| Author | Message | ||
| Arek_fu (Arek_fu)
New member Username: Arek_fu Post Number: 624 Registered: 12-2007 |
Why did my employer buy a lot of household appliances? | ||
| Doctapeppa (Doctapeppa)
New member Username: Doctapeppa Post Number: 1847 Registered: 12-2004 |
Because science is cool? Refrigerators or freezers relevant? | ||
| Arek_fu (Arek_fu)
New member Username: Arek_fu Post Number: 626 Registered: 12-2007 |
Because science is cool? No. Refrigerators or freezers relevant? Freezers are. | ||
| Doctapeppa (Doctapeppa)
New member Username: Doctapeppa Post Number: 1849 Registered: 12-2004 |
Did your employer buy a lot of freezers? A lot of non-freezer appliances? Neither? Both? Either/or? Neither/nor? Does science rule? Is your employer Bill Nye the Science Guy? | ||
| Arek_fu (Arek_fu)
New member Username: Arek_fu Post Number: 627 Registered: 12-2007 |
Did your employer buy a lot of freezers? Yes. A lot of non-freezer appliances? No. Neither? Both? Either/or? Neither/nor? Only freezers. Does science rule? I wish. Is your employer Bill Nye the Science Guy? Unfortunately not. | ||
| Crazypalpig (Crazypalpig)
New member Username: Crazypalpig Post Number: 2298 Registered: 8-2006 |
Is your job... [Insert list of LTPF jobs which I am currently unable to find...]? Is the employer of same criteria as before? Relevant? | ||
| Bolapara (Bolapara)
New member Username: Bolapara Post Number: 119 Registered: 12-2008 |
Was your employer purchasing the freezers from the distributor and selling them to the customer? | ||
| Doctapeppa (Doctapeppa)
New member Username: Doctapeppa Post Number: 1855 Registered: 12-2004 |
We can use his own posts against him!
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| Arek_fu (Arek_fu)
New member Username: Arek_fu Post Number: 628 Registered: 12-2007 |
Crazypalpig: Is your job... [Insert list of LTPF jobs which I am currently unable to find...]? Help is at hand, see below. Is the employer of same criteria as before? Huh? Please rephrase. Relevant? Bolapara: Was your employer purchasing the freezers from the distributor and selling them to the customer? No. Doctapeppa: Education / Academic Research ? This one... Technical / Science / Engineering ? ...and this one. | ||
| Crazypalpig (Crazypalpig)
New member Username: Crazypalpig Post Number: 2299 Registered: 8-2006 |
And your employer is of the same job, correct? Was he a scientist/science teacher? Relevant what type? | ||
| Brid (Brid)
New member Username: Brid Post Number: 723 Registered: 11-2003 |
Did your employer buy the freezers in order to use them in his job? or for his employees to use in their job? | ||
| Arek_fu (Arek_fu)
New member Username: Arek_fu Post Number: 629 Registered: 12-2007 |
Crazypalpig: And your employer is of the same job, correct? The field is the same, yes. Was he a scientist/science teacher? No and FA, I would say. Relevant what type? Brid: Did your employer buy the freezers in order to use them in his job? or for his employees to use in their job? This, but I sense the same FA lurking. | ||
| Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo)
New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 656 Registered: 5-2003 |
Was he conducting an experiment? Were you? Are you engineers? Are you using the freezers to keep something cold, or for some other purpose? | ||
| Doctapeppa (Doctapeppa)
New member Username: Doctapeppa Post Number: 1860 Registered: 12-2004 |
Is your employer an individual? A corporation? An organization? SOME SORT OF GOVERNMENT?! I wasn't expecting some sort of papal extension! | ||
| Arek_fu (Arek_fu)
New member Username: Arek_fu Post Number: 630 Registered: 12-2007 |
Jenburdoo: Was he conducting an experiment? Were you? No to both. Are you engineers? How dare you! I'm a physicist ;-) Are you using the freezers to keep something cold, Yes, but I'm not using them. or for some other purpose? So no. Doctapeppa: Is your employer an individual? A corporation? An organization? SOME SORT OF GOVERNMENT?! A university. I wasn't expecting some sort of papal extension! Nobody expects the papal extension! | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 345 Registered: 6-2008 |
Are the freezers for use in a lab? in a conference room or office? Are they meant to be used "as is", i.e. by putting something inside of them? Or are they going to be disassembled and the compressor/tubing bent around something else to keep it cool? (I've known some people who made water cooling systems for their CPUs as a kind of geeky accessory--though I don't know of anyone using freezer/fridge parts for something like that) | ||
| Arek_fu (Arek_fu)
New member Username: Arek_fu Post Number: 633 Registered: 12-2007 |
Are the freezers for use in a lab? in a conference room or office? Neither. Are they meant to be used "as is", i.e. by putting something inside of them? Yes. Or are they going to be disassembled and the compressor/tubing bent around something else to keep it cool? So no. | ||
| Doctapeppa (Doctapeppa)
New member Username: Doctapeppa Post Number: 1908 Registered: 12-2004 |
Did the University have a lot of frozen pizzas it wanted to keep? | ||
