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Bookmark Marathon

September 30th, 2008 · Comments

I’ve been reading up on modern physics since camp ended to try and get back into the swing things.  After finally figuring out math of Hawking Radiation and how holographic information theory works i broached books with fewer pictures and more equations.
I got most of these texts from the library and as the difficulty level [...]

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Reinfused Soda Fail

September 6th, 2008 · Comments

I purchased a few cans of dusting agent to, well dust and thought to use the remains of the can in an attempt to add effervescence back into my then flat Diet Mountain Dew.  I grabbed a paper towel to wipe the soda from screen after spitting out one of the foulest fluids I’ve ever [...]

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Science Center Advertising

May 15th, 2008 · Comments

I had an idea for a banner in front of the Science Center.
“OSR Science: The only place in Scouting you can talk about torquing Uranus without violating youth protection”
-Ed.  with should be without, fixed.

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Campfire Idea

May 2nd, 2008 · Comments

CSI: Ockanickon.
I don’t know how it will work, or what it will include, or even what it means, but I want to do it.

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Skit Notes 2

February 27th, 2008 · Comments

“Due to global warming all pictures of the sun in requirements for Soil and Water Conservation must be drawn with an angry face rather than a happy face”
“Stabbing yourself in woodcarving will no longer be accepted for the wound dressing requirement of First Aid merit badge”
I still want to do the byproduct of combined merit badges.  [...]

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Skit Notes 1

February 27th, 2008 · Comments

I’d really like to run a Headline News segment to open camp in some way incorporated each week’s troops into consideration.
Idea: Due to the demands of Troop (largest troop of the week), the airband competition now has a Air Marching Band award.
I don’t know if it’s too narrow, but hey at least I’m not making [...]

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Skit Idea

February 19th, 2008 · Comments

From Sam Capagrossi, a skit idea.
Everyone knows the JC Penney skit whereby people come in succession with interesting clothing and a bystander asks the source of these threads to which the constant reply is “JC Penney”.  Finally, a sparsely dressed man appears, is asked for his name, and wryly responds “JC Penney”, hilarity ensues as [...]

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Facebook Automator

February 7th, 2008 · Comments

I want a Facebook utility that automatically accepts challenges for dumb quizzes, scans a database of completed tests for the answers, cross-references it with what other people you know got, and takes the quiz or what ever and yields a score within a standard deviation of what you’ve pre-selected. So

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Light up sleep mask

February 5th, 2008 · Comments

I’m surprised a reasonable alternative to the alarm clock does not yet exist.  There was a prototype floating around for a while for a ring that’d vibrate at a particular time and I was saddened it never saw production.

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21st Century Computers

February 4th, 2008 · Comments

A commercial or video short or something containing the following.
Scene: Person standing behind a antiseptic-looking counter with the phrase “holistic computers” or

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