans, but why should they have all the fun? Starting at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, station your Float-Like Ornamental Attraction/Team Sta- tions (F.L.O.A.T.S.) on the main quads for a Vendredi Gras celebration! Your F.L.O.A.T.S. must be “pedestrian” in the sense that the quads are a pedestrian zone (so no motors!), but they should be far from pedestrian in their garish decoration and creative theming. Be sure to bring along a troupe of costumed street performers ready to get the party started by 8:00. Also bring a delicious king cake complete with baby, and of course, fistfuls of beads and distinctive team swag for distribution from atop your F.L.O.A.T.S. [⇠ points]grizzleebear: 223. This year, the Voodoo Krewe may be going to New Orleans, but why should they have all the fun? Starting at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, station your Float-Like Ornamental Attraction/Team Sta- tions (F.L.O.A.T.S.) on the main quads for a Vendredi Gras celebration! Your F.L.O.A.T.S. must be “pedestrian” in the sense that the quads are a pedestrian zone (so no motors!), but they should be far from pedestrian in their garish decoration and creative theming. Be sure to bring along a troupe of costumed street performers ready to get the party started by 8:00. Also bring a delicious king cake complete with baby, and of course, fistfuls of beads and distinctive team swag for distribution from atop your F.L.O.A.T.S. [⇠ points]

grizzleebear:

223. This year, the Voodoo Krewe may be going to New Orleans, but why should they have all the fun? Starting at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, station your Float-Like Ornamental Attraction/Team Sta- tions (F.L.O.A.T.S.) on the main quads for a Vendredi Gras celebration! Your F.L.O.A.T.S. must be “pedestrian” in the sense that the quads are a pedestrian zone (so no motors!), but they should be far from pedestrian in their garish decoration and creative theming. Be sure to bring along a troupe of costumed street performers ready to get the party started by 8:00. Also bring a delicious king cake complete with baby, and of course, fistfuls of beads and distinctive team swag for distribution from atop your F.L.O.A.T.S. [⇠ points]

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