"I went to the Gorge!" Giveaway Thread

[emac]

I missed my 500 post mark, and I'm not quite to my 1000 post mark yet, but I did get to spend the whole weekend at the Gorge! So, to commemorate three glorious Gorge days and their epic no-repeat setlists, I'm doing my first giveaway. :)

Winner will be the person who answers the highest number of questions most closely -- meaning, if your guesses are numerically closest to the number of songs, the amount of free space, the number of tubes, and/or the number of empty tubes, you will win. If no one guesses closest to all 4, winners will be decided based on how many of your guesses were closest. (Hopefully that makes sense. :p)

I have 4 prizes, so there can be up to 4 winners. This includes any ties if multiple people have the same number of closest answers. In the case of duplicate answers (same guesses, numerically), the entry that is time-stamped earlier will prevail, and the other person will have to revise their guess(es).

No entries accepted after 11:59 pm CST Friday, September 17, 2010 (a week from tomorrow). Each person gets one shot at each question, and if you put all your answers in one post, it will make it easier for me to keep track of things. I have taken pictures of my iPod screen -- the number of songs and amount of free space are "as of this moment".

1.) How many songs do I have on my 120 GB iPod Classic?

2.) How much free space is available on the aforementioned iPod?

3.) How many tubes do I have at my house?

4.) How many of these tubes are empty?


BONUS QUESTIONS! These last two are really just to see who's a really really good guesser. :p If you get either one of the following questions correct, I will send you a Super Special Soulmate prize. :sadie This is independent of the other questions and their prizes. If you're crazy lucky (or psychic?), you could conceiveably win multiple prizes!

--> Who is my favorite science fiction author?
--> What is my favorite book by this author?

Good luck! :)

[dmbkyle1]

1) 17,490 song
2) 3.5 GB remaining
3) 18
4) 12

B1) Ray Bradbury
B2) The Cat's Pajamas

Really interesting giveaway. Hope the Gorge was a blast! Thanks

[emac]

PRIZE LIST

First place: Choice of either Sugar Skull or Aztec King (each has some faint rollbends)

5186 5183

Second place: Whichever of the first place prizes is not chosen

Third place: Choice of Bird Record (has a crease below the image), Bee Radio (has a crease below the image), or Space Squid (has a faint crease on the squid's head)

5181 5185 5182

Fourth place: One of whichever of the third place prizes is not chosen

[emac]

B]Super Special Soulmate prize:[/B]

I will make you an original canvas art piece with your choice of lyrics and colors. See below for two I made for some other DP'ers. :)

5187 5189 5188[

[dmbkyle1]

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These are SWEET!

[clwatt3]

They are ok. :tipofcap

[emac]

These are SWEET!


They are ok. :tipofcap

Only 2 in the wild right now. Hopefully I'll get back in the groove soon, starting with this contest. :)

[ali815]

1. 14,644 songs
2. 8.3 gb
3. 29
4. 7

Jules Verne
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

:)

[emac]

Yay, entries!

Since I couldn't count in my first post, I'm fixing it here: I have 5 prizes (obviously, 5 prints are pictured :p), so there will be 5 winners. :) Prize distribution works the same for fifth place.

[ExperienceJones]

Pretty cool of you man!

1)16,784
2) 1.2 gb
3) 53
4) 10

[emac]

Evening bump. :)

[dmbkyle1]

im assuming only one guess?

[emac]

im assuming only one guess?

Only one guess per question per person. Sorry. :(

You win Internet Points for being first, though. ;)

[mxpxillini35]

15,294
3.42gb
47
6

crichton
lost world

[rschlad04]

13,150
700 MB
15
5

Dean Koontz
Twilight Eyes

[emac]

Gearing up for the Woodlands Pavilion. Ah, the memories. :p

[emac]

Since we're all sitting around waiting for the Dallas poster image, why don't you guys enter my giveaway? :) ;)

[RiotAct]

Since we're all sitting around waiting for the Dallas poster image, why don't you guys enter my giveaway? :) ;)

okay.

1.) 4,988

2.) 22.6 GB

3.) 34

4.) 21


BONUS 1: Ray Bradbury
BONUS 2: Fahrenheit 451

[41proudMonkey]

8,975
19 gb
41
15

Dan Simmons
Hyperion

[dmbkyle1]

would you have told us already if we won the bonus question?

[emac]

would you have told us already if we won the bonus question?

