The beaver is a proud and noble animal
Notes from a bemused canuck
This quote comes from a CV submitted for a rather high-ranking position. It features prominently at the top of the first page, generally where people put the really high-impact, important stuff:
– In-depth ability to walk over rough, uneven, or rocky surfaces.
This, of course, is essential for a desk job.
Based on Derren Brown’s magical formula to win on the lottery, I hacked together a little bit of code to try and win the upcoming EuroMillion draw (yes, I know I’m sad).
The code generates random tickets with 5 unique numbers between 1 and 50 and 2 potentially non-unique numbers between 1 and 9. For example:
Ticket{numbers=[1, 14, 17, 21, 28], stars=[5, 2]}
Ticket{numbers=[2, 6, 8, 25, 43], stars=[1, 2]}
Ticket{numbers=[12, 23, 30, 36, 41], stars=[5, 4]}
Ticket{numbers=[8, 19, 28, 37, 41], stars=[5, 9]}
Ticket{numbers=[6, 20, 22, 28, 30], stars=[5, 6]}
Ticket{numbers=[2, 3, 33, 36, 40], stars=[9, 2]}
Ticket{numbers=[20, 26, 30, 39, 50], stars=[6, 5]}
Ticket{numbers=[11, 13, 22, 30, 38], stars=[3, 6]}
Ticket{numbers=[10, 14, 17, 45, 47], stars=[8, 7]}
You’ll notice that the numbers are sorted in increasing order, except for the stars. If you then take the average of the numbers at each position, you’ll get the “winning” number, or so the magic goes.
The interesting bit though, which I’m curious about, is that if you generate more than 100 or so tickets in one go, the average is always the same. Why is this, and does it make sense?
My staff association meeting this morning had moments where it was less than productive. In these moments, Victor was born.
Admit it, he kicks ass.
Videos of the BenBen
The Bobble Dance
Bananacat
You bought a fan?
Yes mother, it’s in the box over there.
Is that a fan? (pointing to box)
No mother, it’s a sausage.
I’m happy Diversity won, but at the same time, I think that it’s a shame and a farce that Stavros Flatley didn’t even place!
Quote of the moment: You’ve got to have some Greek in you somewhere. No one is that cool who isn’t a big Greek.
The dance act is quite cool though, so they’re going to wow the Queen :)
Synopsis of phone conversation:
Them: You did a shit job, but we’ll give you your deposit anyway.
Me: Um, thanks?
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?!?
going to bed now. it took two hours to get the wi-fi up and running. this is much more time than it should have required. must give props to a really helpful scottish lass on tech support who was actually a) knowledgeable b) helpful and c) a pleasure to deal with. i told her all of this. kudos must be given when warranted.
That danged mouse managed to escape. Again! Katy and I were talking about releasing her back into the wild because we’re not really interacting with her as a pet and the situation is only going to get more hectic in the coming weeks. So, last night, I took her aquarium down from the shelf where it’s been for the past few days and – after much poking around in the sawdust and some head scratching – we realized that she’d buggered off! She managed to gnaw a hole in the aquarium lid and high-tailed it out of there. She’s probably hiding somewhere in the house. That’s it though. She’ll have to take her chances with the pussycats (big lumps that they are).
But still, you have to give it to the rodent. She did not want to be kept :)
She caught our wayward mouse. Again :)
Pickle is now safely back in her aquarium. Impressively, she’d been hiding under a chair in our living room for the past 3 days.