Re: [Palindrome] Pondering the Note

[Deborah Levinson <debby_levinson yahoo com>]

Funny you should bring this up. There was an article in this week's
Boston Globe about iFIND, a new campus peer-to-peer service that allows
people to track each other's locations at MIT:

<http://www.boston.com/business/personaltech/articles/2006/12/13/locating_pals_at_mit_privately/>

This paragraph in particular caught my attention:

"But for now, Ratti sees the program being used for some
quintessentially MIT purposes. Elaborate electronic scavenger hunts
could require people to get within a few yards of a target before they
could get a clue sent to them."

You have to have an mit.edu address to sign up for iFIND, so I'm in the
middle of the registration process now. I have no idea whether this
year's hunt will actually use iFIND, but it can't hurt to be ready,
just in case. (Anyone else with an mit.edu address -- though I think
I'm the only one on the team -- can download iFIND at
<http://ifind.mit.edu>.)

--debby


--- Trip Payne <trippayne bellsouth net> wrote:

> I'm left wondering about the point of the "note" about this year's
> hunt 
> on the MIT Hunt homepage.  If you haven't seen it, it says:
> 
> > Note: For various reasons that can not be revealed at this time,
> every 
> > team in this year's Hunt needs to have at least one member on
> campus. 
> > Most puzzles will be available remotely, but certain key elements
> of 
> > the Hunt will not be posted on the Internet.
> 
> Well ... how is that different than any other year?  There are always
> 
> runarounds, always scavenger hunts, always things you have to
> construct 
> and take to HQ.  There are always group events that need to be
> attended 
> (game shows, mixers, etc.).  Heck, you can't even retrieve the coin
> if 
> you don't have a member on campus.
> 
> So I'm wondering why they posted this at all, since no team can ever
> do 
> well without having some of its members on campus.  Is there
> something 
> that we should be inferring from it?
> 
> -- Trip
> 
> 
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Debby Levinson
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