Bill Nye and the Science Lies

Item 74 Scotland the Brave (by Burton-Judson Scav Hunt) Help the...

Thu, 16 May 2013 17:24:16 -0500

Item 74 Scotland the Brave (by Burton-Judson Scav Hunt)

Help the University save money on convocation this year by having your a capella pipe band learn
“Scotland the Brave”. [5 points]

Item 145: A photograph of your team’s recreation of Georges...

Thu, 16 May 2013 17:23:26 -0500

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]

scavjudges: Olympics - outdoors

Sun, 12 May 2013 00:38:29 -0500

scavjudges:

Olympics - outdoors

scavjudges: olympics - more outside, and also some inside

Sun, 12 May 2013 00:38:26 -0500

scavjudges:

olympics - more outside, and also some inside

scavjudges: I can hardly find the words to express my joy upon...

Sun, 12 May 2013 00:38:22 -0500

scavjudges:

I can hardly find the words to express my joy upon hearing the band assembled spontaneously from the members of many different teams at Vendredi Gras. It really made the event special.

scavjudges: Scav Olympics 10: Bring a team member to Scav...

Sun, 12 May 2013 00:38:21 -0500

This is not a particularly good photograph, but I wanted to draw your attention to Paul, joyfully sprinkling ping-pong balls into the air.

Final count.

scavjudges:

Scav Olympics 10: Bring a team member to Scav Olympics with their torso wrapped in duct tape, sticky side out.

scavjudges: Scav Olympics 7: Sweet Clyde, use variation...

Sun, 12 May 2013 00:38:18 -0500

Team BROSTOMP's representative, deftly spinning the ball on his finger as he works out the solution.

Team BJ's representative gets a perfect answer, all while keeping the ball bouncing.

HJAndy also tries his hand at a solution.

scavjudges:

Scav Olympics 7: Sweet Clyde, use variation parameters and expand the Wronskian. Solve a 2nd order linear ODE whilst spinning a basketball on your ﬁnger.

scavjudges: Item 289: Is Jurassic Park about penis envy? Does...

Sun, 12 May 2013 00:38:15 -0500

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.

scavjudges: Scav Olympics 8: 3D printer pens may be available...

Sun, 12 May 2013 00:36:54 -0500

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.

grizzleebear: 154. Set up a cheering station along Lakeshore...

Sun, 12 May 2013 00:36:20 -0500

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: Day 3 of Scav: We’re hard at work in HQ.

Sun, 12 May 2013 00:36:18 -0500

grizzleebear:

Day 3 of Scav: We’re hard at work in HQ.

uchicagoadmissions: Scav List Item #3: Those sexy Halloween...

Sun, 12 May 2013 00:11:27 -0500

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.

Photo

Sun, 12 May 2013 00:10:03 -0500

grizzleebear: 223. This year, the Voodoo Krewe may be going to...

Fri, 10 May 2013 22:30:17 -0500

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: 54. At any event, a Captain or team member must...

Fri, 10 May 2013 22:30:15 -0500

grizzleebear:

54. At any event, a Captain or team member must be able to produce a squid within five minutes of being asked by a Judge, “Are you a squidnapper?” [18 points]

Judge Tumbly-r: Right after I finished up at the tie contest, I headed over to Hutch...

Fri, 10 May 2013 22:29:54 -0500

Judge Tumbly-r: Right after I finished up at the tie contest, I headed over to Hutch...:

scavjudges:

Right after I finished up at the tie contest, I headed over to Hutch to present the typography competition. This had three rounds, as listed in the item (for once, I didn’t have any crazy tricks for this).

If you want to play along at home, click here to read the contest I handed out. The…

scavjudges: At noon in the GSB, we had our tie-tying...

Fri, 10 May 2013 22:29:41 -0500

scavjudges:

At noon in the GSB, we had our tie-tying competition. The participants knew that we’d be asking them to tie a four-in-hand, full windsor, and merovingian knot (the latter known for its appearance on the neck of the Merovingian in one of those later Matrix movies). The surprise was that they’d be doing it blindfolded - though quite frankly, if you ask me, just the fact that they didn’t have a mirror was most of what made it hard, blindfold or not.

Anyway I think we were all pretty impressed with a lot of these knots, and would have been even without the blindfolds. In the end, in a wonderful bit of coincidence, we had, that’s right: a tie, for first place. A three-way tie, in fact, between BJ, I-House, and GASH, with several other teams close behind.

Lookin’ sharp, guys.

scav2013: @scavjudge: Continuing a theme of this year’s hunt:...

Fri, 10 May 2013 22:28:51 -0500

scav2013:

@scavjudge: Continuing a theme of this year’s hunt: Blind sculpting!

grizzleebear: Our carnival game was the one on top and then on...

Fri, 10 May 2013 22:28:22 -0500

grizzleebear:

Our carnival game was the one on top and then on the right in the 2nd row— where at UChicago, you can’t win. Skeeball with 4 tries for 4 years: achieve crying in the Reg, drinking alone, failing a midterm, and maaybe if you’re lucky a fifth year- and a fifth try! If you’re incredibly lucky and have the strongest arm of all, you might get a Metcalf, a 4.0, or even love- but let’s face it, what are the chances really?

155. What if we took the Midway…and moved it onto the Quads? On Friday between 2:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m., have your team’s University of Chicago themed carnival game set up and ready for business on the main quad. Will it be the Wheel of Despair? Very Fragile Ego (Balloon) Popping? Whatever it is, we want carnies! [⇢ points]

grizzleebear: Day 2: Afternoon/evening Preparation, planning,...

Fri, 10 May 2013 22:28:18 -0500

grizzleebear:

Day 2: Afternoon/evening

Preparation, planning, machine work.