OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

Poker Mondegreen

When I was a kid, I would watch my father, Joe, play poker with his mates. Sometimes, he would bluff with a terrible hand. Sometimes, his bluff would be called.

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Over-experienced

Apparently, I used C# well before the iPhone.

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Pseudo-Reduplication in Australian Place Names

How many Australian locations have repeated names, like Wagga Wagga, Woy Woy and Curl Curl?

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Doing What You Can

A random memory from when I was a kid on holidays in Murray Bridge just occurred to me. I was listening to a local radio station that was running a promotion with a baby food manufacturer. They called their listeners at random, and if they could read off the serial number from a can of […]

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Could fewer people attend regular events than attendees think?

I ran a Monte Carlo simulation to test whether occasional attendees have a rosier view of attendance levels than the regulars.

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On Travel Agents

Realising I had been procrastinating about booking some flights and accommodation, today I went to a travel agent and got it done.

A travel agent. Bricks and mortar.

Odd.

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Numeracy

I was just reminiscing about when I enrolled in Biology 1 at uni. They wanted to get a feel for the mathematical literacy of their students, so they gave us all a quick numeracy test, to see if we understood some basic concepts.

There were only four questions, clearly labelled Question 1, Question 2, Question 4 and Question 4.

I think I met the required standard…

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Some of My Best Friends are Donkeys

I ask my friends to choose between two items with equal expected value, and no reason to prefer one than the other, and they can’t decide.

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SoIP QoS

One day I was thinking about the tradition of April Fools’ Day RFC Submissions and thought it would be fun to do a similar parody, but based on the Patent Submission form.

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Server Hosting Issues

A whinge about my server host.

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