Which city gets me this summer?
Still trying to make a decision. The odds of me being a CS tutor are nearly nil. They hire only co-op students except in certain cases, and I'm not even in the CS faculty anymore, so I doubt I'd have a snowballs chance in hell. I suppose there's still a chance that I could be a Math tutor, but even then I could only get one of the part time positions (which is probably for the better since I want to take courses anyways).
So here's a little story. Nathalie's boyfriend plays online poker (and makes a killing at it, I hear), and won entry to a tournament in the Bahamas or Caribbean or some exotic location. I think there were about 700 players to begin, and by the end of the second day, he was chip leader out of 66 players left. He's currently in second place out of 6. Right now, he's guaranteed to leave with no less than $177,000USD. I think Nathalie will be getting a nice gift for not being able to get time off to go with him on his all expenses paid trip. I don't know the guy, but it's pretty exciting nonetheless.
Also, I heartily welcome Emiko and Nathalie to the world of my weblog. I would be overjoyed if you decided to leave comments on a regular basis.
I didn't get much sleep last night, and no opportunity to doze off this afternoon. Ideally, I'll get to bed early tonight and sleep like a log so I'll be refreshed for my 8:30 class tomorrow.
I have yet another brainchild (is that a word? I don't think it's the word that I'm looking for) that I'll likely never get off the ground. I figure if I stay here in the summer in a vain attempt to lighten up my course loads, I should start up a parlour/card/board gaming club. The university has clubs for wargaming, euchre, bridge, go, and video gaming, but I think there might be some value in having a generic gaming club. Instead of the playing the same game every week, each week would be a unique set of games. Ideally, if 10+ people came, that would result in at least two ~5 player games being played. If you don't want to play one of the games, then play the other, or recruit other people to play something you want to play. Basically, it would be doing what I do about once a week, but on campus and potentially with more people. Of course I'm trying to think of all the problems I could encounter. For one, the $50 funding I would get from feds would only buy me one game, so I'd have to put my own collection up as collateral. I would not want to rely on membership fees, since that would cut back on the number of people who would join, and I'd want as many people to come as possible. I can convince Andrew, Laura, and John to join, even if only out of pity for me, but I'd still want regular attendance of over 10 people.
Well, it's just a thought.
Listening to... Blur - Theme From Retro
Link of the moment... I'm five hours away from winning the series as well as the movie. Reminds me enough of Firefly and Trigun to hope that I enjoy it.
So here's a little story. Nathalie's boyfriend plays online poker (and makes a killing at it, I hear), and won entry to a tournament in the Bahamas or Caribbean or some exotic location. I think there were about 700 players to begin, and by the end of the second day, he was chip leader out of 66 players left. He's currently in second place out of 6. Right now, he's guaranteed to leave with no less than $177,000USD. I think Nathalie will be getting a nice gift for not being able to get time off to go with him on his all expenses paid trip. I don't know the guy, but it's pretty exciting nonetheless.
Also, I heartily welcome Emiko and Nathalie to the world of my weblog. I would be overjoyed if you decided to leave comments on a regular basis.
I didn't get much sleep last night, and no opportunity to doze off this afternoon. Ideally, I'll get to bed early tonight and sleep like a log so I'll be refreshed for my 8:30 class tomorrow.
I have yet another brainchild (is that a word? I don't think it's the word that I'm looking for) that I'll likely never get off the ground. I figure if I stay here in the summer in a vain attempt to lighten up my course loads, I should start up a parlour/card/board gaming club. The university has clubs for wargaming, euchre, bridge, go, and video gaming, but I think there might be some value in having a generic gaming club. Instead of the playing the same game every week, each week would be a unique set of games. Ideally, if 10+ people came, that would result in at least two ~5 player games being played. If you don't want to play one of the games, then play the other, or recruit other people to play something you want to play. Basically, it would be doing what I do about once a week, but on campus and potentially with more people. Of course I'm trying to think of all the problems I could encounter. For one, the $50 funding I would get from feds would only buy me one game, so I'd have to put my own collection up as collateral. I would not want to rely on membership fees, since that would cut back on the number of people who would join, and I'd want as many people to come as possible. I can convince Andrew, Laura, and John to join, even if only out of pity for me, but I'd still want regular attendance of over 10 people.
Well, it's just a thought.
Listening to... Blur - Theme From Retro
Link of the moment... I'm five hours away from winning the series as well as the movie. Reminds me enough of Firefly and Trigun to hope that I enjoy it.
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Unrelated to anything, but go to the design symposium on in DC on Jan 18th, and look for Group 21 - "iInteract", and if you want to meet me, I'll be the one with the "Paul Gvildys" name tag :)
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Anonymous, at 1/09/2006 10:13 PM
A comment on the club thing: What you could do is front your own games for a bit, but $50 per term gets the club one more game each term :D Plus there's the parlour games and card games, etc, etc, which often don't cost that much.
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Anonymous, at 1/11/2006 4:29 PM
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