| Arek_fu (Arek_fu)
New member Username: Arek_fu Post Number: 634 Registered: 12-2007 |
Did the University have a lot of frozen pizzas it wanted to keep? No. | ||
| Hietek (Hietek)
New member Username: Hietek Post Number: 12 Registered: 2-2009 |
Could your employer have bought ovens instead? storage lockers? Is food involvement? Preserving something over a long period of time? Keeping water cool? | ||
| Arek_fu (Arek_fu)
New member Username: Arek_fu Post Number: 635 Registered: 12-2007 |
Could your employer have bought ovens instead? No. storage lockers? Neither. Is food involvement? No. Preserving something over a long period of time? Yes. Keeping water cool? Yope. | ||
| Doctapeppa (Doctapeppa)
New member Username: Doctapeppa Post Number: 1926 Registered: 12-2004 |
Is ice relevant? | ||
| Arek_fu (Arek_fu)
New member Username: Arek_fu Post Number: 641 Registered: 12-2007 |
Is ice relevant? Yes-ish. | ||
| Bolapara (Bolapara)
New member Username: Bolapara Post Number: 167 Registered: 12-2008 |
cool mist? dry ice? | ||
| Arek_fu (Arek_fu)
New member Username: Arek_fu Post Number: 645 Registered: 12-2007 |
cool mist? dry ice? No to both. | ||
| Doctapeppa (Doctapeppa)
New member Username: Doctapeppa Post Number: 1936 Registered: 12-2004 |
Is the University planning on using the freezers? | ||
| Bolapara (Bolapara)
New member Username: Bolapara Post Number: 173 Registered: 12-2008 |
cryptogenics? | ||
| Arek_fu (Arek_fu)
New member Username: Arek_fu Post Number: 647 Registered: 12-2007 |
Doctapeppa: Is the University planning on using the freezers? Yes. Bolapara: cryptogenics? No. | ||
| Doctapeppa (Doctapeppa)
New member Username: Doctapeppa Post Number: 1945 Registered: 12-2004 |
Does the university plan on keeping ice in the freezers? | ||
| Arek_fu (Arek_fu)
New member Username: Arek_fu Post Number: 651 Registered: 12-2007 |
Does the university plan on keeping ice in the freezers? Hmmm, tough one. I think the least misleading answer I can give is "No-ish". | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 347 Registered: 6-2008 |
So will the university use the freezers to keep a solid form of another chemical compound (than water) that is a liquid (or gas) at room temperature? Or, will the thing kept in the freezers be a material, for example a biological specimen, that contains water (and therefore there will be some ice in the freezer, though not as we would usually think)? | ||
| Arek_fu (Arek_fu)
New member Username: Arek_fu Post Number: 652 Registered: 12-2007 |
So will the university use the freezers to keep a solid form of another chemical compound (than water) that is a liquid (or gas) at room temperature? No, wrong track. Or, will the thing kept in the freezers be a material, for example a biological specimen, that contains water (and therefore there will be some ice in the freezer, though not as we would usually think)? Yes, this is what I meant with my "No-ish" above. | ||
| Kaygee (Kaygee)
New member Username: Kaygee Post Number: 241 Registered: 9-2008 |
Were the freezers purchased to benefit the entire university? or just the science department? Is there a new university policy that dictates storing something in freezers? Or a new science department initiative that requires storing something in freezers? | ||
| Arek_fu (Arek_fu)
New member Username: Arek_fu Post Number: 654 Registered: 12-2007 |
Were the freezers purchased to benefit the entire university? or just the science department? This one, but not very relevant. Is there a new university policy that dictates storing something in freezers? Or a new science department initiative that requires storing something in freezers? No to both. | ||
| Arek_fu (Arek_fu)
New member Username: Arek_fu Post Number: 669 Registered: 12-2007 |
***** RECAP ***** The university I work at has recently bought a large number of freezers. The freezers are used to store something containing water over a long period of time, but they are not in a lab, a conference room or an office. Why did the university buy them? | ||
| Gourami (Gourami)
Moderator Username: Gourami Post Number: 124 Registered: 10-2008 |
Are they all storing the same thing? If so, is each thing the size of a freezer? Are there many things in each refrigerator? Or are all the freezers storing one thing in parts? Are they storing a living organism? A dead organism? Part(s) of a dead organism? Something edible? | ||
| Arek_fu (Arek_fu)
New member Username: Arek_fu Post Number: 684 Registered: 12-2007 |
Are they all storing the same thing? Yes. If so, is each thing the size of a freezer? No. Are there many things in each refrigerator? Yes. Or are all the freezers storing one thing in parts? So no. Are they storing a living organism? No. A dead organism? No. Part(s) of a dead organism? No-ish. Something edible? No. | ||
| Gourami (Gourami)
Moderator Username: Gourami Post Number: 127 Registered: 10-2008 |
Are they storing something made of paper? Of wood? Something that might once have had organisms on it/in it? Did the university have the things before they got the freezers? Do the things need to be frozen to remain intact? Does freezing them change something about them? Will they pull some or all of the things out at any time during storage? Will the things be used for a practical purpose? | ||
