Live a Month At the Museum of Science and Industry 70
theodp writes "Even usually snarky Gawker loves the idea of living in a science museum for a month. Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry is 'looking for someone to take on a once-in-a-lifetime assignment: spend a Month at the Museum, to live and breathe science 24/7 for 30 days. From October 20 to November 18, 2010, this person's mission will be to experience all the fun and education that fits in this historic 14-acre building, living here full-time and reporting your findings to the outside world.' Oh, and if you're The Chosen One, you'll also walk away with $10,000, a package of tech gadgets, and an honorary lifetime membership to MSI. Visit the Month at the Museum site for details and to apply — the deadline is August 11th."
ah memories... (Score:4, Funny)
The blog... (Score:3, Funny)
spend a Month at the Museum, to live and breathe science 24/7 for 30 days. From October 20 to November 18, 2010, this person's mission will be to experience all the fun and education that fits in this historic 14-acre building, living here full-time and reporting your findings to the outside world.'
Touched a dinosaur: man! those things are delicate!
The U-Boat was awesome!
Farm equipment was pretty good. Drove the tractor around a little bit before it ran out of gas.
At the baby chick hatchery. They're so cute! Awe shit! I left the door open! brb...
Went to Jim Hensen's Fantastic World [msichicago.org] and had a threesome with Kermit and Miss Piggy.
rerun? (Score:2, Funny)
Does it come alive at night? (Score:3, Funny)
Could I be chased by an old Commodore 64?
Re:Sign me up. (Score:4, Funny)
When I was a kid growing up in Chicago's Little Italy neighborhood, my Dad would take me to one of the Chicago museums every Sunday morning after I discharged my duties as an altar boy (no dirty jokes, please).
I'm sure your discharge was very clean.
Re:Not what it used to be (Score:5, Funny)
I can still remember "getting" how binary worked standing there and to a 10 year old geek-wannabe,
I don't believe you could have understood binary when you were only two years old!
Prisoner (Score:4, Funny)
From the rules:
- Agree to very limited contact with the outside, and limited and/or prohibited personal use of cell phone, texting, e-mail, Facebook, etc., during the residence period.
- Reside exclusively in the Museum during the residence period. Occasionally, the candidate will leave the Museum to see science where it happens or appear at events on the Museum's behalf.
- You must be available to live in the Museum for 30 days with no outside personal or work responsibilities.
They should have called it "Prisoner at the Museum".
Re:The blog... (Score:2, Funny)
Binary? 10 year olds? (Score:3, Funny)
Binary for two year olds? YES, and NO.
Do they understand YES? Probably.
Do they understand NO? Not likely, though it's possible.
Re:Interesting... (Score:5, Funny)
MSI Diary......
Day 1 - today went ok, Got bored by 11:00pm spent the night in the Submarine pretending to shoot boats on the lake... .... .... .... ....
Day 10 - Tired of people looking at me, Museum officials told me that I cant flip everyone off.. I am sick of the coffee at the cafeteria... Tonight I'm going to see if I can get the solar challenge car out of it's exibit and try to run laps around the damned train.
Day 20 - Police arrived for the 15th time tonight... They are getting angry when I set off the alarm and ask the dispatch lady that calls for them to bring me doughnuts or pizza. I was yelled at for putting celebrity names on all the fetuses, I guess some little girl lost it when she saw "Hanna Montana's aborted baby Sally", stuck on the 14 week old.
Day 30 - Been hiding in the ductwork for 5 days now... they cant find me but I can hear them looking......