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FlamingCS

So, like many nights, I enjoy a nice *relaxing* (take that with a grain of salt) video game. Lately, I’ve been getting back into FPSes, especially CounterStrike. So when I play online I play on a server of young adults out of Toronto. It’s a pretty friendly server… and tonight I saw a character name that looked familiar…

28.Feb.06 Uncategorized Read more Comments (5)

Torino 2006

It was a record haul - 24 medals, 7 of which were gold. It was unfortunate that the men’s hockey team did not make the finals, but we should not let that overshadow the accomplishments of all of the other athletes sent to Turin. They not only brought home the 3rd most medals of any country, 1 medal short of the COC’s prediction, but also had something like 13 4th place finishes and a few close 5ths and 6ths (I think we had 8 5ths…).

And in 2010, we’re going to do even better.

26.Feb.06 Uncategorized Read more Comment (1)

E-Penny Event

So, a coworker showed me a website earlier today, One Red Paperclip. For those of you who are familiar with the Grebel Penny Event during Frosh week - it’s essentially that, starting with a paperclip, and people trade up from there. This looks to be somewhat a personal weblog as well, but if you click on the pictures along the top bar, you can see the progression of trades.

In other news, the Interweb was down for awhile today at work. Well, the whole network where we are. Which meant I couldn’t do my PHP work on the server. I finally told my coworker I was going to need some cardstock and a holepunch - we’re doing it old school…

24.Feb.06 Uncategorized Read more Comment (1)

Spin

The other night, Robyn and I were watching 24, and a commercial came on for ‘The Apprentice’. One of the candidates, in a very confident manner, said, “I’m in the top 2% for intelligence,” or something to that matter. Now, that’s not bad at all, an IQ of probably around 131-133 (assuming an SD of around 15-16).

What I find funny about this is that my immediate reaction was - “So, every 50th person I find is smarter than you?” Now, there’s 18 competitors, so that would mean that, if competitors for the Apprentice were selected from a truly random sample of people, it would only take 900 people to find 18 people smarter than this guy. Granted, intelligence isn’t everything - wisdom, the ability to use that intelligence effectively, is important - but it’s amazing how such a simple statement could be flipped around so easily…

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