And apparently unoriginal. [goats.com]

Anyone up for a forum scavanger hunt? Find me a dancing giraffe!

Seperate [google.com] is the best [google.com] I could do...

In Response to AsphaltBuffet (#33339):

I suspect [upe.ac.za] you weren't [florshow.com] trying very hard. [millan.net]

But apparently , and I'm a sucker for video footage of tortured cats, so I accept. You can issue the next challenge!

In Response to tynic (#33340):

Now I'm confused.

I thought we were supposed to find things here, rather than "on the internet".

In Response to zamphir (#33341):

Now i'm confused. I thought you were writing under the pseudonym "Tuesday Crimson"? Or was that just a dream i had in an alternate dimension?

In Response to Teledildonix (#33342):

I'm absolutely positively not Crimson.

I don't even know who Crimson is.

As for dreams of unknown dimensions, well... don't pine for Kadath for too long - the fjords are much more lonesome.

Alright now, this thread has gotten silly. Webmaster, zoom in on me and lock this thread on three.

One...

Two...

[sound of keys jingling]
Wait for it!

Three

In Response to tynic (#33340):

Yay! I want obscure MS Paint religious/belief/explanation "artwork". Something that is very wrong yet so very compelling.

Something about this thread makes me want to reply, "Pleased to meet you, piece of wood."

In Response to Rich (#33344):

Ooo! ooo! I bet that's my cue to shellac the hamster.

In Response to AsphaltBuffet (#33345):

Reverend Finster [finster.com] mentioned Elvis and the Sacred South [finster.com]. That's not quite as zany as the cover of Little Creatures, but i think that nearly satisfies your request.

In Response to Teledildonix (#33351):

It's possible I should clarify a rule. The way Forum Scavenger Hunt works is the first successful respondant initiates the next challenge. In order to save time, you can pre-emptively throw out a challenge when you respond, under the blithe assumption that your meagre offerings are somehow sufficient to answer the exacting demands of the challenger.

For the record, I wouldn't normally have accepted AB's submissions, dancing kitty or no, but I wanted to kick off this thread quickly.

>> I thought we were supposed to find things here, rather than "on the internet".

Too easy. Search function is too good. Besides, what would we ask for? "Find zamphir saying something tangential and obscure!" "Find Tor being drunk and belligerent!". I titled it 'forum scavenger hunt' because it's for the forum.

Golly, I'm good at puns!

In Response to tynic (#33355):

We're still at an impasse, so I will drop a challenge. I want a scholarly article written by a forum contributor (no autoreferencing).

In Response to deerboy (#33357):

That is assuming that forum members are ok with their true identities being revealed...

In Response to tynic (#33355):

That's cool, but i was too uncertain about the validity of my find, so i didn't want to be rude by playing out of turn. Assuming my response was truly acceptable, i would like to ask for a hunt for a Really Awesome Scavenger, preferably an Extremophile. Bonus points if the Scavenger is also insertable, but maybe that's too far-fetched (my puns are never as good [bad?] as yours).

However, before anybody pays attention to my fork in this thread, Deerboy's brought up an interesting challenge. I was tempted to answer him by linking to one or more of Jeff's entries over at Fleen... but then i thought, "My suggestion that Jeff's entries are 'scholarly' might be taken as unfortunate sarcasm, and really i admire his writing too much to risk appearing that snarky."

So, ignore my detour if you wish. I'll be over here, thinking fondly about their entries.

Tele* made my already sickness-weakened mind assplode.

So..... how long do we keep kicking this thing?

In Response to Teledildonix (#33359):

My suggestion that Jeff's entries are 'scholarly' might be taken as unfortunate sarcasm, and really i admire his writing too much to risk appearing that snarky."

a) You'd only earn my respect by being snarky
b) You would, unfortunately, be completely missing the point if you ascribed the adjective 'scholarly' to anything I've done at Fleen. Even in a very traditional sense of the word scholar, I've been aiming far too much at 'sports commentator' to count as any form of 'scholar'.
c) Deerboy is really just fishing for people to drag up his own published works, forgetting that spending twelve hours a day staring at the motion of sand in water does not count as 'scholarly' to the rest of us.

Do I win [barnesandnoble.com]?

In Response to zamphir (#33365):

Do I win?

Deerboy said "article", but I'd say you're close enough.

Deerboy is really just fishing for people to drag up his own published works, forgetting that spending twelve hours a day staring at the motion of sand in water does not count as 'scholarly' to the rest of us.

If deerboy were fishing, he'd be interfering with his own observations. (Cue someone using the word "quantum".) Besides, I think he's a theorist.

Here's what I dug up, in a format that should address danav's concerns. When I had choices, I just picked what looked interesting to me.

Tynic [goats.com], J. J. Ford and J. S. Chahl, Biologically inspired guidance for motion camouflage, Proceedings of the 5th Asian Control Conference, Melbourne, 261-267, 2004.

Deerboy [goats.com], A. B. Murray and O. Arnoult, Formation of coastline features by large-scale instabilities induced by high-angle waves, Nature 414 (2001), 296-300.

Danav [goats.com] and J. DeBoni, Hybrid real-coded mutation for genetic algorithms applied to graph layouts, Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO'05 and SIGEVO 1), Washington, DC, June 25-29, 2005, 1563-1564.

In Response to Teledildonix (#33359):

I would like to ask for a hunt for a Really Awesome Scavenger, preferably an Extremophile

How about Harvestman [wikipedia.org] saving the world from his archenemy, the Five-Lined Skink?

In Response to mkinyon (#33371):

It looks like you and Zamphir both win. And i can take satisfaction in all the assploding.

In Response to zamphir (#33365):

Apparently.

Challenge, please.

In Response to mkinyon (#33370):

Well, that was a stupid idea of mine.

Challenge... challenge...

Find embarrassing pic... nahh. Too easy.

Find me Nero Wolfe. Not the fictional character, the real thing. Find me someone who is making a living as an independant private detective by sitting at home and thinking all day.

Maybe this is too hard.

In Response to zamphir (#33384):

I'm going to suppose that Svlad Cjelli doesn't count; it's largely a mystery how he makes a living at all, although undoubtedly the fundamental interconnectedness of all things comes into play.

Also, the word is 'independent.'

In Response to sakuruth (#33387):

All fictional characters don't count.

But could you help me move this couch out of the stairwell?

In Response to zamphir (#33388):

Nah. Ask Thor, maybe he could do it before he gets distracted. At least it wouldn't require keeping a running count.