Posted in Photo, Tim Hortons on Mar 27th, 2008
Three hard days of work (or at least a few hours for curing and an bit more for slicing), and I made some very salty but still good gravlax! And one winner coffee today! Right on average! Latest Statistics: Record: 4 – 35 Spent: $62.01 Won: $8.93 Probability: 20.32% [RUTR 2008 Progress]
Posted in Photo, Tim Hortons on Mar 23rd, 2008
Went to Kicking Horse this weekend to go skiing (those are some pretty aggressive hills), and came home and finally set up my computer on my TV properly! What a productive weekend! Latest Statistics (Updated 3/23/2008): Record: 3 – 30 Spent: $52.47 Won: $6.44 Probability: 21.86% [RUTR 2008 Progress]
Posted in Photo, Tim Hortons on Mar 19th, 2008
Whoa, I got excited and ripped off my winning tab prematurely… Latest Statistics: Record: 3 – 28 Spent: $49.29 Won: $6.44 Probability: 22.79% [RUTR 2008 Progress]
Posted in Photo, Tim Hortons on Mar 18th, 2008
Once in awhile, there will be a flavour of chips that comes along that I simply can’t get enough of and become hopelessly attached to – when I was young, it was the Ruffles Sour Cream and Bacon chips. Sometime in the middle it was the Cajun Old Dutch chips. Today, its the President’s Choice [...]
Posted in Photo, Tim Hortons on Mar 14th, 2008
One up with the elusive food prize! Back to the average we go! I always like the newer Timmie’s employees – while they’re a bit less efficient, they’re infinitely nicer than those that have been there for many years, and always seem rather jaded about the world. Latest Statistics (Updated 3/14/2008): Record: 2 – 22 [...]
Posted in Photo, Tim Hortons on Mar 10th, 2008
Chinese computer accessories are so versatile. Take this pig for example – it looks absolutely stylish on your desk, but when your computer screen needs a good wiping, just wipe the bum of the pig on your screen. Its great. Thanks Evonne! Latest Statistics: Record: 1 – 18 Spent: $30.21 Won: $2.49 Probability: 25.34% [RUTR [...]
Posted in Photo, Tim Hortons on Mar 6th, 2008
Ugh, I caught a bug thats currently killing my throat – I missed a day of buying timmies, potentially missing a Matrix and winnings for life. Sigh. But so it continues. Currently reading It’s Your Ship – good book on leadership. Latest Statistics: Record: 1 – 14 Spent: $23.85 Won: $2.49 Probability: 32.04% [RUTR 2008 [...]
Posted in Photo, Tim Hortons on Mar 2nd, 2008
Its a shame that Caffe Artigiano opened up at the same time RUTR was about to start… Its hard to split my income between a losing contest and great coffee. Latest Statistics: Record: 1 – 9 Spent: $15.90 Won: $2.49 Probability: 38.49% [RUTR 2008 Progress]
Posted in Tim Hortons on Feb 28th, 2008
I was having problems conveying whether or not my current performance is better than the “theoretical” average someone could get on this contest, since it depended heavily on the viewer understanding how the curve worked. However, it needed to convey how the probabilities were derived, because they are so cool. I changed the graph to [...]
Posted in Photo, Tim Hortons on Feb 28th, 2008
The blotch inside the bowl is supposed to be Korean Seafood pancake, that somehow disintegrated into a few chucks of… fried patty. Also went glasses shopping today – I have been vetoed from choosing glasses that will make me look like an Chinese-drama-show CEO, who is always evil, has slanty eyes and a thin unibrow, [...]