Inside the ScavenHQ: Snell-Hitchcock

[Pictures have been Un-Redacted now that the Hunt is over.]

This morning I was afforded the rare opportunity to enter inside the ScavenHQ of the Snell-Hitchcock team "Psychotic Refraction Party."

Here is the ScavenRoom. Note - all the curtains are drawn to keep out spies, saboteurs and wreckers from other teams, like T.A.C.O.S. (the Max P Team). Many of these people have been awake since the Hunt began. Some of them will barely have left this room since that time, though for the good of the team members are required to take shower breaks at least once in every 48 hours.



"The Nerve Center." The Scav Hunt Captain for Snell-Hitchcock is at the right in a ball gown. Why a ball gown? Because rule number 9 on the list says "we think captains are always classy, and as such, must appear in [full length ball gowns] during all public activities during the Hunt." Note - these rules are not the rules from the website. They are the rules from the list. Why so many computers? Well... to take just page 2 of the list as an example, it might be very difficult to understand item 25 ("All clock faces are wrong! TimeCube glorious 4 X 4 clock! Don't you understand!"), item 27 ("A Turing Machine") and item 41 ("A watch which denies the existence of a watchmaker.") Other pages are similar, as you will have noticed by now. Also, do read about the TimeCube. It's pretty funny. I'm excited to see the time cube clock.



What's this? This is the world's longest scarf. This is for item 32. Just so you know, it's legitimately the world's longest scarf. All of the scarves in Snell-Hitchcock were gathered together and then sewed together.



The Snell-Hitchcock team came to approximately the same conclusions I did about the route of the road trip team. They could not tell me exactly where the road trip team was, but I was told that they were 'only a little bit behind schedule'. If you live in Southern Minnesota or South Dakota (or possibly (by later this afternoon) Western Nebraska), you should watch out for these guys.



What's this? This is a public service announcement from either Snell or Hitchcock. I can't say which one.



As you can see, Scav Hunt items take up a lot of space. You can see four trampolines in the front right corner of the picture. This is for item 256, the trampoline Simon. This is worth 200 points and will be demonstrated at Justice Sunday, which I plan to attend. I can't identify most of the other junk in the hallway at this point, though it will become clear later.



This is for item 153: "I know how much you like clowns, so I built you this bed. Now you can laugh yourself to sleep!" Apparently someone in Snell-Hitchcock actually slept outside on this bed last night.



This is item 219: the internet according to Ted Stevens (R-AK), the senior Senator from Alaska (and in fact the longest serving Republican in the US Senate). The text of the item is "It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. Build the internet as described by Ted Stevens." The reference is to a quote described here. It's pretty hilarious and almost impossible to do justice to here. In Mr. Stevens' defense, he is pretty old. He is also well-known for the Bridge to Nowhere.




Right now I'm going to run to Ida Noyes for item 320: "Perform the Masque of Youth, in the proper location at 11:00 on Friday." This is a reference to a mural in Ida Noyes Hall which I will try to take a picture of while I'm over there. You will see pictures before the end of the day!