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Side Quest 8: Future NFL Punter

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For the first hometask, I chose to kick a crumbled up piece of paper into my garbage bin. One of the hardest things to do in American football is punt a football down the field because of the ball’s rotation and unique shape. A crumbled up piece of paper has no clear shape and is rough around the edges, so I figured I would try and test my skills at punting a piece of paper. I stood at the top of my stairs, dropped the piece of paper, and hit it against the wall and into my garbage bin. This throw / kick was spectacular because I had to drop the paper on a certain part of my foot to ensure it would go in the correct direction. I also had to put just enough power into the kick to make sure it ended up in the bin. This task turned out to be much more challenging than I imagined, but I did not mind it because I don’t have much else to do these days.

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Side Quest 9/#hometasking 2

Side Quests

Due: 3/30

Tag: sq9

Let’s stick with TaskMaster for our Side Quest 9/second #hometasking task, even though our due date is a little later:

Feel free to check out some of the examples on Twitter: #hometasking 2
Also, I’ll have a poll posted where you can vote on the most spectacular examples of throwing a paper into a bin before this task is due. Make sure you vote over the weekend!

Edited to add: Don’t just drop a link to the video. Embed it!

Side Quest 8/Hometasking 1

Side Quests

Due: 3/27

Tag: sq8

Now that we’re all social distancing and trapped in our homes, we’ve decided that as a community we’re going to follow along with the Taskmaster #hometasking tasks as side quests.

Your task for this sidequest is to throw a piece of paper into a bin. Most spectacular throw wins.

Post a video or gif to your website, no longer than 1 minute. Write a brief paragraph about why your throw is spectacular. Please make a special point to comment on your peers’ throws as well. On Saturday, I’ll publish a poll to vote on which was the most spectacular throw.

 

#homestasking

David's Posts

Earlier this semester, in my household we started watching the British tv show Taskmaster (via YouTube). It's a silly show where each season a group of comedians performs a series of ridiculous tasks in the pursuit of pointless prizes, overseen by the Task Master Greg Davies and his assistant Alex Horne.

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This video clip of one of the most popular tasks from the series gives you a pretty good sense of how the show works: the five contestants receive their tasks, have a bit of time to plan and execute the tasks, then the Task Master awards points based on whatever esoteric and quirky principles he decides to apply.

On Sunday, Alex Horne took to Twitter to announce that they'd be starting an at-home version of Taskmaster for people to play during these times of quarantine and social distancing called #hometasking:

Then yesterday, he announced hometasking no.1:

Throw a piece of paper into a bin. Most spectacular throw wins. The deadline for completing this first task ends about the time we'll be finishing up class today.

Check out some of the submissions from people all over the place to this seemingly very simple task by going through the #hometasking hashtag on Twitter.

 

3/25/2020 Edited to add:

Watch the video below to see a compilation of some of the best responses, with the top ten winners at the end.

#hometasking no. 1 Results

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