[Palindrome] Hunt HQ...

[Michael R Korn <mikekorn MIT EDU>]

Hi.

It looks like we have to use this new system to reserve our headquarters.  

> the relevant info is linked to off of the main puzzle www page, 
> or can be found here: < http://web.mit.edu/puzzle/www/rooms-04.html >.
> other info is here: < http://web.mit.edu/puzzle/www/rooms2-04.html >.

I had talked to the the MIT Schedules office a few weeks ago.  At first 
they 
told me that only certain people (from Kappa Sig) could reserve rooms for 
the 
Mystery Hunt.  After I explained the situation, they said that the 
Schedules 
office would be handling all the Mystery Hunt room assignments all 
together, 
and that I should wait until they got things organized.  I guess this new 
system is what they were organizing.

Here are the rooms that they've made available (so far), with their 
relevant 
attributes:

(ARM = movable tablet armchairs, TC = movable tables and chairs)
(DROP = MITnet drop, JACK = phone jack)

ROOM    SEATS   DROP?   JACK?   FURN

4-257   35      YES     NO      ARM
4-261   40      YES     NO      TC
4-265   40      YES     NO      TC
8-119   30      NO      YES     TC
8-302   42      NO      YES     TC
8-306   42      NO      YES     TC
13-3101 26      NO      YES     ARM
13-4101 28      NO      YES     TC
13-5101 40      NO      YES     TC
24-110  16      NO      NO      TC
24-112  16      NO      YES     TC
24-114  16      NO      YES     TC
24-115  48      NO      YES     TC
24-307  42      YES     YES     TC
24-402  38      NO      YES     ARM
26-168  42      NO      YES     ARM
26-204  42      NO      YES     TC
26-210  42      NO      NO      TC
26-302  35      YES     NO      TC
26-310  35      YES     NO      TC
26-314  35      YES     NO      TC
26-322  35      YES     NO      TC
26-328  35      YES     NO      TC
36-372  24      NO      YES     ARM

For what it's worth, 26-322 and 26-328 were the headquarters for Snafu 
Fans 
'03 (Matrix hunt), while 8-302 and 8-306 were the auxiliary rooms for 
Ycnamancy '02 (Monopoly hunt).

I'd say our best bets from this list are 4-261 and 4-265, followed by any 
of 
the 26-3xx rooms.  24-307 has the disadvantage that it's not next to any 
other 
classrooms, and it also has a woeful shortage of blackboard space.

That just about does it for our options, if we require a net drop and 
movable 
tables and chairs.  On the other hand, all of the rooms (with the 
exception of 
26-328) claim to have wireless capabilities.  If we can use this instead 
of a 
net drop, then this opens up more possibilities.  (Someone who knows more 
about computers would have to look into this.)

At any rate, we need to register our team before December 26, and submit 
our 
room preferences at that time.  So we need a team name before then.  I'll 
start us off by suggesting "Ecroforce", a force which is applied equally 
in 
both directions, in accordance with Newton's Third Law of Motion.

mike