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Snively '11

Feb 14, 2009

Special Edition!

Posted in: Miscellaneous

Hey, so as Shannon just mentioned, all of the EA admits got V-day cards signed by all the bloggers. This means that we sat down, faced an ominous pile of ~500 cards, and started signing.

Signing your name that many times can get a little repetitive and even confusing (after about 350 you start to forget how you normally write your name). That's why I, and perhaps some of the other bloggers, took some time to make some "Special Edition" cards, adding a little something extra to a few of the cards.

I made sure to write down what I added to the cards I customized, and here's what I did:

38 of the cards have a number underneath my name. These 38 numbers correspond to random XKCD comics (like, I pushed the "random" button a bunch on the XKCD website and wrote the number down). These comics don't have any special meaning to me, but head on over and check out which comic you have if you got a number.

2 of the cards have a little beaver drawn on them. This is my personal beaver graphic that I draw anytime I need to draw a beaver.

1 of the cards has my name underlined twice (just because I could).

1 of the cards says "With my freeze ray I will stop . . . the world," a reference to Dr. Horrible (look him up on hulu.com)

1 of the cards says "It's a brand new day!" another reference to Dr. Horrible

1 of the cards says "It didn't make sense no to live for fun," referencing "All Star" by Smash Mouth, the song I was listening to when I signed that card.

1 of the cards says "IHTFP" in binary.

Those are the special edition cards, let me know in the comments if you got one of them!

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Posted by: 0 on February 14, 2009

IHTFP in binary... using what, ASCII?

Posted by: 0 on February 14, 2009

Judging from Shannon's success at getting photos, I doubt you'll find the recipients of those cards. Good luck though.

Posted by: Matt A. on February 14, 2009

At my school admissions asked seniors to sign Christmas cards to alums, with our name and year and where we're from. After the first few dozen I got bored so I started drawing skiing stick figures, and then lying about where I was from.

Posted by: 0 on February 14, 2009

Hey Snively! I have one of your special edition number cards. Number 150. As soon as I read this entry I ran to get my card and I got really excited when I opened it! http://xkcd.com/150/

Posted by: Holly '13 on February 15, 2009

and I stand corrected

Posted by: Matt A. on February 15, 2009

Apparently I have a special edition card, "138". Which led me to this link http://xkcd.com/138/, which in turn contained a pretty classic comp sci joke.

lol

Posted by: Aaron '13 on February 15, 2009

Aww. No Snively special code but I did get a smiley face.

Posted by: Mel'13 on February 15, 2009

Dude. You're not THAT important.

Posted by: 0 on February 16, 2009

*OMG*
I suddenly realized how lucky I am to get a beaver!!!!!

Posted by: bostonsheep on February 16, 2009

Dr. Horrible!!

Posted by: AG on February 16, 2009

Decode this!

MD2:
MD4:
MD5: 6f74e57dca4a0266e226953114f0bdb1
CRC 8, ccitt, 16, 32 : 85, 3cd6, e2b9, 6b9c82ec

CRYPT (form: $ MD5? $ SALT $ CRYPT):
$1$yn0zyl7Y$StSbl8jcYVmVotQ8FDUgm0
(form: SALT[2] CRYPT[11]):
psgs0NV0RdPPg

SHA1: 882c4855589587aa67982edbbf926b970b80af76
RIPEMD-160:
SHA2-256:
SHA2-384:
SHA2-512:


It means IHTFP lol

Posted by: Roshal on February 16, 2009

So do Regular Applicants who are accepted also get the tube? Just without some stuffs like the poster and the cards obviously?

Posted by: Roshal on February 16, 2009

i got a xkcd one!

http://xkcd.com/473/

it's awesome

Posted by: Divya on February 16, 2009

I got one with 452!

BTW, '14 because I'm probably deferring a year.

Posted by: Dorian '14 on February 16, 2009

@Roshal
Unfortunately no, RA students just get a large envelope filled with goodies. The Tubes are just for EA.

Posted by: Snively on February 17, 2009

Regular Action students will receive a complementary ham rather than a tube complements of the Hamsworth Dynasty.

I bid you Good Day Colleagues.

Posted by: Lord Hamsworth on February 17, 2009

lol

Posted by: lulu on February 17, 2009

lol indeed

Posted by: Hannah on February 17, 2009

I got the one with the "With my freeze ray I will stop . . . the world,"!

Haha, I feel special. When I first saw it, I thought that maybe you had done that for all the cards.

What did the other bloggers do for their "special edition" cards?

Posted by: Xenia on February 19, 2009

Snively, where have all your pictures gone? I'm sad. :(

Posted by: Joe '18 on February 27, 2009

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