All winners will be announced after the entry period ends. I will make canvases for any and all contestants who correctly answer either of the bonus questions -- the number of winners for those questions is not limited, unlike the number of winners for the first 4 questions. :)

[emac]

Monday bump!

[emac]

I won a contest today. :sadie So my contest is getting bumped -- come join the giveaway love, ya'll! :)

[rschlad04]

I won a contest today. :sadie So my contest is getting bumped -- come join the giveaway love, ya'll! :)

Which contest did you win?

[emac]

Which contest did you win?

deludo's coded giveaway. I think the thread is still active -- look for the title that looks like a cat walked across the keyboard. :p

[rschlad04]

ohhh haha, i gave up on that before I finished reading it. LMAO didn't even realize it was a give away.

[emac]

I was very confused at first, but then PhishDMB said the binary code at the bottom of the post meant "Have fun and good luck!" and then deludo posted that the thread title ("NDIwMXN0IFBvc3QgR2l2ZWF3YXkh") meant "4201st Post Giveaway!". So I went to find a binary to text translator online, and the one I found had boxes to translate a bunch of other types of code. Here's the breakdown of what each part meant and in what code it was in:

[I]Base64 -- d2VsY29tZSB0byBteSA0MjAxc3QgcG9zdCBnaXZlYXdheSE = Welcome to my 4201st post giveaway!

Hexadecimal -- 74 68 65 20 66 69 72 73 74 20 70 65 72 73 6f 6e 20 74 6f 20 70 6f 73 74 20 61 20 70 69 63 20 6f 66 20 74 68 65 20 66 6f 6c 6c 6f 77 69 6e 67 20 77 69 6e 73 3a = the first person to post a pic of the following wins:

DEC/CHAR (I hadn't heard of this one) -- 45 111 110 101 32 116 111 109 97 116 111 = -one tomato

So then I posted a picture of a tomato. :p

...I'm such a dork.

[41proudMonkey]

okay, I give up, I'm tired of searching through the 27,379 Wrigley posts/threads for an answer ... are you going to Wrigley? Oh and congrats on that contest win :) I totally thought his phone was messed up :)

[emac]

okay, I give up, I'm tired of searching through the 27,379 Wrigley posts/threads for an answer ... are you going to Wrigley? Oh and congrats on that contest win :) I totally thought his phone was messed up :)

No Wrigley for me. :( Maybe Cville, but only if the stars align just so. ;) And thanks. :)

[emac]

A little over 2 more days to enter! :) Ending Friday at midnight. There are lots of prizes, so lots of chances to win!

[emac]

30 hours left to enter this. :)

[emac]

This closes TONIGHT at MIDNIGHT! I know all the cool kids are off at Wrigley, but if you want to enter, now's the time. :)

[emac]

CONTEST CLOSED :)

Here are the answers:

Total songs: 13,826
Free space: 22 GB
Total tubes: 30
Empty tubes: 18

Fave author: Robert Heinlein
Fave book: Stranger in a Strange Land

[emac]

WINNERS

First Place

RiotAct was closest on 2 of the 4, guessing 22.6 GB and 21 empty tubes.

We have a three-way tie for second through fourth place. *chuckle*

ali815 -- closest on total number of tubes (29)

rschlad4 -- closest on number of songs (13150)

41proudMonkey -- also closest on number of empty tubes (15)

Each of you three needs to post a number between 1 and 50. Closest number to the number in my head without going over wins the tiebreaker and second place. Next closest gets third. :)

[emac]

Unfortunately, no one guessed the bonus questions correctly. However, someone (someones?) will still be getting a canvas... More info to come! :)

[41proudMonkey]

28

[ali815]

11


:)

[emac]

2 out of 3... Where's rschlad? :p

[rschlad04]

41 Sorry rough rough rough rough day/ night last night! lmao. Thanks again!

[emac]

Yay! Everyone's accounted for now. :) My number was: 34

Second place: 41proudMonkey
Third place: ali815
Fourth place: rschlad04

I'll send you guys PMs so you can pick out prizes. :)

[rschlad04]

totally forgot about the can't go over part, statistically I should have probably guessed lower, it was between #41 and #27. I may still be drunk lmao. Thanks again for the giveaway!

[emac]

totally forgot about the can't go over part, statistically I should have probably guessed lower, it was between #41 and #27. I may still be drunk lmao. Thanks again for the giveaway!

Lol, no problem. PM coming your way. :)