Overcoming Paranoia

Paul Johnson pdjohnso at midway.uchicago.edu
Fri May 12 15:47:30 CDT 2000


I've been a long time lurker under different email addresses, but now 
there's something to bring me to the surface:  The University of Chicago 
Scavenger Hunt!  You might have read the article about it in last years NY 
times, but a quick explanation:  The Scav hunt is an annual event where 
teams of undergrads compete to find and do all kinds of crazy 
things:  highlights from last year include building a nuclear reactor, and 
a vending machine that dispenses only dorritos and condoms.  Anyway, there 
year that are several GR related items, and I've overcome my paranoia that 
the other teams are listening in on this list to ask a few questions about 
interpreting some of them, etc.  One question I've got enough of a grip on 
that I don't want to risk leaking the solution....but the cryptic item is 
the last one:  simply "Now everybody -"   We're interpreting this is 
wanting a bunch of people to break out singing the hymn that appears right 
before it.  Any other interpretations?  And also, this is worth "delta t" 
points:  any idea what they mean by that?
	The other question I have I'm not so sure about.  Part of the scav hunt is 
always a road trip, and one of the questions is what advice the rocket 
gives at a gas station in some random town along the way.  However, they 
said "what advice does the Rocket (00000) give" so I'm wondering if there's 
some GR connection wanted for the answer, or if the judges just wanted it 
to look cohesive.  Any ideas would be appreciated.  Thanks a lot, and I 
hope that some day I'll actually be using this list literally.

Paul Johnson




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