My Internet marketing consultant Donny says people like it when your website blog has contests where people do stuff and win something. This was uncharacteristically specific for Donny, so I decided to give it a try. The results you see before you, or will after the jump.
The following are ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics (or a reasonable facsimile thereof):
Translate them. (English, please. If you want to show off your Klingon or Dothraki go make your own damn contest.)
The winner gets something. Let's see. A free month of XBox Live. How about that?
I suppose we need some rules.
UPDATE: After a grueling 370 days, we finally have a winner! LabKitty reader "Javon" guessed (?) the correct answer of "brain."
The glyph comes from the Edwin Smith surgical papyrus (which also graces the frontispiece of Kandel's 100 pound neuroscience textbook) translated by James Breasted in 1930. Among other tales, the papyrus recounts one of the earliest attempts at brain surgery.
You would know this if you are an Egyptologist. You could also have discovered this by poking around the LabKitty Zazzle store, where you can get the glyph printed on a mug, shirt, or other swag. Failing that, Google image search would probably have worked.
Anyway, congratulations to Javon, who will soon be enjoying a free month of XBox live, while you will not. When/what will the next LabKitty contest bring? Who can say. Stay tuned
The following are ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics (or a reasonable facsimile thereof):
Translate them. (English, please. If you want to show off your Klingon or Dothraki go make your own damn contest.)
The winner gets something. Let's see. A free month of XBox Live. How about that?
I suppose we need some rules.
Rules
1) My XBox went berserk so Microsoft gave me an XBox Live coupon for my troubles (a code, actually, which I will email to the winner). You can use the code to add a month of time to your present account if you have one, or use it to try out the service de novo for a month if you do not. The nice customer support lady said I could give away the code if I didn't want to use it. And I don't, because I don't do XBox Live (like I need to be humiliated by 11 year olds playing CoD). So as far as I know, the code is good. But if it doesn't work for whatever reason, that's between you and Microsoft. No refunds.
2) Email your answer/guess to labkittycontest at gmail dot com. (Donny says writing it like that fools the spambots. Whatever. I'm sure you can figure out how to turn that into the correct address.) Upon noticing your email, I will reply and tell you if you are right or wrong or, possibly, right but too late. If I get a gazillion submissions (see #5), you may get no reply and simply have to check back here (see #3) to see if you won. If you are the first right answer, you win, and I will surely tell you that.
2b) To be eligible to win you have to give me some kind of a name I can use. It doesn't have to be your real name, just something I can announce (see #4). The part of your email address before the @ would be perfect.
3) When I get a right answer, I'll update the post to indicate the game is over. However, I only check email maybe a couple of times per day. This raises the question of what happens if you play after someone won but before I updated the post. I suppose that's the chance you take. Also, how do you know the winner is really who I say it is? I suppose that's the chance you take. For Cat's sake, it's supposed to be a fun little game not a land war in Asia.
4) I'll give the answer and how you could have figgered it in a future update. Also the winner's name, if there was a winner.
5) I may elect to end the contest at any time should the thing drag on too long and euthanasia becomes the merciful thing to do. Or maybe it will be the most popular thing since Facebook. Who knows. I have no idea how this is going to play. Will it be Dawn of the Dead zombies slowing shuffling into the mall to gawk at the shiny bobbles? Or will it be Return of the Living Dead zombies swarming Linnea Quigley to gawk at the shiny bobbles? No idea. (Romero. Quigley. LabKitty. Together at last. Now to work Jimmy Page and Sarah Vowell into the mix and my life will be complete.)
Good luck!
1) My XBox went berserk so Microsoft gave me an XBox Live coupon for my troubles (a code, actually, which I will email to the winner). You can use the code to add a month of time to your present account if you have one, or use it to try out the service de novo for a month if you do not. The nice customer support lady said I could give away the code if I didn't want to use it. And I don't, because I don't do XBox Live (like I need to be humiliated by 11 year olds playing CoD). So as far as I know, the code is good. But if it doesn't work for whatever reason, that's between you and Microsoft. No refunds.
2) Email your answer/guess to labkittycontest at gmail dot com. (Donny says writing it like that fools the spambots. Whatever. I'm sure you can figure out how to turn that into the correct address.) Upon noticing your email, I will reply and tell you if you are right or wrong or, possibly, right but too late. If I get a gazillion submissions (see #5), you may get no reply and simply have to check back here (see #3) to see if you won. If you are the first right answer, you win, and I will surely tell you that.
2b) To be eligible to win you have to give me some kind of a name I can use. It doesn't have to be your real name, just something I can announce (see #4). The part of your email address before the @ would be perfect.
3) When I get a right answer, I'll update the post to indicate the game is over. However, I only check email maybe a couple of times per day. This raises the question of what happens if you play after someone won but before I updated the post. I suppose that's the chance you take. Also, how do you know the winner is really who I say it is? I suppose that's the chance you take. For Cat's sake, it's supposed to be a fun little game not a land war in Asia.
4) I'll give the answer and how you could have figgered it in a future update. Also the winner's name, if there was a winner.
5) I may elect to end the contest at any time should the thing drag on too long and euthanasia becomes the merciful thing to do. Or maybe it will be the most popular thing since Facebook. Who knows. I have no idea how this is going to play. Will it be Dawn of the Dead zombies slowing shuffling into the mall to gawk at the shiny bobbles? Or will it be Return of the Living Dead zombies swarming Linnea Quigley to gawk at the shiny bobbles? No idea. (Romero. Quigley. LabKitty. Together at last. Now to work Jimmy Page and Sarah Vowell into the mix and my life will be complete.)
Good luck!
UPDATE: After a grueling 370 days, we finally have a winner! LabKitty reader "Javon" guessed (?) the correct answer of "brain."
The glyph comes from the Edwin Smith surgical papyrus (which also graces the frontispiece of Kandel's 100 pound neuroscience textbook) translated by James Breasted in 1930. Among other tales, the papyrus recounts one of the earliest attempts at brain surgery.
You would know this if you are an Egyptologist. You could also have discovered this by poking around the LabKitty Zazzle store, where you can get the glyph printed on a mug, shirt, or other swag. Failing that, Google image search would probably have worked.
Anyway, congratulations to Javon, who will soon be enjoying a free month of XBox live, while you will not. When/what will the next LabKitty contest bring? Who can say. Stay tuned
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