Time: ???
What: Photo Scavenger Hunt Begins
Where: B-Town
Arguably the most famous of HOBO Events, we all know what this is about. A list of puerile and irresponsible items/acts is in the works. The final list will be held in an underground vault until the day of the 29th.

The life of a HOBO is a mysterious, frightening, and some might say, sad existence. HOBOs have proven themselves adept at thriving in many different environments, and indeed have proliferated throughout a multitude of locations. This ability to adapt to their surroundings, does not change the fact that there are some behaviors that are common to all HOBOs. While the many intricacies of the HOBO lifestyle are beyond the scope of this article, I would like to point out an aspect of HOBO psyche that some may find surprising: The HOBO love of numbers.

You see, in the HOBO vernacular, to “look at numbers” means to play fantasy sports. The common HOBO spends much of his time absorbed in analyzing and crunching fantasy sports statistics. If you were to engage a HOBO on the topic of fantasy sports, you would be assured of several hours of heated exchange. While some HOBOs take this more seriously than others, fantasy sports nonetheless ranks in the top three favorite topics of conversation for any HOBO.

In an effort to appeal to these HOBOs, I have compiled some statistics from the most intimate perspective currently available on the day-to-day life of a HOBO: The HOBO picture collection. Here are the totals on a variety of topics compiled from the collection:

HOBO Salutes: 159
HOBOs wearing hats: 544
Kegs: 10
HOBOs holding beers: 401
Video Games: 6
HOBOs wearing glasses: 147
HOBOs sporting mustaches: 62
Quigleys: 27
Norm: 7
HOBO Parents: 21
Peace signs: 13
Hang Loose: 5
Thumbs up: 52
Flip Off: 4
Metal: 9
West Sides: 3
Arms Wide Open: 13
High Fives: 7
Thumbs Down: 17
Hand-to-chin: 18
Gregas Flex: 11

So what have we learned from these stats? HOBOs like to wear hats, drink beer, and grow mustaches. Not exactly new or surprising information, but it will serve as a baseline for future observations of the bizarre and elusive HOBO.

BONUS QUESTION: According to my counts, Jizzy the Peach appears in 155 pictures. In how many of those pictures is Zero NOT wearing a hat?

Closest guess wins a surprise.

Behold, a HOBO Tribute brought to you by my ever-scheming apprentice, Justin "Vizzle" Bravatto. My boy put some of the all time great HOBO photos together in a slideshow and put it to music. He then put it up on his MySpace page. This video will continue to be found in the Video section of the site along with the Poker Run Video. Enjoy.

Get those photos ready, it's time to submit them for judging. We all know that the Black Team is going to dominate just like they did all 4th of July, but we have to tally up the points to see how bad of a Black victory it was.

If you need to look at a copy of the Scavenger Hunt list you can download it in PDF Form. -->Download List Here<--

So here's what you have to do:

1. Resize your pictures to 1024x768 resolution or at least close. If they are smaller than that coming off of your camera just leave them how they are.

2. Email me at showstoppa [at] hoboswalk [dot] com or IM me (AIM - Dusty50F, MSN - mopp50[at]hotmail[dot]com, Yahoo - dustmopp) for the password to the Flickr account.

3. Point your browsers over to www.flickr.com and log in with a Yahoo account as hoboswalk and use the password which I gave you.

4. Click "Upload Photos" to upload or go to Tools and download the Flickr Uploadr to upload alot at once.

5. When you are uploading put some Tags in for the images. Put "HOBO", "hoboswalk", "fourth2006", and your name or nickname, and any other descriptive Tags that you would like.

6. After uploading make sure to put in titles and descriptions for all of your photos. Be creative. In the description also add your name. If you look at mine I have it say "-by Showstoppa". If it's for the photo scavenger hunt put add that in there like this "+Rocko".

7. Go to "Organize" and "Your Sets" and click "Create New Set" on the top right hand side. Title it your name or nickname. Add all of your photos to this set. You can control-click to select multiple photos to move.

8. Add every photo for the scavenger hunt to either the "Black Team" or "Red Team" Set. Add any miscellaneous photos not for the Scavenger Hunt to the "Misc. 4th Folder" set. You can control-click the photos to select multiple ones to move.

Please add any HOBO related or fun photo from the 4th that you took. Also, make sure you add all photos that were taken for the scavenger hunt to the team folder even if one of that item is already in there. Me and Gregas will sort them out later. That should be it. Just contact me if you have any questions or if you can't get them in sets or something. I should be able to work it out for you.

If you aren't uploading and just want to see our crazy photos make sure you check them out at www.flickr.com/photos/hoboswalk or click the Photos link on the menu above.

I've posted some rules for the Photo Scavenger Hunt in the HOBOpedia. They're kinda hard to come up with so if you guys can please take a look at them I would appreciate it. If you can think of some more rules or if you think something needs to be clarified, then go ahead and edit it. You can find it here

Keep on a lookout for the official Scavenger Hunt List. I will posting a PDF of it on Friday morning.

Torso