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I have the working draft of this year's List of Items for the Official University of Chicago Official Scavenger Hunt, the world's largest -and probably weirdest- annual scavenger hunt.
I didn't know they did this. Where can I learn more?
That sounds fun!
Depends on your weird.
I write, so there's a ton of stuff on decomposition, forensics, and related subject matter that are weird by some standards.
I've got stuff on niche mythology too, for the same reason. Along with that is stuff on modern paganism, syncretic religions, and related subjects. Again, weird by some standards.
But I tend to think the morbid stuff is what would catch most people by surprise.
Nice.
I came in here to post about having a copy of Titus Burkhardt's Alchemy tome and DKMU Assault On Reality but I think yours might take the cake instead, as well as possibly including both of those texts.
Where do you usually find it at? I'm a horror writer and that sort of thing would be handy to have for my work.
It used to be Google scholar. It was pretty easy to find good stuff when I was digging into it. Not sure if it's still a reliable place though
What's a pdf that most surprised you?
Ahh, probably the one that gave visuals of bloat and skin slippage.
I've seen plenty of dead bodies (did some hospice work, ran across a suicide in the woods, and a few accidents), but I'd never seen that segment of decomp.
It's both worse than I expected, and somehow not as bad.
A mock dictionary of Portuguese gay slang and vocabulary. It's pretty fun.
Lol
I just cleaned up my downloads so I no longer have it, but a couple weeks ago it was a copy of Maid: The Role-Playing Game
Nothing too weird. Multiple manuals of objects that I own, probably the weirdest of which is a German manual for my Canon EOS 300 (I'm not German). And some machine learning papers, among which a paper from 1987, by Quinlan & Rivest, about decision trees (which is older than I am).
EDIT: Oh and another document older than me, a manual for the Minolta XG-9 that I'm lending from my dad.
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Mine is this report by the central bank where they tested the insurance sector at-large for resillience to financial shocks. ^(Although after reading some books by nassim nicholas taleb, I realize that testing using the worst imaginable shocks isn't sufficient as black swan events are by their nature unpredictable)
The Airplane Flying Handbook, I guess.
Guidelines for a Space Propulsion Device Based on Heimβs Quantum Theory
I thought it sounded interesting, but the mathematics was beyond me.
Hercolobus Or Red Planet, by V. M. Rabolou... it's 'interesting'.
Itβs an interesting concept and seems plausible enough (same as with Planet X, Nemesis.. ok some of that Nibiru stuff is ridiculous) but like, the evidence just isnβt there to support it. Feels like we should have found SOME evidence for this kind of interstellar disaster by now. I donβt know, maybe Iβm wrong.