Re: [Palindrome] mystery hunt rooms (warning, ridiculously detailed)

["Dan Berlin" <dan danielberlin com>]

I whole heartedly agree on the land line front.
As for the network setup, the wireless setup @ MIT makes for easy 
networking
all around.  The only thing that we NEEDED the hard-wired network for was
the printer (which I no longer have access to).  If we find another high
speed printer, chances are, it will need a wired network connection.
DB


-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Purdy [mailto:smpurdy btinternet com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 16:20
To: palindrome cosmos phy tufts edu
Subject: Re: [Palindrome] mystery hunt rooms (warning, ridiculously
detailed)


After our experiences of the past two years, I would personally rank 
phone jack above adjoining and defer to someone with a better grasp 
of our network setup to clarify whether a wired net port is still 
necessary. Cell phones have been notoriously inconsistent in the 
past, and last year's direct phone line served as an enormous boon. I 
would also add that while I have high hopes for Phys Plant's ability 
to produce a quality Hunt, if there are problems with it, our phone 
time will increase sharply. With Kappa Sig two years ago, this meant 
a heavy cell phone burden, and I would prefer to place that on a land 
line which isn't going to have reception, battery, etc. issues.

Scott

At 01:07 PM 12/8/2005, Carol A Meyers wrote:
>Hello Mystery Hunters,
>
>Thanks to those of you who sent congratulations.  :)  Our team rocks.
>
>OK, here's the news on the mystery hunt rooms.  Most of the rooms are 
>the same as last year, with the notable exception of the *two rooms we 
>had last year,* (26-204 and 26-210) which have been remodeled and are 
>completely different.  Most notably, they no longer contain phone 
>jacks, there is no longer a door between them (though they are still 
>next to each other, of course), and they are supposed to have a wired 
>connection but I believe it is in a locked cabinet I couldn't get into.  
>On the plus side, the furniture is about a million times nicer; it's 
>modern moveable tables and chairs.
>
>I consulted with Mike Korn (who has been helping this team with rooms 
>longer than me) and he prioritized the team's room preferences as 
>follows:
>
>(1) some kind of internet access.
>(2) When put together, sufficiently large for everyone on the team to 
>be there at the same time.
>(3) Movable tables and chairs.
>(4) Net drop.
>(5) Adjoining.
>(6) Phone jack.
>(7) Good location, nice-looking, blackboard space, whatever else.
>
>(1), (2), and (3) should be easy enough to get-- everywhere at MIT has 
>wireless now, and there are plenty of rooms of varying sizes.  A lot of 
>places have (4), although our old rooms no longer do.  (5) is pretty 
>rare; only a few rooms on campus satisfy this now.  (6) is rare too, 
>but not as rare as (5).  (7) I suppose depends on your opinion.
>
>The only rooms on the list that satisfy *all* of these things are 
>4-145, 4-149, and 4-153, which are all three adjoining.  I'm guessing 
>these will probably go to a bigger team, though, since they have the 
>capacity for tons of people.
>
>(If you want to check out what rooms do and don't have, you can look 
>at:
>http://student.mit.edu/roominv/roominv.cgi)
>
>So we will probably have to settle without a thing or two.  4-261 and 
>4-265 have everything other than the door between and the phone jack, 
>so I think they make a good second choice.  Our old rooms (26-204 and 
>26-210) would be a good choice if I would feel confident that we could 
>get in the magic locked cabinet, or if people don't feel as strongly 
>about having a net drop.
>
>After that, the rooms on the third floor of building 26 are also 
>decent; none of them have a door between or phone jacks, but they do 
>have MIT cable, which I suppose is an added bonus occasionally.
>
>Finally, there is 56-154, which has everything we want but it is only 
>one room.  (Albeit, it is a room that seats 56 people.)  I suspect that 
>people won't like this, but I figured I'd throw it out.
>
>Anyway, all that babbling is to say that I think our preferences should
>be:
>1) - 2 out of 4-145, 4-149, 4-153
>2) - 4-261 and 4-265
>3) - 26-204 and 26-210 (our old rooms; I'll ask about the locked 
>cabinet)
>4) - 26-3xx rooms
>5) - 56-154
>
>Let me know if you object to this, or if you have any other opinions.  
>I can register the team this weekend, once we get this sorted out.
>
>Thanks!
>
>
>Carol
>
>P.S. If we wind up not having a phone jack, we can use my cell phone 
>(it has a 617 number).  It is free after 9pm on Friday and on weekends, 
>and so we would just need to go a little easy before then.  I have 
>Verizon, which works OK (though not wonderful) in most parts of campus.
>
>
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