Breakfast Octopi GISHWHES Adventure II – The Revengening
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Ever since @hollboll’s call to arms you’ve been burning up with curiosity...
You’ve been dying – absolutely dying – to hear about the wacky hijinks a few Mediocre staff and meh.com community members got themselves into recently, as part of the massive art-project-slash-scavenger-hunt known as the Greatest International Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen.
In addition to yours truly, returning members this year included @hollboll, @fernikfurra, @dashcloud, @foxborn, and @Starblind. Our newbies were @TaRDy, @kylethephotoguy, @joelmw, @christinewas, @mfladd, @sammydog01, @connorbush, and @odi.
It’s too hard to pick just a few to post, so I made web page for our bizarre creations. You can check them all out here. There’s a maxi-pad dog, some lovely pixel art from Starblind, instructions for Kim Kardashian on how to actually break the internet, a Pisa pizza, coffee shop antics, gardening advice, someone who is sure to be your new favorite unicorn, and so much more.
This year had a different balance of activities to choose from – it leaned heavier on at-home bizarre art projects, but also on the other extreme of you-have-to-be-really-very-dedicated-to-pull-this-off-in-a-week. There weren’t as many middle-ground, put-yourself-out-there items like last year. For some reason I thought that meant it would be easier and committed to a bunch of things that I never finished. Thankfully my team stepped up to give me some ridiculous memories to look back on.
Next year we’ll be back with a new name (suggestions welcome), and nagging you with another bump-bump-bumped recruiting post. Start psyching yourself up now and saving up for the $18.89 registration fee!
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You guys are wonderful and whacky! Next year, I'm so in.
@jaremelz You would be amazing with all the crafty items! I hope you do join next year. I am so grateful to @dashcloud for bringing it to my attention this year. (And @katylava for making it possible for me to join when funds were short.) It was a fantastic week.
@christinewas Thanks! It encourages me to see that it's really just about finding weird ways to do things.
@katylava Your reading to the dog is spot on! (Wait, is that a pun?)
Is our goat a blue-headed butter bandit? Hahaha
@jaremelz Glad you did not play last year. Husband and I mud wrestled. It was something that once seen could not be unseen. I'm 65, he's 74.
@Teripie Tell me that you sent it out as a digital Christmas card to everyone you know!
@jaremelz I sent it to my brother. He said he wanted to gouge out his eyes.
@Teripie Well, someone sure needed a framed poster of the event, then!
@Teripie Not gonna lie... despite your assertions that it was horrifying, I did hope that joining the team this year would somehow grant me access to last year's unshared items.
@jaremelz The blue head is actually super-advanced technology that shrinks the rest of his body down to a reasonable size. I mean... Did you see his sumo pictures? @mfladd has really let himself go.
@christinewas He's already got such an inflated ego that if you shrink his body down, he's liable to float away!
@jaremelz I think none of the mass is lost in the shrinking process. Just makes him really dense. Really... dense.
@christinewas Well, I've long asserted that he's very, very dense.
@jaremelz @christinewas
@mfladd
what is an octopi?
@Noddy93 multiple octopus I think. There is an interesting back story. http://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-matt-rutledge-profile-2014-6
Someday I'll figure out the hyperlink shit.
@Teripie thank you for the Bezos link. it's what i was looking for.
(never mind that multiple octopuses or octopi is octopodes, yeah, i'm an asshat)
@Teripie see the little chain under the space where you type ? (third thing from left) Write out your Link like so: Bezo's Breakfast Octopus highlight it however your computer does that. I click and drag.
And then hit the chain icon. A box will pop up. Paste url link in the box. Ta daa !
@Noddy93 "Octopi" is an accepted variant, though I didn't know that when I chose the name... I was trying to say it wrong on purpose. "Octopuses" is the most accepted variant. "Octopodes" is in wide disfavor, though I don't understand why... It's my favorite of the three.
@katylava they are all acceptable in english, with perhaps Octopuses being the 'most correct'... for English.
octopi would be the least correct because of the whole latin/greek bit. octopus ain't latin... it's greek.
therefore... Octopi makes no fucking sense and stop celebrating ignorance as intelligence.... or, stop laughing whenever you see George II slaughter the language.
