Win your choice of cool hacker headware.
The whitehat "Hacker" hat or the blackhat "Hacker" hat.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/products/zoom/hacker-hat.jpg
($16.99 value - order before midnight tomorrow- your mileage may vary etc.)

Take your pick.

The contest consists of the designing the most elegant way to
rename a group of files as follows.
For an arbitrary number of files in the current directory like:
(yes the final suffix is a constant)

rename them to:

Of course the definition of "elegant" is entirely up to me;
but I'll give you some hints of some of my preferred adjectives:
(note: you don't get brownie points for pointing out that
some of my "adjectives" are "nouns".)

Of course your entry doesn't have to be the most elegant
way EVER to complete the task- only the most elegant
submitted. :)

1) Entries must be received by me by midnight of April 18, 2005 my time.   Send them to monta.glcontest@geekslunch.com with the word "Contest" in the subject line.
2) Appear, or send a representative to exactly the next geeks lunch, to
claim the prize (tentatively April 19th).
3) Multiple submissions allowed.
4) Work in groups if you like but there will only be 1 hat.
5) Earliest submission wins in case of "equally elegant".
6) Anyone can enter; no need to be a "Geeks' Lunch Invitee"; but remember rule 2.