Saturday So Far

[dreamshark]

Got up at 8, made myself buckwheat pancakes on the fine griddle on the new stove, warmed up the car for a surprisingly insufficient 10 minutes, and scooted off to ice skating class. I wasn't feeling too competent during the class itself - stiffness in the hips from some exercises yesterday encumbered me a bit. There's a place to practice after class which I usually take advantage of for about half an hour. After 20 minutes or so I finally started to loosen up enough to feel comfortable skating backwards, which felt so good that I kept going for an extra 15 minutes. That's a total of 1 hour 15 minutes of skating, the longest I've ever skated at once.

I've spent the rest of the day working towards installing the ass-kicking new 7.1 channel computer speaker set I bought from a work colleage on Friday. I haven't actually plugged it in yet - I've been cleaning the office to make room for the massive subwoofer.

Now I have to stop and get ready for the Office Christmas Party. I'm not really excited about this, but it's always a good idea to attend events that your employer has spent a lot of money on. If nothing else, it's a free meal. This one could be more fun than the usual office holiday party because of the gaming theme. They're setting up some kind of portable casino in one of the function rooms at the Sofitel, and issuing play money and raffle tickets. This is the only way you can get engineers to gamble, of course. We're way too rational to throw away our OWN money on games that we are mathematically certain to lose at.

Comments

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

This is the only way you can get engineers to gamble, of course.

If you will concede that poker is a game of skill....

[dreamshark.livejournal.com]

Well, I'll concede that there is enough skill involved in poker that engineers can play that game without considering themselves to be gambling.

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Which was what I meant (plus it's a quote from Glory Road).

Clearly there's a lot of luck involved. If people with infinite bankrolls played poker infinitely long, the best one would be ahead most of the time I think. Real games are rarely played on those terms.

(For me, it's definitely gambling, and I don't do it.)