@Noddy93 be Murican or be Innelektual... but Octopi is nothing but retarded
@Noddy93 You convinced me: you're an asshat. :-D
@Noddy93 i can't tell if you're trying to scold me or not
@katylava not a bit. the debate over the plural of octopus simply humors me. and i love love love the word octopodes.
and i really did want to understand the header for the story.
We really are an amazingly good-looking bunch.
@Starblind Yeah we are!
So, is that @Kalethephotoguy on the right? ;-)
You guys are completely talented and batty, and I love you for it. Looks like so much fun!
@KDemo You should join in next year. Batty is required but Talented isn't. I think you got the Batty covered
(see @katylava, @hollboll I'm recruiting for next year already ;)
@Foxborn - Thanks so much, I've been striving for the batty label! My work is done here.
@Foxborn That dog is adorable! So much expression from such limited materials!
@gio THANKS!!!
So, @katylava, this seems like a setup. No, I don't have the dough to buy that shmancy DSLR camera. But, yaknow, if you guys just wanted to send one out, I wouldn't refuse it. ;-)
Seriously, though, Katy and the whole team were and are amazing. It was a ton of fun, even for a marginally creative slacker like me. Thanks for cajoling us into it and thanks for your leadership, Katy. And I love you guys. Now go away. I'm all verklempt here. Gishwhes: how gishy is it? Discuss.
@joelmw This was so much fun, and the chat room was the best part. I felt bad that I had to leave on Friday and miss the ending. Stupid vacation.
@sammydog01 I too think the chat room was the best part. So let's try to make a chat room in this medium: http://www.kakao.com/talk
Find Odilatinam by ID and pm me, we can create a group chat.
@Odi Is that only for mobile devices? I made an account.
@sammydog01 I see windows and mac versions as well in the download drop down
@sammydog01 https://www.hipchat.com/gEohdrieH
This has web access which @dashcloud was looking for
@hollboll, @fernikfurra, @foxborn, @Starblind, @TaRDy, @kylethephotoguy, @joelmw, @christinewas, @mfladd, or @connorbush, wanna test it out?
@Odi @katylava oh and that link is guest access
@Odi I tried Hipchat. So far I like it least.
@joelmw https://www.hipchat.com/invite/421957/4a6e71b46c0dd2387a43fcdc36f9b9dc?utm_campaign=company_room_link
This is if you want to create an account
@Odi Yeah, I created an account.
@Odi OK. I signed up and the write box is mostly off the screen. Do you know how I can fix it? Changing the screen size doesn't seem to help.
@sammydog01 Never mind, it's OK now. Computers.
@sammydog01 I just found this on Google so I don't really know much about it other than it has guest access and web client for free
@joelmw whoops, just saw your request to join the chat, was out all day
@Odi sigh apparently guest access is useless because it doesn't let you see chat history...
@Odi https://chat.zoho.com/guest.sas?k=ca0a360727e1cbe64d541aab568ad8d418831c0b06222f079ca05f5c391f5fa855fc315955d9b94695c836c4ab5cfbdd4d5e10d512ef06767a7dfc16c1e323c8ee43d4f20f33921f472ff7371fd545a1ba66e9a7991951b6cce0007c111f46334af1ee0daa8921f8c4556f53b4cdce84
Apparently guests on hipchat can't see any history, making it pointless!
This one has guest access and guests can see chat.
I'm intrigued by the hammock in a swamp. Details. Please!
@Pamtha we need @fernikfurra to pipe in on that one
@Pamtha Oh yeah, it's hanging from opposite banks of a river. It was quite relaxing after we got it hung up just right. I'd recommend it on a hot day!
@fernikfurra @pamtha just watch out for Nettles Huh?
@Foxborn Definitely!
@fernikfurra Did you wade out to get in, or somehow stayed dry? I don't know why I am so concerned over a hammock, but I am.
@Pamtha I waded out- the water was only mid-thigh to me. You can't really see in the picture, but my back/butt was in the water a little bit, because my helper and I had some trouble getting it hung up high enough & all the rope kept stretching. I was definitely NOT dry that day, but it was kinda soothing laying in the warm sun, just barely dipped in the cool water. Also, I got to slide on my butt down a beaver trail to get down there, and how many people get to do that? :)
I enjoyed this. I really wish I had taken the peeing outside photo to better the world. Just one outside pee a day from every person in the world... imagine the water returned to the earth, the nitrogen rich soil, the saved flushes, the stench... mmmm.