My internet is very sketchy at home right now. I think I need a Bidirectional Co Axle Splitter to allow my internet and television cable to live in harmony. Also, as of yesterday or so, my A/C is broken. I think I know what the problem is, because I paid some dude to come out and fix the same problem last month. He said something about a wire being broken and he "forced" it back into it's rubber insulation. Rewiring is out of the question, so he just kind-of-fixed it and then kind-of-chardged-me a hundred bucks.
The Funny Bone contest finals were held last night. Gabe Kea, Rob Durham, Clayton Champagne, Keith Ciessel, Bill Davis and Chad Huff all competed and Keith, Gabe and Chad went home with some money (Keith was first; Gabe second, Chad third). It was a good show, each guy did about ten minutes and the crowd was very receptive. But who tabulated all the judges and audience votes? Why none other than me, Marcus. St Louis comedian and nerd. 1
I was thinking about it when a couple days ago; the box office at the Funny Bone has MSExcel installed on it. Why couldn't we just 10-key the scores into a spreadsheet and sum (or average) them up? Just label a couple columns, set a couple of rows aside for averages and run with it. So I asked Matt, and he said it sounded like a good idea. But since the judges got 50% of the votes, I had to set those equal to the entire audience. Since this is what I do at work (besides blog, that is), I knew what to do. Set up 1 averages for the judges, set up one for the audience. Then average those numbers for a final score. I was too busy entering the numbers to see if anyone jumped into the lead or if there was any back and forth as the numbers were entered (I froze the panes so Matt could see the numbers as I went). It took longer to enter the 150+ sheets that were turned in than I expected, but it was better than last week when we had to count stuff by hand. The pie charts and bar graphs were probably a little overkill. Oh yeah, speaking of work, I should probably start since I am typing this while clocked in. Hey, I'm on break [uses shifty eye].
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1. I usually call myself a 'dork' since I like cartoons and toys and sci-fi. To me, nerds are usually more intellectual, with the pocket protectors, retainers and stuff like that. I see dorks moer as the sci-fi nerds who like the internet and their computers way too much. Then again, I am footnoting my blog, how nerdy is that?2
2. Pretty Nerdy.
3. For more Dork Vs. Nerd talk, check out what E has to say, or check out what Wikipedia has to say on the subject (be sure to check out the comic on that page).