“At the Albertville winter Olympics, condom machines in the athletes’ village had to be refilled every two hours. And in Sydney the organisers’ original order of 70,000 condoms went so fast that they had to order 20,000 more. Even with the replenishment, the supply was exhausted three days before the end of the competition schedule. (For the record, athletes who were in Sydney report that the Cuban delegation was the first to use up its allocation.) Salt Lake City in 2002 went even bigger: 250,000 condoms were handed out, despite the objections of the city’s Mormon leadership.”

“There’s a lot of sex going on. You get a lot of people who are in shape, and, you know, testosterone’s up and everybody’s attracted to everybody,” says Breaux Greer, a shaggy-blond Californian who competed in the javelin at the Sydney Games.”

It sounds like a PDC, except that we don’t have anyone in shape, anyone attractive or any the sex… (or maybe I’m just going to the wrong parties : ).

[via Raymond Chen]

That's quite a nice fortune. My lucky numbers were 7, 12, 15, 36, 39 and 21. With the "gold pieces by the bushel," I don't really need the lucky numbers, do I? : )

Channel9 did what I was unable to ever get done: filmed some of the interview process. It's not an actual interview, but Gretchen Ledgard and Zoe Goldring, both Central Sourcing Consultants at HR for MS, lead you through what to expect at a Microsoft interview, providing a wealth of wonderful MS interviewing tips.

I’ve spent the last 8 months driving me wife to get rid of a ton of her stuff so that we could use more than the front 2 inches of every drawer, cupboard and closet in the house (of course, it’s her stuff that I find to be extraneous : ). Yesterday, while she was on her 2nd night of working 3 12-hour night shifts in a row, I sent her the following email (yes, that’s just the kind of nerd that I am):

 

The “shiny” stuff above the fridge is all kinds of silver and pewter that we never, ever use but must keep because someone in one of our families looked at it once a long time ago. Plus, who knows, the Pope could visit to try to convert us back. This was her complete reply after 25 hours of work, 6 hours of commute and 6 hours of sleep over 2 days:

 

From: Melissa Sells [mailto:msells@sellsbrothers.com]
Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 8:27 AM
To: ‘Chris Sells’
Subject: RE: Moving the shiny stuff above the frig?

Is there something that you feel you need to put above the fridge? Are you planning on letting a midget live up there? Because I think that if you are going to let a midget live in the house, they have a right to have a room with a window or something. In that case, you should have them move into the cupboard under the counter in the laundry room and we can knock out a space for a window. It would also be a lot easier for them to get to without having to rig up some sort of ladder, as that would just take up more of your precious space. On the other hand, living above the fridge would give them easy access to the food, and we could have a string with a roll up ladder rigging. Although having easier access to the fridge may make them over eat and they may get wedged up in the space over the fridge, be unable to escape and then we will have to explain why we have that strange odor in the kitchen.

 

Is there any doubt why I love her? : )

Rory has posted his MSDN speaking schedule. I’m already signed up for the Portland, OR talk on August 26. I can’t wait to hear Rory regale us with “a demo-packed afternoon” where I will “gain valuable insight into .NET development.” Plus, we get “a sneak peek at what’s coming in ASP.NET 2.0!” What could be better? Come one, come all!

I can't tell you how much I loved Doom. I've probably played all of the Doom games back-to-back all the way through a half a dozen times over the last decade. And I was so excited about Doom 3, but David’s right: Star Wars is to Phantom Menace as Doom 1 is to Doom 3: much prettier but much less fun.

If you ignore Rory on IM, you get fun stuff like this:

Rory [Shut up] says:

Hey - are you really away, or are you faking it so that people like me won’t write to you?

Rory [Shut up] says:

Well. I guess you’re really away.

Rory [Shut up] writes:

Rory [Shut up] writes:

Rory [Shut up] writes:

Rory [Shut up] writes:

Rory [Let’s get stinky together]] writes:

I'm hanging out at the O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention today (downtown Portland) and I'm planning on bringing as many fun out of town open source geeks as I can to the Portland Nerd Dinner tonight. I make no guarantees, but if I find Linus, he's getting an invite. : )