Durham Team Games
So we went to Durham yesterday (or the day before yesterday? yes, the day before yesterday) in order to take part in some team games (you know, bonding exercises and that kind of crap). I'll just say it went well... my team didn't win anything but we had loads of fun (which is probably why we didn't win anything).
There was an exercise where we were given a flag--we had to identify it and draw two pictures that represented that country and give a two minute mini-presentation on interesting facts. Yeah... none of us knew anything about Ireland. At the end we just made up stuff about Ireland and gave the presentation with those bogus facts. Here are some of them:
-Capital is Dublin and it's the biggest city in the world... because it keeps dublin' and dublin'.
-People in Ireland aren't called "Irelanders", they're called "Irish" and you can identify them as either bums or bartenders.
-Grass is a myth. There's no grass in Ireland, they've just got three leaf clovers.
-While Britain spends loads of dough making tap water clean so it's drinkable, the Irish use a much cheaper techinique: fertilization; they don't have running water in Ireland, you see, they've got Guinness. It is estimated that Irishmen spend at least 3 hours per day changing the barrells (especially while bathing).
Of course, the last part of that presentation was our apology to all Irishmen present.
So well, we got our Software Engineering Project specifications today. Basically, we're creating a F1 like system that tracks runners and then uses a ghost runner to improve/compare times. Great stuff. As it is, Durham get the easiest part which is the database part (yeah, it's a joint project... Newcastle Uni and Durham Uni) while we have do deal with the... well, not as easy stuff. And they say they're the better uni... I bet that's why they can't get their systems to work and we have to wait.
In other news, I saw a bloke on the Metro with bright orange shoes. The kind that's almost neon and burns your eyes if you look at them for more than three seconds. Now, who would get shoes like those? And, what would you match them with?
- "better uni" but systems don't work
There was an exercise where we were given a flag--we had to identify it and draw two pictures that represented that country and give a two minute mini-presentation on interesting facts. Yeah... none of us knew anything about Ireland. At the end we just made up stuff about Ireland and gave the presentation with those bogus facts. Here are some of them:
-Capital is Dublin and it's the biggest city in the world... because it keeps dublin' and dublin'.
-People in Ireland aren't called "Irelanders", they're called "Irish" and you can identify them as either bums or bartenders.
-Grass is a myth. There's no grass in Ireland, they've just got three leaf clovers.
-While Britain spends loads of dough making tap water clean so it's drinkable, the Irish use a much cheaper techinique: fertilization; they don't have running water in Ireland, you see, they've got Guinness. It is estimated that Irishmen spend at least 3 hours per day changing the barrells (especially while bathing).
Of course, the last part of that presentation was our apology to all Irishmen present.
So well, we got our Software Engineering Project specifications today. Basically, we're creating a F1 like system that tracks runners and then uses a ghost runner to improve/compare times. Great stuff. As it is, Durham get the easiest part which is the database part (yeah, it's a joint project... Newcastle Uni and Durham Uni) while we have do deal with the... well, not as easy stuff. And they say they're the better uni... I bet that's why they can't get their systems to work and we have to wait.
In other news, I saw a bloke on the Metro with bright orange shoes. The kind that's almost neon and burns your eyes if you look at them for more than three seconds. Now, who would get shoes like those? And, what would you match them with?
- "better uni" but systems don't work
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