Bad Ideas 2010

Weekend

Friday January 22 - Sunday January 24

Admin: wasabi-toothbrushing@mit.edu
General: bad-ideas@mit.edu

Yes, it deserves its own category. Go suck it.

Chairs: cmerrill, mnawrot
Poster Making:
Poster Distribution:
Food:
Videotaping: fangfei, erosalia
Bad Ideas Ball:

If you want to do something that's not on the list, add it and yourself above. (Initiative is good for you!)

Feel free to sign up to help out with any of these! We'll love you soooo much! (Also tell us the stuff you'll need + budget, etc.)

Event/Project	Contact	Requested Budget	Comments/Helpers
Aerial Silks	elevin and clarion	120	Have two rigs, could get one more.
3D@MIT	natech	asked council for the arts for $500
2kW subwoofer	natech
Programmable LED Spheres	dgrnbrg	1000 (500 from last year's budget)
Electric Ice Guitar	srd	150
Chili Cookoff	natech	150
Iron Chef	natech	100
Air Cannon	mnawrot and bnpeters	100
Wa Laundry Chute	fangfei	Est. 50-100
Sledding Hill	jrogoff	200
"Choose your own adventure" porn	jrogoff	Free
Iceskate Ripstick	ciuffo and rdeits	100
Large Plasma Globe	ihiromi	1000
Wasabi Toothbrushing	cmerrill & mnawrot	Est. 15
Igloo out of styrofoam bricks	jbuz (?)	Free
Propane Fire Art	scottnla	450
Flash Mob	cmerrill	Free!	NEED IDEAS
Food HORSE	cmerrill & mnawrot	100	manu will get stuff for it
Push Button, Receive Bacon	blakeney	50-100
Burrito Bomb Decathalon / Burrito Relay			Add to the green building challenge?
Invite Richard Stallman	Everyone	Free!
Pony Rides	mnawrot	Free!
Bad Ideas Rappelling	rbowru		Building 66 stairwell

Event/Project	Contact	Requested Budget	Comments/Helpers
Pig Roast		300 spit, Est. 100 pig	manayach (will cook only), need people to buy stuff
TP Launcher (with spinning action)	sdmorr(?)	???	was not at meeting
Rube Goldberg Roulette w/ Pies	jasminef & y2c	200	Not at meeting, tentative approval
Eating Contest (Wings Over Sommerville?)		Sponsored? Hopefully...	Figure out what it should be, get someone to run it.
Fence Jumping Contest	joshuah	???	Need a cost estimate & good story
Power Supplies for Digital Waterfall	rdeits	60	"If there's any money left"
My ___ is bigger than yours			Need person to run it.
Break Guiness Record		???	Which record, call guiness people.
Submersible Guitar	bsena	100-200	More details, need BOM
Mobile Elliptical	bsena	100	More details, need BOM
Suspension Bridge	safety, safety, safety	$safety	safety, safety, approval
"Hunting for Tourists"
Halloween in January
B-Movie Alternate Future Production
Revolving Door in Middle of Courtyard	cmerrill, mnawrot	???
"Stay-on-wall" Duct Tape Contest			erosilia will get duct tape
Satirical Newspaper		Expensive? Athena Cluster?
Real Life Guitar Hero