| Arek_fu (Arek_fu)
New member Username: Arek_fu Post Number: 686 Registered: 12-2007 |
Are they storing something made of paper? Yes. Of wood? No. Something that might once have had organisms on it/in it? Yes, but that's not the first thing I think about when I see one. Did the university have the things before they got the freezers? Yes. Do the things need to be frozen to remain intact? Yes! Does freezing them change something about them? Apart from freezing them? No-ish. Will they pull some or all of the things out at any time during storage? Yes. Will the things be used for a practical purpose? Eventually. Excellent round of questions, Gourami! | ||
| Gourami (Gourami)
Moderator Username: Gourami Post Number: 136 Registered: 10-2008 |
Thank you! Excellent puzzle so far. So...are they freezing books? Other documents? Fine art? Origami? Does freezing paper prevent it from rotting? Is ink on the paper relevant? | ||
| Arek_fu (Arek_fu)
New member Username: Arek_fu Post Number: 687 Registered: 12-2007 |
So...are they freezing books? This. Other documents? Fine art? Origami? Does freezing paper prevent it from rotting? Yes! Is ink on the paper relevant? But no. | ||
| Gourami (Gourami)
Moderator Username: Gourami Post Number: 156 Registered: 10-2008 |
Wait...does freezing any paper preserve it (I'd never heard that)? Or just these particular books? Relevant to find out what books they are? Or what era they're from? Had the university recently acquired them? | ||
| Arek_fu (Arek_fu)
New member Username: Arek_fu Post Number: 689 Registered: 12-2007 |
Wait...does freezing any paper preserve it (I'd never heard that)? Honestly, I don't know. Or just these particular books? Yes. Relevant to find out what books they are? No. Or what era they're from? No. Had the university recently acquired them? No. | ||
| Kalira (Kalira)
New member Username: Kalira Post Number: 55 Registered: 2-2009 |
Is it relevant what material the books are made of? Paper? Parchment? Papyrus? Cotton? other cloth-like material? | ||
| Arek_fu (Arek_fu)
New member Username: Arek_fu Post Number: 691 Registered: 12-2007 |
Is it relevant what material the books are made of? Yes-ish but it will not lead you very far. Paper? This is relevant, the rest is not. Parchment? Papyrus? Cotton? other cloth-like material? | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 363 Registered: 6-2008 |
So we already have that the freezers would be used by a university to preserve the paper in books. Which of the following (if any) is the relevant information we're still missing? That these particular books are especially prone to disintegration, and why? That these books are to be kept for an unusually long period of time, and why? That something about the environment of this university accelerates the process of paper decomposing? There is some special reason that, in this instance, freezing is a better preservation method than some other way? | ||
| Arek_fu (Arek_fu)
New member Username: Arek_fu Post Number: 706 Registered: 12-2007 |
So we already have that the freezers would be used by a university to preserve the paper in books. Correct. Which of the following (if any) is the relevant information we're still missing? That these particular books are especially prone to disintegration, and why? Yes. That these books are to be kept for an unusually long period of time, and why? Yes-ish. That something about the environment of this university accelerates the process of paper decomposing? No-ish. There is some special reason that, in this instance, freezing is a better preservation method than some other way? Yes. | ||
| Noobdogg (Noobdogg)
Moderator Username: Noobdogg Post Number: 33 Registered: 3-2009 |
Were the books wet? Are book lice/worms or mold/fungii relevant? | ||
| Arek_fu (Arek_fu)
New member Username: Arek_fu Post Number: 707 Registered: 12-2007 |
Were the books wet? Yes. Are book lice/worms or mold/fungii relevant? Yes. Enough for a ******* SPOILER ******* Heavy rains flooded the university library last autumn. Rescuing all the books at the same time proved impossible, so the university decided to freeze the books to prevent growth of fungi, mould and whatnot. As soon as they find out how to treat them, they will take them out a few at a time and slowly replenish the library. True story, BTW. Thank you all for playing. | ||
| Noobdogg (Noobdogg)
Moderator Username: Noobdogg Post Number: 37 Registered: 3-2009 |
Thanks for the great puzzle! | ||
| Gourami (Gourami)
Moderator Username: Gourami Post Number: 167 Registered: 10-2008 |
Nice one. I have a funny image of some poor undergrad who needs that biography of Napoleon right now, looking through freezer after freezer. | ||
| Arek_fu (Arek_fu)
New member Username: Arek_fu Post Number: 721 Registered: 12-2007 |
Thanks. <shameless_commercial> Why don't you guys have a look at my two other running puzzles? I posted recaps for both of them not too long ago. </shameless_commercial> |
