Slashdot Asks: What Are You Doing For Hallowe'en? 273
Hallowe'en is my favorite holiday: I like seeing costumes (and walking around in my own), and seeing what people do to decorate their houses, yards, etc. For the second year in a row though, I've failed to come up with a really good scheme for making my own place appropriately spooky. So, in hopes of loosing some inspiration for myself and others, I ask today what you're doing to spookify your surroundings (or your person) tomorrow, especially if it means using technology in interesting ways. Sensor-activated scary sounds or lights? An Arduino or Raspberry Pi-controlled costume? Elaborate trap-door? Infrasonic hackle-raising subwoofer install? Maybe one year Alek Komarnitsky will switch to Hallowe'en instead of Christmas, and offer a webcam-equipped remote-controllable haunt.
Dressing up... (Score:5, Funny)
and hitting on girls a decade young than me in short skirts.
The same thing I do every night (Score:5, Funny)
Try to take over the world
Hiding in the Shadows of my Porch... (Score:5, Funny)
and when little kids walk up, I'll leap out in my Conan the Mathematician costume and roar out the skull-splitting multiplication rules for Quaternions.
I carry. (Score:5, Funny)
I walk around with an (unloaded) pistol on my hip.
Scaring little kids is easy, I go for scaring the adults.
Down Under... (Score:5, Funny)
Get off my lawn. Clean up those eggs and toilet rolls.
What am I going to do for Halloween? (Score:5, Funny)
Unless some dinky laboratory mice with modified DNA beat me to it. Poit!
Thanks for the reminder! (Score:1, Funny)
Have to run out to buy some apples and razor blades!
Re:A fine evening (Score:4, Funny)
I never use an apostrophe, I always use thepostrophe
Re:Dressing up... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I carry. (Score:5, Funny)
Scaring little kids is easy, I go for scaring the adults.
One year we lugged around a rubber boat, dressed up like Greenpeace activists, threw the boat on a front lawn, jumped in, and staged a naval assault on the "Greenhouse that was destroying the ozone hole." Instead of ringing the doorbell, we peppered the windows with a hail of fire from airsoft electric machine guns, while yelling, "Nuke the Whales!", and other assorted non-sequitur nonsense.
It didn't scare any adults, but they would come out of the house with a priceless confused look on their faces, like, "What the flying fuck is going on here?!" and "What in God's Hell is this supposed to be!?"
The truth was . . . we didn't really know either.
Re:Snore (Score:4, Funny)
Halloween has been saved. Allow me to introduce you to Slutoween [imgur.com]...
Re:What am I doing on "halloween" ? (Score:5, Funny)
it was HORRIBLE. the sooner people stop making excuses to have fun, the better. goddamn halloween
Re:Spellchecker (Score:4, Funny)
Is it ten o'clock yet? I can't wait until it's ten o'clock. Do you know why? I bet you don't. I just like ten o'clock. Especially when it's in the morning because I can say "top o' the mornin' to ya" and sound bright and cheery.
And look at all the apostrophes I get to use! It's almost like apostrophes can do anything. They're magical and mystical and wonderful. Got to love apostrophes.
Re:Dressing up... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I carry. (Score:5, Funny)
He leaves it unloaded to scare the NRA members.