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Counting by rongo rongo
January 1st, 2011 10:44 AM
Bunny Dragon and I set out to investigate the important question of how many items from the Harvard Museum of Natural History's Harry Potter scavenger hunt were more like French Toast or a Spanish Omelet. (If you've never played the French Toast game, with or without the Spanish Omelet variation, well, you might consider going on more road trips.)
We spread a little extra fun around the museum. Quite a few kids and families were doing the scavenger hunt, including one young child who wanted to ask us a question but was too embarrassed. His Dad later came over to ask us if we were students at Hogwarts. We explained that of course we'd been there, but it had been quite a few years since our school days. A different Dad asked if he could get a picture of his young son standing with us, but then the boy was too embarrassed to stand near the funny looking people, so instead Dad got a picture of his older sister with us. It was fun seeing so many kids excited about going around a museum, dragging their parents from one display to the next.
Final tally:
5 more like French Toast (thestral, Nagini, Snape's Patronus, Dobby, Harry's wand)
6 more like Spanish Omelet (invisibility cloak, dragon, Hedwig, werewolf, Ron's boggart, sword of Gryffindor)
Conclusion: The intersection of items in a natural history museum and Harry Potter are surprisingly evenly divided between resembling French Toast or a Spanish Omelet.
We spread a little extra fun around the museum. Quite a few kids and families were doing the scavenger hunt, including one young child who wanted to ask us a question but was too embarrassed. His Dad later came over to ask us if we were students at Hogwarts. We explained that of course we'd been there, but it had been quite a few years since our school days. A different Dad asked if he could get a picture of his young son standing with us, but then the boy was too embarrassed to stand near the funny looking people, so instead Dad got a picture of his older sister with us. It was fun seeing so many kids excited about going around a museum, dragging their parents from one display to the next.
Final tally:
5 more like French Toast (thestral, Nagini, Snape's Patronus, Dobby, Harry's wand)
6 more like Spanish Omelet (invisibility cloak, dragon, Hedwig, werewolf, Ron's boggart, sword of Gryffindor)
Conclusion: The intersection of items in a natural history museum and Harry Potter are surprisingly evenly divided between resembling French Toast or a Spanish Omelet.
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posted by rongo rongo on January 2nd, 2011 12:44 PM
Thanks!
When I was explaining this at a NYE party, someone suggested that perhaps I had limited the scope too much by using two different types of breakfast foods, but my feeling was that if I had selected two wildly different objects as standards, there was a good chance that every single museum item would have been closer to the same one of the two.



















you are a hugenormous geek, and it's charming. you're also incredibly knowledgeable, gracious, and generous. respect.
my favorite part of this is the explanations for why things more closely resemble one kind of breakfast.